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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 263-API{. 2D, -142 foreign principals so that the Government and the people of the United States may be informed of the identity of such persons and may appraise their statements and actions in the light of their asso- ciations and activities. "DEFINITIONS "SECTION 1. As used in and for the purposes of this Act- "(a) The term 'person' includes an individual, partnership, associa- tion, corporation, organization, or any other combination of individ- uals; "(b) The term 'foreign principal' includes- "(1) a government of a foreign country and a foreign political party; "(2) an individual affiliated or associated with, or supervised, directed, controlled, financed. or subsidized, in whole or in part, by any foreign principal defined in clause (1) of this section 1 (b); "(3) a person outside of the United States, unless it is estab- lished that such person is an individual and is a citizen of and domiciled within the United States or that such person is not an individual, is organized under or created by the laws of the United States or of any State or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and has its principal place of business within the United States. Nothing in this clause (3) shall limit the operation of clause (5) of this section 1 (b); "(4) a partnership, association, corporation organization, or other combination of individuals organized under the laws of, or having its principal place of business in, a foreign country; " (5) a domestic partnership, association, corporation, organiza- tion, or other combination of individuals, subsidized directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by any foreign principal defined in clause (1), (3), or (4) of this section 1 (b); "(c) Except as provided in section 1 (d) hereof, the term 'agent of a foreign principal' includes- '(1) any person who acts or agrees to act, within the United States, as, or who is or holds himself out to be whether or not pursuant to contractual relationship, a public-relations counsel, publicity agent, information-service employee, servant, agent, representative, or attorney for a foreign principal; "(2) any person who within the United States collects informa- tion for or reports information to a foreign principal; who within the United States solicits or accepts compensation, contributions, or loans, directly or indirectly, from a foreign principal; who within the United States solicits, disburses, dispenses, or collects compensation, contributions, loans, money, or anything of value, directly or indirectly, for a foreign principal; who within the United States acts at the order, request, or under the direction, of a foreign principal; "(3) any person who assumes or purports to act within the United States as an agent of a foreign principal in any of the respects set forth in clauses (1) and (2) of this section 1 (c); and "(4) any person who is an officer or member of the active or reserve military, naval, or other armed forces of any foreign prin- cipal defined in clause (1) of section 1 (b) hereof, or who is an officer of or employed by any such foreign principal; and proof of any affiliation or employment, specified in this clause (4), of any person within a period of five years previous to the effective date of this Act shall create a rebuttable presumption that such person is an agent of a foreign principal; 249 "Person." "Foreign principal." "Agent of a foreign principal. "

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