United States Foreign Intelligence Activities
This executive order has been superseded
EO 12036 (Carter)
Summary
Restricted the activities of the U.S. intelligence community and banned political assassinations by the intelligence agencies. Issued in response to revelations by the Church Committee about intelligence abuses.
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