That:
(a) whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defence with intent or reason to believe that the information to be obtained is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, goes upon, enters, flies over, or otherwise obtains information, concerning any vessel, aircraft, work of defence, navy yard, naval station, submarine base, coaling station, fort, battery, torpedo station, dockyard, canal, railroad, arsenal, camp, factory, mine, telegraph, telephone, wireless, or signal station, building, office, or other place connected with the national defence, owned or constructed, or in progress of construction by the United States or under the control or the United States, or of any of its officers or agents, or within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or any place in which any vessel, aircraft, arms, munitions, or other materials or instruments for use in time of war are being made, prepared, repaired. or stored, under any contract or agreement with the United States, or with any person on behalf of the United States, or otherwise on behalf of the United States, or any prohibited place within the meaning of section six of this title; or
(b) whoever for the purpose aforesaid, and with like intent or reason to believe, copies, takes, makes, or obtains, or attempts, or induces or aids another to copy, take, make, or obtain, any sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, document, writing or note of anything connected with the national defence; or
(c) whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, receives or obtains or agrees or attempts or induces or aids another to receive or obtain from any other person, or from any source whatever, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note, of anything connected with the national defence, knowing or having reason to believe, at the time he receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts or induces or aids another to receive or obtain it, that it has been or will be obtained, taken, made or disposed of by any person contrary to the provisions of this title; or
(d) whoever, lawfully or unlawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defence, wilfully communicates or transmits or attempts to communicate or transmit the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or
(e) whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, note, or information, relating to the national defence, through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be list, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.
Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury or the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicated, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to, or aids, or induces another to, communicate, deliver or transmit, to any foreign government, or to any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, or to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly and document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance, or information relating to the national defence, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than twenty years: Provided, That whoever shall violate the provisions of subsection:
(a) of this section in time of war shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for not more than thirty years; and
(b) whoever, in time of war, with intent that the same shall be communicated to the enemy, shall collect, record, publish or communicate, or attempt to elicit any information with respect to the movement, numbers, description, condition, or disposition of any of the armed forces, ships, aircraft, or war materials of the United States, or with respect to the plans or conduct, or supposed plans or conduct of any naval of military operations, or with respect to any works or measures undertaken for or connected with, or intended for the fortification of any place, or any other information relating to the public defence, which might be useful to the enemy, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for not more than thirty years.
Whoever, when the United
States is at war, shall wilfully make or convey false reports or false
statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of
the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the
success of its enemies and
whoever when the United
States is at war, shall wilfully cause or attempt to cause
insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, refusal of duty, in the military
or naval forces of the United States, or
shall wilfully obstruct
the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, to the
injury of the service or of the United States, shall be punished by a
fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty
years, or both.
1918 Amendment to Section 3
Be it enacted, That section three of the Act... approved June 15, 1917, be... amended so as to read as follows:
"SEC. 3. Whoever, when the
United States is at war, shall wilfully make or convey false reports or
false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success
of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the
success of its enemies, or shall wilfully make or convey false reports,
or false statements, or say or do anything except by way of bona fide
and not disloyal advice to an investor... with intent to obstruct the
sale by the United States of bonds... or the making of loans by or to
the United States, or whoever, when the United States is at war, shall
wilfully cause... or incite... insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or
refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States,
or shall wilfully obstruct... the recruiting or enlistment service of
the United States, and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall
wilfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane,
scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the
United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the
military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag... or the
uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States, or any language
intended to bring the form of government... or the Constitution... or
the military or naval forces... or the flag... of the United States
into contempt, scorn, contumely, or disrepute... or shall wilfully
display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall wilfully... urge,
incite, or advocate any curtailment of production in this country of
any thing or things... necessary or essential to the prosecution of the
war... and whoever shall wilfully advocate, teach, defend, or suggest
the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and
whoever shall by word or act support or favour the cause of any country
with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the
cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not
more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or
both...."