Wow , had an auntie in surrey lost all her pension to maxwell
Aye the guy was a scumbag no doubt about that he was a KGB and MI6 agent at the same time.
In the documentary some civil servant/MI6 punter said that he's never known MI6 buy a company for someone before, they bought Maxwell a publishing house in Berlin.
He actually rented a huge mansion from Oxford city council.
His 65th birthday was attended by judges, Harold Wilson and numerous labour high hied yins, think he said that 5000 people would be attending.
Everything about him was fake.
I think he was killed by the Russians, think someone on here mentioned who was at his funeral ie the Israeli PM and the head of Mossad etc.
Maxwell was afforded a lavish funeral in Israel, attended by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir,
Israeli President Chaim Herzog, at least six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence
[61] and many dignitaries and politicians, both government and opposition, and was buried on the
Mount of Olives in
Jerusalem.
[62][63][64] Herzog delivered the
eulogy and the
Kaddish was recited by his fellow Holocaust survivor, friend and longtime attorney
Samuel Pisar.
[65]
Mossad allegations; Vanunu case[edit]
The
Foreign Office suspected that Maxwell was a secret agent of a foreign government, possibly a
double agent or a
triple agent, and "a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by
Russia". He had known links to the British
Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to the Soviet
KGB, and to the Israeli intelligence service
Mossad.
[52] Six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended Maxwell's funeral in Israel, while
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogised him and stated: "He has done more for Israel than can today be told."
[53]
Shortly before Maxwell's death, a former employee of Israel's
Military Intelligence Directorate,
Ari Ben-Menashe, approached a number of news organisations in Britain and the US with the allegation that Maxwell and the
Daily Mirror's foreign editor,
Nicholas Davies, were both long-time agents for Mossad. Ben-Menashe also claimed that, in 1986, Maxwell informed the
Israeli Embassy in London that
Mordechai Vanunu revealed information about
Israel's nuclear capability to
The Sunday Times, then to the
Daily Mirror. Vanunu was subsequently
kidnapped by Mossad and smuggled to Israel, convicted of
treason and imprisoned for eighteen years.
[54]
Ben-Menashe's story was ignored at first, but eventually journalist
Seymour Hersh of
The New Yorker repeated some of the allegations during a press conference in London held to publicise
The Samson Option, Hersh's book about Israel's nuclear weapons.
[55] On 21 October 1991, Labour MP
George Galloway and Conservative MP
Rupert Allason (also known as espionage author Nigel West) agreed to raise the issue in the House of Commons under
parliamentary privilege protection,
[a] which in turn allowed British newspapers to report events without fear of libel suits. Maxwell called the claims "ludicrous, a total invention" and sacked Davies.
[56] A year later, in Galloway's libel settlement against Mirror Group Newspapers (in which he received "substantial"
damages), Galloway's counsel announced that the MP accepted that the group's staff had not been involved in Vanunu's abduction. Galloway referred to Maxwell as "one of the worst criminals of the century".
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