RepositorySpecial Collections Archives (GB 0029)
Ref NoEUL MS 143/10/1/2
Date1983-1991
LevelFile
TitlePapers relating to Iraqi treatment of alleged foreign spies
DescriptionFolder of papers, primarily presscuttings and telex messages, reporting on four alleged espionage cases involving Iraq. These include the torture of American technician Robert Spurling (1983), the release of German journalist Jacob Petross in 1987 after he was jailed for spying in 1981, the execution of Swedish businessman Jalil Mehdi al-Neamy (1990), and the conviction in America Albert Sombolay, a US soldier who passed information to Iraq in 1991.
LanguageEnglish
Access StatusOpen
Creator_NameCrusoe; Jonathan Richard Huthwaite (1953-1991); journalist and writer
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