Executive Order 11905

Executive Order 11905 is a United States Presidential Executive Order signed on February 18, 1976, by President Gerald R. Ford in an effort to reform the United States Intelligence Community, improve oversight on foreign intelligence activities, and ban political assassination.

The committees had been investigating the CIA's activity and EO 11905 was signed in an attempt to ban assassination and reform the intelligence community.

[3] EO 11905 made four major changes to the intelligence community but would not bring overwhelming, effective reform.

Third, the EO created a part-time Intelligence Oversight Board which was initially chaired by the former ambassador Robert Daniel Murphy.

The chair of the Intelligence Oversight Board was to report illegal activity to the Attorney General and improprieties to the President.