The phrase "assassinations of foreign" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It could be used in a context discussing targeted killings involving foreign individuals or entities, but it needs additional information to be meaningful.
Example: "The report detailed the assassinations of foreign diplomats in the region, raising international concerns."
Alternatives: "targeted killings of foreign" or "murders of foreign".
In particular they investigated intelligence abuses, including allegations of illegal wiretapping and government-sponsored assassinations of foreign leaders.
(The laws were enacted after a series of scandals in the nineteen-seventies involving C.I.A. domestic spying and attempted assassinations of foreign leaders).
He said that in response to the attacks he would be willing to reassess the government's ban on assassinations of foreign leaders.
This reticence stemmed from Senator Frank Church's mid-1970s hearings, which uncovered the C.I.A.'s long, dark history of black-bag jobs and inspired President Ford to sign an executive order barring assassinations of foreign leaders.
In the late 1970s, in response to shifts in American public opinion, the CIA was given new guidelines, such as a ban on assassinations of foreign heads of state.Moreover, the two agencies have a history of rivalry that limits how much information they share with each other.
"Not everybody is playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules," said Representative J. Porter Goss, a Florida Republican who is chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence when asked if he would support an end to the ban on assassinations of foreign leaders, first imposed by President Gerald R. Ford in 1976.
A 1981 executive order forbids the assassination of foreign leaders.
Senate and House committees were impaneled to investigate C.I.A. abuses, including attempts at assassination of foreign leaders.
PAGE A8 Swedes Reject Euro Sweden rejected the euro after a campaign that grew more intense following the assassination of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.
The C.I.A. was authorized to operate only overseas under rules that were not as strict as the F.B.I. limits, but that still curtailed the agency's involvement in covert operations and banned outright the assassination of foreign leaders.
A8 Sweden Rejects the Euro Swedes voted overwhelmingly to reject membership in the European single currency after a passionate referendum campaign made uncertain by the assassination of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, above.
