KIRKUK AIRFIELD AND SECOND DIVISION SUPPORT OF THE REVOLT (COMMANDER OF AIR FORCE) CAPTURE OF JALAL AWQATI AT RASHID AIRFIELD

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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-01337
• Publication Date: February 12, 1963

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COUNTRY IRAQ'
SUBJECT.. 1. KIRKUK AIRFIELD AND SECOND DIVISION
SUPPORT OF THE REVOLT 04..infajot
2.. CAPTURE OF JALAL AWQAT VAT RASF110 �
AIRFIELD
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR. 12 FEBRUARY ,196
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APPRAISAL
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRACNNGS ARE OEIFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
1. AFTER BEING INFORMED TN THE COUP D I ETAT AGAINST PRIME
MINISTER QAS I M HAD BEEN ACT' AT ED DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS
OF 8 FEBRUARY, THE DEPUTY -.041ANDER OF THE SECOND DIVISION IN
KURKUK , HASAN MUSTAFA , ' WORMED THE DIVISION COMMANDER, BRIGA-
DIER MAHUMAD ABD-AL P ZZAQ AND ASKED FOR HIS SUPPORT 9F THE
: COUP. WHEN IT WAS - .F-USED, THE COMMANDER WAS PLACED UNDER ARREST.
, I MMED I ATELY AF7TEr ARDS , MAJOR HARDAN. T I KR: T I , COMMANDER OF AIR
OPERATIONS IN RTHERN IRAQ, TELEGRAPHED THE REBELS THAT K I RKUK
A I RBASE HAD ' ZN SECURED AND HAD .:J0 PED THE SIDE OF : THE REBELS.
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TIKRITIAND TWO OTHER AIRFORCE PILOTS THEN PILOTED 3 MIG71,1S TO BAGHDAD.
FOR ATTACKS ON RASHID AIRFIELD AND THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
BUILDINGS. . REBEL TANK UNITS DEPARTED.HABBANIYAH
FOR BAGHDAD AT 0400 HOURS, 8 FEBRUARY.)
2. THE 3 MIG717S FROM KURKUK WERE j01..O.BY TWO HAWKER HUNTERS
FROM HABBANIYAH AIRFIELD. THESE REBEL eLANES FIRST BUZZED RASHID
�AIRFIELD WARNING GROUND CREWS NOT TI ATTEMPT TO PREPARE ANY PLANES
TAKE-OFF, HOWEVER, BRIGADIER JA. AL AWQATI, THE.COMMANDERADF
THE IRAQI AIR FORCE, WAS AT Rij1-110 AIRFIELD AT THE TIME AND
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IMMEDIATELY ORDERED FOUR Cr 1r41JNIST MIG-19 PILOTS TO ATTEMPT TO
GET THE MIG-1-9S IN THE 1 R AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WHEN THE REBEL
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PILOTS NOTICED THIS C'OUND CREW ACTIVITY DURING THEIR SECOND PASS
OVER THE AIRFIELD, ,HEY STRAFFED THE MI-19'S AND BOMBED ,THE '
RUNWAYS. SUBSEr ENTLY, TWO MIG-17S AND THE TWO HAWKER HUNTERS
BEGAN THEIR Fv.--LKETAND MACHINE GUN ATTACK ON THE,MINISTRYOF
DEFENSE BU
3. .ThE THIRD .M1G-17 CIRCLED RASHID AIRFIELD TO PREVENT:. ANY
AIR oPPOSMON FROM THE AIRFIELD. SIMULTANEOUSLY, AN UNIDENTIFIED
TANK REGIMENT AT CAMP RASH ID BEGAN AN ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT UNITS
AT THE CAMP AND AIRFIELD WHICH HAD DECIDED TO RESIST THE COUP
ATTEMPT. AREBEL TANKS WERE ALSO PLACED AT THE END Or RUNWAYS
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TO PREVENT ANY PLANE FROM -AICING OFF.- THE TANK ATTACK CONTINUED
RET NO FEIGN D1SSEM
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UNTIL THE EVENING OF .8 FEBRUARY WHEN GOVERNMENT UNITS AT THE .
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FIELD.SURRENDERED. ,BRIGADIER-AWQ1ATI AND THE FOUR COMMUNIST'PILOTS
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WHO HAD ATTEMPTED TO FLY THE mip-19s ALSO SURRENDERED.
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WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE MINISTRY OF DEFEWJE, CAMP
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RASHID WAS THE,LAST.TO SURRENDER TO THE REBELS.)
A LIEUTENANT WHO PAKICIPATED IN THE ATTACK1
ON THE MINJSTRY OF DEFENSE HAS REPORTED 14 4T THE LATE PRIMEJM[N-
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ISTER'S ARMED GUARD AT THE MINISTRY NV PUT UP A WELL FOUGHT.
BATTLE. IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE MORN' .6 OF 9 FEBRUARY THAT THE
REBEL FORCE COULD ENTER THE MIN".,TRY. THIS SAME OFFICER SPECULATED
THAT THE LATE PRIME MINISTER ,OULD HAVE HELD OUT FOR AT LEAST 10
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DAYS HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR TiE REBEL AIR ATTACKS.ON THE MINISTRY
BUILDING.)
5.
ONE OF THE REBEL PLANES CRASHED WHILE
ATTACKING THE MIN'STRY OF DEFENSC. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT IT WAS
ONE OF THE MIG-,7S INASMUCH AS OBSERVATIONS DURING THE LATE'
MORNING AND .ARLY AFTERNOON OF 8 FEBRUARY INDICATED THAT ONLY TWO
MIG-17S VU TWO HAWKER HUNTERS WERE INVOLVED ON THE AIR ATTACKS.
ON TW., MINISTRY. DURING THIS SAME PERIOD NO OTHER PLANE COULD
BE OBSERVED CIRCLING RASHID, AIRFIELD.)
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