ABC News special report on the CIA's expensive and unsuccessful operation to eliminate Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The details of the covert operation to get rid of Saddam Hussein are revealed through interviews with CIA Iraqi infiltrators, various Iraqi oppositionists, U.S. and Iraqi officials. Issues covered: Iraqi and Kurdish rebellion, the lack of western support, the Kurdish exodus, KDP and PUK, the situation of the Iraqi Army and Saddam Hussein’s position, the CIA role and the failure of the sponsored coup. Features interviews with Ahmed Chalabi (Member of the Iraqi opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, INC), Brent Scowcroft (United States National Security Advisor), Peter Galbraith (Professional staff member for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations), Massoud Barzani (President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP), Lieutenant General Wafiq Al-Samurai (Former Chief of Iraqi General Military Intelligence), Frank Anderson (CIA Near East Bureau Chief), John Rendon (Communications Services, Rendon Group), Hoshyar Zebari (Foreign Spokesperson for the KDP), General Adnan Nouri (Former Republican Guard Officer), Albert Arnold Al-Gore (Vice President of the United States), Nabeel Musawi (Leading member, INC), Robert Pelletrau (Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs), Warren Marik (Former CIA case officer), John M. Deutch (Director of Central Intelligence Agency), and Jalal Talabani (Leader, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan).