any office, or place of honor, profit, or trust created by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
Statute of limitations.(e) Any person may be prosecuted, tried, and punished for any violation of this section at any time within ten years after the commission of such offense, notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute of limitations : Provided, That if at the time of the commission of the offense such person is an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, or of any corporation the stock of which is owned in whole or in major part by the United States or any department or agency thereof, such person may be prosecuted, tried, and punished for any violation of this section at any time within ten years after such person has ceased to be employed as such officer or employee.
Holding of office in Communist organization, etc.(f) Neither the holding of office nor membership in any Communist organization by any person shall constitute per se a violation of subsection (a) or subsection (c) of this section or of any other criminal statute. The fact of the registration of any person under section 7 or section 8Post, pp. 993, 995. of this title as an officer or member of any Communist organization shall not be received in evidence against such person in any prosecution for any alleged violation of subsection (a) or subsection (c) of this section or for any alleged violation of any other criminal statute .
EMPLOYMENT OF MEMBERS OF COMMUNIST ORGANIZATIONS
Sec . 5. (a) When a Communist organization, as defined in paragraph (5) of section 3Ante, p. 990. of this title, is registered or there is in effect a final order of the Board requiring such organization to register, it shall be unlawful—Unlawful acts.
- (1) For any member of such organization, with knowledge or notice that such organization is so registered or that such order has become final—
- (A) in seeking, accepting, or holding any nonelective office or employment under the United States, to conceal or fail to disclose the fact that he is a, member of such organization; or
- (B) to hold any nonelective office or employment under the United States; or
- (C) in seeking, accepting, or holding employment in any defense facility, to conceal or fail to disclose the fact that he is a member of such organization; or
- (D) if such organization is a Communist-action organization, to engage in any employment in any defense facility.
- (2) For any officer or employee of the United States or of any defense facility, with knowledge or notice that such organization is so registered or that such order has become final—
- (A) to contribute funds or services to such organization ; or
- (B) to advise, counsel or urge any person, with knowledge or notice that such person is a member of such organization, to perform, or to omit to perform, any act if such act or omission would constitute a violation of any provision of subparagraph (1) of this subsection.
