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CIA Has Drafted Plan to Remove Saddam Hussein from Power

HeadlineFeb 26, 1998

The CIA has reportedly drafted a plan to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The New York Times says the plan includes enlisting Kurdish and Shiite agents from within Iraq to sabotage key economic and political targets. An unidentified senior government official tells the paper that it’s not a propaganda operation, it’s a major campaign of sabotage. The Times reports it would target utility plants and government broadcast stations and increase political pressure through propaganda programs like a Radio Free Iraq broadcast to Baghdad. It would be the CIA’s fifth covert attempt to get rid of Saddam.

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