Posted on 10/17/2005 7:56:57 AM PDT by Valin
interesting, especially the part about palestinians under KGB influence. I'd be very curious to see if there was any cooberation of this claim, by the former head of Romanian intelligence:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004075
Right after that meeting, I was given the KGB's "personal file" on Arafat. He was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB foreign intelligence. The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha special-ops school east of Moscow and in the mid-1960s decided to groom him as the future PLO leader. First, the KGB destroyed the official records of Arafat's birth in Cairo, replacing them with fictitious documents saying that he had been born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by birth.
Yes, I can't tell you how shocked I am to hear this (sarcasm off)
Ping.
interesting, especially the part about palestinians under KGB influence. I'd be very curious to see if there was any cooberation of this claim, by the former head of Romanian intelligence:
An interesting book I read back in the early 80s
"The Terror Network"
Claire Sterling
In which the author basically says yes the KGB was the force behind much of the international terrorist org. With funding, training, intel.
The Atlantic Monthly had a very good article on Yassir in the Sept. issue
In a Ruined Country
How Yasir Arafat destroyed Palestine
by David Samuels
Might be worth your time to look it up.
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