RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, (APP/AFP) –
A spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday
dismissed a claim by researchers that he worked as a Soviet agent
in Damascus in the 1980s, calling it a smear intended to derail
a Russian peace initiative.
The claim emerged in a report by Israeli public television
on Wednesday night citing two researchers who were studying the
so-called Mitrokhin papers stored in Britain at Cambridge
University’s Churchill Archives Centre.
“In 1983, he (Abbas) is listed as being groomed by the KGB
under the codename Krotov, the mole,” one of the Israeli researchers, Isabella Ginor, told the programme.
Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh told AFP it “falls under
the framework of Israeli absurdities which we have got used to,” calling
it a “smear campaign.”
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Palestinians dismiss report Abbas was KGB agent as ‘smear’
