Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "أنشطة وكالة الاستخبارات المركزية في العراق" in Arabic language version.
One of [Critchfield's] first actions, in February 1960, according to a later Congressional investigation, was an attempt to murder the president of Iraq, General Abd al-Karim Qasim.cf. Wilford، Hugh (2013). America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. بيزيك بوكس [الإنجليزية]. ص. 290. ISBN:9780465019656.
They did, however, entertain various suggestions for covert action against the new Iraqi leader, Abd al-Karim Qasim, among them a scheme proposed by the CIA's Health Alteration Committee involving a poisoned handkerchief.cf. Weiner، Tim (2008). Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA . دابلداي. ص. 163. ISBN:9780307455628.
Another failed assassination plot, using a poisoned handkerchief ... was endorsed all the way up the CIA's chain of command.cf. Blum، William (2003). قتل الأمل. دار زيد للنشر. ص. 98. ISBN:9781842773697. cf. Powers، Thomas (1979). The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA. Knopf. ص. 160–164. ISBN:9780394507774. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2016-06-11.
The target was Colonel Fadhil Abbas al-Mahdawi, the brutal, pro-Soviet head of the People's Court who had been targeting pro-American Iraqis, according to هيرمان إيلتس, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who spent most of his career in the Arab world.
Qasim was killed three years later in a coup welcomed and possibly aided by the CIA, which brought to power the Ba'ath, the party of Saddam Hussein.cf. Slugget، Peter. "The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba'thists and Free Officers (Review)" (PDF). Democratiya. ص. 9. مؤرشف من الأصل (PDF) في 2021-11-22.
Batatu infers on pp. 985-86 that the CIA was involved in the coup of 1963 (which brought the Ba'ath briefly to power): Even if the evidence here is somewhat circumstantial, there can be no question about the Ba'ath's fervent anti-communism.cf. Weiner، Tim (2008). Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. دابلداي. ص. 163. ISBN:9780307455628.
The agency finally backed a successful coup in Iraq in the name of American influence.cf. Barrett، Roby C. (2007). The Greater Middle East and the Cold War: US Foreign Policy Under Eisenhower and Kennedy. أي بي توريس. ص. 451. ISBN:9780857713087.
Washington wanted to see Qasim and his Communist supporters removed, but that is a far cry from Batatu's inference that the U.S. had somehow engineered the coup. The U.S. lacked the operational capability to organize and carry out the coup, but certainly after it had occurred the U.S. government preferred the Nasserists and Ba'athists in power, and provided encouragement and probably some peripheral assistance.
{{استشهاد بكتاب}}: الوسيط |مسار أرشيف= بحاجة لـ |مسار= (مساعدة){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link) صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء متعددة: قائمة المؤلفين (link) صيانة الاستشهاد: علامات ترقيم زائدة (link)One of [Critchfield's] first actions, in February 1960, according to a later Congressional investigation, was an attempt to murder the president of Iraq, General Abd al-Karim Qasim.cf. Wilford، Hugh (2013). America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. بيزيك بوكس [الإنجليزية]. ص. 290. ISBN:9780465019656.
They did, however, entertain various suggestions for covert action against the new Iraqi leader, Abd al-Karim Qasim, among them a scheme proposed by the CIA's Health Alteration Committee involving a poisoned handkerchief.cf. Weiner، Tim (2008). Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA . دابلداي. ص. 163. ISBN:9780307455628.
Another failed assassination plot, using a poisoned handkerchief ... was endorsed all the way up the CIA's chain of command.cf. Blum، William (2003). قتل الأمل. دار زيد للنشر. ص. 98. ISBN:9781842773697. cf. Powers، Thomas (1979). The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA. Knopf. ص. 160–164. ISBN:9780394507774. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2016-06-11.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link) صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء متعددة: قائمة المؤلفين (link) صيانة الاستشهاد: علامات ترقيم زائدة (link)One of [Critchfield's] first actions, in February 1960, according to a later Congressional investigation, was an attempt to murder the president of Iraq, General Abd al-Karim Qasim.cf. Wilford، Hugh (2013). America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. بيزيك بوكس [الإنجليزية]. ص. 290. ISBN:9780465019656.
They did, however, entertain various suggestions for covert action against the new Iraqi leader, Abd al-Karim Qasim, among them a scheme proposed by the CIA's Health Alteration Committee involving a poisoned handkerchief.cf. Weiner، Tim (2008). Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA . دابلداي. ص. 163. ISBN:9780307455628.
