Notes For Further Research

Most of the documents used in this study are from the U.S. State Department Central Files and the files of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. They were scanned at the National Archives in College Park, MD, where they've been sitting, declassified, for many years. The National Intelligence Estimate and the National Security Council documents are from the Foreign Relations of the United States series. I do not have the originals, just the transcriptions. Several papers, including "The Iraq Communist Party and the Question of Legalization" are CIA records from the CREST computer at the Archives. These are marked CIA RDP" at the top and bottom of each page.

Here are personality lists of U.S. and foreign officials mentioned in the Foreign Relations of the United States volume for the Mid-East, for 1958-1960, and 1961-1962.

Here is a bibliography of books on the history of Iraq which I have found useful for this study.

Here are the pull slips used to access the General and Classified Records of the Baghdad Embassy, 1959-1960, found in Record Group 84. Here is the pull slip for the files on the Qasim assassination trials found in RG 84. Several records related to revolutions and coups are still classified, including: Sept 14, 1959; Dec 10, 1959; June 30, 1959; and Oct 29, 1959.

Here are the pull slips for RG 59 records from 1963 and 1964-1966. The following records have been withdrawn from the records of the State Dept. (RG 59) for the year 1963, related to revolutions and coups: Feb 4, 1963; Feb 9, 1963; Feb 11, 1963; Feb 11, 1963 (2); Feb 12, 1963; Feb 13, 1963; Feb 13, 1963 2; Feb 13, 1963 3; Feb 14, 1963; Feb 14, 1963 (2); Feb 14, 1963 (3); Feb 16, 1963; Feb 17, 1963; Feb 18, 1963; Feb 22, 1963; Feb 26, 1963; Feb 28, 1963; March 9, 1963; Mar 23, 1963; Mar 30, 1963; April 1, 1963; April 11, 1963; April 27, 1963; May 6, 1963; May 6, 1963 (2); May 11, 1963; May 11, 1963 (2); May 13, 1963; May 13, 1963 (2); May 14, 1963; May 18, 1963; May 24, 1963; May 31, 1963; June 3, 1963; June 7, 1963; June 14, 1963; June 27, 1963; July 3, 1963; July 13, 1963; July 15, 1963; July 16, 1963; July 17, 1963; July 18, 1963; July 18, 1963; July 18, 1963 2; July 19, 1963; July 23, 1963; July 24, 1963; July 26, 1963; Aug 1, 1963; Aug. 10, 1963; Aug. 13, 1963; Aug 13, 1963 (2); Aug 15, 1963; Aug. 15, 1963 (2); Aug. 22, 1963; Aug. 22, 1963 (2); Aug. 22, 1963 (3); Aug 27, 1963; Sept 13, 1963; Sept 17, 1963; Sept 17, 1963 2; Sept 20, 1963; Sept. 27, 1963; Oct 1, 1963; Oct 24, 1963; Oct 31, 1963; Nov 9, 1963; Nov 12, 1963; Nov 14, 1963; Nov 16, 1963; Nov 20, 1963; Nov 21, 1963; Nov 21, 1963 (2); Nov 21, 1963 (3); Nov 26, 1963; Nov 29, 1963; Nov 30, 1963; Nov 30, 1963 2; Dec 3, 1963; Dec 5, 1963; Dec 9, 1963; Dec 12, 1963; and Dec 21, 1963.

An audio tape of Radio Baghdad's broadcasts during the first hours of the Feb. 12, 1963 coup was also permanently withdrawn from State Dept files.

Copyright Paul Wolf, 2005.