IRAQI PURCHASES OF AMMUNITION FROM EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND TURKEY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100340009-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CE{ NCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORM L PORT
COUNTRY Iraq
SUBJECT Iraqi Purchases of Amuunition from
European Countries and Turkey
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Brigadier Sami Fattah, Coinr anding Officer of the Iraqi Air Force,
Major Muhsin Habib, and Tawfiq Hakim, who have been attempting to
purchase military equipment in Europe, have completed negotiations
with an unspecified European firm for the purchase of fifteen planes
(type not given), at a cost of 25?000 per plane, with payment to be
made in sterling. Shakir Wadi, Iraqi Minister ofiDefense, approved
Fattah's purchase by mire without full sanction of the Iraqi Cabinet,
inasmuch as Fattah was forced to receive the authority of the Iraqi
Government by 28 October.
2. The Palestine truce prevented the delivery of ammunition for twelve
Sea Furies which Britain had sold to Iraq. The Iraqis, who, therefore,
have been attempting to get ammunition elsewhere, obtained 26,000
rounds of 20 mm. ammunition from Egypt, 6,000 rounds of which have been
delivered in Baghdad as a present frram King Faruq. Delivery was expected
to be completed by the end of October.
3. In early October, Colonel Qadin ,'lbadi of the Iraqi Air Force, and Capta:ia
Tiadir Husayn of the Iraqi Ordnance Corps, visited Turkey and are believed
to have obtained a quantity of 1,000-pound bombs and bomb carriers
suitable for Sea Furies, which can carry a total bomb load of 2,000
pounds each.
!. Since the Palestine truce will probably necessitate smuggling the above-
mentioned bombs and bomb carriers from Turkey to Irags this arms purchase
in Turkey may have some relation to the Baghdad visit of Satfet Lutfi Tozan,
from 11 to 13 October, source claims. Tozan, a Turkish citizen who resides
in'Istanbul at 75 Tesyikiyo, is reliably described as a large-scale
international arras smuggler.
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