[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 38 (Monday, September 25, 1995)]
[Page 1589]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12972--Amendment to Executive Order No. 12958

September 18, 1995

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in order to amend 
Executive Order No. 12958, it is hereby ordered that the definition of 
``agency'' in section 1.1(i) of such order is hereby amended to read as 
follows: ``(i) ``Agency'' means any ``Executive agency'' as defined in 5 
U.S.C. 105; any ``Military department'' as defined in 5 U.S.C. 102; and 
any other entity within the executive branch that comes into the 
possession of classified information.''
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
September 18, 1995.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 2:33 p.m., September 19, 
1995]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on September 19, and it was published in the Federal Register 
on September 21.