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Book Reveals New Evidence Of KGB Backing For Palestinian Terrorism
2005-10-11
Geostrategy-Direct
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The KGB secretly supplied arms to the Palestinian terror group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), according to a new book by British author Christopher Andrew and KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin.
The KGB recruited PFLP operations chief Wadi Haddad in 1970. Arms sent to the PFLP from Moscow included large numbers of RPG-7 grenade launchers and small arms and ammunition purchased in West Germany, to avoid them being traced to the KGB.
Haddad worked for the KGB in a failed attempt to kidnap the CIA's station chief in Lebanon. Other abductions were successful. The KGB was able to use Haddad to learn nearly all of the PFLP's terrorist attacks in advance, the book states.
Haddad worked with PFLP terrorist Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, in the raid on the OPEC ministers meeting in Vienna in December 1975. Haddad died of a brain hemorrhage in 1978.
The KGB also planted an agent inside Yasser Arafat's PLO. The aide, Hani al-Hasan, was Arafat's personal intelligence chief and most trusted adviser.
Source: IMRA – Independent Media Review and Analysis
