Report: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Was A KGB Agent

Israeli news station, Channel 1, has obtained archived Soviet documents showing that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was a KGB operative. Palestinian officials immediately denied these allegations, claiming that the latest reports amount to “slander.”

But according to an analysis report conducted by prominent Israeli researchers Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, Abbas, codename “Krotov” (or Mole), worked for the Soviet secret police under the supervision of Mikhail Bodganov, a high-ranking official stationed in Damascus. To this day, Bodganov still holds a prominent place in the Russian government, working as President Vladimir Putin’s (himself a former KGB operative) Middle East envoy. Despite (or perhaps because of?) his clandestine activities with Abbas, Bodganov has attempted to play mediator between Abbas’ Fatah government in the West Bank and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud government in Israel. In fact, just this week, he tried (but ultimately failed) to organize a peace summit between the two parties in Moscow.