Reading Lab · Dossier 14

Directory of people and organisations

A directory of 176 names: 94 US and British officials, 52 Iraqi officials and 30 companies and institutions. For each: the number of documents it appears in, its first and last mention, and links to them and to the Lab files that analyse it.

176names in the directory

94CPA and Washington officials

30companies and institutions

582documents mention the most-present name: Bechtel

Who was there, and when

First and last memo to Bremer for the most present writers · sorted by first appearance.

The directory

Type in the box to filter names · click a column header to sort · “Search” opens all the name’s documents in the archive.

Method, confidence and limits

Who is in the directory: public officials and companies only. Officials come from three sources already verified in the Lab files: writers of memos to Bremer (10+ memos), press briefing speakers, and the people in “The revolving door”. Companies are a hand-picked list of distinctive names.

Counting: a literal, case-sensitive search of the English texts of public documents (first and last name, with an optional middle initial). Common names may catch another person of the same name; counts measure presence in the archive, not importance.

Iraqi officials: members of the Interim Government (Regulation 10), the Governing Council and its Washington representative, with a list of alternative Latin spellings for each name (Ayad/Iyad, Zibari/Zebari…) and its Arabic forms; a document counts if the name appears in its English or Arabic text (after normalising hamza, ta marbuta and alif maqsura).

Limits: US and British officials and companies are counted in English texts only. Rare Arabic or Latin spellings not on the list may be missed.

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