DATA OBTAINED FROM POLICE RAIDS ON COMMUNIST QUARTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200270004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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OPPIG Ar ~; ajry 25X1 A2
Approved For Rel ?RAI99I9TflO N "2-00457P 232
COUNTRY Iraq
SUBJECT
Data Obtained from Police Raids
on Communist q re
CIA LIBRARY
PLACE 25X1A6a
ACQUIRED
DATE OF INFO
25X1X6
REPORT NO.
Four Communist Party m-mber'ship registers seized by the Iraqi police
in recent raids on Comae nA st quarters indicate a membership totalling
approximately 3.0,9000c, It is possible that ration of other documents
now in the bands of the police will reveal additional membership register8
Lists of aliases and pseudonyms of Party members have also been seized.
20 No evidence of any link between the Iraqi CP and those of
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foxtion
has yet been uncovered. It is meted by the police that such ~ nbi information
might come as a result of the biterrogatin of romining internees.
3. Yuauf Asian Zuluf, one of the ositstanding menbere of the Iraqi C? is now
under arrest. Contrary to previous informatio 2aki
25X1A6a outstanding membear' is still at large, Co R another
25X1 A2g of 9 December 1948 stared that police custody).
4. Malik Sayf? President of the Iraqi CP, is writing a confession which
is known to incriminate many additional raeabere of the Party.
While the total amount of money seized to date in raids does not exceed
600 di.narss the police are iaprossed that an amount of this size should be
ke *on hand for Immediate use. The police presu?e that these funds have
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6. According to source, Huri as-Safd is attmpting to
in the present investigation for political purposess use The evidence oarain?d
rgiortod1y em'barasaed by this maneuver which could result in preatur+e
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