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SUBJECT: IRAN-IRAQ FRONTLINE

NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE

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     231852Z JUN 88


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1. IRAN-IRAQ FRONTLINE

FINAL BATTLE PREPARATIONS.     

1. IRAN-IRAQ FRONTLINE     

FINAL BATTLE PREPARATIONS.     

     IRAQ CONTINUED TO MASS LARGE

COMBAT FORCES IN BATTLE POSITIONS IN THE VICINITY OF THE SOUTH

MAJNOON ISLAND AND THE STEP AREA ON THE IRAN-IRAQ BORDER.

     A LARGE MULTIDIVISIONAL PROBABLE REHEARSAL

EXERCISE WAS     ON THE STEP MOCKUP; AND POSSIBLE CHEMICAL

WARFARE (CW) ACTIVITY AND FLIGHT OPERATIONS WERE     AT

TALLIT.

IRAQI ARMOR AND MECHANIZED FORCES REMAINED IN FRONTLINE

POSITIONS     , AND ADDITIONAL FORCES WERE

STILL BEING BROUGHT TO THE FRONT. JUST BEHIND THE FRONTLINES,

MAJOR ELEMENTS OF TWO ARMORED DIVISIONS WERE REHEARSING ON THE

STEP MOCKUP. HUNDREDS OF TANKS, ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS AND

SUPPORT VEHICLES WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE MOCKUP AREA.

THESE VEHICLES WERE TRAVELING IN ALL DIRECTION AND DID NOT

APPEAR TO BE MOVING TOWARD THE STEP AREA ON THE BORDER     

THE FROG TACTICAL SURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSILE BRIGADE,

PREVIOUSLY BIVOUACED NEAR AL BASRAH, HAS BEEN FIELD-DEPLOYED

AND POSITIONED INTO FIRING MODE 10 NM FROM THE FRONTLINE AND

SOUTH OF IRANIAN-HELD NORTH MAJNOON ISLAND. THE IRAQIS HAVE

DEPLOYED FIVE SELF-PROPELLED ARTILLERY BATTALIONS AND FIVE

FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALIONS, 2 TO 3 NM FROM THE FRONTLINE IN THE

STEP ARE SINCE     JUNE.     


THE IRAQIS WERE CONSTRUCTING TWO DECONTAMINATION STATIONS IN

THE STEP AREA SINCE     JUNE. THE STATIONS CONSISTED OF UNIQUE

V-SHAPED TRENCHED THAT CONNECT TO WASHDOWN

TENTS/DECONTAMINATION VEHICLES. ELEMENTS OF A CHEMICAL DEFENSE

UNIT HAD ARRIVED AT ONE OF THE AREAS. SIMILAR STATIONS     

     AT HALABJAH AND FISH LAKE.     


POSSIBLE CW ACTIVITY AND FLIGHT OPERATIONS WERE     AT

TALLIL AIRFIELD     . EIGHT FLATBED TRUCKS, LOADED WITH

PROBABLE CHEMICAL MATERIAL, WERE NEXT TO THE SPECIAL STORAGE

BUNKER. ONE LIGHT-TONED TANK TRUCK, SIMILAR TO ONE     IN THE

CONVOY WITH THE FLATBED TRANSPORTERS AT SAMARRA CW FACILITY ON

     JUNE, WAS JUST OUTSIDE THE FENCE. TWELVE OF THE 15 FLOGGER

TO BE UNDERGOING PRE/POSTFLIGHT SERVICING. AT LEAST

SEVEN FLOGGER HAD STORES UPLOADED ON THE WING PYLONS AS WELL AS

ON THE CENTERLINE. SEVENTEEN FITTER FIGHTER-BOMBERS WERE

INVOLVED IN FLIGHT OPERATIONS. SEVERAL OF THE FITTER HAD THEIR

CANOPIES RAISED AND AT LEAST NINE FITTER WERE UPLOADED WITH

UNIDENTIFIED STORES.     


A LOW LEVEL OF ACTIVITY WAS      ON THE IRANIAN SIDE OF THE

FRONTLINE. TWO BULLDOZERS WERE CONSTRUCTING AN ADDITIONAL

DEFENSIVE BERM JUST NORTH OF THE STEP AREA. IRANIAN DEPLOYMENTS

REMAINED UNCHANGED     

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