Book reveals new evidence of KGB backing for Palestinian terrorism
Geostrategy-Direct, www.geostrategy-direct.com, October 11, 2005

The KGB secretly supplied arms to the Palestinian terror group, the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), according to a
new book by British author Christopher Andrew and KGB defector Vasili
Mitrokhin.

The KGB recruited PFLP operations chief Wadi Haddad in 1970. Arms
sent to the PFLP from Moscow included large numbers of RPG-7 grenade
launchers and small arms and ammunition purchased in West Germany, to
avoid them being traced to the KGB.

Haddad worked for the KGB in a failed attempt to kidnap the CIA's
station chief in Lebanon. Other abductions were successful. The KGB
was able to use Haddad to learn nearly all of the PFLP's terrorist
attacks in advance, the book states.

Haddad worked with PFLP terrorist Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, known as
Carlos the Jackal, in the raid on the OPEC ministers meeting in
Vienna in December 1975. Haddad died of a brain hemorrhage in 1978.

The KGB also planted an agent inside Yasser Arafat's PLO. The aide,
Hani al-Hasan, was Arafat's personal intelligence chief and most
trusted adviser.