10 U.S.C. § 424: Disclosure of organizational and personnel information: exemption for specified intelligence agencies

the organization or any function of an organization of the Department of Defense named in subsection (b); or the number of persons employed by or assigned or detailed to any such organization or the name, official title, occupational series, grade, or salary of any such person. The Defense Intelligence Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to the provision of information to Congress. Notwithstanding section 552a(e)(3) of title 5 , United States Code, intelligence personnel of the Department of Defense who are authorized by the Secretary of Defense to collect intelligence from human sources shall not be required, when making an initial assessment contact outside the United States, to give notice of governmental affiliation to potential sources who are United States persons. Records concerning such contacts shall be maintained by the Department of Defense and made available upon request to the appropriate committees of the Congress in accordance with applicable security procedures. Such records shall include for each such contact an explanation of why notice of government affiliation could not reasonably be provided, the nature of the information obtained from the United States person as a result of the contact, and whether additional contacts resulted with the person concerned. the term ‘United States’ includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any territory or possession of the United States; and the term ‘United States person’ means any citizen, national, or permanent resident alien of the United States.”