IRAQ--BACKGROUND ANTI-US AND ANTI BRITISH ACTIONS BY QASIN GOVERNMENT SINCE 14 JULY 1958

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82R00025R000100060026-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: April 16, 1959
• Content Type: BRIEF

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18 April 1858
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AXTI-W AND ANTI DI TI 88 ACTI CC'S BY
4"I S 8 i1U' $I* S 14 JULY 1855
Consulates in Kirkuk and Nasal closed.
S. Be facto repudiation of agrees t with US for military advisory
group; BAAG personnel left to cool heels for nor* than six months.
8Sii facilities closed.
4, protracted campaign to farce out UB Point 4 technicians from
*vi sory posts in Iraqi ministries.
and UK id ssionari es ordered to leave.
6. axpropriation of US ari ssionary hospital at Amara; American staff
eaves
Blaring of American "e,gents' for major Baghdad oil fire last
August; arrest and detention for two days Of two Embassy marine
guards picked up is vicinity.
8. subsequent "provocation*' attempt to implicate Point 4 public re-
ions advisor in "assassination plot" against Qasim.
9, 'Purge committees" set up to weed out Americans at Baghdad re-
y.
10. American refinery manager harassed until he resigned in Doe 1888;
firs:
loan manager seeking job in US as result of continued
American personnel.
11. Contract with American consulting firm Tippetts, Abbott,
Earthy & Stratton =ngineers, Ise. cancelled;, company's bank
account frozen, office and warehouse seized.
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13. i tore
Deirbindi than psae site brutally beaten by natives.
per sonae-l
In dredging operations at port of
god. Morrison gnntson-l rican firm refuses contract
at lea because of impossible government restrictions.
others, subsidiary of Rational Biscuit Company# reducing
,ply in Basra area because of labor troubles.
Andrews Forbes, an Americas firm "porting licorice in Basra,
o re-tnstate 10 employees discharged as surplus.
ld. S. & C. and Williaa press Ltd. (British) forced to leave
1.a-.Qerbendi-Khan highway project.
17. CAT (Lebanese first, partly British.-owned) forced to leave country.
Jar Tractor Company representative closely shadowed by
aq.
18. Local pan American manager refused
on to return to
of contracts of most members of British Air Force
bon.
21. British ordered to evacuate Rabbiaaya air base.
22. Press and may public officials blame , along with UU, for
rebellion; Qas a, knowing better, lets these
4emonstrations against Rountree visit and stoning of
s go unchallenged.
and searches by Popular Resistance Force of U8 and UK
4 private cars.
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26. Arrests of several. Iraqi eap]oyees of B6 eaNMssay.
26. Now "security controls" sad recurrent surveillance of American
staff of Zabassy.
27. Aaerissn education technician of point 4 Program jailed over-
sight, Interrogated and ordered to leave on *barge of being
spy sad se-botenr *'
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