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From Viktor Bukovskiy's Secrets of the Central Committee:

USSR Committee for
State Security of the
Council of Ministers of the USSR
Moscow
April 23, 1974
Top Secret
Special Importance
(Special File)
To Comrade L.I. Brezhnev:
Since 1968, the KGB has maintained secret working contact with Wadia Haddad, Politburo member of the Peoples’ Liberation Front of Palestine (PLFP), head of the PLFP’s external operations section.
In a confidential conversation at a meeting with the KGB resident in Lebanon in April of this year, Wadia Haddad outlined a prospective program of sabotage and terrorism by the PLFP, which can be defined as follows:
The main aim of special activity by PLFP is to increase the effectiveness of the struggle of the Palestinian movement against Israel, Zionism, and American imperialism. Arising from this, the main thrusts of the planned sabotage and terrorist operations are:

employing special means to prolong the "oil war" of Arab countries against the imperialist forces supporting Israel;
carrying out operations against American and Israeli personnel in third countries with the aim of securing reliable information about the plans and intentions of the USA and Israel;
carrying out acts of sabotage and terrorism on the territory of Israel;
organizing acts of sabotage against the Diamond Center [in Tel Aviv], whose basic capital derives from Israeli, British, Belgian, and West German companies.

In order to implement the above measures, the PLFP is currently preparing a number of special operations, including strikes against large oil-storage installations in various countries (Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf, Hong Kong, et al.), the destruction of oil tankers and supertankers, actions against American and Israeli representatives in Iran, Greece, Ethiopia, Kenya, an attack on the Diamond Center in Tel Aviv, etc.
W. Haddad asks that we help his organization with the procurement of several kinds of special technology necessary for carrying out certain sabotage operations.
Cooperating with us and appealing for our help, W. Haddad is fully aware of our opposition to terrorism in principle, and does not pose any questions to us connected with this sphere of the PLFP’s activity.
The nature of our relations with W. Haddad allows us a degree of control over the activities of the PLFP’s external operations section, to exercise an influence favorable to the USSR, and also to reach some of our own aims through the activities of the PLFP while observing the necessary secrecy.
In view of the above, we feel it would be feasible, at the next meeting, to give a generally favorable response to Wadia Haddad’s request for special assistance to the PLFP. As for concrete questions of supplying aid, it is envisaged that every in-stance will be decided on an individual basis, bearing in mind the interests of the Soviet Union and preventing any detriment to the security of our country.
We request authorization.
Chairman of the Committee
for State Security
Andropov

The document you posted shows me how muddled your thinking is on this. Does Russia providing support for the PLO, provide any evidence that Islamic militant palestinian groups are not actually Islamic in the slightest, but are instead purely communist? Does it tell you that PLO is motivated primarily by communist ideology above all else, to the exclusion of all else? Does it even tell you that a majority of funding and support for the PLO is pure communist? Do you think all the Saudi princes are pure communist, and not islamic at all?

Are you unable to conceive of Russian communists supporting non-communists, when they have shared anti-American interests?

Why is your thinking so binary? If communists have any connection whatsoever to any group or activity, you assume the motivation and ideology involved is purely communist. That's not clear headed thinking, in fact it is delusional, conspiratorial, tin hat foil thinking. You can do better. If you want effective anti-communism, you need clear, rational thinking. You want to be effective against your enemy, then know your enemy, don't delusionally impute non-existant motives and connections.

Yes, there are groups that hold a combination of communist thinking, combined with religious thinking -- Christian, or Islamic, or even Buddhist. Among some of these groups and participants, the balance is so heavily communist that the religion is a mask exploited. But ALL of them? Your thinking is corrupted. You point out that Marx himself was anti religious. Does that mean every follower and branch of communism, is anti-religious? Not just no, but hell no. There are lots of sincerely Islamic believers who want to bring down capitalism. In fact, that makes them more dangerous, the twin threats, and brew of communism and islamism is probably the greatest threat to civiliation. We need to understand it as it really is.