CIA HEAD WARNS OF DANGER IN IRAQ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200940179-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 179
• Content Type: NSPR

among' some close Advisers of
the Premier, Iraq 'would appear.
to bon the brink of a Corn=
monist take-over.
Power Lies in'the ArmY
d1e-Past explain that it may bei, rr.r t.,r t:oar;inunIjts free'
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turnfd to Iraq from the So%iet
Union. to stir up trouble In.
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cit the Wdetern'powerp could.
D ,' 1make up their miftds how far
1 Al U3a:uw ana- z reernen1 liamal
1 Abdel Nasser of ;the United
s; .. , Arab lllrpw-blio a>~p 'r,1ww : igx
!AMlen p~a~~z Rids Are
Near Co (# O 1}} t%jit ~`miIih
cow Is
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A llc2t W . T ne s, . DlrecOr a f, Lae atlU tbt. be hope : ]t , $
,n the yvorid'today ' ' ^ a "our activltlea have- been ham-
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poaItiv
I agree with hl ." said 8en? policy' by the ft+~se nutlcti a" for
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ator J, W
.Fuibri,g it, chairman the area ss a wlWb.;
of the Senate's Foreign stela- Conoern over I'ra4 has mlotutt-
tions''Comrnittee~f Mr: Fulbright id In Washington since the
'umniarized tllt~ C. I. A: chi`ef's abortive eis ng at, Motel seven
remarks, made at s' closed weeks ago' ,n aint r beoiutse of
meeting of the committee. ~' arxegta and lntensl-
fied:activlty by so-Called "pOp?
Although I made Dulles ade no ular -Rsrlat>Anss toevss'"
eon tparliions Wf~th the Berlin Now many itavebeen artrasted
srtuati{%p, n or,Fuibrightre for alleged coma c*t in'the
called`that~'etir er occasions rldng favddng t-Nas-.
she had other
g ltyviet prey ser is not known. ut Western
sure of $erltd;l1ghL be intend= dipkunatan ne'ort the-aaiceats
world attention tttavp- train to s , w. ue'' ` " .- .
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over Premier A iir^Karim~Fthat they would by issued the
'srms they needed to perform
f. .' .. its :n it c nnstdered 'a. their task y.
.{'umlilunrtit< rSes' 5 is -the
'This dev lopntent together
ir+ft to%%4:Contnlunist con- :with tornmunict control of the
t1-o1, It has "not reached the !street mobs, Conrntunist domi-
?n+nt n-f narlett1!n The siiua? )nation of the radio and most
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be planning :ln use. lawdisb nannieties -with and some arms
iefugee tt:besr+ien, I.veently re-, d'liveriep from the Communist'
b :,T, and Communist tendencies
Middle Pastern country, They!
t 1 -lit up , , rlutionary 1
advance these reasons:
t'-ban life,.in which ,he Cott- t , r t,et the infhleneel
mr,nists are so active, irlava n of P!esident :Gasser,
t all par; in the total life of E\r'ltlk help
rq. To. an extent htm'-d P7r , ? r ,... ;er -, ra5ition equivocal
F:rmo ans or Americans t0,l)-ii ,tie of hi evident resent-
jinwgine, power lies not in of Premu?r Kassim's ref
vii organisation but in- that, r, to f:j1 in -itll his ideal of
'army whi,?i, is belit.veb u::ry under Cairo's
;rnrmune to Communist .rtf;::? ,,?:, , , 5h;h. F',rr thermore, the
once. - t , O-d Arab l;cpublie's eeo-,
Premier Kra?stm itss this ghl f,, d,; er.is on sales of
at be in n,n(h n.t of h:r i,> r?? , ,,, ,t hiss
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