Description | Folder 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. |