March 10, 1986
Information on the Planned Deployment of a Delegation from Chemical Services in the Republic of Iraq
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Ministry for State Security
Main Department I
Department Ministry for National Defense
Strausberg, 10 March 1986
Main Department I
Head
Berlin
Information on the Planned Deployment of a Delegation from Chemical Services in the Republic of Iraq
Unofficially it was found out that a deployment of a delegation from the Chemical Services of the National People's Army in the Republic of Iraq is planned for the period between 12 March and 15 June 1986.
The delegation is supposed to facilitate the transfer of the training site for chemical services, which was built by the engineering-technical foreign trade of the GDR, and to train the Iraqi personnel for this site. Furthermore it is planned to ultimately hand over the training site for use by the contracting partner, the Defense Ministry of the Republic of Iraq.
To implement these tasks the following members of Chemical Services from the National People's Army will be deployed:
Major General
Nagler, Karl-Heinz
Deputy Chief of the Division Chemical Services in the
Ministry for National Defense
Deployment from 19 to 23 March 1986
Colonel
Hackbarth, Aribert
Division Chemical Services
Head of Delegation
Deployment from 17 March to 15 June 1986
Lieutenant Colonel
Kiessling, Werner
MB III/US II
Deployment from 17 March to 15 June 1986
Lieutenant Colonel
Jordan, Wilfried
OHS LaSK Löbau
Deployment from 17 March to 15 June 1986
Commander
Krumbiegel, Wolfgang
People's Navy Command
Deployment from 17 March to 15 June 1986
Major
Kuchenbuch, Roland
Interpreter
Deployment from 17 March to 15 June 1986
Civilian Employee
Raddatz, Dieter
Chemical Services Training Site Storkow
Deployment from 12 March to 9 April 1986
The designated contact partners in the Republic of Iraq are the trade attache and the military attache of the GDR Embassy in Baghdad.
There are no objections from a political-operative viewpoint [by the Ministry of State Security] against the planned deployment of those listed.
All listed members of the army and civilian employees are confirmed as traveling cadres for non-socialist foreign countries.
Head of Department
[Signed]
Grawunder
Colonel
A delegation of the East German National People's Army in Iraq is supposed to facilitate the transfer of the training site for chemical services to the Defense Ministry of the Republic of Iraq.
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