Anonymous ID: 80f0ee Feb. 28, 2025, 6:27 p.m. No.22677938   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The British journalists Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon make the claim in their book Robert Maxwell: Superspy that Max & Mogi were business partners back in the day. As Nina Burleigh nicely summarizes in a piece she wrote for Rolling Stone, “Maxwell was a conduit between the KGB, the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, and the emerging Russian kleptocrat oligarchy in the 1980s, creating some 400 companies that were used to launder the newly capitalist Slavs’ dirty money.” At least one of those companies was a jointly-held venture between the two “middlemen.” Maxwell—father to Ghislaine, mentor to Jeffrey Epstein, friend to the Queen—is himself the paradigmatic Man in the Middle, so it’s perhaps inevitable that he and Mogilevich would have crossed paths. But it’s no less shocking.

 

And Maxwell was not the only spy Mogilevich had ties to. The Brainy Don has been linked to Czech intelligence, Israeli intelligence (it was with an Israeli passport that he was able to travel to the U.S. and U.K. in the 90s), Iranian intelligence (Iran was a major client for arms deals), and. . .