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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500800308-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 308
• Publication Date: March 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Release 2005/08/17 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000500800308-9
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Irae
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1. The position Of has become so very uncertain that his replacement
by a cabin: t h.e:zri _', by Nuri .,:;Id is probable.
2. In connectj.on with t'r: groe..iug republican propaganda, King Faisal
to outflank the. movk:ment by taking over a high office, probably
if a republic 15 proclaimed.
3. A sign of the growing strain is that nine leading newspapers. have been suspended
for a year for their statements on the petroleum strike in Basra.
4. The Pakistani Foreign Minister Zafrullah Khan has made an offer to solve the
problem of (riddle Gast difense by taking Iraq into a security pact, but the
Government of Iraq has been so uncertain over the internal crisis that it has
been unable tc take any action.
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