CHIEF SAYS IRAQIS MORE LIKELY THAN CIA TO KILL SADDAM

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• Document Release Date: May 15, 2012
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• Publication Date: September 5, 1990
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CHIEF SAYS IRAQIS MORE LIKELY THAN CIA TO KILL SADDAM
Former CIA Director William Colby said Wednesday that effective
international pressure against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein could
lead to his removal from office in the "traditional way'' for that
part of the world being murdered...
The traditional way is for the successor to murder his
predecessor,'' Colby told journalists from 64 countries at the CNN
world Report Contributors Conference at the Omni Hotel. "That's
what happened (with) Saddam, that's what happened to his
predecessor and his predecessor in turn.''
He added that the CIA would not be involved in an assassination.
If that happens in Iraq, that's their business,'' he said.
We will not be involved. We will not touch that kind of
operation.''
Colby, CIA director under Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald
R. Ford, predicted the Persian Gulf crisis will not erupt in a war,
and he expects that international economic pressure will force Iraq
to withdraw from Kuwait. He predicted that within three to six
months there will be a change in Iraqi policy or,Iragi leadership.
11 How many Iraqi families look back and say, Our son was killed
in that eight-year war that Saddam Hussein ran with Iran, and he
just gave everything away. Is he going to send our second son to
get killed in a new adventure and then give it all away?' "
Colby said there is roan for Saddam to negotiate a peaceful
settlement and get some land he wants in the gulf, but it may be
difficult for the Bush administration to achieve its goal of
restoring Kuwait's legitimate government.
1%It,may be that there is some agreement for elections,'' Colby
said. "There are same negotiating liberties there.''
On another, topic, Colt said journalists and CIA agents have
similar jobs, and he has no moral compunctions'' about using
journalists as spies.
'I used to have several people who pretended to be journalists.
They had very good cover,'' he said, adding that they were "very
handy'' because sometimes journalists could get more information
than CIA agents. "They thought it was their patriotic duty."
Although other nations use journalists as spies, he said,
Americans have taken a every rigid position'' against it.
11 The current situation is that we don't'' use journalists,
academics or missionaries to gather intelligence information for
the government, he said, noting that all were used during World War
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