Defense Intelligence Agency Memo: Implications of Releasing LTG Amir Hamudi Hasan Al-Sadi (Black List No. 32)

C0.5950429 (b)(1) (b)(3) SE T/ Defense Intelligence Agency S-022,019-04 04 March 2004 (U) Iraq: Implications of Releasing LTG Amir Hamudi Hasan Al-Sadi (Black List No*. 32) S>1>i This paper responds to an OSD request regarding the implications and, of releasing from custody BL #32, LTG Amir Hamudi Hasan (S//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN and GBR) Lieutenant General (Doctor Engineer) Amir Hamudi Hasan. Al-Sadi possesses extensive,i 1 essential elements of intelligence, and as the result of his detention. ZS4 Given no information regarding the Conditions ; if any, for his release, or regarding plans for controlling or monitoring his activities,r (b)(1) CO5950429 (U) In his memoir, The Greatest Threat, p. 81, Mr. Richard Butler, Chief UNSCOM inspector, stated the following about the Iraqi BW program: SE7 3 CO5950429 S- `1 REJ / "We reviewed all this in a technical-level meeting I attended with UNSCOM experts and the Iraqis in charge of the biological weapons program. I then discussed the issue in a private session with Aziz. In the technical meeting, the --- Iraqi in charge, General Amir Sadhi, had told me that the reason their biological weapons program had been so 'tiny and ineffective' was that Iraq had lacked the expertise to make it better (clearly implying that they-would have happily made it bigger and better if they could). He was lying about the scope of the program, of course, and his audacity in frankly admitting that he wished it had been greater was appalling." 4 CO5950429 ST/ Al-Sadi acknowledges that! his presence outside Iraq, an.This family wealth arevariables that AL_Sadi_nniprhtiact7 into his own future plans. He speaks with authority, is charismatic, and is uncompromising in his position with respect to the level of information to which he was privy. Al-Sadi attempts to dominate a witha_well-thonplit out_well,reh ea rserEnartviine bin this regard, a number of loose ends remain that the Intelligence Community would like to resolve with respect to his statements.