WORKING PAPER INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST REACTION TO THE 8 FEBRUARY IRAQI COUP

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International Communist Reaction
to the 8 February Iraqi Coup
5 April 1963
This is not an officially approved publication of CIA. It is
circulated for information subject to the enclosed statement
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This unclassified paper records the propaganda statements of Asian
and European Communist Parties and the Communist fronts' responses to
the Iraqi coup d'etat of 8 February 1963. A second aspect of the campaign
treated is the use of related stories from the non-Communist press in replays
by Communist as well as non-Communist organs. It demonstrates the inter-
national exploitation and coordination of Communist and Communist front
propaganda media achieved in a very short span of time to pressure the Iraqi
government for mitigation of its repressive measures against Iraqi Communists
and fellow travelers and, in the process, to discredit the new government in
the eyes of the world. Though the study is believed to cover the greater
part of world Communist and Communist front treatment of the subject during
the period surveyed, it does not claim to be exhaustive.
This is an UNCLASSIFIED document. Additional copies may be obtained
from Document Division, OCR.
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1. Initial reactions: 8-10 February. The protest of the (Soviet)
All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, broadcast on 8 February,
appears to have been the first attack on the new Iraqi r4gime by any
communist-dominated organ. The second such attack apparently
was made on the following day by the Executive Committee of the
World Federation of Democratic Youth, then meeting in Budapest.
The WFDY attack went beyond that of the Soviet trade unions,
which merely protested the "persecution" of "democrats," and
stated that the new regime had come to power through an
"imperialist-inspired conspiracy. " It was perhaps for this
reason that Radio Budapest did not carry the WFDY appeal until
13 February, when that station began to broadcast other material
attacking the new government; the appeal was noted by the CP
Belgium's Drapeau Rouge on 15 February and by Komsomolskaya
Pravda on the sixteenth.
Z. The CP Lebanon's weekly, Al Akhbar, and daily, Al Nida,
also began their attacks on 10 February, but the two were along
somewhat different lines. Al Akhbar, in what perhaps was of
more long-term significance, was less vitriolic with respect to
the Iraqi government in concentrating its fire on "US intelligence"
while Al Nida began a series in which the new government was
termed a "dictatorship" and the Iraqi Ba'athists, the main
organized popular support for the new regime, as "murderers. "
The Secretariat of the General Union of Students in the Iraqi
Republic issued a statement on 10 February which termed the
coup "fascist," implied American involvement, and called for
international support for the "patriotic" students who were waging
"armed resistance" to the new regime. Apparently because of a
time lag in communications (Iraq to Eastern Europe), Radio Peyk-
e-Iran, * which itself had begun to attack the situation in Iraq on
11 February, did not carry the GUSIR statement until 11 March.
* Radio Peyk-.e-Iran, a clandestine East European transmitter,
carries the official statements of the Tudeh (Communist) Party
of Iran. It had begun to carry official statements of the CP
Iraq prior to this time, and on 15 February it began broadcasting
in Arabic.
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A CP Iraq call for international support of the armed resistance to
the new regime, also issued on 10 February, did receive a quick
and widespread international replay, however. This statement, which
called the coup "reactionary and imperialist" and alleged that two
Americans in Baghdad at the time had aided the Arif forces in the
first hours of the coup, was signed by one Anwar Mustafa, alleged
Politburo member of the CP Iraq. Both Drapeau Rouge of 12
February and the CP Ceylon's Forward of 22 February indicate
that this appeal was issued by Mustafa in London.
