General Ian Pacepa, head of Rumanian Intelligence under the former Ceaucescu regime, had this to say when Arafat visited Bucharest:
"I've never before seen so much cleverness, blood, and filth altogether in one man."
Yes, Arafat's hosts shook his hands, but Pacepa reports they could hardly wait to repair to the lavatory!
http://palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_arafat_1980s.phpDescribing Arafat personally, in his memoir Red Horizons, Ion Mihai Pacepa, former head of Romanian intelligence, recalls that his own dossier on Arafat provided:
- ...an incredible account of fanaticism ... of tangled oriental political maneuvers, of lies, of embezzled PLO funds deposited in Swiss banks, and of homosexual relationships, beginning with his teacher when he was a teenager and ending with his current bodyguards. After reading that report, I felt a compulsion to take a shower whenever [I] had just shaken his hand.
Pacepa recalls the strategic advice that Ceausescu gave Arafat during Arafat's visit to Bucharest in 1978:
- In the shadow of your government-in-exile, you can keep as many operational groups as you want, as long as they are not publicly connected with your name. They could mount endless operations all around the world, while your name and your 'government' would remain pristine and unspoiled, ready for negotiations and further recognition.
I've never before seen so much cleverness, blood, and filth altogether in one man."
I guess that quote was from a few years before clinton came on the world scene.