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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-154-4-27-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: May 2, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/02: LOC-HAK-154-4-27-7
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ACTION 140051 010
INFO OCT-01 /001 W
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TO SECSTATE WASHDC 1941
S E C R E T BAGHDAD 0476
NODIS
FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY ATHERTON
E.0. 11652: XGOS-1
TAGS: PFOK, IZ, US
SUBJECT: INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY IN IHAW
2. NO COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST 13 MORE PARANOID THAN IRAQ
ABOUT INTERFERENCE IN ITS INTERNAL AFFAIRS ANU REAL AND
IMAGINED ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SERVICES
THE REASONS FUR THIS ARE FOuNU IN RECENT IRAQI
HISTORY AND WELL KNOWN TO YOU. 4ECONULY, IRAQ HAS Pk0QABLY
MOST EFFECTIVE AND UMNIPRESLNT INTELLIGENCE SERVICES OF ANY 25X1
AHAB COUN rRy ANU THtY AXE ANXIOUS TU JusTIF Y THIER SPECIAL
POWER uY UNLUVEHING FOREIGN IivTE.RI-ERENCE, AoAIN REAL DR
IMAGINED. IN AUDITION, THEY ALMOST CERTAINLY HAVE INTELL-
IGENCE EXCHANGES wItH THE K(,5 ANU OTHER COMMUNIST SERVICES.
NOR DO I rtULE OUT THE PUSSIbILITY Or QUINT OPERATIONS W,EPE
SUVIET.IRADI INTELLIGENCE S .RI'ICEs OOJELTIVES COINCIDE.
3. I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT SOVIET EMBASSY AND ICP OFFICIALS
25X1 SECRET
NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/02: LOC-HAK-154-4-27-7
 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/02: LOC-HAK-154-4-27-7
-- * Department, of State
TELEGRAM
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HAVE WARNED THE GUI ABOUT THE DANGER OF PERMITTk
NUMBER OF AMERICAN 6USI14ES-ShIli~si IT
THE SOVIETS WUULD LIKE
NOTHING BETTEk THAN TO SEE THIS PREDICTION COME TRUE AND
CAN 8w COUNTED ON TO DO THEIR tiES'T TO SEE THAT IT DOES, EITHER
THROUGH INFORMING IRAQIS OF SUCH INDIVIDUALS OR BY PLANTING
DAMAGING INFORMATIOi4. SHOULD AN INCIDENT TAKE PLACE, IT WOULD
HAVE DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES FOR OUR FLOURISHING
COMMERCIAL rtEL,ATLON5 AND IRAQIS CURRENT LIBERAL VISA POLICY
TOWARD AMERICAN bUSINESSMEN. REGIME WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY
TAKE DRASTIC MEASURES AGAINST US.
4. I RECOGNIZE THAT THIS MAY SOUND AS IF I TOO AM BECOMING
PARANOID, BUT I All ALREADY AWARE OF ONE COMPANY THAT HAS
VISITED IRAQ WHICH HA w 1'1' 11011
IGEINCE.
5. I RECOMMhND THAT THE OEPARTMENT MAKE CLEAR TO ALL USG- 25X1
INTELLIGENCE SEHVICEA THAT IRAQ 16 OFF L.I,,,,,ITES FOR THIS,
TYPE OF ACTIVITY, ThiE RISK 10 LEGITIMATL U.S. COMMERCIAL
AND OTHER INTERES1 S 1$ TAO GREAT FOR ANY OPERATIONS DIRECTED
AT?UTHER THAN A TAH6t"T OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO THE U.S. . I
DO NOT KNOW OF ANY SUSPECTED TAkGET IN IRAQ AT THIS TIME
.WHICH COULD JUSTIFY TAKING THIS RISK.
6. ALTHOUGH I HAVE CLASSIFIED THIS MESSAGE AS NUDIS I OF
COURSE HAVE Nu UbJECT ON TO IT SEINE GIVEN T4 OTHER
AGENCIES.
LOAHIE
NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/02: LOC-HAK-154-4-27-7