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The Report of the Iraq Inquiry
905.  The audit stated that CPA officials believed their rosters were 90 to 95 percent
accurate, which implied that there could be more than 100 individuals not properly
accounted for.
906.  The audit found even less information about staff deployed outside Baghdad:
“CPA officials stated that if personnel departed Kuwait or other rear area to a
forward site, other than Baghdad, such as Al Hilla, Basra or Erbil, in support of CPA
Operations there were no reliable procedures to identify and account for these
individuals. Additionally, personnel hired to work directly for Iraq ministries in Baghdad
provide limited, if any, information to the CPA in Baghdad or Washington DC.”
907.  A report to Congress by the US General Accounting Office (GAO) in June 2004
stated that the total number of CPA civilian and military personnel in Baghdad peaked
at 1,239 in April 2004 (see Table 5).594 That figure was estimated to be about 90 percent
accurate, reflecting the difficulty of tracking the arrival and departure of personnel.
The GAO stated that no reliable data were available for the period before 1 March 2004.
Table 5: Composition of CPA support in Baghdad, April 2004
Type of personnel595
Temporary US government employees
Non‑US Coalition secondees
US secondees excluding Department of
Defense (DoD)
DoD military
DoD civilian
Contractors
Iraqi expatriates from the Iraq Reconstruction
and Development Council (IRDC)
Personnel “in process”
Total
Total excluding DoD military
595
Number
employed
237
160
Percentage of
total
Percentage of
total excluding
DoD military
19.1 27.5
12.9 18.6
208 16.8 24.1
377 30.4
81 6.5 9.4
73 5.9 8.5
27 2.2 3.1
76 6.1 8.8
1,239
100
862 – 100
908.  The GAO reported that, although the total number of CPA staff fluctuated, the
approximate composition remained steady:
28 percent from the US military;
594  US General Accounting Office Report to Congressional Committees, June 2004, Rebuilding Iraq.
Resource, Security, Governance, Essential Services, and Oversight Issues.
595  As listed in the GAO report.
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