The Strategic Limitation of Israel; Iraq (2)

I completely agree about the articles you mentioned about Egypt and there is no need to repeat that. Also I agree with your opinions about Iraq and there is no doubt that the status of Iraq will get worse. There is a lot of evidence which suggest the development of Iraq communism party. In no way I agree with those who think that Iraq can be saved by reinforcing and supporting Nasser. The only result of west helping Iraq will be the development of Nasser destructive operation in that country and fastening the influence expansion of communists.
The subject which I wish to enlighten is that the communists of Iraq shouldn’t be helped and right now Nasser actions is helping them and continue of such operations won’t have any result except for helping communist achieve victory.
To explain the status of the Middle East I only had suggested three solution which were the victory of communism or the victory of Nasserism or the victory of Ghasem and his independent. This evening you created a forth option by your proposal which I hadn’t considered I completely agree with it. And if the fourth way didn’t existed I would again prefer the third way.
But about your suggested way I am willing to explain all its dangers and benefits. Dangers are:
1. From the moment of formation of anti-communist elements in Iraq Nasser and Ghasem might be informed and if Nasser gets inform undoubtedly will ask more help from the soviet or the soviets will offer him some as well in any way the danger of soviet in Iraq will increase.
2. From the moment Ghasem gets inform of formation of his opposition he will threaten them and try to tear them apart
3. If Ghasem feels any danger he might ask the Soviet for some help. In this case if the Soviet send some back up forces we must see what strategy US will take. If US avoid sending troops the whole plan is doom to fail. Remember the Suez war to justify the article. The Suez operation easily was achieving success and was close to bring Nasser down. But the element which prevented from achieving success was not getting US agreement in the beginning that after the operation turned into absolute disagreement. Likewise in your suggested plan if we don’t be sure from US there is no hope in achieving success and if the US involvement brings the danger of an international war the US might not be able to make that decision. About using Malik Hussein in order to lead the movement against the current regime of Iraq I mention that this thought was new for me and I consider it very important. However because I’m not aware of my government points of view about this matter, at the moment I will just go with my own opinion and I shall express my government points of view latter. Using Malik Hussein as great idea but with the history which I consider about the relations between Jordan and Israel I’m sure that my government would only support Malik Hussein under some special circumstances and prior agreement. Meanwhile important legal matter shall happen because if he becomes the king of Iraq the army of this country can settle in the border of Israel while Israel despite of every Arab country hasn’t sign the Armistice Agreement. So about this matter Malik Hussein must give us some guarantees. If Malik Hussein is willing like we said before we are willing to help him and guarantee the common border of two country in order him to transfer his army to more important spot of the country. There is no that this very matter is big help for Malik Hussein.
Of course there is no need mention that you also will offer your favorite conditions to him. (For example the conditions related to Persian Gulf and other problems which I can’t exactly talk about that). I think doing your plan require these five conditions:
1. All of Iraq anti-communist element should be studied and the means of their alliance should be prepared. In this case words aren’t enough and the words must be proved in action.
2. Every action that happens must be completely secret and mysterious. The smallest slip in this case leads to Suppression of anti-communism elements (similar to Shofar Rebellion). In the beginning must of the involved elements mustn’t know the facts and until last moments there mustn’t be an exact explanation because otherwise the life of anti-communists will in danger.
3. The US must announce its agreement to this plan and promise to neutralize every possible act of the Soviet. Otherwise such actions will be very dangerous
4. Such actions must be done under the flag of someone Arab and choosing Malik Hussein In this way is completely appropriate. But supporting him is depend on the promises which he made about the feature regime of Iraq and his relations with Iran and Turkish and Israel.
5. Preforming this plan must happen with agreements of the Turkish and the English because both of these countries are interested in some change in Iraq current status and without their intimate support we can’t do anything positive. Five mentioned conditions are necessary to both preforming your suggested plan and achieving the agreement of my government.
The head of SAVAK, in addition of presenting news and related information to calls and conversations of Iran with Iraq central government, expresses doubts to the feature of Abdolkarim Ghasem government. He expresses worries about Ghasem not keeping himself from the wave of Naserisem and communism and feels satisfaction to the agreeing position of Mossad with SAVAK Conspiratorial plan to enter Malik Hussein the king of Jordan in Iraq situation. The head of SAVAK by emphasizing to activating turkey and achieving the agreement of US and England in this matter, persist on keeping the secret on this Conspiratorial operation.