3. The Mustafa replay: 11-28 February. This appeal was
carried by L'Humanitd, official organ of the French CP, on 11
February, by Drapeau Rouge on the twelth, and by Al Nida,
crediting L'Humanite, on the thirteenth. Radio Peyk-e-Iran
broadcast the appeal on 15 February without using Mustafa's
name; on 28 February it acknowledged his authorship. The
carrying of such a violent appeal by the official organs of the French,
Belgian, Lebanese, and Iranian CP's, as well as its very existence
as an allegedly official CP Iraq document, was in sharp contrast to
the diplomatic actions of the three ideological leaders of the world
communist movement, the Yugoslavs, the Soviets, and the Chinese,
who had just recognized the new regime on 10,11, and 12 February,
respectively. Of these three only the Soviets had begun to express
their criticism of the new regime by 15 February.
4. Initiatives of 1213 February: Iraqi, French, and British.
On 12 February Radio Peyk-e-Iran broadcast a CP Iraq call for
the Iraqi people to join in in its armed revolt against the new
government. Also on the twelfth the French CP issued a statement
protesting the reprisals against "Iraqi patriots and democrats;" this
was the first such protest known to have been officially issued by any
foreign CP, The French CP statement was noted by Radios Moscow
and Budapest on the thirteenth and reprinted by Pravda on the fourteenth.
Agence France Presse, on 13 February, reported that an appeal was
being circulated in London by the General Union of Iraqi Students
Abroad. This appeal characterized the new regime as a "bloody
dictatorship guilty... of the crime of genocide. " It was carried in
full by Komsomolskaya Pravda on 16 February and was noted by
CP Great Britain's Dail Worker on the fourteenth, Pravda on
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the fifteenth, and by the CP Denmark's Land og Folk on 6 March.
In the Daily Worker of the thirteenth Idris Cox, authoritative
British communist spokesman, stated that the new Iraqi govern-
ment was out to destroy "democratic life," devoted much space
in trying to disassociate the communists from Qasim, and made
no mention of American involvement. Not only did Pravda note
this article on the fifteenth, but it also pursued the same line of
disassociating the communists from Qasim on the twenty-sixth,
when it completed the first series of Soviet attacks on the new
regime. In its issue of 22 February, the CP Ceylon's weekly,
Forward, quoted extensively from the Cox article.
5. Initiative of 13 February: the McCone story. Radio
Budapest on 13 February put out a story datelined London
implying that CIA director McCone's visit to that city (10-
13 February) was somehow linked to the Iraqi coup. Our Radio,
the clandestine outlet for the Turkish CP, went one step further,
and erroneously stated on the same day that McCone had gone
to Iraq during the month of January. It is interesting that the
GUISA appeal and the Idris Cox article also appeared in the
same city, London, and on the same day, the thirteenth; but
no evidence of coordination has been forthcoming. The facts
that the CP Belgium's Drapeau Rouge of 12 February and the
CP Ceylon's Forward of 22 February suggested that Anwar
Mustafa resided in London and that the Daily Worker of 11 March
noted his message to the CPGB may point to his involvement
in any one or all of these three propaganda items. At any rate,
the McCone story was a logical sequel to the CP Lebanon's
development of the subject'-- Al Akhbar of 10 February had
stressed the role of "US intelligence" and a CP Lebanon
pamphlet of "mid-February" claimed that the Americans and
CIA were the instigators of the coup. These stories all laid
the groundwork for the Paris L'Express article of 21 February,
around which the biggest communist propaganda effort on the
whole subject of post-coup Iraq has centered.
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6. Soviet initiatives and a coordinated campaign. As
indicated above, prior to 14 February most of the initiative-
for the communist propaganda play on the Iraqi coup and the
subsequent actions of the new regime there had come out of
London, Paris, and Beirut. The Soviets took the initiative on
the fourteenth, in a much more obviously coordinated effort
than anything that preceded it, probably having decided by then
that the new Iraqi regime was irrevocably committed to a course-
of anti-communism. The 14 February Pravda carried three
items on Iraq: an editorial (replayed by the CP Ceylon's weekly
Forward of 22 February), a commentary by Yuri Zhukov, and
the French CP statement on the subject -- all critical although
restrained. That same day, the Hungarian Workers' Party's
N!~pszabadsSg, the Polish Workers' Party's Tribuna Ludu,
and the CP Algeria's Algerie Reublicaine joined in the attack.
