'Mole?': Abbas dismisses claim he was Soviet agent

Israeli researchers say they have uncovered a document showing Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was a Soviet agent in the 1980s, but his office called it a smear campaign and pointed to suspicious timing. The claim first emerged in a report by Israeli public television on Wednesday night citing two researchers studying documents from the so-called Mitrokhin papers stored in Britain at Cambridge University's Churchill Archives Centre. The researchers, Gideon Remez and Isabella Ginor of the Trum