Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:35 pm
This book should be in our Pierce Memorial Library shoud someone like to purchase it and donate. It's a little too expensive for us to purchase in bulk for our bookstore. I'm surprised it hasn't been banned on Amazon.
So many good books, so little money to purchase them.
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Robert Maxwell -- ruthless, volatile, defiant; a man of gargantuan appetites, for food, wine, women, power, money -- unabashedly bared his ambition to the world, as he strove to build a publishing empire. But, throughout his career, Robert Maxwell also nurtured another, more driving, and -- until now -- altogether hidden ambition, and that was to spy for Israel's Mossad. In the end, as Gordon Thomas, an author who has long been trolling the murky waters of international intelligence, shows in this gripping narrative, the conflict between the tycoon's public interests and spy's secret pursuits led to his mystifying death, officially by drowning, in November 1991, offshore of the Canary Islands. According to Thomas's well-placed sources in Israel, Washington, and London, Maxwell first came into Mossad's orbit in the 1970s, when the crack Israeli spy organization stole from the United States its most sophisticated piece of intelligence-gathering software, Enhanced Promis. Of it Mossad made an electronic Trojan horse, secretly amassing strictly classified information from inside the very organizations worldwide to which they were selling it. Mossad's representative for these extremely sensitive transactions costing tens of millions of dollars in China, Russia, India, and twenty other countries was Robert Maxwell. Only Maxwell was also helping himself to some of Mossad's profits -- as well as 750 million from his employees' pension fund -- in desperate attempts to maintain his empire and to meet the demands of increasingly intolerant creditors. Aboard his yacht that November night in 1991 Maxwell no doubt still clung to the hope of a bailout by Mossad. But Mossad's spy masters could not afford to smile on blackmail. This book reveals all the shocking reasons why. Eight pages of black-and-white photographs add to this astonishing tale of international intrigue, espionage, the Mossad, and murder.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2020
Verified Purchase
Great book that reveals how Israel is far from a friend or ally of the US or Britain!! Everything these Zionists do is for Israel; to quote from the book:
"Mossad had files on all senior US politicians."-p. 90 (paperback)
"When Yitzhak Shamir would later say that no one had done more for Israel, he was not exaggerating."-p108
"...Shamir felt sufficiently close to Maxwell to confide in him his anti-Americanism."-p.35
..."the suspicion grew later in MI6 and MI5 that Maxwell could not be trusted. He was placed on their Watch List and categorised as 'a Zionist-loyal only to Israel'..."-p.41
"...there could be no doubting Maxwell's commitment to Israel..."-p.69
"Mossad was deeply involved in all these areas, operating the diktat David Kimche had articulated: 'In all we do it is Israel first, last and always. Always.'.."-p.72
That accusing some Jewish politicians of dual loyalty is met with charges of "antisemitism" is absurd. In fact, it isn't dual loyalty, it's SOLE loyalty to the motherland. Read and see why.
Great book that reads like a spy novel!