Iraq Survey Group Final Report
30 September 2004
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In March 2005, the Special Advisor added addenda to his original report:
Note for the Comprehensive Report with Addenda
Addendums to the Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD [PDF]
Volume I
Cover Page
Transmittal Message
Acknowledgements
Cover Page 2
Scope Note
Regime Strategic Intent | |||
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Contents | |||
Key Findings | 1 | ||
Who Made Iraq's Strategic Decisions and Determined WMD Policy | 5 | ||
Saddam's Place in the Regime | 5 | ||
The Apex of Power | 5 | ||
Personalized Rule | 5 | ||
Saddam's Unsettled Lieutenants | 5 | ||
A Few Key Players in an Insular Environment | 7 | ||
Saddam Calls the Shots | 8 | ||
Saddam Shows the Way | 9 | ||
Harvesting Ideas and Advice in a Byzantine Setting | 10 | ||
Weaving a Culture of Lies | 11 | ||
Saddam Became Increasingly Inaccessible | 11 | ||
Saddam's Command By Violence | 12 | ||
Saddam's Effect on the Workings of the Iraqi Government | 13 | ||
Suspicion of Structures | 13 | ||
Powerless Structures | 13 | ||
The Higher Committee | 14 | ||
The Foreign Policy Committees | 15 | ||
Saddam's Grip on National Security and WMD Development | 16 | ||
Saddam Holding Court | 18 | ||
Saddam and Fiscal Policy | 18 | ||
How Saddam Saw His Subordinates | 19 | ||
Mining Respect and Expertise | 19 | ||
Mutuality of Fear | 19 | ||
Dazzled by Science | 19 | ||
How Saddam Saw Himself | 21 | ||
Saddam's Psychology | 21 | ||
Saddam's Personal Security | 21 | ||
Saddam the Dynasty Founder | 21 | ||
Saddam and His Sense of Legacy | 22 | ||
Desire . . . Dominance and Deterrence Through WMD | 23 | ||
Saddam's Role in WMD Policy | 23 | ||
What Saddam Thought: The Perceived Successes of WMD | 24 | ||
What Saddam Thought: External Concerns | 28 | ||
Iran | 29 | ||
Israel | 31 | ||
The United States | 31 | ||
WMD Possession-Real or Imagined-Acts as a Deterrent | 34 | ||
Saddam's Prioritization of Getting Out From Under Sanctions | 34 | ||
Efforts To Lift Sanctions | 35 | ||
Realizing Saddam's Veiled WMD Intent | 41 | ||
Regime Strategy and WMD Timeline | 41 | ||
Ambition (1980-1991) | 41 | ||
Decline (1991-1996) | 42 | ||
Scientific Research and Intention to Reconstitute WMD | 44 | ||
Reaction to Sanctions | 44 | ||
Husayn Kamil's Departure | 46 | ||
Cooperating With UNSCOM While Preserving WMD | 47 | ||
Recovery (1996-1998) | 48 | ||
Impact of the "Chicken Farm" Documents | 49 | ||
Looking Ahead to Resume WMD Programs | 49 | ||
Guarding WMD Capabilities | 51 | ||
Iraq's Internal Monitoring Apparatus: The NMD and MIC Programs | 53 | ||
Suspending Cooperation With UNSCOM | 55 | ||
Transition (1998-2001) | 56 | ||
Nullifying All Obligations To UNSC Resolutions | 57 | ||
Preserving and Restoring WMD Infrastructure and Expertise | 59 | ||
Pumping Up Key Revenue Streams | 60 | ||
Miscalculation (2002-2003) | 61 | ||
Renewing UN Inspections | 63 | ||
Iraq's Other Security Concerns | 64 | ||
Sorting Out Whether Iraq Had WMD Before Operation Iraqi Freedom | 64 | ||
Alternative Hypotheses on Iraq's Nonuse of WMD During Operation Iraqi Freedom | 66 | ||
Annexes | |||
A. The Quartet-Influence and Disharmony Among Saddam's Lieutenants | 69 | ||
B. Iraq's Intelligence Services | 73 | ||
