---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4869"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4869"
heading: "Counter-intelligence training for certain Diplomatic Security special agents"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4869"
units:
  - "Chapter 58 — Diplomatic Security"
  - "Subchapter IV — Diplomatic Security Program"
---

# §4869. Counter-intelligence training for certain Diplomatic Security special agents

- (a) **In general—** Diplomatic Security special agents who are assigned to positions with a primary counterintelligence role or a diplomatic post rated as High or Critical for Human Intelligence on the Department of State’s Security Environment Threat List shall receive specific and substantive mandatory counter-intelligence training that is developed and conducted in consultation with the heads of relevant elements of the intelligence community.
- (b) **Intelligence community defined—** In this section, the term “intelligence community” has the meaning given that term in 3003(4) of title 50.”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–399, title IV, §418, as added Pub. L. 119–60, div. E, title V, § 5504(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1600.)