Some Spying Causes in Iraq in the Light of Unpublished Iraqi Documents 1935 – 1940

Abstract

The spying causes, which emerged in Iraq in the 1930s and afterwards, were regarded as important aspects on the political level in that stage. These aspects incarnated effectively in the roles of the persons who assumed these tasks in behalf of some states aiming to influence on the sovereign security of the country. What's mentioned above contained an threat and pushed the Iraqi government – by its "Central Criminal Investigations Station" and one of the "General Police Directorate" departments – to follow-up the suspected elements and put them under severe supervision. We must refer here that the security staff accomplished their duty very well, in spite of not having much of paraphernalia and equipments then. Finally, the importance of this research came from its dependence on Iraqi official documents of the "General Police Directorate" of that period.