C. Iraq's Security Services | 85 | ||
D. Saddam's Personal Involvement in WMD Planning | 97 |
Regime Finance and Procurement | |||
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Contents | |||
A Word on the Scope of This Chapter | 1 | ||
Key Findings | 3 | ||
Chapter Summary | 7 | ||
The Regime Timeline | 9 | ||
Ambition (1980-91 | 9 | ||
Decline (1991-96) | 9 | ||
Recovery (1996-98) | 9 | ||
Transition and Miscalculation (1999-2003) | 10 | ||
Directing and Budgeting Iraq's Illicit Procurement | 11 | ||
Overview | 11 | ||
President and Presidential Secretary's Role in Illicit Procurement | 11 | ||
Presidential Diwan's Role in Illicit Procurement | 12 | ||
Diwan's Role in Supplemental Funding of Government Ministries | 12 | ||
Extent of Knowledge of the Former President of the Diwan | 13 | ||
Budgeting Iraqi Procurement | 14 | ||
General Government Budget | 14 | ||
Sources of Government Revenue | 14 | ||
Supplemental Budgetary Process | 14 | ||
Supplemental Budget Submission Procedure | 14 | ||
Approval and Authorization of Supplemental Funding | 16 | ||
Disbursal of Supplemental Funds | 18 | ||
Financing Iraq's Illicit Procurement | 19 | ||
Overview | 19 | ||
Iraqi Economy's Role in Illicit Procurement | 19 | ||
Economic Ambition (1980-91) | 19 | ||
Economic Decline (1991-96) | 21 | ||
Economic Recovery (1997-99) | 22 | ||
Economic Transition and Miscalculation (1999-2003) | 22 | ||
Iraq's Revenue Sources | 22 | ||
Bilateral Trade Protocols | 24 | ||
Phases of the UN OFF Program | 28 | ||
Disposition of UN OFF Funds | 28 | ||
Oil Voucher Process | 29 | ||
Secret Voucher Recipients | 30 | ||
Iraqi Oil Vouchers Provided to International Leaders | 31 | ||
American and British Oil Voucher Recipients | 33 | ||
Benon Sevan's Use of Iraqi Oil Vouchers | 33 | ||
Iraqi Intelligence Service Nominations for Oil Vouchers | 33 | ||
Oil Export Surcharges | 33 | ||
How Surcharges Were Collected | 35 | ||
Kickbacks on Commercial Goods Import Contracts | 35 | ||
Private-Sector Oil Sales | 37 | ||
Role of the SOMO | 38 | ||
SOMO's Relationship to the MoO | 40 | ||
Official Oil Accounts | 40 | ||
Banking and the Transfer of Financial Assets for Procurement | 45 | ||
CBI | 45 | ||
CBI's Role in Licensing Money Exchangers | 45 | ||
CBI's Role in Tracking Foreign Accounts for Iraq | 46 | ||
Iraqi Bank Holdings | 47 | ||
Funding of the Ministries | 47 | ||
The Use of Foreign Banks | 48 | ||
Use of Banks in Lebanon | 49 | ||
Use of Banks in Jordan | 49 | ||
Use of Banks in Syria | 50 | ||
Use of Banks in Turkey | 50 | ||
Use of Banks in Egypt | 50 | ||
Use of Banks in Belarus | 50 | ||
Regime Attempts To Recover Funds Prior to OIF | 51 | ||
The Role of Cash Transactions | 51 | ||
Iraq's Gold Reserves | 51 | ||
Executing Illicit Procurement in Iraq: Ministries, Commissions, and Front Companies | 53 | ||
Overview | 53 | ||
Ministry of Foreign Affairs | 53 | ||
MFA-IIS Connections | 54 | ||
MFA's UN Sanctions Counter-Strategy | 55 | ||
MFA and Iraq's Bilateral Protocols | 56 | ||
Ministry of Trade | 56 | ||
MoT's Role in Procurement | 57 | ||
Facilitating Illicit Procurement With Cover Contracts | 58 | ||
Facilitating Illicit Trade Through Commercial Attaches | 58 | ||
Ministry of Defense | 61 | ||
MoD Procurement Leadership | 61 | ||
MoD Procurement Directorates | 61 | ||
