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NOTE FOR: Deputies Committee Iraq Working Group

As promised by the DCI, attached is the final classified version of the paper that pulls together the "bill of particulars" demonstrating Iraq's failure to complyroad range of UNSC resolutions. The paper was fully coordinated with DIA and NBA; INK has coordinated in substance but not for release.

CIA will work to declassify as much of the paper as possible. CIA will defer to NSC and State on any public release of the declassified paper.

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Iraqi Responses lo UN Resolutions

Saddam Husayn has no intention of fully complying wiih UN demands for the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and has become increasingly uncooperative on non-weapons related issues. Baghdad isomprehensive campaign of denial, deception, obstruction, and harassment to inhibit UN efforts. The following chan details some examples ofl.-aq's noncompliance. We believe that additional violations jic yet to bc uncovered.

What the UNIraq Claims

agreed to demarcate the

Baghdad to respect the inviolability ofaccording to the terms of

border with Kuwait and to workresolution. i

Kuwait and the United Nations to demarcate the boundary or, thebasis of3 border agreement. |

What Iraq Has Done

The Iraqi News Agency on2ook. Border Demarcation Between Interna'.ional Pressure and the Iraqi Right, published by Basra University, which asseTU"Kuwait is pan of Iraqatural geographical extension to Iraqi

Iraq boycotted the border demarcation committee meetings scheduled foroalling the talks unjust and

Barzan al-Tikriti, Saddam's half-brother and Iraqi Ambassador to the UN in Geneva,2 article in the Iraqi daily newspaper Al-Jumhuriya, wrote ihat "Iraq has been convinced, ever smce iu independence, that Kuwait is pan of it and that to 'return it to the mother homeland* is the cause "of an entirec

2 Iraqi Foreign Minister Ahmad Husayn rejected the demarcation committee's proposed border adjustments, which give Kuwait part of Umm Qasr and approximatelyraqi oil wells. He claims the UN's decision was "only depriving Iraq from its geographical and historicalfter laying out the grounds lor Iraq's claims to all of Kuwait, he cited previous Iraqi governments assertions that "Kuwait is an integral pan of Iraq* and added that none of tbe successive Iraqi governments have ever acquiesced in slicing off any piece of Iraqin addition, he said the demarcation decision 'contains the seeds of another war" and identifying these claims with Iraq's own position. i

Iraq's Oil Minister, Usamah al-Hiti, announcedews conferencehat the land in the southern al-Rumaylah oilfield "will remain Iraqi territory despite all unjust resolutions. It is impossible to relinquish il."

Ira^ state radio broadcast on2 that Iraq had informed the United Nations thatif^ecided to boycott meetings of the Iraq-Kuwait border demarcation committee. i

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baghdadoncerted effort in the months following implementation of the resolution to test un enforcement of the demilitarized zone:

the un requires

0 require iraq to declare, destroy, remove, or render harmless under un supervision, and not to use, develop, construct, or acquire the following:

-all chemical weapons and all stocks of agents and all related subsystems and components and all research, development, support, and manufacturing facilities. |

what iraq has done

what iraq claims

iraq now admits to some facilities,hemical munitions,mical ajeinwnajjrwutlots^in^ and other munitions, ^ndkmavh

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recursor production and storage icilities.chemical munitions have been destroyed. Iraq probably still more H kmaaaaV,

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its initial declaration submitted onaghdad declared0 chemical munitions. during the past year, the iraqis have made numerous additions to their initial declaration and now admitotalw munitions. i

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0 require Iraq to declare, destroy, remove, or render harmless under UN supervision, and not to use, develop, construct, or acquire the following:

-All .bjojogicaj weapons and all stocks of agents ind all related subsystems and components and all research, development^upport, and manufacturing facilities. I

Iraq Has Done

Baghdad claimed in its initial declaration submittedon1 that it did not possess any biological weapons or related items. |

Just before the first biological warfare inspection inraq admittedad done research on "biological warfare agents for military purposes* at Salman