Another failed assassination plot, using a poisoned handkerchief ... was endorsed all the way up the CIA's chain of command.cf. Blum، William (2003). قتل الأمل. دار زيد للنشر. ص. 98. ISBN:9781842773697. cf. Powers، Thomas (1979). The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA. Knopf. ص. 160–164. ISBN:9780394507774. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2016-06-11.
The target was Colonel Fadhil Abbas al-Mahdawi, the brutal, pro-Soviet head of the People's Court who had been targeting pro-American Iraqis, according to هيرمان إيلتس, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who spent most of his career in the Arab world.
Qasim was killed three years later in a coup welcomed and possibly aided by the CIA, which brought to power the Ba'ath, the party of Saddam Hussein.cf. Slugget، Peter. "The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba'thists and Free Officers (Review)" (PDF). Democratiya. ص. 9. مؤرشف من الأصل (PDF) في 2021-11-22.
Batatu infers on pp. 985-86 that the CIA was involved in the coup of 1963 (which brought the Ba'ath briefly to power): Even if the evidence here is somewhat circumstantial, there can be no question about the Ba'ath's fervent anti-communism.cf. Weiner، Tim (2008). Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. دابلداي. ص. 163. ISBN:9780307455628.
The agency finally backed a successful coup in Iraq in the name of American influence.cf. Barrett، Roby C. (2007). The Greater Middle East and the Cold War: US Foreign Policy Under Eisenhower and Kennedy. أي بي توريس. ص. 451. ISBN:9780857713087.
Washington wanted to see Qasim and his Communist supporters removed, but that is a far cry from Batatu's inference that the U.S. had somehow engineered the coup. The U.S. lacked the operational capability to organize and carry out the coup, but certainly after it had occurred the U.S. government preferred the Nasserists and Ba'athists in power, and provided encouragement and probably some peripheral assistance.
{{استشهاد بكتاب}}: الوسيط |مسار أرشيف= بحاجة لـ |مسار= (مساعدة){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link) صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء متعددة: قائمة المؤلفين (link) صيانة الاستشهاد: علامات ترقيم زائدة (link)One of [Critchfield's] first actions, in February 1960, according to a later Congressional investigation, was an attempt to murder the president of Iraq, General Abd al-Karim Qasim.cf. Wilford، Hugh (2013). America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. بيزيك بوكس [الإنجليزية]. ص. 290. ISBN:9780465019656.
They did, however, entertain various suggestions for covert action against the new Iraqi leader, Abd al-Karim Qasim, among them a scheme proposed by the CIA's Health Alteration Committee involving a poisoned handkerchief.cf. Weiner، Tim (2008). Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA . دابلداي. ص. 163. ISBN:9780307455628.
Another failed assassination plot, using a poisoned handkerchief ... was endorsed all the way up the CIA's chain of command.cf. Blum، William (2003). قتل الأمل. دار زيد للنشر. ص. 98. ISBN:9781842773697. cf. Powers، Thomas (1979). The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA. Knopf. ص. 160–164. ISBN:9780394507774. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2016-06-11.
The officer may have been Qasim's cousin, Fahdil 'Abbas al-Mahdawi.
{{استشهاد بكتاب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: علامات ترقيم زائدة (link)Although Qasim was regarded as an adversary by the West, having nationalized the Iraq Petroleum Company, which had joint Anglo-American ownership, no plans had been made to depose him, principally because of the absence of a plausible successor. Nevertheless, the CIA pursued other schemes to prevent Iraq from coming under Soviet influence, and one such target was an unidentified colonel, thought to have been Qasim's cousin, the notorious Fadhil Abbas al-Mahdawi who was appointed military prosecutor to try members of the previous Hashemite monarchy.
{{استشهاد بكتاب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: علامات ترقيم زائدة (link)One of [Critchfield's] first actions, in February 1960, according to a later Congressional investigation, was an attempt to murder the president of Iraq, General Abd al-Karim Qasim.cf. Wilford، Hugh (2013). America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. بيزيك بوكس [الإنجليزية]. ص. 290. ISBN:9780465019656.
They did, however, entertain various suggestions for covert action against the new Iraqi leader, Abd al-Karim Qasim, among them a scheme proposed by the CIA's Health Alteration Committee involving a poisoned handkerchief.cf. Weiner، Tim (2008). Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA . دابلداي. ص. 163. ISBN:9780307455628.
Another failed assassination plot, using a poisoned handkerchief ... was endorsed all the way up the CIA's chain of command.cf. Blum، William (2003). قتل الأمل. دار زيد للنشر. ص. 98. ISBN:9781842773697. cf. Powers، Thomas (1979). The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA. Knopf. ص. 160–164. ISBN:9780394507774. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2016-06-11.