A Short History: CIA and the Kurds

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The US CIA Director (DCI) Dr. Deutch promised to topple Hussein before Saddam's attack on Kurds in northern Iraq. Deutch had promised that the Iraqi dictator would be toppled within a year, but Hussein discovered and foiled a $20-million covert op to un seat him. This is one of the greatest setbacks U.S. intel has ever suffered, an anonymous senior U.S. official told the Los Angeles times. Paper said the six-year op was one of the largest authorized by Clinton.

Saddam foils military coup. 50 officers arrested in a plot. Iraqi dissidents and Arab sources said Saddam Hussein has foiled a coup attempt by disgruntled military officers. dissidents reached in Jordan, said all suspects are Sunni Muslims.

The group of CIA officers running a covert operation in northern Iraq to overthrow Iraqi president Saddam Hussein left Iraq last week as Iraqi forces moved into Irbil.

There were mass arrests of followers of Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan by the Iraqi army. Officials of the Iraqi National Congress said Iraqi troops executed 96 Iraqi soldiers who had defected to the U.S.-financed umbrella opposition group. <> Exile group in Jordan called the Iraqi National Accord is working feverishly to implement the latest CIA-backed plan to topple Saddam. They have a radio station, al-Mustaqbal or "the future." Station can blanket much of Iraq and the group has aided defec tion of several officers with stolen military radios. Ayad Alawi who fled to London in 71 is group's leader. "We preach coordinated military uprising." Iraqi opposition is hopelessly splintered.

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