Re: hated despot as CIA tool? go figger...

[Lueko.Willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms)]

  In reply to: 

> # To: marxism-digest <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> # Subject: hated despot as CIA tool? go figger...
> # From: Chris Brady <cdbrady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> # Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 01:58:59 -0700

   also at  http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg28781.html

  actually an UPI news story: 

> Saddam's CIA handler was an Iraqi
> dentist working for CIA and Egyptian intelligence. 

   This brings to my memory a moment from one media report where the
TV reporter wondered why the US forces in Baghdad were searching for
the records of Saddam Hussein's dentist... 

   After the coup against Kafr Kassem: 
 
>                            Noting that the Baath Party was
> hunting down Iraq's communists, the CIA provided the submachine
> gun-toting Iraqi National Guardsmen with lists of suspected communists
> who were then jailed, interrogated, and summarily gunned down, 
> according to former U.S. intelligence officials with intimate 
> knowledge of the executions. 

   and this: 

> Agency relation with Saddam intensified after the start of the 
> Iran-Iraq war in September of 1980. During the war, the CIA 
> regularly sent a team to Saddam to deliver battlefield intelligence 
> obtained from Saudi AWACS surveillance aircraft to aid the 
> effectiveness of Iraqs armed forces,
> according to a former DIA official, part of a U.S. interagency
> intelligence group.

   Well I now wonder if the US invaders did not directly encourage
the destruction of the records of Iraq's ministries in order to
destroy the records of their collaboration with the Saddam Hussein
regime... 


Yours, 
Lüko Willms 
Frankfurt/Main 
/ Lueko.Willms@xxxxxxxxxxx