employee of the United States

employee of the United States
Broadly, any person in the employ of the government. For the purposes of the Federal Tort Claims Act, one acting under the control of the government, unaffected from the standpoint of control by any intervening sovereignty, independent agency, or independent contractor. Anno: 57 ALR2d 1449-1453.

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