Report: Abbas Was a Soviet Spy in the 1980s

(Times of Israel) Tamar Pileggi - PA President Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet mole in Damascus in 1983, Israel's Channel 1 television reported Wednesday, citing information in an archive smuggled out of the USSR. Vasily Mitrokhin, a senior KGB archivist, defected to the UK in 1992. His edited notes were released in 2014, while his handwritten notes remain classified by MI5.


2016-09-08 00:00:00

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