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Exclusive: Saddam Was key in early CIA plot:

While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. officials date back to 1959, when he was part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.

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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

Flashback: Saddam Key in Early CIA Plot

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Secret Message From James Baker to Tariq Aziz:

Baker informs Aziz, whose government 13 months previously had gassed Kurdish villages, that "the United States seeks a broadened and deepened relationship with Iraq."

A Brief History: US-Iraq 1980s:

Iraq uses US-supplied military intelligence "to calibrate attacks with mustard gas on Iranian ground troops...."

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America helped make a monster:

It is hard to believe that, during most of the 1980s, America knowingly permitted the Iraq Atomic Energy Commission to import bacterial cultures that might be used to build biological weapons. But it happened.