• DOI:10.1080/02684527.2016.1275138
Corpus ID: 157492629

Missing revolution: the American intelligence failure in Iraq, 1958

@article{Karam2017MissingRT,
  title={Missing revolution: the American intelligence failure in Iraq, 1958},
  author={Jeffrey G. Karam},
  journal={Intelligence and National Security},
  year={2017},
  volume={32},
  pages={693 - 709}
}

• Jeffrey G. Karam
• Published 2017
• Political Science
• Intelligence and National Security

Abstract Why were American officials caught by surprise with the military coup and later revolution in Iraq on 14 July 1958? Drawing on American intelligence and diplomatic records as well as multilingual sources, this article argues that the US intelligence failure is the product of two factors: the collection of information from too few and too similar human sources of intelligence in Iraq’s ruling regime, and the unreceptivity of US officials to assessing new information and their… Expand