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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00038R001000160001-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 50
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: MISC

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Approved For Release 2010/12/13: CIA-RDP82-00038R001000160001-4
BR'
IRAQ
to April 1941
GROBBA, FRITZ KONRAD F.
Real name at birth, Arthur ~ Borg; present name is A Borg; revs r-.ee
and with ' b' added / Gerrnen diplomat and Nazi 'Lawrence of Arabia
born 1886; student Berlin Urtiversity- afid Greifswal.d Uni r8ity,
Germany; married a Syrian Ar;aab.woman (now deceasedentered
foreign service, 1913; serve~;t in World War I, with 'German Army"
on Turkish Front (wounded); a~etired to Bavarian .md. ntains after
war 4nd death of wife; becamd Mohammedan and student of Orierito
logy; bedame director Colog11~6 Passport Office, 1921; persuaded
by General Erich Ludendorff=to undertake military. intrigued in
Middle East, And appointed c) large d' affair in Afghanistan, 19,23;.,
sent to Bagdad in 1932 as millistar to Iraq and while there,: acP"aA ;
arranged exchange of -vi s itore' between Germany{ d Iraq to ;iew
ware ames, and arranged ree rreh units who oasis; to Ira
q
both, events the Germans stayed on in Iraq) ; when Arabi att Eked
British pipelines in Iraq, `G iobba iacovered ,to be ''i itigator,
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 IRAQ.
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GROB~A, FRITZ KONRAD F.
`~ r.?*l?l"~ as r( t 4 ,fir'"
;o Agri J194,
October 1938; fled to. Saudi Ar'a'bia, 190; in Saudi Arabia
c
teredto_ and . cultiva hfficialsted ` Iraqul ? co
with l'fiGia-la: of nt~i~ed his p1rIraq, Dam cu , 1940; f ormatl ~' ~ aZ i
organization of natives rith n am
-f n +~t
YIra;; otaidripof Rsehiy All El GAILANI (GEMANY)
out regent . who lei revolt ,dh 'dr'`
and 'set up pro-Ax"s ravertire
nt 5
h wh 6Il, sta ed ll~art
with British, April 1.9.41, thu bringing 8ucces 1. ?to
int~rf
gues, although British flI~n l lipdefeated Yaqui i :et
and drove out Rashid Ali El C~Ai irdlll
M16 s Who nt 1 Su Ie~ent uarterl
q y' curt u l at i On- SePp tembe r
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IRAQ I' GROB8 , "RITZ KGNR.4I F.
organization of nit i vP,a *pi +1k -it ,, e
n
au
tered Arak~za ca-
to and cultivated Irac u1: off icia1e? t
"
October 19,48; fled to Saudi Arabia 1Q . i
S di
inued
con his plan
with n0finiol a ,-P T....,. -,n
LL ' o which d rove
of Rashid Ai El GAILANI (GERMANY. who led a 1t
':l- - -..? ?s. ?.v way nil.