Also on the fourteenth, Radio Peyk.e-Iran stepped up its
criticism of the new regime and the Political Committee of
the CPGB issued its protest (carried by Pravda on the
sixteenth but apparently never by the Daily Worker), On the
fifteenth,. Iraqi students in London staged a protest demonstration,
and the CP Israel's Kol Haam carried its first known attack.
7. On 16 February the Central Committee of the CPSU
issued a statement denouncing the "terror and reprisals"
against "communists and democrats" but still stopped short
of a really serious direct attack on the Iraqi government. This
was the third official statement of a foreign CPdefinitely known
to have been issued on the subject. * The Central Committees.. of
the Czech, Bulgarian, and Iranian (Tudeh) CPs followed suit
with their protests on the nineteenth. The CP of Northern
Ireland had protested on the eighteenth and that of Cyprus, the
* It cannot be determined whether the Central Committee
statements of the CP Lebanon and CP Jordan, both of which
were dated "mid-February", were issued before or after the
Soviet one. The French CP statement of 12 February was of
course the first and the CPGB statement of the fourteenth, the
second.
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Restorative Party of the Working People (AKEL), had done so
on or prior to the twentieth. They were followed by the
Secretariat of the Italian CP on the twentieth, by the Irish
Workers' Party (CP) on the twenty-first, and the Central
Committee of the Polish Workers` Party on the twenty-second.
Drapeau Rom had, moreover, noted appeals by the Executive
Committee of the CP Spain and by the secretary general of the
CP Algeria in its issue of 21 February. The Secretariat of the
International Union of Students protested on 16 February. The
secretary general of the World Federation of Trade Unions also
issued an appeal on the sixteenth [followed by appeals from
Italian (16th), French (17th), Hungarian (17th), Soviet (18th),
and Polish (20th) affiliates]; and the 17 February appeal of
the chairman of the World Peace Council was similarly
followed up by national affiliates Austrian (17th), Polish
(ca. 18th), Soviet (ca. 20th), Italian (20th). The Czech
Peace Council had come out with its statement a day earlier,
on the sixteenth, while it is not possible for us to determine
whether that of Bulgaria came out before or after the WPC
statement of the seventeenth. It should also be noted that
Yugoslavia, the communist nation which had generally been
expected to be the most friendly toward the new Iraqi regime,
joined in the attack on 18 and 19 February with articles in
its Politika and, Borba, respectively.
8. The L'Express article of 21 February.* this article,
attributed to sources in Geneva, alleged that the Iraqi coup
L'Express (Paris) is neither a communist, nor openly a
communist-front, newspaper, but several of its stories have
previously found their way into the Soviet press. For instance,
on 7 June 1961 Izvestia referred to a 12 May L'Express article
which linked CIA with the Challe coup; on 12 October 1962
Pravda quoted editor Servan-Schreiber, "the distinguished French
commentator," by name in connection with his L'Express article
(date not given) alleging that deGaulle was preparing the French
army for civil war; and on 23 October 1962 Pravda printed excerpts
from another L'Express article (date not given) which defended the
Soviet action on Cuba. There is, however, no information available
suggesting how these tendentious and useful stories find their way
into L'Express at auspicious moments.
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was inspired by CIA in order to stave off an impending coup by
pro-Soviet army officers supported by the communists and the
Kurds. The article went on to state that the details were
perfected in late De:ceember 1962 in a meeting in Munich between
a "high American official" and Gen. Najib al-Rubai, president
of the Iraqi Sovereignty Council. At the instigation of this
American official Rubai was supposed to have gone to London
in early January 1963 to discuss the matter with the British.
