CIA/Near East and South Asia Division/Baghdad Station
 CIA/Near East and South Asia Division/Baghdad Station(CIA station)   | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Baghdad,  Iraq |
| Subpage | •CIA/Near East and South Asia Division/Baghdad Station/Chief |
| The CIA's Station for activities in Iraq, based under diplomatic cover at the US embassy in Baghdad. | |
The CIA's Station for activities in Iraq, based under diplomatic cover at the US embassy in Baghdad.
Known activities
The CIA compiled list of suspected communists and other dissidents, one of the Agency's core functions in all countries. During the February 1963 coup d'état in Iraq, a military coup by the Iraqi branch of the Ba'ath Party which overthrew the prime minister of Iraq, Abdul-Karim Qasim, the list used by the new government. Although individual leftists had been murdered intermittently over the previous years, the scale on which the killings and arrests took place in the spring and summer of 1963 indicates a closely coordinated campaign, and it is almost certain that those who carried out the raid on suspects' homes were working from lists supplied to them. Precisely how these lists had been compiled is a matter or conjecture, but it is certain that some of the Ba'athist leaders were in touch with American intelligence. Some sources believe that more than ten thousand were killed and more than a hundred thousand arrested in the coup and the bloody weeks that followed.[1]
Employee on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edwin Atkins | Spook | In 1963. |
