Iraq Says CIA, Kuwait Plotted Against It

Iraq circulated a document at the United Nations on Tuesday that it said confirmed that in 1989, the CIA and Kuwait connived in plotting against it.

According to the document, the CIA suggested to Kuwait last November ways of putting economic pressure on Iraq to force it to delineate the disputed Kuwait-Iraq border.

The document was described as a top-secret letter that the former director general of Kuwait’s State Security Department, Brig. Gen. Fahd Ahmed al Fahd, sent to Sheik Salim al Sabah al Sabah, the interior minister, describing agreements reached during a visit to CIA headquarters in Washington.

The CIA denied the charge, saying statements in the document purported to be from the U.S. or Kuwaiti side were “total fabrications.”

Iraqi Foreign Minister Tarik Aziz asked in a note to U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar for the letter to be circulated as a Security Council document.

According to the document, Fahd wrote: “We agreed with the American side that it was important to take advantage of the deteriorating economic situation in Iraq in order to put pressure on that country’s government to delineate our common border.

“The Central Intelligence Agency gave us its view of appropriate means of pressure, saying that broad cooperation should be initiated between us, on condition that such activities are coordinated at a high level.”