The latter were said to have refused to become directly
involved because Rubai couldn't guarantee that Iraq's
nationalized oil-fields would remain unexploited in return for
substantial IPC production increases. According to the article
Abd-al-Nasir, as a condition for his support, wanted. Col. Arif,
rather than the unnamed "national-socialist" politician chosen
by the Americans, to head the new government. Finally, the
article stated that the French had been kept out of the
negotiations altogether.
9. The L'Express article's replay. The first replay
we have is a rather accurate summary of the article appearing
in the Budapest Magyar Nemzet of 22 February. The. Czech
News Agency must have picked the story up immediately or
been in on the first replay, for both Ghana's Evening News of
22 February and its Ghanaian Times of the next day cite the
Czech News Agency as their source in replaying the L'Express
story. * The article was also replayed by the CP Algeria's
Algjrie RJpublicaine on 23 February and discussed by Radio
Peyk-e-Iran that same day. In its broadcast of the twenty-
third Peyk-e-Iran described the American allegedly involved
in Munich as a general, but in its broadcast of the twenty-fifth
* These two papers generally follow a pro-communist line in
international affairs; but the Evening News of 18 February, in
affirming its sympathy with Pravda's protest over the "mass
slaughter of communists in Iraq" even took Moscow to task
for recognizing the new regime so soon! According to a Radio
Free Europe broadcast of 12 March Jewish CP Iraq members
in exile in Israel have similarly criticized the USSR for its
recognition of the new Iraqi regime.
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he is described as a CIA official. Phnom Penh's La Wp@che,
leftist but non-communist just like L'Express, played the story
on the twenty-fifth, as did three "moderate" Tunisian papers on
the twenty-eight, Al Sabah, La Presse de Tunisie, and Le Petit
Matin. On 1 March, the New York Standard, a stopgap journal
of unknown politics being put out during the newspaper strike,
carried the story, and then no more replays were noted for
four days. On 6 March, however, a complete reprint plus
additional material including a notation concerning the General
Union of Iraq Students Abroad protest (see paragraph 4.,
above) and of McCone's being linked to the American steel
industry appeared in the CP Denmark's Land og Folk. The
next day, 7 March, saw the appearance of the story in the
American and pro-communist National Guardian, which
credited the New York Standard, On 8 March Jon Kimche's
Jewish Observer (London), of unknown political. orientation,
gave the only known replay which lacked L'Express attribution.
On 9 March, the CP Norway's Friheten carried the story and on
the sixteenth it was noted by Ny Dag, the newspaper of the CP
Sweden. Finally an article in the Soviet Literary Gazette, also
on 16 March, used the L'Express article to substantiate its
arguments of CIA involvement. in the Iraqi coup.
10. Role of Iraqi exiles: 21 February - 7 March. On 21
February Radio Prague broadcast a Rude Pravo article written
by Iraqi Communist leader Aziz a1.-Hajjt In a variation from
the L'Express story, Aziz al-Hajj claimed that the American
and British Embassies (presumably in Baghdad) were behind
the coup. The next day Radio Prague carried an interview
with nine Iraqi leftists in Prague including Aziz al-Hajj, and
the nine issued a joint statement in the course of the interview
describing the coup as "reactionary" and "fascist." These nine
plus four others later claimed to have formed a Higher
Committee of the Iraqi People's Movement Abroad on the
twenty-second, but this was not made public until the 1 March
interview of L'Unit'a.'s Prague correspondent with Muhammad
Mahdi al-Jawahiri, the committee's chairman. The results
of the interview were published by the CP Italy's L'Unit~_ on
* Replayed by CP Israel's Kol Haam on 28 February.
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2 March, and notice of the formation of the Higher Committee
followed in Al Akhbar (Beirut) on the third, and on Radio Peyk-
e-Iran on the four-ti. Among other things the Higher Committee
appeal called for ousting the new Iraqi government. In the
interim. between the alleged formation of the Higher Committee and
the announcement of the fact, a whole spate of appeals* by
prominent Iraqi leftists were broadcast over Peyk-e-Iran. These
included appeals by journalists (26 February), a trade-unionist,
artists, writers (27 February), and. Communist Aziz al-Hajj
(27 and 28 February). Little new was contained in these protests.
