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Executive Order 12139

Foreign intelligence electronic surveillance

Signed by James Earl Carter Jr. on May 23, 1979.

Later amended
Signed recordMay 23, 1979

The date attached to the presidential action.

Publication record44 FR 30311

The Federal Register edition of the order.

Later dispositionLater amended

Status reports the later record on file, not a broad legal conclusion.

Primary evidence

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The order itself

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Later record

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Amends EO 12036, January 24, 1978
Amended by EO 12333, December 4, 1981; EO 13383, July 15, 2005; EO 13475, October 7, 2008

National Archives disposition tables cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017.