Budgeting and Financing Military Procurement | 62 | ||
MoD Procurement Process | 63 | ||
Procurement for the Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard | 64 | ||
Military Industrialization Commission | 65 | ||
Procurement Leadership in the MIC | 65 | ||
MIC: Benefi ciary of Illicit Funds | 66 | ||
MIC Banking and Financing | 66 | ||
Items Procured via the MIC's Link to Iraqi Intelligence | 69 | ||
MIC Front Companies | 72 | ||
Iraqi Intelligence Service | 77 | ||
IIS Procurement Leadership and Mission | 77 | ||
IIS Procurement Cooperation with Foreign Intelligence Services | 79 | ||
Items Procured by the IIS | 79 | ||
IIS Front Companies | 80 | ||
Special Security Organization | 82 | ||
SSO Procurement Leadership and Mission | 82 | ||
Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission | 82 | ||
Ministry of Transport and Communication | 83 | ||
Mission and Key Procurement Companies under the MoTC | 83 | ||
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research | 84 | ||
University Collaboration With MIC | 84 | ||
Exploitation of Academic Exchanges for Procurement | 85 | ||
Ministry of Agriculture | 85 | ||
Ministry of Interior | 86 | ||
Front Company Conglomerates: Al-Eman and Al-Handal | 86 | ||
The Al-Eman Network | 88 | ||
Al-Handal General Trading Company | 90 | ||
Supplying Iraq With Prohibited Commodities | 93 | ||
Overview | 93 | ||
Procurement Suppliers During the Decline Phase, 1991 to 1996 | 93 | ||
Romania | 93 | ||
Ukraine | 95 | ||
Jordan | 100 | ||
Procurement Suppliers During the Recovery Phase, 1996 to 1998 | 102 | ||
Syria | 102 | ||
Turkey | 104 | ||
South Korea | 107 | ||
People's Republic of China | 108 | ||
France | 111 | ||
Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | 112 | ||
Bulgaria | 113 | ||
Procurement Suppliers in the Transition and Miscalculation Phases, 1998 to 2003 | 116 | ||
Russia | 116 | ||
North Korea | 119 | ||
Transportation Routes From North Korea to Iraq | 121 | ||
Payment Methods for North Korean Contracts | 121 | ||
Poland | 121 | ||
Methods Used To Hide Transshipment to Iraq | 121 | ||
Polish-Iraqi Procurement Financial Flows | 122 | ||
India | 122 | ||
Belarus | 125 | ||
Key Belarusian Individuals Linked to Illicit Trade With Iraq | 126 | ||
Materials, Equipment and Services Provided by Belarus | 127 | ||
Payments From Iraq to Belarus | 129 | ||
Taiwan | 129 | ||
Egypt | 130 | ||
Yemen | 131 | ||
Opening Conventional Trade With Yemen for Oil and Cash | 131 | ||
Yemen Emerges as an Intermediary for Iraqi Illicit Imports | 132 | ||
Importing Prohibited Commodities | 133 | ||
Overview | 133 | ||
Deceptive Trade Practices Supporting Illicit Procurement | 133 | ||
Use of Trade Intermediaries | 133 | ||
Disguising the Nature of Prohibited Goods | 134 | ||
Consealing the Identity of Commodities | 135 | ||
Discussing the Commodity's Destination | 137 | ||
Use of Illicit Smuggling and Transportation Networks | 137 | ||
Smuggling by Air | 138 | ||
Smuggling by Land | 138 | ||
Smuggling by Sea | 139 | ||
Smuggling via Jordanian Ports | 139 | ||
Smuggling via Syrian Ports | 142 | ||
Smuggling via the Arabian Gulf | 142 | ||
Annexes | |||
A. Translations of Iraq's Bilateral Trade Protocols | 145 | ||
B. Known Oil Voucher Recipients | 167 | ||
C. Iraq's Budgetary Process | 201 | ||
D. Iraq Economic Data | 207 | ||