L'Humanite of 1 March, however, carries an alleged CP Iraq
call for the formation of resistance committees in order to
conduct armed struggle; this appeal was alleged by the paper to
have come out of Beirut a few days prior to 28 February.
"Politburo member Anwar Mustafa's" appeal broadcast over
Radio Prague on 7 March, in contrast to this and to his appeal
of 10 February, appeared primarily to have been an open
attempt to save the lives of CPI leaders who had been arrested,
and this fitpin:with the toning down of criticism discussed in the
next paragraph.
11.. The toning down of criticism. 27 February m 8 March.
After 4 lengthy Pravda article on the twenty-sixth which among
other things attempted to disassociate the Iraqi communists from
the Qasim administration (as did the Idris Cox article in the 13
February Daily Worker) and criticized the latter for his Kuwait
policy, the Soviets appeared to have ceased commenting on the
Iraqi situation. On the twenty-seventh the Czechoslovak Bratislava
Pravda carried a rather interesting article which not only
characterized the Ba'athists as "extremely nationalistic" but
criticized the 'anti -Imperial.istl' (e. g. procommunist) forces in
Iraq for having underrated the national bourgeoisie and overestimated
the strength of the Communist Party and. its front organizations.
This vas not at all in line with other international communist
*Notation of these appeals had been made previously, by Radio
Budapest on 21 February, and concurrently, by the Daily
Worker (London) on 27 February.
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commentary, which had nothing but praise for the actions of the
Iraqi communists at this time. By 3 March even the broadcasts
concerning Iraq by Peyk-e-Iran and Radio Budapest, two of the
most vociferous on the subject, appeared to have ceased; and
the international Association of. Democratic Lawyers was noted
as setting up a commission of inquiry rather than attacking the
Iraq government head on at this time. This let-up appears to have
been due to two factors, the warning by Minister of State Hazim
Jawad on 23 February that continued criticism by bloc propaganda
media would seriously endanger the relations of the countries
concerned with Iraq,and the arrest of top communists and front
personalities in Iraq, made public on the twenty-fourth (the fact
that Anwar Mustafa's 7 March Rude Pravo article was in effect
an appeal on behalf of these persons substantiates this contention).
12. Announcement of the executions and the aftermath. On 9
March the Iraqi government announced that Communist First
Secretary Husayn Radi, Central Committeeman Muhammed Husayn
Abu-al-Is, and "Central Committee liaison member" Husayn Uwayni
had been executed. This resulted in a communist and communist-
front protest campaign that exceeded anything that had gone before
on the Iraqi issue. The Hungarian Workers' Party's Central
Committee, Central Control Commission, and Central Auditing
Commission issued a joint protest on 10 March, which appeared to
have been the first public reaction on the part of any CP organ to
the news. This is interesting because the Hungarians, though
playing a great part in the bloc propaganda campaign concerning
Iraq, had up to this time appeared to have made no official Party
statement.* Other CP's which appear to have issued their first
official protests at this time were the Mongolian (12th), East
German and Indonesian (13th), Saudi and North Vietnamese (14th),
Turkish (ca. 15th), and Chinese (15th). The CPSU Central
*Sirriilarily, protests from various Hungarian trade unions (17
February) and students of various Hungarian universities (19
March) were publicized rather than official statements from
the Hungarian national affiliates of WFTU and IUS respectively.
The Hungarians apparently go to great lengths to achieve
spontaneity.
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Committee issued a statement (its second on the subject) on 11
March. In this, the Central Committee expressed "wrath and
indignation" that the "Iraqi authorities" were "trampling upon
the elementary principles of humanity and democracy.
