According to the KGB, Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet agent

The head of the Palestinian Autonomy, Mahmoud Abbas, was listed in the 80s of the last century by the KGB officer, two scientists of Jewish University in Jerusalem said on Wednesday evening in an interview with the Israeli television channel.

Gideon Remez and Isabella Ginor, studying the so -called "Archive of Mitrokhin", the KGB documents taken to the UK Vasily Mitrokhin, found in the list of KGB officers, dated 1983, a line with the name of Mahmud Abbas, born in 1935 in Palestine. He was identified as an agent of the KGB in Damascus, where Abbas at that time worked as an employee of the organization of the liberation of Palestine.

Representatives of the Palestinian administration called the publication of this document to be an Israeli attempt to denigrate the head of autonomy, recalling that in those days the OOP worked so closely with the Soviet Union that he did not need his agents in its ranks.

Israeli researchers who discovered the document in the Mitrokhin archive say that the abbess and KGB closely in the last connection of the CGB were to become the public of the publicity of the proposal of Vladimir Putin to conduct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in his mediation. They note that the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Mikhail Bogdanov, who has been found in the last days with the Israeli and Palestinian leadership, worked in Damascus in 1983.

The document mentions the nickname of the Abbas "Mole", but nothing is said about when he was recruited or what tasks he performed.