E. Illicit Earnings Sources and Estimation Methodology | 217 | ||
F. Iraqi Oil Smuggling | 221 | ||
G. Iraq's Banking System | 251 | ||
H. UN Security Council Resolutions Applicable to Iraq | 257 | ||
I. Suspected WMD-Related Dual-Use Goods and Procurement Teransactions | 261 | ||
J. The Procurement of Conventional Military Goods in Breach of UN Sanctions | 267 | ||
K. Suspected Intermediary and Front Companies Associated With Iraq | 291 | ||
L. Procurement Acronyms | 295 |
Regime Strategy and WMD Timeline Events |
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Volume II
Cover Page
Nuclear | ||||
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Contents | ||||
Key Findings | 1 | |||
Evolution of the Nuclear Weapons Program | 3 | |||
The Regime and WMD Timeline | 3 | |||
The Early Years: Ambition | 3 | |||
Decline (1991-96) | 4 | |||
Recovery and Transition (1996-2002) | 5 | |||
Miscalculation (2002-2003) | 6 | |||
Results of ISG's Investigation on Nuclear Issues | 7 | |||
Investigation Into Uranium Pursuits and Indigenous Production Capabilities | 9 | |||
Foreign Pursuits | 9 | |||
Indigenous Production Capabilities | 11 | |||
Iraq's Known Uranium Holdings | 13 | |||
Iraqi Uranium Conversion Program | 15 | |||
Aluminum Tube Investigation | 21 | |||
Elements of ISG Investigation | 21 | |||
Purported High-Level Interest in Aluminum Tubes | 22 | |||
Possible Association of Iraqi Nuclear Entities With the Tubes | 22 | |||
Tube Characteristics and Shipping Requirements | 23 | |||
Indigenous Tube Manufacture-A Possible Sign Baghdad Did Not Need High-Specification Tubes | 27 | |||
Iraqi Interest in 84-mm Tubes | 30 | |||
Carbon Fiber | 30 | |||
Carbon Fiber and Iraq's Pre-1991 Gas Centrifuge Program | 30 | |||
Iraqi Concealment of Carbon Fiber-Related Activity, Materials, and Documents After Operation Desert Storm | 31 | |||
The MIC Carbon Fiber Project in 2001/2002 | 32 | |||
Flow-Forming Machinery | 33 | |||
Planned Magnet Production Lines at Al Tahadi | 34 | |||
Procurement Details | 36 | |||
Rotating Machinery Department | 36 | |||
Investigation of Potential Centrifuge-Related Facilities | 38 | |||
Support Facilities | 38 | |||
Ash Shaykhili Storage Facility | 39 | |||
Al Karama State Company | 39 | |||
Al-Wazeriya Site | 39 | |||
Khadimiyah Site (Ibn Al-Haytham Missile R&D Center) | 39 | |||
Al Samud Factory (Abu Ghurayb Missile Facility) | 39 | |||
Badr and Umm Al-Marik State Companies (Khan Azad Military Production Plant) | 39 | |||
Al-Tahadi State Company | 40 | |||
Salah Al Din State Company (Samarra Electronics Plant) | 40 | |||
Al-Nida State Company | 40 | |||
Rashid State Company's Tho Al-Fiqar Factory (formerly the Nassr State Establishment Mechanical Plant) | 40 | |||
Ur State Company (An-Nasiriyah Aluminum Fabrication Plant) | 40 | |||
Uranium Enrichment-EMIS | 42 | |||
Electromagnetic Isotope Separation (EMIS) | 42 | |||
Facilities | 42 | |||
Al Safa'a EMIS Plant at Tarmiya | 42 | |||
Al Fajr EMIS Plant at Ash Sharqat | 45 | |||
Al-Jazira (Mosul Feed Materials Production Facility) | 45 | |||
Al-Zawra State Company | 45 | |||
Al-Nida State Company (Zaafaraniya Mechanical Workshop Al-Rabiyah) | 45 | |||
Al-Radwan (Batra Military Production Facility) | 47 | |||
Al-Nassr Al-Adhim State Company | 47 | |||
Disposition of EMIS-Related Equipment | 47 | |||