Presumably on 11 and 12 March numerous delegations protesting
the "terror" visited the Iraqi ambassador in Moscow. This
campaign reached its peak on 14 March when a massive student
demonstration was staged outside Moscow's Iraqi Embassy, a
public meeting was held in that city's House of Trade Unions,
and similar meetings were held elsewhere in Moscow and in other
cities throughout Russia. At the Moscow meeting, incidentally,
Prof. K. P. Gorshenin* made what was possibly the strongest
attack yet on the Iraqi leaders by any responsible communist when
he characterized them as "cowardly reactionaries." On 13 March
the Czech CP Central Committee made a second protest on the
Iraq situation, the only CP Central Committee known to have done
so other than the Soviet. Also paralleling Moscow's action, a
protest rally was staged by Prague "workers" on 20 March in
which many of the audience were Arab students. This rally
was addressed by expatriate Iraq communists and communist-
fronters,includi.ng Aziz al-Hajj,as well as their Czech counterparts.
13. Mayevski and the Paris-Jour article. In a Moscow TV
round-table discussion of 13 arc. one Mayevski (fnu) stated
that the Iraqi coup had been engineered by CIA in collusion with
the Ba'athist Party and that the US was now pushing Arab
federation in order to achieve complete control of Middle Eastern
oil resources. Mayevski further stated that CIA Director
McCone owned some one million dollars' worth of stock in
Standard Oil of New Jersey. This Mayevski is no doubt
Viktor Mayevski who reiterated the same line in an article
in Pravda on 16 March. Only in the Pravda article he said
McCone owned over one million dollars' worth of stock in
Standard Oil of California** and quoted Genevieve Tabouis
*Gorshenin is president of the law section of the Union of Soviet
Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign
Countries.
The Soviet Pedagogical Gazette of 16 March, in reiterating this
line, stated that McCon.e owned stock in both-Standard Oil of New
Jersey and Standard Oil of California.
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in Paris-Jour (a sensational but non-leftist newspaper) as the
source of the story that the US is behind Arab federation moves
in order to unite all Eastern oil resources and that the US intends
to give economic aid to these Arab states in return for "guarantees"
to Israel. * This article appeared in the Paris-Jour of 1 March and
was replayed by Beirut's conservative L'Orient two days later. It
is interesting then that Mayevski',g.. 16 March Pravda article was
replayed by L'Orient on the seventeenth as well as by the CP
Belgium's Drapeau Rouge on the eighteenth and by Beirut's Al Amal
on the twentieth. L'Orient and Al Amal, catering as they do to
Lebanon's Christian community, are sensitive to
pan.-Arabism; as such they appear willing to replay any story
likely to discredit such a movement.
14. Summary. It was fairly obvious from the timing of the
reactions by certain communist parties and front organizations that
they followed the lead of the CPSU in the Iraqi protest campaign.
This was especially true of their response to the CPSU Central
Committee resolutions of 16 February and 11 March. For almost
a week after the coup, (until 14 February), however, the organs
of certain communist parties out of power--Iraqi, Lebanese,
Iranian, French, and British- -took the lead in attacking the
new government and its treatment of left-wingers. This approach,
which has been used in the past against other governments around
the world, including that of the UAR, is recognized as advantageous
by the world communist movement for at least two reasons. First,
it tends to refute the idea that "Free World" communist parties
and their fronts only act in response to Soviet direction (in this case,
_*"The Tabouis article actually stated that the Americans have three
plans, Arab federation, involving disappearance of the Saudi and
Jordanian monarchies; unification of Arab Middle East oil resources
in order better to finance economic development in the area; and
massive US and UN economic and technical aid to the Arab federation
in return for guarantees for Israel. This is much more !'positive"
than the Mayevsk.; treatment but still provides the basis for
discrediting Nasir's pan-Arabism.; i. e. implying that the US is
ultimately behind it and that an Israeli settlement is part of the
bargain.
