in 1975 that compelled Baghdad to cede half of its sovereignty over the strategic Shatt al Arab waterway to Tehran.
MOIS’ cables show how Iranian intelligence scooped up former CIA agents and intelligence assets who were abandoned and left to fend for themselves. These agents, fearing death at Iran’s hands, decided to switch sides and gave up all manner of information on CIA safehouses, their training, and vital intelligence they had shared with their American handlers.
One particularly noteworthy cable is from an operative reporting on an Iraqi agent who worked for now-retired Lieutenant General Hatem al Maksusi, former head of military intelligence in the Iraqi Ministry of Defence. It is by no means a shame that America lost to Iran – it is a tragedy for Iraqis that either of them would win.
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