This is fanciful.
Various power blocs here
seem to move Yasser.
The US always
has been so dominent in
Israel, it's hard
to picture cash-strapped
Soviets "investing" there.
Western blocs run things.
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"The CIA has a long history of involvement with both Israel and the PLO. The agency's ties with the Israeli Mossad date as far back as 1951. Both agencies began monitoring the PLO in 1964 and worked clandestinely to recruit Palestinian agents to spy for their respective causes. The CIA's connection with Yasser Arafat and the PLO dates back to the early 1970's, when Arafat used the CIA as a diplomatic back channel, knowing it had been blessed by the White House. The first sustained secret contacts between the CIA and PLO were established in Morocco in 1976 and later developed by Richard Ames, an advocate of Arab causes within the CIA. Moreover, the CIA was instrumental in protecting moderate PLO figures, including Yasser Arafat, and helped broker a deal in the early 1980¼s that enabled the PLO to evacuate Lebanon for Tunis. While CIA contacts were downgraded in the 1980¼s, following terrorist strikes during the Reagan and Bush administrations, they were revived and expanded by the Clinton administration shortly after the Israelis and Palestinians signed the Oslo Accords in 1993."
[The CIA's Role in the Peace Process by Dean Klovens]