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as proved in other instances, it is possible that the direction for
the campaign was given confidentially). Second, it gave the
communist-bloc governments, most of which had apparently
recognized the new regime by 14 February, a brief opportunity
to induce it to give up or at least water down its defensive security
measures even while other, ostensibly independent, communist
organs were engaged in launching the campaign of protest and
denunciation. Another thing worth noting was the communist
use of stories appearing in the non-communist press (especially
F rench-language) to create the impression of objectivity in its
inherenti'y:,~ hostile treatment of the subject. This suggests that
communist parties and/or governments have channels for
influencing wittingly or unwittingly the news organs concerned.
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Appendix - Chronology of Attacks
8 Feb [R evolt occur ss
8 Feb (Soviet) All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.
9 Feb World Federation of Democratic Youth Executive
Committee (in session at the time; not broadcast
until 13 Feb).
10 Feb Inception of CP Lebanon's Al Nida and Al Akhbar
editorial attacks.
10 Feb
Appeal by CP Iraq Politburo member Anwar Mustafa
(replayed by French CP's L'Humanitg on 11 Feb, by
Al Nida on 13 Feb, and by Radio Peyk.-e-Iran on 15.
and 28 Feb.)
10 Feb Secretariat of the General Union of Students of the
Iraqi Republic (not broadcast by Radio Peyk-e-Iran
until 11 Mar).
11 Feb Inception of Radio Peyk-e-Iran attacks (organ of
Tudeh Party).
12 Feb CP France (replayed by Pravda 14 Feb), CP Iraq calls for revolt.
13 Feb Radio Budapest links CIA Director McCone's visit
to London to Iraqi coup, notes CP France protest;
carries WFDY resolution.
13 Feb Our Radio (organ of CP Turkey) replays McCone story.
13 Feb AFP notes circulation of appeal by General Union of
Iraqi Students abroad in London (appeal replayed by
CP Great Britain's Daily Worker on 14 Feb, Pravda
on 15 Feb,and Komsomolskaya Pravda on 16 Feb).
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13 Feb Idris. Cox article in London Daily Worker (noted by
Pravda on 15 Feb).
14 Feb Inception of Pravda attacks (editorial, commentary,
PCF appeal; editorial replayed by CP Ceylon's
Forward on 22 Feb).
14 Feb Inception of Hungarian Workers' Party's Wpszabadsa.g
attacks.
14 Feb CPGB Political Committee (replayed by Pravda on 16
February).
14 Feb Polish Workers' Party's Tribuna Ludu and CP Algeria's
Alg4rie R4publicaine.
15 Feb Iraqi students in London demonstrate; CP Israel's Kol Haam.
16 Feb Secretariat of International Union of Students.
16 Feb Louis Saillant, secretary general of World Federation
of Trade Unions.
16 Feb CPSU Central Committee.
ca. 16 Feb Czech and Bulgarian Peace Councils.
ca. 16 Feb CP Lebanon Central Committee, CP Jordan Central Con Hide.
ca.. 16 Feb Secretariat of Italian Confederation of Labor.
17 Feb J. D. Bernal, chairman of World Peace Council's
Presidential Committee, Austrian Peace Movement
(WPC headquarters in Vienna).
17 Feb Naziha Dulaymi, chairman of Iraqi Women's League.
17 Feb Various Hungarian trade unions.
ca. 17 Feb CP Northern Ireland.
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ca. 17 Feb (French) General Confederation of Workers.
18. Feb (Soviet) All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.
18 Feb
Iraqi students in Moscow, USSR student council.
18 Feb Yugoslav government's Politika.
ca. 18 Feb Bulgarian, Women's Committee.
ca. 18 Feb Soviet and Polish Peace Councils.
ca. 18 Feb Soviet Red Cross.
19 Feb Yugoslav Communist League's Borba.
19 Feb Ghana's Evening News (pro-communist).
19 Feb SED's Neues Deutschland.
19 Feb Central Committees of Czech, Bulgarian, and Iranian
(Tudeh) CP's.
