IIS document details foreign contacts and influence

CMPC-2003-000331.pdf

Translator’s notes:
- Document CMPC-2003-000331 is a collection of Iraqi Intelligence Service memos dealing with instructions and recommendations to the different directorates.
- The document includes 239 pages on the computer screen.
- The dates on the different memos range from 1998 to 2001.
- The IIS activity covers many countries in the Middle East and their contacts reach the US, Canada, Europe and Russia.
- Other documents contain a paragraph mentioning that Iraq is buying off opposition parties in Russia.
- In this first post I will translate parts of a document giving guidelines for work and assessing the progress of contact recruitments in Europe and the US.
- In a later post a document will show Iraq’s efforts to send agents into Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
- The areas covered by the IIS are divided into “Internationals”: First, second, third and fourth. The fourth International covers Europe and the US.
- A term which would be literally translated as “constructed work” is used to describe the modus operandi of the intelligence network.
- The following translations and gist are from a report describing the situation in the Fourth International.
- This report is handwritten. It covers from page 81/239 to 87/239.
- Before you start reading ask yourself: Are so called “Peace Activists” considered as non governmental organizations? If your answer is yes enjoy the read.

Translation:

                    Fourth International

1)    The method of “constructed work” will be adopted in the field of the Fourth International.
a.    Western Europe:
1.    The “constructed work” method will be used in Great Britain through our sources in Ireland and Spain. (2 cases) (translator’s notes: A case is a source)
2.    We have contacted one of our friends in Sweden to collect information about the USA and Holland. (1 case)
3.    Use one of the operating sources in Greece to move into the “American field” (translator’s note: literal translation of the Arab words, he is referring to the USA) to get to know the American intentions.

b.    The two Americas:
A number of sources operating in Cuba, Mexico and Canada were recruited and sent to work in the USA (3 cases)

c.    Eastern Europe:
                  1. A Russian was recruited to work on both Israel and Iran (1 case).
                  2. A Croatian was sent to work on Slovenia (1 case).
                  3. We proceeded to recruit several different nationalities to Romania                                                (3 cases).
d.    Asia and non-Arab Africa:
We proceeded to recruit several different nationalities for Iran, Israel, Afghanistan, Africa, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Gulf to work according to “constructed work”. (11 cases).
e.    Scientific Intelligence section:
Several sources from different nationalities were sent to some scientific institutions, the UN and the Special Committee to acquire advanced scientific and technical information and also to transfer technology to Iraq (10 cases)

Gist:  Then follow several instructions for recruiting and the report discusses some of the problems being faced and the intent to start “illegal stations” (probably undercover stations). The potential of using the Iraqi expatriate population is also discussed. The sixth annual expatriate conference was used to renew the contacts. Iraqi businessmen are also mentioned as potential technology transfer factors.

Translation of page 87/239
17. The work was as follows:
a. The Fourth International has connections and friends in most of its countries that are “moved” in the required directions to continuously influence the decision makers in the target countries.    In many of our operating areas this effort bared fruit in letting the Iraqi cause be known, to affect the domestic public opinion and the political decisions of those countries.
c. In some countries action was taken with some non governmental organizations and through them on some parliament members and government officials to let them voice their opposition to the Iraqi embargo, as happened lately in the “American field” (Translator’s note: USA)

On page 107/239 an excerpt from a report (12-16-1999) of a meeting between the Director of Intelligence with the Fourth International staff:
3. Establish contact with the Islamic Center in London and the (Shiite) Najafi center in Syria.
4. The USA section should focus on people with influence to strengthen the relations with them because most of the existing relations are of the business type.

On page 207/239 is a part of a report:
Translation
3. The section’s needs for research with M10:
The section coordinated with M10 to identify the nature of the research which is beneficial to the concerned sections. Among them is a report about the help provided by Iraq to the Russian parties of opposition through the oil “shares” (coupons) and the extent of their influence on the making of the Russian political decision regarding the lifting of the sanctions on Iraq. He also requested reports about the presidential elections in Poland and Hungary, and the intelligence services in Poland and Hungary to strengthen our existing information.

END

Ray: M10 is described in a CIA report :

M10, Directorate of Studies and Research

M10, also referred to as the “analytic directorate,” was responsible for seeking, compiling, translating, and publishing open source materials from foreign governments, agencies, and organizations. Researchers investigated political, economical, social, international, and military topics and in-house linguists made translations. The director of M10 was Anmar Latif Nusayyif Jasim Al Dulaymi.

Also, see Find Law for the indictment of Susan Lindauer for working with IIS agents.

You've got to be kidding me! I had assumed this traitor was in jail. I searched for an update and found this. This went way under the radar Feb, 2006.

Seattle Weekly

Almost as instantly as she hit the global news cycle as a reputed U.S. traitor and alleged spy for Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government, former Seattle newspaper journalist Susan Lindauer dropped off the radar. Once the headlines faded in 2004, the public might have assumed she was convicted and sent to prison. But for the moment, Susan Lindauer's strange story remains incomplete. She is confined to a federal mental facility in Texas, perhaps never to get her day in court, according to friends, officials, and public records. Mostly unnoticed, a New York federal judge has found her incompetent to stand trial and ordered further evaluation. She is being held past her scheduled release date, which had been sometime early this month, and, she tells friends, might be forcibly medicated as part of her treatment.

