COST OF IRAQI FORCES IN SYRIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100160002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT NO.
"he followin,.-~ g, is a treimlation of a copy of ~ letter
)i the Iraqi Ministry of Def onse to the Co cil o.f Ministers regarding
-vi i.tjone1 expenditure by the Ministry of Defense on account of the Ir sal
.krca: recently sent to Syria:
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nth: DMini .try of Defense,
Dirt ctor Geuoral of Military Accounts.
Chief of the Office of the Council of iirzi.sterso
of NO? D42l4/8/237,,
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bet g Additional Expet
woo Incurred Through the Dispatch of a Military
Farce: to Syra
Following the Gover cent's decision to sand a small military force
to Syria part of that force has already been dispatched as a temporary
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is quite clear that the dispatch of some units of the RUP and the
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CONFII?ENTIAIa
0-o at of Iraqi Farces In 13yria
A ny outside the country r All. necessitate additional exponsos, not
foroseon when the estimates for the 1961 budget were made. Those
ca nt be nsi.dered ordinary maintenance expenses which could be
"rpp ospriatod from the sums that will be provided for in the L-Oneral
Budget Law, Chapter 9 (Mi.ni.stry of Defense)
Those additional o ponces are of two sorts a
D.. For the ma! i nce of aircraft and mechanical vehicles.
At this stage it it impossible to assess the cost exactlyy as that in
-;contingent on the number of men, aircraft, and vehicle:; >> `?'' ~ 3 win
prate in .Syria, and the period of their presence there,,
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It will be realized that the absence of officers,, NCOrs and men,,
and some followers and civilian employees frc their bcxses and
families will cause them extra expemseo This Ministry reoomeondeE,
therefore,, that they be granted the following allowances to cover
their additional expenses during the whole. period of their stay
o? side Iraqt
a. Of s ioers of all raxdk: 40 percent of their pays
b, Warrant officers and volunteer and conscript NCOrar ID.2/000 per months
oa Volunteers and conscripts
)
) ID.if500 per months
Civil laborers
Follacrs, such an sweepers and servants)
On this basis, the monthly cost of these allowances alone for the
force that has been actually sent will amount to about IDE.1,085f000
(case thousand and eighty-five Dinars). 'This expenditure ,sill increase
if any additional forces are sent later.
The difference between the coat of - rations at Syrian prices and the
cost at the price fixed in Iraq, and the other expenses of fuel and
accessories for the aircraft and mechanical vehicles, cannot be
assessed at this atege4 It is requested, therefore, that the question
be submitted to the Council of Ministers for their approval aft
a. The grant of additional allowances in the ratio explained in
sub-Paragraphs a,b, c, d, and e of - Paragraph 3 above for the
while period for which this force,, and any other force sent
later, remains in Syria,
b. An Increase in the Ministry of Defenses budget for 1951 to cower
the expenses that will be incurred in this operation,
Signed: Minister of Defense,
Caw tot
The Ministry of Finance - please mks your observations to the
Office of the Council of Miniatetrnon
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