Exhibit 1000

United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Smith-Mundt Act), Pub. L. 80-402, 62 Stat. 6

Exhibit 1000 · Statute

United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Smith-Mundt Act), Pub. L. 80-402, 62 Stat. 6

The Secretary is authorized, when he finds it appropriate, to provide for the preparation, and dissemination abroad, of information about the United States, its people, and its policies

Title V authorizes the Secretary of State to prepare and disseminate abroad information about the United States; any such press release or radio script is to be available at State for examination by U.S. press and radio representatives and to Members of Congress on request. The text read has no ban on domestic distribution.

Source: U.S. Congress
Date: 27 January 1948
Quoted from: Sec. 501, 62 Stat. 9-10
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-62/pdf/STATUTE-62-Pg6.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

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.