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A Look at How the CIA Backed and Financed Saddam Hussein 40 Years Ago in An Effort to Assassinate Iraq’s Then Prime Minster

U.S. intelligence diplomats and intelligence officials have told UPI that the CIA helped support Saddam Hussein more than 40 years in an attempt to assassinate then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.


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