Saddam Hussein Collection
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SADDAM HUSSEIN COLLECTION |
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. Saddam Hussein Regime Collection
2. Iraqi Collection Overview (as of May 2011)
3. 1991 Gulf War Records
4. Iran-Iraq War Records (October, 2011)
5. Records Released for Middle East Studies Association Conference (October, 2011)
6. Saddam and Terrorism Records
7. Publications Based on the Captured Iraqi State Records
8. Studies under Publication Review
Saddam Hussein Regime Collection
The records from Saddam Hussein’s regime consist of a wide range of government files—audio recordings of high-level meetings, speeches by Saddam and senior officials, correspondence between ministries, records of the Presidential Diwan, and others—that bear mainly on issues related to national security, defense policy, and diplomacy. These records are categorized by their originating agency or office (for instance, Iraqi Intelligence Service or General Military Intelligence Directorate), and will eventually constitute the vast majority of CRRC holdings. The CRRC currently houses copies of over 850 Iraqi state records (over 31,000 pages). The archive only includes documents dated prior to 9 April 2003.
Iraqi Collection Overview (as of May, 2012)
| Category | # of Records in Section |
# of Pages in Section |
| Ba’ath Party Correspondence |
36 |
1107 |
| Fedayeen Saddam |
13 |
257 |
| Iraqi Air and Air Defense Force |
16 |
760 |
| Iraqi Al-Quds Army |
5 |
165 |
| Iraqi Armed Forces General Command |
8 |
505 |
| Iraqi Army |
55 |
2308 |
| Iraqi Directorate of General Security |
31 |
1,232 |
| Iraqi General Military Intelligence Directorate |
144 |
4533 |
| Iraqi Intelligence Service |
68 |
1748 |
| Iraqi Military Industrialization Commission |
11 |
239 |
| Iraqi Ministry of Defense |
12 |
670 |
| Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
14 |
361 |
| Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate |
1 |
6 |
| Iraqi Navy |
1 |
6 |
| Iraqi Republican Guard |
20 |
800 |
| Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council |
17 |
380 |
| Iraqi Special Security Organization |
5 |
67 |
| Saddam Regime Miscellaneous |
97 |
3,342 |
| Saddam Tapes (audio files) |
158 |
9,008 |
| Saddam’s Ministry of Defense |
6 |
168 |
| Saddam’s Personal & Political Correspondence |
47 |
1143 |
| Saddam Presidential Diwan |
98 |
3640 |
PUBLICATIONS BASED ON THE CAPTURED IRAQI STATE RECORDS:
| 1. |
Brands, Hal. “Inside the Iraqi State Records: Saddam Hussein, ‘Irangate’, and the United States.” The Journal of Strategic Studies, 34 (2011): 1, 95-118. |
| 2. |
Brands, Hal. "Making the Conspiracy Theorist a Prophet: Covert Action and the Contours of U.S.-Iraq Relations," International History Review, 33, 3 (Sept 2011): 341-408. |
| 3. |
Brands, Hal and David Palkki, “‘Conspiring Bastards’: Saddam Hussein’s Strategic View of the United States,” Diplomatic History, 36, 3 (June 2012): 625-659. |
| 4. |
Brands, Hal and David Palkki. "Saddam, Israel, and the Bomb: Nuclear Alarmism Justified?" International Security, 36, (6 July 2011): 1, 133-166. |
| 5. |
Brands, Hal and David Palkki. "Why Did Saddam Want the Bomb? The Israel Factor and the Iraqi Nuclear Program." Foreign Policy Research Institute (Aug 2011). |
| 6. |
Nathan, Elizabeth A. “Saddam and the Tribes: How Captured Documents Explain Regime Adaptation to Internal Challenges (1979–2003).” Joint Center for Operational Analysis Journal, Vol. XII, Issue 1, Spring 2010 p. 12-30. |
| 7. |
Palkki, David D. and Shane Smith. "Contrasting causal mechanisms: Iraq and Libya" in Sanctions, Statecraft, and Nuclear Proliferation: Sanctions, Inducements, and Collective Action, ed by Etel Solingen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). |
| 8. |
Rubin, Lawrence P. "Research Note: Documenting Saddam Hussein's Iraq." Contemporary Security Policy, 32, 2 (Summer, 2011): 458-466. |
| 9. |
Rubin, Lawrence P. "A Review of Kevin M. Woods. The Mother of all Battles: Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War." Terrorism and Political Violence, 22, 1 (Dec 2009): 136-138. |
| 10. |
Sassoon, Joseph. Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). |
| 11. |
Woods, Kevin. and Mark E. Stout. "New Sources for the Study of Iraqi Intelligence during the Saddam Era." Intelligence and National Security, 25, 4 (Dec 2010): 547-587. |
| 12. |
Woods, Kevin M. The Mother of All Battles: Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008. |
| 13. |
Woods, Kevin M., and James Lacey. “Iraqi Perspectives Project: Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents.” Institute for Defense Analyses, November 2007. |
| 14. |
Woods, Kevin M., James Lacey, and Williamson Murray. “Saddam's Delusions: The View From the Inside.” Foreign Affairs (May/June 2006). |
| 15. |
Woods, Kevin M., David D. Palkki and Mark E. Stout. The Saddam Tapes: The Inner Workings of a Tyrant's Regime, 1978-2001. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011). |
| 16. |
Woods, Kevin M., and Mark E. Stout. “Saddam’s Perceptions and Misperceptions: The Case of ‘Desert Storm.’” Journal of Strategic Studies, 33 (2010): 1, 5-41. |
| 17. | Woods, Kevin M., Michael Pease, Mark E. Stout, Williamson Murray, and James G. Lacey. The Iraqi Perspectives Report-Saddam's Senior Leadership on Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Official U.S. Joint Forces Command Report. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006. |