The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law enacted on June 15, 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I. It has been amended...
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Sedition Act of 1918 (Pub. L. 65–150, 40 Stat. 553, enacted May 16, 1918) was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to...
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Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence). A person who commits espionage...
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Jack Teixeira (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
and transmission of national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act of 1917 and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents...
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minor amendments. The act makes the theft or misappropriation of a trade secret a federal crime. Unlike the Espionage Act of 1917 (found at 18 U.S.C. §§ 792–799)...
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Alien and Sedition Acts (redirect from Alien and Sedition Act of 1798)
mistake. Alien Act 1705 in Great Britain Seditious Meetings Act 1795 in Great Britain Espionage Act of 1917 Logan Act of 1799 Sedition Act of 1918 Alien Registration...
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Red Scare (redirect from First Red Scare (1917–1920))
wage system should be abolished. In June 1917, as a response to World War I, Congress passed the Espionage Act to prevent any information relating to national...
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of the Act. The United States does not have a broad-reaching Official Secrets Act, although the Espionage Act of 1917 has similar components. Much of...
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Theresa Squillacote (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
Law. Retrieved 2023-06-07. Journal, A. B. A. "Ex-lawyer convicted on espionage charges seeks reinstatement to bar, says her 'contrition is real'". ABA...
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Edward Lee Howard (category Fugitives wanted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
trained in intelligence and counter-intelligence methods. Shortly after the end of their training and before going on their first assignment, a routine polygraph...
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Velvalee Dickinson (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
12, 1893 – ca 1980) was an American spy convicted of espionage against the United States on behalf of Japan during World War II. Known as the "Doll Woman"...
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
convicted of espionage. They were sentenced to death on April 5 under Section 2 of the Espionage Act of 1917, which provides that anyone convicted of transmitting...
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Edward Snowden (category Fugitives wanted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
United States Department of Justice unsealed charges against Snowden of two counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and theft of government property...
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Thomas A. Drake (category People acquitted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
the government alleged that Drake mishandled documents, one of the few such Espionage Act cases in U.S. history. Drake's defenders claim that he was instead...
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18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(1): Computer espionage. This section takes much of its language from the Espionage Act of 1917, with the notable addition being that...
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John Kiriakou (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
Protection Act, three counts of violating the Espionage Act, and one count of making false statements for allegedly lying to the Publications Review Board of the...
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Catherwood). Communist registration acts Espionage Act of 1917 Mitchell v. Donovan Anti-communism Criticisms of communism McCarthyism Peters, Gerhard; Woolley...
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Earl Edwin Pitts (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
September 23, 1953) is a former FBI special agent who was convicted of espionage for selling information to Soviet and Russian intelligence services....
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Ana Montes (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
of the Cuban government for 17 years. Montes was arrested on September 21, 2001, and she subsequently was charged with conspiracy to commit espionage...
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Schenck v. United States (category United States Supreme Court cases of the White Court)
47 (1919), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. A unanimous Supreme...
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Christopher John Boyce (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
renting near Riverside, California. He was convicted on eight counts of espionage on April 28 1977, and sentenced by federal district judge Robert Kelleher...
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Tony Russo (whistleblower) (category People acquitted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
friendship.: 496 Russo died of natural causes at his home in Suffolk, Virginia on 6 August 2008. Biography portal Espionage Act of 1917 New York Times Co. v...
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Harry Gold (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
Full text of Alexander Vassiliev's notebooks, including more information on Gold's involvement in espionage. An Interactive Rosenberg Espionage Ring Timeline...
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William Kampiles (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
guilty of six counts of espionage, 40 years each, totalling 240 years. On December 22, one day after his birthday, Kampiles was sentenced to a total of 40...
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United States government security breaches Espionage Act of 1917 in United States World War II espionage Office of Strategic Services, United States, World...
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unanimous Court, ruled that it was a violation of the Espionage Act of 1917 (amended by the Sedition Act of 1918) to distribute flyers opposing the draft...
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Julian Assange (redirect from List of works about Julian Assange)
new indictments against Assange, charging him with violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and alleging he had conspired with hackers. Assange was incarcerated...
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Simon Emil Koedel (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
conspiracy to commit espionage. In 1945, Simon pleaded guilty, while Marie was convicted at trial. During her trial, Marie, who claimed she acted under duress...
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Robert Hanssen (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was...
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Emma Goldman (redirect from High priestess of anarchy)
Anarchist". The Review of Politics. 26 (3): 444–445. doi:10.1017/S0034670500005210. S2CID 143738107. Prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917 for obstructing...
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