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The Church Committee made several conclusions as a result of its investigations. It rejected assassination as a possible foreign policy tool, short of its use in wartime.13 Further, the committee stated that assassination was “incompatible with American principle, international order, and morality.”14 The report made significant distinctions, however, between situations in which the United States was directly involved in plotting and carrying out an assassination and situations in which the United States responded with aid to a request by local elements in support of a coup attempt.15 While the report strongly condemned the cold-blooded intentional targeting of a specific individual leader, it noted that often the support of a coup attempt is support of the use of violence; as such there is always the risk of assassination.16 One of the main conclusions made by the committee was that proponents of a possible assassination, or a coup attempt that might lead to the death of a nation’s leader, must consider the likely lasting effect such actions could have on the overall goals of the United States.17 An effort to replace a leader in a key region might lead to lasting instability, it might invite reprisals on US leaders, or its disclosure could embarrass and weaken the United States globally.18 The Church Committee recommended a statutory prohibition be enacted by Congress to outlaw the use of assassination, but none has been passed into law.19

The first official US ban on assassination as an instrument of foreign policy was President Gerald Ford’s Executive Order 11,905, which stated: “No employee of the United States government shall engage in, or conspire in, political assassination.”20 While not the legislation that the Church Committee recommended, the order did have the force of law upon all individuals operating within the US government.21 Under the Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations, the executive order against assassination was adopted and broadened.22 As currently written, Executive Order 12,333 states:

2.11 Prohibition on Assassination. No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.

2.12 Indirect Participation. No agency of the intelligence community shall participate in or request any person to undertake activities forbidden by this order.23

Thus the updated version of the prohibition prevents the government from going around the technical wording of the order, perhaps by hiring assassins as independent contractors. The use of an executive order, rather than calling for legislation, aids the President’s power in that it enables him to possess an order far more broad and flexible—and it gives adversaries pause as to whether it may be reversed if the President is sufficiently provoked.24 .

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