In 1963 Saddam's Ba'ath party violently deposed the leftist administration of Abd al-Karim Qasim, slaughtering thousands of communists with the help of lists provided courtesy of the CIA. (The Guardian 2014)

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As though who was communist would have been secret under a left wing government. This info would have been available from multiple sources at the time. If they didn't get it from the CIA they could have just asked slightly different communists to betray each other and ended up with the same result.

I could probably put together a list of over a million communists right now just by searching social media profiles. Like vegans they don't keep it secret and never have.