---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 20.65"
title: "21"
number: "20.65"
heading: "National defense and foreign policy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/20.65"
---

# §20.65. National defense and foreign policy.

- (a) Records or information may be withheld from public disclosure if they are:
  - (1) Specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy; and
  - (2) **In fact properly classified under such Executive order.**
- (b) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Amendments

[70 FR 41958, July 21, 2005]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552; 18 U.S.C. 1905; 19 U.S.C. 2531-2582; 21 U.S.C. 321-393, 1401-1403; 42 U.S.C. 241, 242, 242a, 242l, 242n, 243, 262, 263, 263b-263n, 264, 265, 300u-300u-5, 300aa-1.

### Source

Source: 42 FR 15616, Mar. 22, 1977, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[70 FR 41958, July 21, 2005]