Here's the relevant definition of "covert agent" and so on:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/50/chapters/15/subchapt
ers/iv/sections/section_426.html
Section 426. Definitions
For the purposes of this subchapter:
(1) The term ''classified information'' means information or
material designated and clearly marked or clearly represented,
pursuant to the provisions of a statute or Executive order (or a
regulation or order issued pursuant to a statute or Executive
order), as requiring a specific degree of protection against
unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national security.
(2) The term ''authorized'', when used with respect to access
to classified information, means having authority, right, or
permission pursuant to the provisions of a statute, Executive
order, directive of the head of any department or agency engaged
in foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities, order
of any United States court, or provisions of any Rule of the
House of Representatives or resolution of the Senate which
assigns responsibility within the respective House of Congress
for the oversight of intelligence activities.
(3) The term ''disclose'' means to communicate, provide,
impart, transmit, transfer, convey, publish, or otherwise make
available.
(4) The term ''covert agent'' means -
(A) a present or retired officer or employee of an
intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the
Armed
Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency -
(i) whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member
is classified information, and
(ii) who is serving outside the United States or has
within
the last five years served outside the United States; or
(B) a United States citizen whose intelligence relationship
to the United States is classified information, and -
(i) who resides and acts outside the United States as an
agent of, or informant or source of operational assistance
to, an intelligence agency, or
(ii) who is at the time of the disclosure acting as an
agent of, or informant to, the foreign counterintelligence
or
foreign counterterrorism components of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation; or
(C) an individual, other than a United States citizen, whose
past or present intelligence relationship to the United States
is classified information and who is a present or former agent
of, or a present or former informant or source of operational
assistance to, an intelligence agency.
(5) The term ''intelligence agency'' means the Central
Intelligence Agency, a foreign intelligence component of the
Department of Defense, or the foreign counterintelligence or
foreign counterterrorism components of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
(6) The term ''informant'' means any individual who furnishes
information to an intelligence agency in the course of a
confidential relationship protecting the identity of such
individual from public disclosure.
(7) The terms ''officer'' and ''employee'' have the meanings
given such terms by section 2104 and 2105, respectively, of
title
5.
(8) The term ''Armed Forces'' means the Army, Navy, Air Force,
Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.
(9) The term ''United States'', when used in a geographic
sense, means all areas under the territorial sovereignty of the
United States and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
(10) The term ''pattern of activities'' requires a series of
acts with a common purpose or objective.
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