Yassir Arafat - KGB Agent
Tue September 23rd, 2003 00:22 MSTFrom the Wall Street Journal:
Right after that meeting, I was given the KGB’s “personal file” on Arafat. He was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB foreign intelligence. The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha special-ops school east of Moscow and in the mid-1960s decided to groom him as the future PLO leader. First, the KGB destroyed the official records of Arafat’s birth in Cairo, replacing them with fictitious documents saying that he had been born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by birth.
For those with romantic fantasies about Arafat the peacemaker or Arafat the Palestinian (he’s an Egyptian), this article should set them straight. Arafat was what intelligence folks call an “agent” - a person used by an intelligence service (in this case, the KGB) for the advantage of its country (in this case, the USSR).
And, any time a malefactor is involved in the peace business, one fool is always on the scene, the Pathetic Parapetetic, Jimmy Carter:
The KGB file on Arafat also said that in the Arab world only people who were truly good at deception could achieve high status. We Romanians were directed to help Arafat improve “his extraordinary talent for deceiving.” The KGB chief of foreign intelligence, General Aleksandr Sakharovsky, ordered us to provide cover for Arafat’s terror operations, while at the same time building up his international image. “Arafat is a brilliant stage manager,” his letter concluded, “and we should put him to good use.” In March 1978 I secretly brought Arafat to Bucharest for final instructions on how to behave in Washington. “You simply have to keep on pretending that you’ll break with terrorism and that you’ll recognize Israel — over, and over, and over,” Ceausescu told him for the umpteenth time. Ceausescu was euphoric over the prospect that both Arafat and he might be able to snag a Nobel Peace Prize with their fake displays of the olive branch.
In April 1978 I accompanied Ceausescu to Washington, where he charmed President Carter. Arafat, he urged, would transform his brutal PLO into a law-abiding government-in-exile if only the U.S. would establish official relations. The meeting was a great success for us. Carter hailed Ceausescu, dictator of the most repressive police state in Eastern Europe, as a “great national and international leader” who had “taken on a role of leadership in the entire international community.” Triumphant, Ceausescu brought home a joint communiqué in which the American president stated that his friendly relations with Ceausescu served “the cause of the world.”
And Saddam Hussain was put in place by the CIA. So what’s your point?
Q: How does Rumsfeld know Iraq had WMD?
A: He kept the receipts.
No, the CIA did not put Saddam Hussein in place. In fact, Saddam was an ally of the USSR (the Baathist movement was a socialist movement and was the USSR’s toehold in the middle east).
During the Iraq/Iran war, the US gave a little bit of aid (intelligence data) to Iraq because Iran, run by Islamofascists who had sworn enmity to the US.
Get your facts straight, dude.
Oh, and BTW, even if what you said was true, it doesn’t change the fact that Arafat is not a Palestinian, and took over the Palestinian cause on orders from a foreign power. The Palestinians have been used as pawns by non-democratic powers - the USSR, its allies (at one time) Egypt, Syria and Iraq, and other dictatorial muslim regimes that preferred that all revolutionary impulses be directed towards Israel rather than their own despotic rule.
Most ironic, in that Yasir Arafat has gone on to be a billionaire. Then again, he did so in the Soviet manner: using his control of the economy to siphon off wealth. The duplicitousness is classically Soviet.
The problem, of course, is that Arafat has outlived the Soviet Union– and unlike it, probably cannot be relegated to the dustbin of history (preferably, literally) without catastrophic consequences…
So: a KGB agent literally all dressed up with nowhere to go!