Laser Research in Iraq | 50 | |||
Laser Related Work After Operation Desert Storm | 50 | |||
Current Status and Future Potential | 51 | |||
Iraq's Pre-1991 LIS Efforts | 51 | |||
Rail Gun Summary | 52 | |||
Rail Gun Efforts | 52 | |||
Issues Related to NuclearWeapons Design and Development | 59 | |||
Casting Technology | 59 | |||
Explosive and Lens Fabrication Capabilities | 59 | |||
High-Speed Switches | 60 | |||
Fireset Development and Testing | 60 | |||
Neutron Generators | 60 | |||
Migration of the Capabilities From the PC-3 Nuclear Weapons Project | 61 | |||
IAEC Modernization | 66 | |||
Interest in the IAEC and Intervention by Saddam Husayn | 66 | |||
Increased Funding and Publicity of IAEC Activities | 67 | |||
Infrastructure Improvements at the IAEC: The Modernization Project | 67 | |||
Perceptions the Regime Was Preparing for Reconstitution of the Nuclear Program | 69 | |||
IAEC Work on Neutron Generators | 69 | |||
University Programs | 70 | |||
Hidden Enrichment Technology | 73 | |||
Survey of Structures at Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center | 75 | |||
Annexes | ||||
A. Definitions Used by Teams During Survey | 81 | |||
B. Team Results | 83 | |||
C. Analysis of the Videotapes Compiled From Video Recce Mission 5/6 November 2003 | 91 | |||
D. Results of Mission Survey of Tuwaitha Nuclear ComplexOver the Period 20-22 November | 107 | |||
E. Summary of Known UN-Tagged Equipment | 113 | |||
F. Photography Highlights: Tuwaitha Mission, 20-22 November 2003 | 117 | |||
G. Tuwaitha Maps, Buildings, and Numbers | 127 |
Volume III
Cover Page
Iraq's Chemical Warfare Program | |||
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Contents | |||
Key Findings | 1 | ||
Evolution of the Chemical Warfare Program | 5 | ||
Regime Strategy and WMD Timeline | 5 | ||
The Early Years, 1960-1980: A Slow Start | 5 | ||
The Chemical Corps and Al-Hasan Ibn-al-Haytham Research Foundation | 5 | ||
Full Capability, 1981-1991: Ambition | 6 | ||
Foundation of the Al Muthanna State Establishment | 6 | ||
Agent Production Begins and Al Muthanna State Establishment Takes Shape | 6 | ||
Early Weaponization: Simple Solutions | 8 | ||
CW-A Permanent and Pivotal Strategic Weapon | 9 | ||
The Decline, 1991-1996 | 9 | ||
Destroying Iraqi Weapons | 9 | ||
Recovery and Transition, 1996-2003 | 12 | ||
Miscalculation, 2002-2003 | 13 | ||
Command and Control | 14 | ||
Preamble: Muddling Through After the Gulf War | 14 | ||
Iraq Could Maintain CW Competence With Relative Ease | 15 | ||
Infrastructure-Research and Development | 16 | ||
Creation of the Iraqi Industrial Committee | 17 | ||
The Power of the IIC | 17 | ||
The IIC's Master Plan for Self-Reliance: The List of 1,000 Chemicals | 18 | ||
Dual-Use Chemicals on the List of 1,000 Chemicals | 18 | ||
Thionyl Chloride | 19 | ||
DCC | 19 | ||
Thiourea | 22 | ||
Chemicals From the List Move Toward Production | 22 | ||
Infrastructure-Production Capability | 23 | ||
State of Chemical Industry at OIF-Limited Break-Out Capability | 24 | ||
Weaponization | 29 | ||
Suspect Munitions Activities | 29 | ||
Disposition of CW Munitions Post-1991 | 29 | ||
The 1991 Decision To Destroy Undeclared Weapons | 31 | ||
Iraq Unilateral Weapons Destruction in 1991 | 31 | ||
Destruction of Chemical Munitions, Bulk Agent, and Precursors | 31 | ||