The Iraqis also admitted in1 that they had researched three biological agents-anthrax, boiulinurntoxin, and Clostridium perfringens-but claimed research lad stopped in

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Iraq declared and claims to haveissiles,onventional warheads,hemical warheads,ixed launchers,obile launchers, and decoy launchers. |

0 require Iraq to declare, destroy, remove, or render harmless under UN supervision, and not io use, develop, construct, or acquire the following:

-All bdlistic rjiissJlesange greaterilometers and related major parts^nd repair and production facilities. |

What Iraq Has Done

Baghdad originally declared that it had onlycud missiles after the war. Inen. Amir al-Ubaydi, head of Iraq's Organization of Military Industrialization, told UN officials visiting Baghdad, that "there was absolutely no undeclared type of ballistic missile innowever, Baghdad admitted to anothercud missiles, which it claims to have destroyed on its own in

Inaghdad declared six mobile launchers-two Soviet produced and four Iraq-made. Later they admitted to four more Soviet-made launchers. In the2 meetings with UN officials, the Iraqis reaffirmed that they had ten mobile launchers during the Gulf war, all of which had been destroyed by thed al-Ubaydi insisted "there were absolutely no mobile or fixed launchers for ballistic missiles innowever, Baghdad admitted to eight more mobile launchers-four from the USSR and four produced in Iraq.

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What the UNIraq Claims

ara. II requires Iraqclaims it is not in violation

reaffirm its obligations under thetreaty but admitted it

Non-Proliferatlon Treaty-produced plutonium in

a safeguarded facility violating an IAEA agreement.

What Iraq Has Done

The IAEA has found evidence that Iraqi activity before the war resulted in three violations of the treaty:

o The Iraqiseactor using uranium targets which had not been declared to the IAEA, and subsequently reprocessed the targets to acquire plutonium.

o The Iraqis produced uranium enrichment feed materialithout declaring it to the IAEA.

o The Iraqis enriched uranium without declaring it or the uranium enrichment facilities to the IAEA |

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the UN Requires

equire Iraq to declare, to accept the destruction, removal, or rendering harmless under international supervision of, and not to use, develop, construct, or acquire nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons-usable material, any subsystems or components, and any related research, development, supporr or manufacturing facilities. |

What Iraq Claims

Baghdad admitted to work on centrifuge. EMIS. CHEMEX, ion exchange, and gaseous oUffusion uranium enrichment programs; Iraq hason of uranium metal and minor quantities of

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lutonium and enricheddmits to research applicable to nuclear weapons but claims the decision to proceed was never made,

Iraq Has Done

Iraq claimed in its initial declaration delivered on1 that it had no research, development, support, or manufacturing facilities related to the >roductlon of nuclear weapons.

Baghdad tried to hide EMIS equipment from inspectorsilitary garrison outside of Baghdad inhe Iraqis would not allow inspectors into the facility until the equipment had been moved. At the next site, the Iraqis again

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refused entrance and fired weapons to frighten the inspectors- The UN team managed to film the Iraqis, however, as they were trying to move the equipment. Only when confronted with UN evidence did the Iraqis turn over the prohibited equipment. |

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ara.equires Iraq to cooperate with UN effort to list and_ return all.

Iraq has returned some civilian aircraft and spare parts, art treasures, gold, books and manuscripts, and some military aircraft.

What Iraq Has Done

the UN Requires

ara.equires Iraq to cooperate with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to facilitate the repatriation of all Kuwaiti and third-country nationals by providing lists, giving the ICRC access to detainees.

What Iraq Claims

Baghdad sporadically released several hundred detainees following the war but denies Kuwaiti claims that large numbers of prisoners of war remain in Iraq. Saddam says the Kuwaiti listublicity tool for maintaining sanctions against Iraq. I

Iraq Has Done

Iraq continues to holdetainees, according to the Kuwaiti list.

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ara.equires Iraq not to commit or support any act of international lerxarisin or allow terrorists to operate in Iraq. |

What Iraq Has Done

Iraq told the UN it had satisfied the provision, but will support ^determination" movements.

