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Swiss panel: No secret government deal with PLO in ’70s
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Swiss panel finds no evidence that a minister in the 1970s struck a secret deal with the PLO, offering diplomatic support in return for a halt in terror attacks against Swiss targets, Reuters reports.
The claims were made in a book by Swiss journalist Marcel Gyr, who writes that Switzerland was in turmoil after a spate of Palestinian terror attacks, leading then-foreign minister Pierre Graber to clandestinely contact the PLO and made the offer.
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