So where did we leave of We really had the Ts crossed on what was happening, says James Critchfield, the head of the agency in the Middle East which organized it. We regarded it as a great victory. When we left Iraq it was during the February Coup which was organized by the Ba’ath party in 1963 and this would be the last time an Iraqi would lost their grip on the country without a full on foreign invasion. Iraqis always suspected that the Coup of 63 was engineered by the CIA in much the same way they had restored the Shah into power in 1953. The only difference was the Iraq coup was a lot bloodier which ended with their President General Abdel-Karim Qasim being tied to a chair and shot dead. Now the CIA didn’t really end there, they also played a role in preparing a shitlist of those who should be eliminated after the coup to solidify the Ba’athist  ...