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Palestinians reject report Abbas was KGB agent as 'smear campaign'

By JPOST.COM STAFF

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 12:20

A spokesperson for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has dismissed a claim by Israeli researchers that he served as a Soviet KGB agent in Syria over three decades ago, AFP reported Thursday.

The PA president's spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh told AFP that Wednesday's reported finding was part of a "smear campaign" to impede on Russian-proposed peace efforts between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Israel's public Channel 1 reported on Wednesday night that two Hebrew University researchers had obtained a trove of KGB archives that included a list that named Abbas as a Soviet agent operating in 1983 in Damascus.

However on Thursday, Abbas's spokesperson charged that the reported discovery "falls under the framework of Israeli absurdities which we have got used to."

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