The answer of the head of Intelligence and Security of the country to Mr. Harel and continue of negotiations:
Like I mentioned it before the possibility of Ghasem keeping his independence against communism and Nasserism is very low even if he has such plan communist won’t allow him to proceed his plan and in case of emergency terminating him might prevent him from achieving his success. In the calls that we had with Ghasem there was always talks about friendship and keeping good relations but this matter never goes more than talking and so he either has good will or intention to manipulate. If he has good will in any away he doesn’t have the power to make it happen and he can’t control the country. Investigating on Ghasem personality shows that he is not the one who is able to save Iraq from communism and Nasserism. Because of that I also have no hope in Ghasem getting independent.
About the subjects you said about achieving the agreement of the American and the English and the Turkish I definitely agree. Harel asked that what you mean is the agreement between our countries or with Malik Hussein and when we must share the position with the American. The answer was given we make a deal formerly between ourselves and we notify the American from the principle later. There is no precedence the matter of American is very critical. It is obvious that if the Turkish also help their agreement can’t be collected very faster. The important matter is that to perform this plan we must consider the element of secrecy and speed to prevent civil war in Iraq.
The head of information and intelligence agency of the country mentioned that he agrees with five conditions of Mr. Harel which are generally right and logical and in case he emphasized that before helping Malik Hussein receiving enough guarantee about the peace of Iraq feature regime is the key for cooperation.
Both sides have agreed that to start preforming the plan a specific exploration must be done on Iraqi characters who are against the current regime and are anti-communist and those who knows both agencies must inform each other as well.
The head of information and intelligence agency mentioned that the Turkish who used to agree with the Leniency policy to Abdolkarim Ghasem must convince with our recent plan and in this case Iran shall take action.
Any way Iran because of many reasons is more interested in Iraq situation than other countries. Any way collecting agreement of the Turkish is the first step of getting the attention of the American. But the American will agree to this plan if at first their agreement be proved to them and secondly our opinion about the feature regime proves to be clear. Mr. Harel mentioned that the American without the Israel opinion won’t take action in the Middle East and reminded that when Israel was against the Nouri Saeed plan to attach Jordan to Iraq the American also disagreed.
In the end they agreed on setting committees related to investigating the suggested plan in Tehran. Had constant communicating with safety department (getting information and news from them officially) and generally increased the outside of office activities.
The office work of the agency had been in personal home up to now and recently the agency had reported the cons of this method which are accepted, it is set to negotiate with the ministry of foreign affairs that the agency office and the office of the foreign ministry representative be set in one location (it has often happened in some agencies like Beirut and Oman) and the permission of an agency room shall be given by SAVAK. This subject has been agreed by Mr. Mirfenderski and it is said to be examined and reported in the location which shall be presented after the travel and examining in the location.
It is up to your decision.
Sadam Reaching Power under the Supervision of Mossad
The situation of Iraq in the surrounding policy of Israel, on one side and the cooperation treaty between SAVAK and Mossad from another side caused that the Iranian side collect and give all the necessary news and information needed by Israel by influencing all the centers which is belonged to Iraq. The news of delivering the second submarine from the English government to Israel is an example of information which the SAVAK agency in Pakistan was collected by influencing in the Iraq embassy in Pakistan and then handed the Israelis:
Attaching one piece of photo a letter and its translation on 16th of azar in the year 46 will be given foe your information the letter Is about the manger of Iraq military intelligence in Karachi and delivering the second submarine from the English government to Israelis
The most of the letter is like this:
The Volkswagen blot newspaper which is the representative of Alshoab party had written in its 20th azar of the year 1976 that England delivered the second submarine to the Israel government which the capacity of this submarine is about 1500 tons and speaking of size it has the same capacity as the one that the soviet had given to Egypt.
