Volume 1 - Iraq Watch

Structure of M40• M40/1 Monitors the Al Wafaq Party, CommunistParty, and Separatists• M40/2 Monitors the Al Dawa Party, Al Majlis Party,and the Wahhabis• M40/3 Monitors the Kurds• M40/4 Monitors external threats, Al Mu’tamar, andIndependents• M40/5 Operations against the Kurds• M40/6 Monitors the Al Yazidis, Al Saabiah, and AlAshurinThe Directorate ofGeneral Military IntelligenceThe Directorate of General MilitaryIntelligence (DGMI) was Iraq’smain military intelligence service.The DGMI collected intelligenceon the military capabilities of the countries adjacentto Iraq, as well as Kurdish forces. The director ofDGMI, Staff Lt. Gen. Zuhayr Talib ‘Abd-al-Sattar,reported directly to the Presidential Secretary, despitethe subordination of the DGMI to the Ministry ofDefense.In addition to military analysis and targeting, theDGMI acted as an internal police force within theIraqi military by assigning DGMI Intelligence Officersto each military unit down to the battalion level.Technically, the officer’s mission was intelligencesupport, but the majority of the officer’s work centeredon controlling corruption and theft within theunit. Just as the SSO placed political officers withinthe Republican Guard, the DGMI placed intelligenceofficers within the military services to monitor troops.This organization has also been recognized as theGeneral Military Intelligence Directorate (GMID),General Directorate of Military Intelligence (GDMI),Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), MilitaryIntelligence Directorate (MID), and the Istikhbarat,the shortened version of its Arabic name: MudiriyahAl Istikhbarat Al ‘Askriah Al ‘Ammah.Regime StrategicIntentThe Directorate ofGeneral SecurityThe Directorate of General Security(DGS) provided local intelligencecollection and prosecution ofRegime opposition groups within theindividual governorates of Iraq. Little reporting existsabout its composition and structure, but minor referencesto the DGS all reflect an effort focused againstthe infiltration of Iranian, Turkomen, and Kurdishoppositionists.83