---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1436"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1436"
heading: "Restriction on disclosure of information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1436"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — United States Information and Educational Exchange Programs"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §1436. Restriction on disclosure of information


Nothing in this chapter shall authorize the disclosure of any information or knowledge in any case in which such disclosure (1) is prohibited by any other law of the United States, or (2) is inconsistent with the security of the United States.


## Source credit

(Jan. 27, 1948, ch. 36, title X, § 1003, 62 Stat. 13.)