Translating the original document has obviously shown on one side the anti-Israel sensitivity among some of the Arab and Islamic countries on the other side has shown the dependence of Pahlavi reign toward Israel:
The republic of Iraq
The head of general staff
Department of staff
Number- SH /11826/9/23/1
Date- 7/December/ 1967
To- military attach (Karachi)
Subject-the second English submarine for Israel
We realized that the Volkswagen Blot newspaper and the representative of the Alshoab party which now has the aforementioned party of government at the newspaper on 11/11/1967 had written that England had delivered the second submarine to Israel and the capacity of each one of them is about 1500 tons and speaking of size it has the same capacity of the one which the soviet reunion delivered to Egypt. The newspaper says that the first submarine was delivered to Israel after the war in the June of 1967.
Egypt shall investigate about the accuracy of this news to understand about these submarines and their specification and results to us.
Signature
Staff colonel
Shafiq Hamoudi Draji
The manager of military intelligence
Rewrite so sixth office
It has been asked to reach the military relatives and others and to investigate around the above subject and announce the result
Other SAVAK report in the year 1353 about the internal situation of Iraq and foreign policy of Baath party, the relations of Iraq central government with the Soviet and the Arab world, the problem of the Palestinians and Iraq government, etc. all shows the high sensitivity of SAVAK and Israel about internal status and incident related to Iraq:
Iraq
1. Internal status
During the last year the Baath regime of Iraq had been facing the increase of general dissatisfaction- the activities of the opposing groups and economical disorders.
Establishment of the eighth congress of the Baath party (from 18th until 22/1./1352) and following that the selecting the state committee members which must of them were friends of Saddam Hussein (deputy of Iraq revolutionary consul), had improved his status in the box of the government more than before and by putting the opposing elements like Lt. Gen. Salih Mahdi Amash from the vice president position to position of ambassador in Russia. Saddam Hussein was chosen as the determinative factor of domestic and foreign policy
During this time recurrence of the Kurd crisis and the regime failure in solving the crisis in the martial and political aspects not only put the image of the bath government at its lowest level in public opinion but also it caused some disagreements which lead to some changes in martial and political positions such as summoning Gen. Taha Shkrchy the commander of Iraq operation forces from north and summoning the governor of Sulaimaniya.
Increasing the activities of opposing groups such as Arab nationalists – priests and right handed elements such party of fatemi( Iraq Shiites) and the society of the Muslim brothers caused the government to show more crackdown and to arrest and torture some of the opposing.in the army also whispers against the government increased and Baath which dedicated must of its effort to avoid any kind of disagreement in military ranks started lots of arresting which in one case the arrest included more than 150 army officers including Maj. Gen. Rashid Hammadi ( the former commander of Iraq forces in Jordan )in the begging of Farvardin in the year 1353.
In the Shahrivar of 1353 also some other officers were arrested or were dismissed of their jobs including the dismissing of Gen. David Aljnayy from the position of commanding the republican guard forces and cadet.
Despite of the government crackdown the opposing tried to prove their existence by sabotaging- publishing opposition flier and terrorist attacks.
The sabotage in the Rafedin bank of Iraq – placing explosive in the police office – Baghdad officers club in the Shahrivar of 1353 are examples of such actions which at the moment are more or less in progress.
in the same time with the government crackdown toward the opposing and creating a more widespread police regime the Baath officials tried to heal the public minds by some friendly actions and in the same time increase in the oil price caused Iraq officials to increase the salary and the benefits of military and civilian workers and also reducing taxes and dues, tried some actions toward free education. But this actions did not have a considerable effect in reducing public dissatisfaction and as the result in reducing social – political and economic pressure.
2. Foreign policy
a- relation with the Soviet
Iraq relation with the communist country and in the center The Soviet remained fine and based on comprehensive cooperation and widespread in military and economic fields and etc. during the last year.
However during this time there were some disagreements in some cases such as the problems between Arabs among sides but these disagreements didn’t have an important effect on the relations between sides
Signing two peace of technical contract in communication and telex fields- signing one piece of cultural corporation agreement on 24/1/1353 and also the travels of political and martial figures of The Soviet to Iraq and otherwise such as travel of Soviet defense in minister to Iraq in early Farvardin of 1353 and travel of secretary of the Union of Soviet friendship societies to Iraq and also travel of the Iraq foreign minister to soviet which are signs for closeness.
