---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 834"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "834"
heading: "“Classified information” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/834"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Internal Security"
  - "Subchapter III — Personnel Security Procedures in National Security Agency"
---

# §834. “Classified information” defined


For the purposes of this section, the term “classified information” means information which, for reasons of national security, is specifically designated by a United States Government agency for limited or restricted dissemination or distribution.


## Source credit

(Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 1024, title III, § 304, as added Pub. L. 88–290, Mar. 26, 1964, 78 Stat. 170.)