Ali Hassan al-Majid
The DGS was reestablished as an independent entity reporting directly to President Hussein in the late 1970s or 1989. In 1980, Hussein decided to expand Baathist ideology within the ranks by appointing as DGS Director his first cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid. Majid led the DGS throughout the Iran–Iraq War, transforming it into a political force notorious for "torture, kidnapping, murder, and rape".