IRAQ: KURDISH SITUATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100030040-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: March 15, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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itAR iED TPI KURDS T41At ANY ACT 'i 3 :AT RG
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2 FRONT AoVER MENT OR PRCStW* LY' LOSE T1 'IR PREFERENTIAL STATUS.
GURAI 4 DEMOCRATIC PARTY WOULD' s4AVE 1 DAYS ?ROM THE DATE 01? TAE
PECOMF THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF IRAQ, AN uNCED ON MARCH 12 THAT PE
MAN Of THE' YRAQI REVOLUTIONARY COM1lA la, COUNCIL, WHO HAS VI DILLY
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ttC 1 tI V AND THE LA ^ VOUL1 IMVAL.IDATE THE 64VER111EI T'S + 11 T NT
TO GRANT THE CURDS SELF-RULE.
DESPITE THE 4OVERN1 ENT?S WARN I% IHTER 1ITTEMT FIC
WILL CONTINUE: AND HAY EVEN GREW TO INtENSITY UNTIL A FI4C
I lENT IS REACHED BETWEEN BARZANZ AND 14 RAATHUIT REGI!!E It
FACT, AS OP fARIC4 14, THE TEMPO OF FIGHTING A41D MILITARY Pk
ARATIONS APPEARED TO HAVE SUBS?ANTIAt.LY INCREASED
REPORTS or HEAVY PUNTING YN THE : F ht SORTH ARE BEING RECEIVED
SOUND P .ABSIBLC? DISPATQK - FROP Tt K.ISH CORRE'SPONDENTS IN THE
t?OWEVt7i AND TIRE REPORTS. ALT *0U64 POtSIRLY EXAGGERATE), CERTAINLY
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tI II'!'Y Of BORDER, CLAD! T14E KURDISH 011LITIA LAUNCHED A SMVR SE
ATTAC AIGAIl ST GOVEROMENT FORCES OR UE1$ESDAY NIGHT AND ARE NOV
LARfELY W CONTROL OF THE ENTIIE 2Q?-M~LE BORDER. OF ColfSE-,
MOST THE BORDER IS 'MOUNTAINOUS AND NORMALLY UNDER DE FACT
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URfACED ROAD AT THE WESTERN END Of TIC BORDER. THIS REPORVEDLY
IS UN)ER EURDZSN CONTROL- III ADDITION THE KURDS ARE REMOiIE33
AVE SEIM SEVERAL ARMY GAF*ILONS ALONG THE ROR$D#3t-
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