CIA REPORTING ON IRAQ

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03023937
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-01337
• Publication Date: February 8, 1963

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
8 February 1963
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT: CIA Reporting on Iraq
1. Attached is a rundown of pertinent CIB
reporting on plotting against Qasim. We have re-
peatedly pointed out that Qasim was steadily los-
ing backing among almost all the significant po-
litical forces in the country.
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COUP PLOTTING IN IRAQ
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16 January 1963
Popular hostility toward the Qasim regime ap-
pears to be increasing, but Qasim's confidence in
his own position remains unshaken.
Troops have taken over Baghdad University.
Over a thousand students reportedly have been im-
prisoned and many seriously injured. Communist
students, however, are not participating in the
strike and are being protected by the government.
Qasim's willingness to antagonize popular
opinion by taking such harsh measures against stu-
dents apparently stems from supreme confidence in
his invulnerability.
23 January 1963
Qasim's attempt to reach a settlement with the
Kurdish rebels by temporarily stopping military op-
-erations against them has boomeranged. The rebels
are taking advantage of the lull to attack military
outposts
Qasim's misjudging of the situation will increase
army dissatisfaction with his handling of the 18-
month-old Kurdish campaign.
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