[Federal Register page and date: 60 FR 8169; February 13, 1995]

                            THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary

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For Immediate Release                                   February 9, 1995

                        EXECUTIVE ORDER 12949

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               FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PHYSICAL SEARCHES

       By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution

and the laws of the United States, including sections 302 and 303 of the

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ("Act") (50 U.S.C.  1801,

et seq.), as amended by Public Law 103- 359, and in order to provide for

the authorization of physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes

as set forth in the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:

       Section 1.  Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) of the Act, the

Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a

court order, to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of

up to one year, if the Attorney General makes the certifications

required by that section.

       Sec. 2.  Pursuant to section 302(b) of the Act, the Attorney

General is authorized to approve applications to the Foreign

Intelligence Surveillance Court under section 303 of the Act to obtain

orders for physical searches for the purpose of collecting foreign

intelligence information.

       Sec. 3.  Pursuant to section 303(a)(7) of the Act, the following

officials, each of whom is employed in the area of national security or

defense, is designated to make the certifications required by section

303(a)(7) of the Act in support of applications to conduct physical

searches:

       (a) Secretary of State;

       (b) Secretary of Defense;

       (c) Director of Central Intelligence;

       (d) Director of the Federal Bureau of

  Investigation;

       (e) Deputy Secretary of State;

       (f) Deputy Secretary of Defense; and

       (g) Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.

       None of the above officials, nor anyone officially acting in that

capacity, may exercise the authority to make the above certifications,

unless that official has been appointed by the President, by and with

the advice and consent of the Senate.

                         WILLIAM J. CLINTON

  THE WHITE HOUSE,

      February 9, 1995.