reading Ayton, Mel. Plotting to Kill the President: Assassination Attempts from Washington to Hoover (Potomac Books, 2017), United States Review The Daily Telegraph, April 3, 2010. External links Notorious Assassinations – slideshow by Life magazine CNN. "U.S. policy on assassinations" from CNN.com/Law Center, November 4, 2002. See also Ford's 1976 executive order. However, Executive Order 12333, which prohibited the CIA from assassinations, was relaxed by the George W. Bush administration. (PDF) Is the CIA Assassination Order of a US Citizen Legal? – video by Democracy Now! Attacks by method Killings by type