(a) Establishment
There is within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence a Foreign Malign Influence Response Center (in this section referred to as the “Center”).
(b) Functions and compositionThe Center shall—
(1)
be comprised of analysts from all elements of the intelligence community, including elements with diplomatic and law enforcement functions;
(2)
have access to all intelligence and other reporting possessed or acquired by the United States Government pertaining to foreign malign influence;
(3)
serve as the primary organization in the United States Government for analyzing and integrating all intelligence possessed or acquired by the United States Government pertaining to foreign malign influence; and
(4)
provide to employees and officers of the Federal Government in policy-making positions and Congress comprehensive assessments, and indications and warnings, of foreign malign influence.
(c) Director
(1) Appointment
There is a Director of the Center, who shall be the head of the Center, and who shall be appointed by the Director of National Intelligence.
(2) RoleThe Director of the Center shall—
(C)
at the request of the President or the Director of National Intelligence, develop and provide recommendations for potential responses by the United States to foreign malign influence.
(d) Annual reports
(1) In general
In addition to the matters submitted pursuant to subsection (b)(4), at the direction of the Director of National Intelligence, but not less than once each year, the Director of the Center shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report on foreign malign influence.
(e) DefinitionsIn this section:
(2) Foreign malign influenceThe term “foreign malign influence” means any hostile effort undertaken by, at the direction of, or on behalf of or with the substantial support of, the government of a covered foreign country with the objective of influencing, through overt or covert means—
(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title I, § 119C, as added Pub. L. 116–92, div. E, title LIII, § 5322(a), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2129.)