19 Feb Arab students of Hungary and Bulgaria.
19.Feb Free (East) German Youth.
ca. 19 Feb Restorative Party of the Working People (CP Cyprus).
20 Feb Secretariat of CP Italy.
20 Feb World Peace Council circular letter, Italian Peace
Council.
20 Feb Bulgarian Writers, Bulgarian Anti-Fascist Fighters.
20 Feb Polish. Central Council of Trade Unions.
ca. 20 Feb Rude Pravo article of Aziz al-Hajj.
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21 Feb Drapeau Rouge notes appeals of CP Spain and CP Algeria.
21 Feb Irish Workers' Party.
21 Feb L'Express article (replayed by organs of Czech and
Hungarian governments on 22 Feb, of the Iranian
and. Algerian CPIs on 23 Feb, of the CP Denmark
on 6 Mar, and of the CP Norway on 9 Mar, used
in Soviet Literary Gazette article of 16 Mar).
22 Feb Central Committee of Polish Workers' Party.
22 Feb First serious Chinese attacks: New China News
Agency, All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
22 Feb Higher Committee of the Iraqi People's Movement
Abroad allegedly formed.
22 Feb Soviet-Iraq Friendship Association.
23 Feb China Political Science and Law Association, All-
China Journalists' Association.
23 Feb All-India Trade-Union Congress.
24 Feb Chinese Peace Committee, All-China Journalists'
Association.
24 Feb Albanian CP's Zeri i Popullit.
25 Feb Albanian Peace Partisans, Union of Albanian Journalists.
25 Feb Rumanian Workers' Party Central Committee.
26 Feb Lengthy Pravda editorial appears to be last Soviet
attack until 11 Mar.
26 Feb GP Ceylon Central Committee.
27 Feb Peyk-e-Iran and Daily Worker (London) replay protests
of Iraqi fronters.
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ca. 27 Feb S. A. Dange, chairman of CP India.
1 Mar (North) Vietnam Workers' Party's Nhan Dan.
1 Mar League of Kurdish Students in Hungary.
I Mar Higher Committee of the Iraqi Peoples Movement
Abroad publicized.
1 Mar .L'Humanite publishes CP Iraq call to arms.
2 Mar Reza Rusta, secretary general of Central Council of
Iranian Trade Unions.
2 Mar Secretariat member of Iraqi Women's League
(Peyk-e-Iran).
3 Mar Presidential Committee of World Peace Council,
last Hungarian protest noted until 10 Mar.
3 Mar International Association of Democratic Lawyers
inquiry commission noted, Prague Iraqi students rally.
7 Mar Anwar Mustafa's Rude Pravo appeal.
8 Mar CP Israel's Kol Haam notes Israeli Peace Committee
appeal.
9 Mar LExecutions announced]
10 Mar Hungarian Workers Party Central Committee.
11 Mar CPSU Central Committee.
12 Mar Yugoslav Communist League's Borba.
12 Mar Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party.
13 Mar Czech. CP Central Committee, SED Central Committee.
13 Mar Indonesian CP.
13 Mar CP India's New Age editorial (published 17 Mar).
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13 Mar Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee.
14 Mar Mass front rally in Moscow (trade-union, women,
youth, Union of Societies for Friendship and
Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries), student
mob storms Moscow Iraqi Embassy.
14 Mar Organization of Saudi Communists, (North) Vietnam
Workers' Party.
15 Mar CP China, GP Israel's Kol Haam.
ca. 15 Mar Turkish CP Central Committee.
19 Mar Students in various Hungarian universities.
20 Mar Prague "workers" rally, Israeli CP Politburo.
Note: The Women's International Democratic Federation,
the Committee of Soviet Women, and the Polish
Youth Organization are reported to have attacked
the actions of the new Iraqi regime sometime
between 8 and 21 February, but the dates cannot
be further pinpointed. The International
Association of Democratic Lawyers issued two
protests, one between 8 and 20 February and
another between 9 and 18 March.
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