A bill to protect communications among Americans from interception by foreign governments, and for other purposes.
Foreign Surveillance Prevention Act of 1981 - Directs the President to take specified actions if the President has reason to believe that a person with diplomatic immunity is engaging in electronic surveillance in the United States for a foreign power.
Requires the President to inform Congress of the suspected electronic surveillance. Directs the President, unless it would compromise U.S. intelligence gathering, to: (1) inform the persons reasonably believed to be targets of such surveillance; (2) inform the representative of the foreign power and demand that the surveillance end; and (3) declare the person doing the surveillance, if the surveillance does not end within a specified time, to be person non grata in the United States and demand that such person leave the country.
Introduced in Senate
Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
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