b. relations with Arab countries
during the discussed time Iraq among Arab countries was still in a escapism, the involvement of Iraq forces in the October war of Israel and Arabs [1973, 1352] not only filled the emptiness among Iraq relations with other Arabic countries involved with war but also because of one extreme policy toward facing Israel and disagreeing from accepting any kind of peaceful solutions and accepting these solutions by countries such as Syria and Egypt increased the distant among Iraq and these countries
Iraq fear from extreme escapism despite of disagreements which were existed between Iraq and Egypt caused some steps to be taken toward to closeness of two countries
Such as one economical and industrial concord between Iraq and Egypt which were signed after the travel of Egypt minister of industry to Iraq which was based on that Egypt from then would help Iraq in preforming some of the Iraq plan and consultations on how to create mutual industry between two sides. Iraq government also was committed to provide for Egypt oil shortage. In the relations between Iraq and Syria also after the travel of Hafez Assad to Baghdad were some improvement despite of differences and Iraq was committed to give 50 million dollar loan to Syria because of helping the Syria economic. The recent involvement of Iraq in the Arab summit conference apparently is a sign of moderating in the extreme policy of that country toward the problems of Arab world however Iraq cooperation with Palestine radical organizations and publishing and announcement following the travel of an Palestinian committee including extreme fronts ( in 8th October of 74) which in that every single faked peace keeping solutions was sign of the true stability of Baath and perhaps the main reason of Iraq involvement despite of continuing of extreme policy in the conference is creating a moderation in the pressure of escapism in the Arab world.
After signing the famous contract of Algeria in 1975 between Mohammad reza Pahlavi and Sadam, Yigal Allon the foreign prime mister of Israel in that time during a meeting with Mohammad reza talked about this matter and asked about his opinion in the matter
Mr.Yigal Allan: I talked with your majesty about the Iraqis and trusting them. He said our agreement is important but I never trust the Baath.
I said that the Hebrew will say to respect and suspect.
After signing the Algeria agreement the empire of Iran in the field of cooperating with Israel to provoke and arming Iraq Kurds against the central government of Baghdad, shall face limits. However Hofi. Head of Mossad during a meeting with head of SAVAK tried to make his Iranian side understand the necessity of cooperation by defining the Iraq dangers for Iran and Israel.
Gen.Hofi: I see no reason to suggest any topic about this matter(common enemies). I am willing to say that our relations with you at the moment or in the past have been great in your neighborhood exists the country of Iraq which we concentrate more on this country because it has great differences with other Arabic countries and it is more dangerous to us than to others.
General Riasat: We are certain that we were under threated by Iraq, the thing that at the moment is obvious is not the truce. From the political point of view there is the same for us and what we used to be treated by Iraq is still going on.
General Hofi: you know that in the past Egypt from our military point of view used to be considered as an enemy. During these wars Iraq interfered against us. In that time Syria had bad relations with Iraq and without any doubt Iraq would come into war with us no that these two countries (Syria – Iraq) which were allied to each other were very dangerous to us. Despite that still there is no possibility of war from these two countries against us but this time if a war be started I think that Iraq would fight us with five armies which in that case it could be said that Iraq danger is considerable to us. About collecting information from that country before ending the war of the Kurds with Iraq army we could have easily acted and after finishing the war the cover of the Kurds have become less to us and from the point of view of pre warning we are very weak
General Riasat: yes, it is. Iraq has no worries from our side. Since times ago was occupied with Iran borders but now the conflict is gone and it can easily sends forces against you. Especially now that has improved its relations with Syria which of course is very dangerous for you. Of course the way you said it is considered a potential danger to Israel but the possibility of these two attack is very low.
The officials of Iran and the most important Mohammad reza Pahlavi himself as the king and highest decision making official in Iran in the Zionism operational strategy mechanism was only a tool which the Israelis used with different excuses and tricks. That time head of Israel’s intelligence service request from the head of SAVAK in order to use Mohammad reza to keep the French from selling uranium to Iraq is interesting:
Proudly present to the royal presence
General Hofi the head of Israel intelligence service during a meeting on Thursday 2/4/35 [1355] with me mentioned that France and Iraq have signed a contract in order to delivering atomic reactors from France to Iraq. Kind of these reactors is in a way that the French should previously prepare enriched uranium and give to the Iraq and as you know this kind of uranium can be easily used to manufacture atomic weapons.
The head of Israel’s intelligence service asked that SAVAK by contacting French service make them remember the consequences of this matter.
The information was sent to the majesty and shall be acted on your command.
General Nasiri