Very informative - ping!
And Puty’s Russia seems to be leaning toward the same role!
Makes a good alibi for Chechnya. :’)
"In 1964, the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Soviet blueprint for a Palestinian National Chartera document drafted in Moscowand made Ahmad Shukairy, the KGBs agent of influence, the first PLO chairman. The Romanian intelligence service was given responsibility for providing the PLO with logistical support. Except for the arms, which were supplied by the KGB and the East German Stasi, everything, according to Ion Pacepa, came from Bucharest. Even the PLO uniforms and the PLO stationery were manufactured in Romania free of charge, as a comradely help. During those years, two Romanian cargo planes filled with goodies for the PLO landed in Beirut every week.