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COUNTRY IRAQ I,RAN USSR

SUBJECT SOVIET ASSISTANCE TO MULLAH MUSTAFA DATE DISTR. BARZANI

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• 1. ABOUT 1 AUGUST 1963 FOUR SOVIET MILITARY OFFICERS

ARRIVED AT BARZANI HEADQUARTERS. THE SOVTETSTALKED WITH

BARZANI AT MASTAN, A SMALL VILLAGE BETWEEN -RAWANDUZ ~'\JD '<

THE IRANIAN BORDER, AND TOLD BARZANI AND SEVERAL OF HIS MEN

niA:T THEY SHOULD !!BE PAT lENT A Ll TTLE LONGER BECAUSE SOON I

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fOUR.sovrET EXPERTS WERE W~TH 8ARZANrKURDS THE LAST~

DISSEMINATION CONTROLS,

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WEEK OF JUNE AND DEPARTED THE fiRST WEEk·OF JULY. I I2. BARZANI HAS BEEW RECt IV ING SMALL ARMS, AMMUNITION,

AND FOODSTlJFFS BY AIR FROM THE SOVIETS.THERE A.RE VIE WIVES 0 BARZAN J KURDS. WrTH3. 19 SO T F

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THEIR 2¢ TO 25 CHILDREN IN BARZANI HEADQUARTERS.4. FI:E[.DDISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR CfNCN(LM

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