---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3117"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3117"
heading: "Notice of counterintelligence assessments and investigations of Federal candidates or officeholders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3117"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — National Security"
  - "Subchapter III — Accountability for Intelligence Activities"
---

# §3117. Notice of counterintelligence assessments and investigations of Federal candidates or officeholders

- (a) **Notice—**
  - (1) **Notice required—** Except as provided in [paragraph (3)](#a-3), the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall notify the chairmen and ranking minority members of the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/50/3352.md?p=1), the Speaker and minority leader of the House of Representatives, and the majority and minority leaders of the Senate of each [counterintelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=3) assessment or investigation of an individual who is—
    - (A) a candidate for Federal office; or
    - (B) a holder of Federal office.
  - (2) **Contents—** The notice required under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall include—
    - (A) a summary of the relevant facts associated with the [counterintelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=3) assessment or investigation; and
    - (B) the identity of such individual.
  - (3) **Exception—** The Director may refrain from providing a notice under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) to an individual who is otherwise a recipient of notices under such paragraph if that individual is a target of the [counterintelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=3) assessment or investigation covered by the notice.
- (b) **Timing—** The Director shall provide each notice under [subsection (a)](#a) not later than 15 days after the date of the commencement of the [counterintelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=3) assessment or investigation that is the subject of such notice. With respect to [counterintelligence](/usc/50/3003.md?p=3) assessments or investigations that commenced before December 18, 2025 and are ongoing as of December 18, 2025, the Director shall provide each notice under [subsection (a)](#a) not later than 15 days after December 18, 2025.
- (c) **Definitions—** In this section:
  - (1) The term “[appropriate congressional committees](/usc/50/3352.md?p=1)” means—
    - (A) the [congressional intelligence committees](/usc/50/3003.md?p=7); and
    - (B) the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
  - (2) The terms “candidate” and “Federal office” have the meanings given those terms in [section 30101 of title 52](/usc/52/30101.md).

## Source credit

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title V, § 518, as added Pub. L. 119–60, div. F, title LXV, § 6521, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1630.)