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# 42 U.S.C. § 10106 - Protection of classified national security information

## Text

Nothing in this chapter shall require the release or disclosure to any person or to the Commission of any classified national security information.

(Pub. L. 97–425, § 7, Jan. 7, 1983, 96 Stat. 2205.)