Iraqi agents may be behind recent violence in Kuwait,!

the UN Requires

equires Iraq to cease repression of all ot its citizens and allow access by international humanitarian organizations.

What Iraq Has Done

What Iraq Claims

Baghdad never accepted this resolution but,ime,imited UN presence in Iraq for humanitarian relief. I

Iraqis refuse to extend the memorandum allowing UN personnel and relief workers in the country, have restrictedUN movements within Iraq, and troops have detained or fired on relief workers. |

Baghdad has repeatedly refused to issue visas to relief workers scheduled to enter Iraq to fill empty slots or to replace leaving personnel. |

Baghdad has maintained an economic blockade of Iraq's Kurdish provinces sincehe blockade prevents the flow of most food and fuel from central Iraq into the Kurdish enclave, and restricts the travel of Kurds between towns in Iraqi-held areas of Kurdistan. |

The Iraqi mil(carv continues to attack Kurdish villages in the north using helicopters and artillery. I

The Iraqi military isilitary campaign against the Shia in the south, using ground forces, helicopters, and fixed-wing aircraft.

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equires Iraq to comply fully wilhnd the Non-Prolifeiation Treaty and to allow UN and IAEA inspectors complete access, including aircraft for surveillance and support. |

What Iraq Has Done

Baghdad has asked that U2 flights stop, although it continues to

'ledge flight notification.

5 toaghdadN team access to the Agriculture Ministry, where the Iraqis had stored records on military production, according to UN reporting. During the standoff, the Iraqis claimed that the United Nations had no right to inspect the facility or any other civilian governmental institution. In hisuly news conference. Prime Minister Tariq 'Aziz vowed that "Iraq will not concede, in any way, on its sovereignty anddding that Iraq's people and leadership are "ready to confront the results" of this stand. Baghdad organized an increasingly menacing series of demonstrations against the inspectors stationed near the Ministry. Iraqi media systematically sought to whip up public hostility by attacking the inspectors as "scoundrels' and claiming they hadmployees in the ministry building. Even after the inspectors' departure, Saddam's press secretary 'Abd al-Jabbar Muhsin denounced the inspectors as "savages, despicable streetwalkers, criminal murderers, and thieves" and urged Iraqis to treat them "with all humiliation when they come to our country."

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equire that all states prevent the sale, export, or rcshipment of goods, other than food and UN-approved humanitarian items, to Iraq, and not make available to Iraq anv type of financial or other resources.

What Iraq Has Done

Iraq claims sanctions should be lifted because it hascpmplied with UN Resolutions. I

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the UN Requires

ermit Iraq to export pi)ix-month period to6 billion in revenue to fund humanitarian imports forraqi reparations for Gulf war-related1nd various UNactivities in

What Iraq Has Done

Iraq has refused to accept the current terms of the resolutions and has, in the most recent round of negotiations, demanded to export all the oil from its own port rather than via Turkey as the resolution requires. Iraq stipulated that its acceptance of the resolutions' terms was contingent on the United Nations ending economic sanctions when the six month duration ofthe resolutions expired. |

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emands that Iraq unconditionally meet all its obligations to cooperate fully with the Special Commission and IAEA and callsln.g: term monitoring- I

What Iraq Claims

Baghdad has delivered iu "final* declaration of iu programs for weapons of mass destruction. It professes to agree to long-term monitoring but ba^ever accepted the resolution. I

Iraq Has Done

The 'final" declaration2 continues to understate Iraq's past activities and current capabilities to pursue weapons of mass desturction, and does not meet UN requirements.

This is also not the first "final" declaration. Oneputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz arrived in New York with what he claimed was "documented evidence on Iraq's fulfillment of itsziz provided no evidence during his meetings with the UN that week although he continued to claim that Iraq had complied fully with iu obligations. After his failure to gain support in the Security Council, Iraq released iueclaration exposing more of iu missile and chemical weapons programs. |

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