Did they hire Saddam to pick up groceries ?
Is Saddam an Eagle Scout ?
If I work professionally as a computer programmer starting in 2008, and the CIA hires me in 2012, might they be possibly hiring me as a programmer ?
Or would they be hiring me as a public relations executive ?
Your rhetorical questions are cute but they are also an example of your inability to back up your ‘Saddam Hussein, CIA Assassin’ foolishness. You have a habit of treating innuendo as if it were fact which contributes to your creative story telling.
“Did they hire Saddam to pick up groceries ?”
There’s no evidence that the CIA ever hired Saddam to do anything. But nice try in attempting to pass off your conclusion in the premise of your question. Make sure you try that on people who haven’t studied logic, you’ll have more success that way.
Anyone who wants a fact-based look at CIA activity in Iraq should read the 1995 interview with James Critchfield, unless they prefer the fact-optional universe that you like to inhabit.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/interviews/critchfield.html
Saddam was a very junior member of the Baath Party when the CIA had an informant inside Baath in 1963. The CIA’s role was to watch events in Iraq while keeping an eye on Soviet plans for expanding there. There is zero evidence that Saddam was their source or that he ever worked for the CIA.
When Saddam’s radical faction later gained control of the Baath party it caught the CIA by surprise- not exactly evidence of Saddam being a CIA errand boy- and it cooled American interest in Baath as something constructive for Iraq.
The closest that the US ever came to supporting Saddam Hussein was during the Iran/Iraq war when we wanted to be sure that neither side would win.