Executive Order 12333

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Executive Order 12333 extends the powers and responsibilities of US intelligence agencies and directs the leaders of other US federal agencies to co-operate fully with CIA requests for information.

This executive order was signed by President Ronald Reagan on December 4, 1981.

One of the clauses of this executive order reiterated a proscription on US intelligence agencies carrying out, or sponsoring assassination. During the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations the proscription against assassination was reinterpreted, and relaxed, for targets who were classified as connected to terrorism..

Discussions of EO 12333's proscription on assassination

• [Saddam Hussein's Death Is a Goal, Says Ex-CIA Chief], Washington Post, February 15, 1998
• CIA Weighs 'Targeted Killing' Missions: Administration Believes Restraints Do Not Bar Singling Out Individual Terrorists, Washington Post, October 21, 2001

See also

• Executive order
• List of United States federal executive orders

External links

• Executive Order 12333--United States intelligence activities], US Federal Register, December 4, 1981
• Should U.S. officials say anything that could harm U.S. soldiers?, Milnet - (a 5k summary of eo12333)
• Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community , White House, August 27, 2004
• Procedures Governing the Activities of DoD Intelligence Components that Affect United States Persons, December 1982
• Another Law Under Assault, Washington Post, September 29, 2005