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 RET 1017547 STAFF

ONN 5221

IMMEDIATE DIRECTOR INFOR GERMANY, TEHRAN, ANKARA, IST AR

EL AJA CATOMIC INTEL

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1. IN MEETING 12 OCTOBER 1979 WITH CATOMIC/19 (T/ BROTHER-IN-LAW, SAAR JAH, FOLLOWING INFORMATION

2. JAF IS WORKING CLOSELY WITH IRAQI GOVERNMENT I TO JAF KURDE WHO HOLD AN AREA EAST AND WEST OF HIS AREA JAF  1500 MEN A NUMBER DELIBERATELY KE  IN ORDER TO GET QUALITY FIGHTERS. THEIR ORIGINAL WAS OBTAINED BY TAKING THE FORTRESS OF DALAHO (SIG ANSHAH IN LATE APRIL 1979. THEY OBTAINED FROM FORTRESS THAN 1000 GERMAN 'S. AS WELL AS 100 "LARGE" G PRESUMABLY THE G-3 IN THE MACHINE-GUN MODE; 12 US.S. M TARS; TWO "SMALL" ARTILLERY PIECES; AND THREE TRUCK  UNITION. DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF OCTOBER, JAF SENT   UP AND ADDITION  KALASHNIKOVS WHICH WERE PROVID IRAQI GOVERNMENT. THIS GROUP OPERATES IN THE KERMANSH ANDAJ AREA. TO THE EAST OF THIS AREA UP TO THE IRA RDASHT-BANEH ). THE KURDISH ELEMENTS ARE UNDER THE KURDISH DEMOCRATIC PARTY (KPD), AND IT WAS ALMOST NLY THIS GROUP ICH CARRIED OUT THE ATTACH, WHICH NEWS RELEASE OCTOBER BY THE IRANIAN AUTHORITIES.

3. JAF, DEPARTED BAGHDAD 5 OCTOBER, HAS BEEN RIS FOR A MEETING ON 12 OCTOBER WITH BAKHTI FORMER IRANINA PRIME MINISTER. JAF HAS HEARD INFORMATION THE SHAH AND FND UVAISI. FORMER IRANIAN OFFIC NT TO SEE HIM BUT HE HAS NOT YET HEAR FROM EITHE EFFECTS TO VE A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SADDAM HIS RETURN TO BAGHDAD. FOLLOWING HIS VISIT TO PARIS