PETITION SPONSORED BY COMMUNIST MEMBERS OF IRAQI LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400540002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Iraq
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an untuthorlaed person is prohibited
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Petition S na ed by Coftanist Members
Of Iraq. Lawyers' Association
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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About '. .Jules 195'3r :xtety-eight m bears of the Iraqi Lawyers' Ass iati on
prose .ted. a Itition to ' Ci ng F sal, Prime Minister t'a i.l Mad?ai, and, other
rim Iaragi 'f. 'iciala,, a mand,ing that Iraq nOt involve itself in the Mid ,e
East Defense o rgaiI :tion and. protesting the continuance of martial Law in
E gkLd.? The, signatories varieil in political Orientation fpm Socialists to
Gists.
2. T] petition was dra 'ted by the cyst members of the Lawyers f .Aasociatio.
The fallowing e( tunist members
of the petition:
K.aaib al-SaI'd
tAbd.-41-Ck Mutt
Ka'sim Ja t far al-Muhami.
IAsiz al-Rusni
F.awzi W ha al:-A ?r
TwXltb JaTtlil:
Ida t ud '-ftyi,ghl
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sentence ft C ism.
of the Lawyers a Asslciatitn were aigrletoarLea
Jalal !Abd-a B
Abid. Fa~an ai i
' Abd -al-Eat Z-ubayr
Ibrahim al-Darkezalj13
IAbd-al-Wabbab al. Hessak1'.
Award. 'Ali Najm
Tawfiq Muriir
ayi was released. from prison on 18 March 1953 after having -served hip
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A.ni is the editor aJ -lttil ad., an evening newspaper in Baghdadi which has
leftist tendencies andr cc mntznist cartoons.
L ka l.li. is a nwo er < the Admi.ntatratL Coalittee of the Tre4i Lawyers'
Association.
Asa w tried for possession Of eO st leaflets in March 1952 and. Was
saquitted.. and released on 6 May 1952.
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