---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2387"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2387"
heading: "Detail of personnel to foreign governments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2387"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Foreign Assistance"
  - "Subchapter III — General and Administrative Provisions"
  - "Part II — Administrative Provisions"
---

# §2387. Detail of personnel to foreign governments


Whenever the President determines it to be in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter, the head of any [agency of the United States Government](/usc/22/2403.md?p=a) is authorized to detail or assign any [officer or employee](/usc/22/2403.md?p=j) of his agency to any office or position with any foreign government or foreign government agency, where acceptance of such office or position does not involve the taking of an oath of allegiance to another government or the acceptance of compensation or other benefits from any [foreign country](/usc/22/2321c.md?p=2) by such [officer or employee](/usc/22/2403.md?p=j).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–195, pt. III, § 627, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 452.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 87–195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424, known as the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2151 of this title and Tables.

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

For delegation of functions of President under this section, see Ex. Ord. No. 12163, Sept. 29, 1979, 44 F.R. 56673, as amended, set out as a note under section 2381 of this title.