Intelligence agencies
Ginnoria
20-05-2006, 00:32
Does anyone know which intelligence agencies in the world have restrictions regarding assassination? I know that the CIA has been 'officially' banned from performing assassinations, and that the Mossad obviously has no problem with them.
What other countries have spies out there that will take people out?
Deep Kimchi
20-05-2006, 00:33
Does anyone know which intelligence agencies in the world have restrictions regarding assassination? I know that the CIA has been 'officially' banned from performing assassinations, and that the Mossad obviously has no problem with them.
What other countries have spies out there that will take people out?
The ban for the CIA was lifted immediately after 9-11.
The UK has done them before. Probably not into them now, but they also have a policy of letting SAS commandos "take indefinite leave" and serve as mercenaries or assassins - only to return to service after getting "experience".
DrunkenDove
20-05-2006, 00:34
IIRC the CIA has only been banned from assassinating foreign heads of state.
Edit: I was wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12333
Ginnoria
20-05-2006, 00:39
I was under the impression that the 1976 ban on assassination was still in effect, but that the CIA just calls their operations 'targeted killings' nowadays to get out of it.
INO Valley
20-05-2006, 03:07
The prohibition is still in effect, but it does not apply to military targets or objectives (which is why Operation El Dorado Canyon did not violate it); President Bush further clarified the situation by issuing an order permitting the CIA to neutralize al-Qaeda agents without the need for national command authoritization on a case-by-case basis.