An ex–Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter and former U.S. Senate and House aide, Lindauer, 43, was charged in March 2004 with conspiring to act as a spy and being an unregistered Iraqi agent.

Incompetent to stand trial? The woman met with IIS agents repeatedly! She worked as a congressional staffer! What is going on here?

This needs to be scrutinized by the likes of Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, or Rush Limbaugh.

And this is new from the Seattle Weekly article:

In a letter written to her second cousin, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, two months after Sept. 11, 2001, Lindauer made no secret about her activism or her emotional mission to aid Iraqi citizens. The letter, a copy of which she gave to basement tenant Fields, is apparently one of at least two she sent or gave to Card in 2001 and 2003. The undisclosed second letter, mentioned in the indictment, is being used to prosecute her. In the first letter, written Dec. 2, 2001, Lindauer indicates she was working back channels of government and meeting with officials at the Iraqi embassy, which prosecutors say she in fact did. She wrote Card about conversations with Iraqi diplomats and extended an olive branch on behalf of Hussein's government—in hopes, she said, of getting U.S. economic sanctions lifted against Baghdad. "I am truly praying, Andy," she stated, "that this correspondence will trigger some sort of response from you, so that this ugly quagmire in Iraq can begin to heal. Iraq is hoping for a reply through formal channels, but I would be willing to carry any response as well." After his relative's arrest, Card would not say whether he might have sparked an investigation of the sometimes-journalist by turning over that or the other letter to the FBI. The FBI would say only that Card was interviewed as part of the probe.

So this clearly demonstrates the IIS managed to recruit a person with direct ties to the Bush Administration which it appears turned her over to DOJ.

Comments

[Assistant Village Idiot]

Because I work in the involuntary hospitalization biz, I will offer some things as speculation only. I know nothing about this specific case.

You can always find someone who will declare a person is incompetent to stand trial. In my state I can name two psychiatrists and a PhD psychologist who all have an over 90% rate of finding incompetency. They are not -- at least two of them are not -- paid off quacks who will find what you want them to. They just have a very low threshhold for incompetency. Defense attorneys who specialize in mental health know who these people are. There are also issues as to whether a person is permanently incompetent, or could conceivably be restored to competency.

Secondly, there are several types of mental illness where a person might be both high-functioning in some ways, but completely clueless in others. A person with a bipolar disorder, or a late-onset paranoid schizophrenic could both conceivably fit that picture.

A person's attorney might be advising them not to be treated, knowing that treatment would result in restored competency and the necessity of standing trial. The prosecution, however, could believe that competency could be restored with forcible medication and be pressing for that.

A person in manic phase of a Bipolar disorder might well be grandiose and believing she could be saving the whole world by running with the big boys. When the overconfidence and grandiosity caught up with her and she got in trouble, it would be an ambiguous situation whether she would want to be treated. As poor insight into need for treatment is already a hallmark of certain illnesses, the layers of the onion would be even more complicated. A person could easily believe in that situation that he was being offered treatment as punishment, based on some paranoid fantasy that the feds don't want him to talk, or to make him appear less credible, etc. As MH professionals are often semi-paranoid lefties themselves, some of those treating such a person might even agree with him!

Wheels within wheels.

[Drifty]

"So this clearly demonstrates the IIS managed to recruit a person with direct ties to the Bush Administration which it appears turned her over to DOJ."

Not so clearly, I think. The chronology is bad. Her letters to Card were mostly in 2000 and 2001. The indictment came in 2004. Her connections to CIA and DIA officials were substantiated during Lockerbie, and in meetings they all had with a European journalist who has covered terrorism for decades. That was back in, what, 1991? Her story is that the indictment came only after Congress began its investigation into intelligence failures and she went to Trent Lot, among others, to point out that there were people who she knew in our agencies who were not asleep at the switch, but that political appointees and elected officials were disregarding their work. In other words, she was trying to defend elements within our agencies whose nondisclosure agreements prevented them from coming forward, themselves.

I've spoken with the European journalist, Ian Ferguson, in recent days, as well of others of Ms Lindauer's witnesses, who her court appointed attorney has refused to interview or depose. Her story seems pretty well coraborated by independent and creadible folks.

One of the dynamics of this case is the desperate need of our Counter Intelligence folks for any sliver of evidence that they might be something more than incompetent, themselves (after 9/11). There is an industry of consultants who sell to the government their expertise on C.I. and they need like the dickens something to showcase and train against.

What I think you'll find that we have, instead, is a bunch of keystone cops, or worse, taking down one of the few humint assets that we had connecting to top-level Iraq leaders. Even if she was a bit high on herself, there is no way that our professionals were ignorant of anything Andy Card's cousin was doing in these matters, and it seems clear to me that she went out of her way to involve anybody who would listen. Seems to me she wanted to be a hero.

One of her letters pointed out that Iraq was asking us to send the FBI to assist them in rooting out any Al Queda elements in Iraq, and this was well prior to 9/11.

Given 20/20 hindsight, had her letters succeeded, we might have avoided not only the loss of so many lives, not only the expense of so many billions of dollars, but also the even greater consequences of damage to the prestige of the U.S. trademark in world affairs, that this course Mr. Bush & company brought about. It is a disgrace not only to our country but to the Republican party, which was once the pragmatic party. For example, it really is much harder to do the serious work that needs to be done in North Korea and Iran after having cried "wolf" in Iraq.

[michael jones]

All that is completeely true! It is not easy to help to someone with a bipolar disorder. But we have to that!!!