COMMENTS ON IRAQI WEAPONS OF MAS

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Subject: COMMENTS ON IRAQI WEAPONS OF MAS

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AUG 95     CIA 404583







CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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DIST:          AUGUST 1995



COUNTRY:  IRAQ



SUBJ:  FURTHER COMMENTS ON IRAQI WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION







1.          HUSAYN KAMIL MADE THE

FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AWARE THAT THEY WOULD REACH U.S. GOVERNMENT

OFFICIALS. HE WAS VERY CONCERNED, HOWEVER, THAT THEY NOT BE MADE

PUBLIC FOR FEAR HE WOULD BE EASILY TRACED AS THE SOURCE, THUS

DIMINISHING HIS CREDIBILITY AND POPULARITY IN IRAQ.)



2. FORMER IRAQI MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND MINERALS HUSAYN

KAMIL HASAN AL-((MAJID)) CLAIMED THAT IRAQ HAS NO SCUDS LEFT AND

IS HIDING NO SCUD MISSILE COMPONENTS. ALL WERE EITHER LAUNCHED,

UNILATERALLY DESTROYED, OR DESTROYED BY UNSCOM. KAMIL REVEALED

THAT IRAQ IS HIDING (AT AN AS YET UNDISCLOSED LOCATION) TWO

MISSILE LAUNCHERS. THE LAUNCHERS ARE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE

SPECIAL REPUBLICAN GUARD (SRG). HE SAID THAT A

CZECHOSLOVAK-TRAINED IRAQI SCIENTIST          CONTINUED TO







RESEARCH AND DEVELOP MISSILE SYSTEMS, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF HIS

CZECH TUTOR. THE WORK IS LIMITED TO WHAT CAN BE DONE ON PAPER.

KAMIL SAID IRAQ WAS WORKTNG ON A 3,000 KM RANGE MISSILE BEFORE THE

GULF WAR.



3. KAMIL BRAGGED ABOUT THE NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND THE VARIETY

OF ENRICHMENT MEANS THAT HAD BEEN DEVELOPED. HE APOLOGIZED FOR

NOT BEING A TECHNICAL EXPERT, CLAIMING HIS MEMORY OF DETAILS WAS

POOR, BUT SKETCHED OUT A FEW OF THE PROGRAMS. HE SAID THE

ELECTROMAGNETIC ISOTOPE SEPARATION PROGRAM REMAINS ON COMPUTER

DISK FOR FUTURE USE. HE CLAIMED THE CENTRIFUGE PROGRAM WAS

COMPLETED BEFORE THE GULF WAR AND THAT IRAQ HAD SUCCEEDED IN

SEPARATING URANIUM (NO AMOUNTS WERE PROVIDED). HE SUGGESTED THAT

NOT ALL THE CENTRIFUGES HAD BEEN FOUND BY UNSCOM AND THAT "THE

INFORMATION UNSCOM HAS IS NOT ACCURATE." KAMIL SAID THE IRAQIS

BUILT CENTRIFUGES USING BOTH CARBON FIBER AND MARAGING STEEL. HE

CLAIMED THEY ATTAINED 60,000 RPMS WITH THE CENTRIFUGES THEY

MANUFACTURED AND WERE READY TO GO TO HIGHER LEVELS AND TO BUILD

MORE CENTRIFUGES. A THIRD PROGRAM

(PRESUMABLY GASEOUS DIFFUSION) TO ENRICH URANIUM, USING ALUMINUM

PIPES WITH 27,000 HOLES PER SQUARE CM (HOLES PRODUCED BOTH

MECHANICALLY AND CHEMICALLY) WAS UNDERWAY BUT WAS NEGLECTED (IT

DID NOT 'FAIL;' IRAQ MERELY ABANDONED THE EFFORT).

SOURCE HAS STATED SPECIFICALLY THAT THE CENTRIFUGES HAVE

BEEN DESTROYED, AND NONE ARE LEFT HIDDEN.)



4. KAMIL COMMENTED THAT IRAQ DID NOT NEED ANY REACTOR

TECHNOLOGY FROM CHINA, AS IRAQ HAD THE CAPABILITY TO BUILD ITS OWN

NUCLEAR REACTORS.



5. KAMIL CLAIMED TWO ASPECTS OF THE BW PROGRAM REMAIN

HIDDEN. HE SAID THAT REMORRAGIC FEVER (HAMMA DAMWOUTYA) WAS

DEVELOPED AT "THE AD DAWRA FACILITY", WHICH ONCE BELONGED TO THE

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE. HE SAID UNSCOM KNOWS THE PLACE BUT IS

NOT AWARE OF THE ACTIVITY. THE SITE WAS SEQUESTERED FOR BW

MANUFACTURE NEAR THE END OF THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR. HE SAID THE AGENT

WAS WEAPONIZED IN IRAQ-MANUFACTURED BOMBS WHICH WERE COATED WITH







FIBERGLASS TO PREVENT CORROSION. HE DID NOT COMMENT ON IRAQ'S

LATEST BW DECLARATION.



6. KAMIL SAID EARLY IN THE WAR WITH IRAN, IRAQ'S CW PROGRAM

DEVELOPED FROM MUSTARD TO SARIN TO BINARY WEAPONS AND FINALLY,

TOWARD THE END OF THE WAR, LARGE-SCALE VX PRODUCTION. HE CLAIMED

THAT THEY USED VX AND THAT NONE REMAINED IN IRAQ. IT WAS NOT

CLEAR IF THE IRAQIS USED ALL OF THE VX THAT WAS MADE, OR IF THEY

DESTROYED THE REMAINING

STOCKPILE, BUT KAMIL STRESSED THAT NO AGENT WAS HIDDEN IN IRAQ,

EITHER VX OR ANY OTHER.







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