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Iraq Documents May Speak VolumesWASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2003 U.S. analysts are poring over a massive stash of Iraqi intelligence files that hint at war crimes, terrorist attacks, a network of paid foreign agents and efforts to develop illegal missiles with foreign help, according to published reports. Officials are comparing the huge trove of documents to the "Stasi files" on East Germany's secret police. CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports the files, which were captured in April, are only now being fully translated and analyzed. The files may be used as evidence in war crimes tribunals against the ousted...

Report: CIA Seizes Iraqi Intelligence Records A published report says the U.S. Central Intelligency Agency has seized a large cache of records in Iraq about its intelligence service, weapons procurement and paid foreign agents. The Washington Post says the documents are spurring U.S. investigations into how Iraq purchased weapons and paid foreign nationals to work on behalf of Saddam Hussein's government. The newspaper quotes unidentified U.S. officials as saying Iraqi files include names of nearly every Iraqi intelligence officer, names of foreign agents, agent reports and evidence of payments made to buy influence in the Arab world and elsewhere. The...

The Saddam Files At the Iraqi Intelligence Service, a man walked up with a grimy sack of documents and tapes. ‘Tell the world what happened here,’ he said By Melinda Liu, Rod Nordland and Evan Thomas NEWSWEEK April 28 issue — After 9-11, as talk of war against Iraq picked up in Washington, the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) became jittery. ON OCT. 29, 2002, a memo from Directorate 14 (in charge of special operations and “wet work” like assassinations) reported that “one of our sources in the United States, with a high level of reliability, says the CIA and the...

THEY were only a few documents lying in the ransacked offices of a Baghdad mansion, but they exploded this week with the force of a cruise missile. The papers, it was reported, are proof of intelligence links between Moscow and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The most serious allegations concern certificates, bearing the Russian twin-headed eagle, showing that five Iraqis had graduated in spy training from a Moscow organisation called the Special Training Centre. Checks this week show there is no private company by that name - increasing speculation that Iraqi agents attended an official Russian spy school. More documents from the...

Basra, Iraq - Its tentacles were everywhere, its spies ubiquitous, its threats thinly veiled and its celebration of one man, Saddam Hussein, adulatory. It controlled schools, hospitals, the police, the army, the oil industry, hotels, the courts - indeed, almost every facet of Iraqi life. For it, children spied on parents, wives on husbands, sisters on brothers. For three decades, the Baath Party permeated Iraqi society to a degree similar to the Nazis in Germany and communists in China during the Cultural Revolution. It tortured and murdered its opponents, real and imagined, sought to exterminate whole ethnic groups, and eviscerated...

Documents Found by ABCNEWS Reveal a Lot About Saddam’s Regime B A G H D A D, Iraq, April 16 — The United States has failed to collect, or even protect, huge numbers of secret Iraqi intelligence files and documents that could help lead to some of Saddam Hussein's most loyal followers — and, perhaps, Saddam himself. Documents — most marked "top secret" — were discovered by ABCNEWS in the basements and offices of two luxurious, riverside Baghdad homes that were already looted of furniture and decorations. One of the houses was the personal home of Saddam's eldest son, Odai,...

U.S. Finds Cache of Data in Baghdad By CHRIS TOMLINSON .c The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. troops discovered thousands of microfilm cartridges and hundreds of paper files in two residential buildings in a Baath Party enclave Monday in central Baghdad in what could be a major intelligence discovery. Four specially designed safes, with thousands of microfilm cartridges filled one room of one house. The film showed official Iraqi documents written in Arabic. The cartridges were numbered in a cataloging system. ``They are archives of some kind, whose and what it's an archive of is the mystery,'' said...

United States Marines have uncovered an underground vault containing the detailed files of Saddam Hussein's secret police.Under the Headquarters of the Special Security Organization, run by Saddams most rusted son Qusay, the Marines found a massive complex of offices over an area the size of two football fields, littered with millions of documents-detailed records that stretch back more than three decades.In just one room were files for a million souls-their pictures, personal details, and entire history recorded in minute chilling detail, reports CBS News correspondant Lars Logan. The complex was targeted for coalition planes on the first night of bombing.

Meanwhile, the Mail on Sunday reported that "Russian sources" had said that Saddam had been smuggled out of Baghdad in a convoy to Syria led by the Russian ambassador and bombed unsuccessfully by the US last Sunday. Quoting "senior military sources", the tabloid also reported that Moscow envoys held a series of meetings with Saddam before war broke out on March 20 in which the Iraqi president tried to arrange safe passage for himself, his family and for secret files out of Iraq. Last Updated: 04:53 UK, Sunday April 13, 2003

Arms secrets revealed in spies' files Patrick Graham in Baghdad Sunday April 13, 2003 The Observer Iraqi intelligence agents were ordered to take files and computers with information about weapons of mass destruction home from their offices before United Nations weapons inspectors arrived late last year, say documents found at a security headquarters in Baghdad. The handwritten notes from a meeting between a departmental director and operatives on 23 September last year were in a red notebook I found lying on a desk at the surveillance centre of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, the Mukhabarat. Agents at a meeting on 18...

<p>On the Brit Hume program at the bottom of the hour, Jane Skinner said the Saddams Secret Police files that Russia tried to take out of Iraq via convoy had been found.</p> <p>No mention if anything looked to be missing or looked through.</p>

The dangers in Saddam's 'black files'By Ian Urbina When it comes to file-keeping, the Baathists of Iraq were often referred to as the "Prussians of the Middle East". Saddam Hussein's officials kept impeccable and detailed records on virtually all realms of government and society. But as looting grips Baghdad and throngs of civilians rush government buildings to exact retribution in whatever small way they can, the fate of these records is an open question. In post-war Iraq, these documents will prove to be of inestimable value for determining guilt and meting out justice. But it will all depend on whether...