Chemical Munitions-Searching Military Depots and Caches | 33 | ||
Investigating Ammunition Supply Points | 33 | ||
Investigation | 34 | ||
Investigating Captured Enemy Ammunition Points (CEA Consolidation Points) | 35 | ||
Annexes |
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A. IIS Undeclared Research on Poisons and Toxins for Assassination | 43 | ||
B. Al Muthanna Chemical Weapons Complex | 61 | ||
C. The Iraqi Industrial Committee | 85 | ||
D. Tariq Company's Activities | 89 | ||
E. Al-Abud Network | 93 | ||
F. Detailed Preliminary Assessment of Chemical Weapons Findings | 97 | ||
G. Chemical Warfare and the Defense of Baghdad | 107 | ||
H. Summary of Key Findings at Captured Enemy Ammunition Consolidation Points | 113 | ||
I. Review of 24 Iraqi Ammunition Supply Points | 123 |
Biological Warfare | |||
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Contents | |||
Key Findings | 1 | ||
Evolution of the Biological Warfare Program | 5 | ||
The Regime Strategy and WMD Timeline | 5 | ||
Evolution of the Biological Warfare Program | 5 | ||
Ambition: The Early Years, 1960-1985 | 5 | ||
Renewed Ambition and Near-Realization: 1985-1991 | 8 | ||
The Beginning of the Decline: Opportunity Through Ambiguity and the End of the Game (1991-1996) | 11 | ||
Recovery and Transition 1996-2003 | 15 | ||
Research and Development | 18 | ||
Building Human Capital | 19 | ||
Research Facilities | 20 | ||
Iraqi BW Agent Research | 20 | ||
Bacillus anthracis ('Agent B') | 20 | ||
Clostridium botulinum (Botulinum toxin, 'Agent A') | 21 | ||
Clostridium perfringens ('Agent G') | 22 | ||
Afl atoxin ('Agent C') | 22 | ||
Brucella | 22 | ||
Ricin | 23 | ||
Wheat Cover Smut ('Agent D') | 25 | ||
Viruses | 25 | ||
Camel Pox | 27 | ||
Smallpox | 28 | ||
Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever | 32 | ||
Acute Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis (Enterovirus 70) | 32 | ||
Rotavirus | 32 | ||
Other R&D Related to BW Development | 32 | ||
Biopesticides | 32 | ||
Single Cell Protein R&D | 34 | ||
Growth Media R&D | 34 | ||
Drying Process/Carrier/Particle size | 37 | ||
Production Capability | 38 | ||
Break-Out Production Capability Pre-OIF | 42 | ||
Mobile Assets | 42 | ||
Weaponization | 45 | ||
Attempts at BW Weaponization | 47 | ||
The Gulf War | 48 | ||
Concealment And Destruction of Biological Weapons | 49 | ||
Iraq's Initial WMD Concealment Effort | 49 | ||
The Destruction of Iraq's BW | 50 | ||
What Remained Hidden and Undeclared 1995-1998? | 53 | ||
Weaponization Related Activities in the Years Following Desert Storm | 53 | ||
Unresolved Issues | 56 | ||
Program Direction | 56 | ||
Research and Development | 56 | ||
IIS Laboratories | 57 | ||
Seedstocks | 57 | ||
Disposition of Iraq's BW Program Culture Collection | 57 | ||
Agent Production | 57 | ||
Drying of BW Agents | 58 | ||
Bacterial BW Agent Production and Storage | 58 | ||
Weaponization | 59 | ||
Annexes |
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A. Bulk BW Agents | 61 | ||
B. BW Research and Development Facilities | 63 | ||
C. ISG Investigation of Iraq's Reported Mobile Biological Warfare Agent Production Capability | 73 | ||
D. Trailers Suspected of Being Mobil BW Agent Production Units | 79 |
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