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Exhibit 863

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, Pub. L. 112-239, sec. 1078 (Dissemination Abroad of Information About the United States)

Exhibit 863 ยท Statute

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, Pub. L. 112-239, sec. 1078 (Dissemination Abroad of Information About the United States)

No funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors shall be used to influence public opinion in the United States.

Rewrites 22 U.S.C. 1461 so that State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors may, on request and reimbursement, make materials disseminated abroad available in the United States, and amends sec. 208 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, FY 1986-87, to say no funds authorized for State or the Board 'shall be used to influence public opinion in the United States' while allowing domestic exposure to material made for foreign audiences. Material produced before the effective date is released to the Archivist after 12 years.

Source
U.S. Congress
Date
2 January 2013
Quoted from
Sec. 1078(c), new sec. 208(a), 126 Stat. 1958
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-112publ239/html/PLAW-112publ239.htm
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Finding INF-2.3
Primary record The 1948 Smith-Mundt Act authorizes information activity abroad and contains no ban on domestic distribution; the ban is section 208 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 16 August 1985, which Public Law 112-239 rewrote on 2 January 2013 to permit material made for foreign audiences to be made available in the United States.