STATUS OF THE KURDS, PN 60.1742

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01009A002500030002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 18, 1959
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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STATUS OF THE KURDS, PN 6o.17L+2
18 September 1959
I. This project has used the services of 5 analysts and one clerk in D/GG
and to date has cost a total of 1,400 man-hours. It consists of
(a) approximately 2,600 5x8 cards, most of which contain substantive
information, with the remainder containing references to neat-
package documents that are largely on one subject. These cards
are the examining of some 2,000 documents of which 1,000 were
useful.
(b) 400 yellow-pad pages of material developed in OCR Special Register.
Most of these pages are not completely filled with writing. Over
400 documents were examined in Special Register but only half of
them represent a "page-per-document" relationship. r/
II. Useful sources which have been exploited are:
An.
OCR/BR DDP/NE (FI files
III. Of little or no value were ACSI, State Department desks, and Library
of Congress. 25X18
IV. State Department have been contacted but
not exploited and probably will not be exploited. Although they contain
a wealth of information it is held 25X18
are not Kurdish.
V. The RI (records integration) files in DDP are at present being examined
to determine the feasibility of exploitation. They are known to overlap
the FI files to a certain extent.
VI. The requestor, DDP/NE/FI, has been kept informed of our progress. As
of 31 August 1959, the date of the last meeting, the following points
were self-evident:
A. Compresensive.information on the Kurds has never been brought together
b'e f.ore, making this a pioneer study, probably incomplete.
B. The 5x8 card files should not be refined to the usual degree of
finished GG/N intelligence, but should be maintained. No one expressed
an interest in doing the maintaining. Possibly it should also be
duplicated for use by several offices. There are several forms in
which it could be put for maintenance.
C. The pressure for immediate completion is off. The study will be of
particular value for
1. A basic file which can be maintained.
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GG/N OCR/LI
 2. The generalization, trends, and tendencies in the Kurdish
situation, which GG/N provides in textual form, will form
a most valuable basis for
over the next five years.
D. The material developed in OCR/CR will be transferred to
intact and no effort will be made to sanitize more than small parts
of it for inclusion in non-SR material.
if. The search has not turned up enough information to make it possible
to write toward each of the 60-odd topical headings in the outline.
A number of these headings overlap and should be combined. A con-
tribution could more aptly be made by writing separate papers on
each of the following 8 topics:
1. Nature of Intra-Tribal Relationships.
2. Kurdish Attitudes Toward Communism, Parent Country, Other
Countries, Kurdistan.
3. Stature and Influence of Key Leaders.
4./ Exploitation of Kurds for Intelligence, Propaganda, or
Para-Military Purposes.
Attitude, Policy, and Plans of Each Parent Country Towards
Its Kurdish Minority.
Capability of Each Parent Country for Effective Influence
of Its Own Kurds.
7. Probable Reaction of Each Parent Country Toward Widespread
Movement for an Independent Kurdistan and Toward Kurdish
Uprisings.
8. Border Security.
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