62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 645 -JUNE 25, 1948 of any such commodity or product, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. § 1904. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION OR SPECULATION IN SECURITIES AFFECTING RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION Whoever, being connected in any capacity with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, gives any unauthorized information concerning any future action or plan of the said Corporation which might affect the value of securities, or, having such knowledge, invests or specu- lates, directly or indirectly in the securities or property of any com- pany, bank, or corporation receiving loans or other assistance from the said Corporation, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 1905. DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION GENERALLY Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, publishes, divulges, discloses, or makes known in any manner or to any extent not authorized by law any information coming to him in the course of his employment or official duties or by reason of any examination or investigation made by, or return, report or record made to or filed with, such department or agency or officer or employee thereof, which information concerns or relates to the trade secrets, processes, operations, style of work, or apparatus, or to the identity, confidential statistical data, amount or source of any income, profits, losses, or expenditures of any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association; or permits any income return or copy thereof or any book containing any abstract or par- ticulars thereof to be seen or examined by any person except as pro- vided by law; shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and shall be removed from office or employment. § 1906. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION BY BANK EXAMINER Whoever, being an examiner, public or private, discloses the names of borrowers or the collateral for loans of any member bank of the Federal Reserve System, or bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, examined by him, to other than the proper officers of such bank, without first having obtained the express per- mission in writing from the Comptroller of the Currency as to a national bank, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as to a State member bank, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpo- ration as to any other insured bank, or from the board of directors of such bank, except when ordered to do so by a court of competent juris- diction, or by direction of the Congress of the United States, or either House thereof, or any committee of Congress or either House duly authorized, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. § 1907. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION BY FARM CREDIT EXAMINER Whoever, being a farm credit examiner or any examiner, public or private, discloses the names of borrowers of any national farm loan association, Federal land bank, or joint-stock land bank, or any organi- zation examined by him under the provisions of law relating to Federal intermediate credit banks, to other than the proper officers of such institution or organization, without first having obtained express per- mission in writing from the Land Bank Commissioner or from the board of directors of such institution or organization, except when ordered to do so by a court of competent jurisdiction or by direction of the Congress of the United States or either House thereof, or any committee of Congress or either House duly authorized, shall be fined 791
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