---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3328"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3328"
heading: "Study or plan of surrender; use of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3328"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — Miscellaneous Intelligence Community Authorities"
  - "Subchapter II — Personnel and Administrative Authorities"
---

# §3328. Study or plan of surrender; use of appropriations


No part of the funds appropriated in any act shall be used to pay (1) any person, firm, or corporation, or any combinations of persons, firms, or corporations, to conduct a study or to plan when and how or in what circumstances the Government of the United States should surrender this country and its people to any foreign power, (2) the salary or compensation of any employee or official of the Government of the United States who proposes or contracts or who has entered into contracts for the making of studies or plans for the surrender by the Government of the United States of this country and its people to any foreign power in any event or under any circumstances.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–766, ch. XVI, § 1602, Aug. 27, 1958, 72 Stat. 884.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 407 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.