---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 539"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "539"
heading: "Counterintelligence official reception and representation expenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/539"
units:
  - "Part II — Department of Justice"
  - "Chapter 33 — Federal Bureau of Investigation"
---

# §539. Counterintelligence official reception and representation expenses


The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may use funds available to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for counterintelligence programs to pay the expenses of hosting foreign officials in the United States under the auspices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for consultation on counterintelligence matters.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–569, title IV, § 401(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3195.)