Pub. L. 100-453, tit. IV, sec. 404 (as amended)

disclosure of information concerning american personnel listed as prisoner, missing, or unaccounted for in southeast asia

Year: 1989Length: 187 wordsOfficial source
disclosure of information concerning american personnel listed as prisoner, missing, or unaccounted for in southeast asia Sec. 404. [50 U.S.C. 3161 nt] (a) This section is enacted to ensure that current disclosure policy is incorporated into law. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), the head of each department or agency— (1) with respect to which funds are authorized under this Act, and (2) which holds or receives live sighting reports of any United States citizen reported missing in action, prisoner of war, or unaccounted for from the Vietnam Conflict, shall make available to the next-of-kin of that United States citizen all reports, or portions thereof, held by that department or agency which have been correlated or possibly correlated to that citizen. (c) Subsection (b) does not apply with respect to— (1) information that would reveal or compromise sources and methods of intelligence collection; or (2) specific information that previously has been made available to the next-of-kin. (d) The head of each department or agency covered by subsection (a) shall make information available under this section in a timely manner. * * * * * * *
Cross-references to the US Code
50 U.S.C. 3161
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