High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Classified Information Procedures Act or (CIPA, Pub.L. 96–456, 94 Stat. 2025, enacted October 15, 1980 through S. 1482), is codified as the third appendix to Title 18 of the U.S. Code, the title concerning crimes and criminal procedures. The U.S. Code citation is 18 U.S.C. App. III. Sections 1-16.