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AntiFascist

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14. BBC Documentary: The House of Maxwell - One family, 50 years of scandal...
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 03:18 AM
Jul 29

Ghislaine was Robert Maxwell's favorite daughter, "The moment Robert Maxwell died...something twisted in her."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c0234j

Apparently, the FBI also created a lengthy file on Robert Maxwell:

The FBI's interest had been aroused because of Maxwell's publishing contacts with American nuclear scientists in secret research centers.
...
For years, Maxwell was accorded favored status in the Soviet Union as he frequently travelled back and forth through the Iron Curtain. From the late 1940s, he was in regular contact with Soviet leaders and the KGB.

He was secretly paid by the KGB to publish 50,000 copies of a series of fawning biographies of communist leaders, although he duped them about the number that were actually printed.
...
But ironically, it was MI6 which had given him the money to establish himself in publishing. MI6 had bankrolled him in the early 1950s as they believed it would be a good chance to obtain intelligence about Soviet scientific work.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/14/freedomofinformation.uk


Maxwell is alleged to have distributed a bugged version of a software, PROMIS, to a plethora of national governments and global financial institutions that enabled mass spying by the government of Israel.[58]

Maxwell was allegedly able to sell the bugged Israeli version of the PROMIS software to Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, two of the most important nuclear research and national security facilities in the United States.[58] Maxwell allegedly employed John Tower, Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, to facilitate the sales of the bugged Israeli version of the PROMIS software to Sandia and Los Alamos.[58]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Distribution_of_PROMIS_software_to_facilitate_Israeli_spying


and this might explain a potential connection to the INSLAW AFFAIR involving money laundering, drug profits...perhaps human trafficking?

The technical capability that Systematics allegedly implanted in its customers' computer
systems to support Allied intelligence agencies has also been used to support another initiative,
according to some of the same sources: the laundering of money, especially drug profits, through
direct access to the computers of the mainstream banking and financial system.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/kavanaugh/releases/docid-70105136.pdf


Maybe this is a stretch, but the Epstein-Maxwell affair could open up a giant can of worms involving government corruption, and why Dan Bongino is shocked down to his core about what he’s learned during an internal investigation of corruption and “political weaponization” at federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

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Go Ask Alice [View all] H2O Man Jul 28 OP
Thanks, as ever. Easterncedar Jul 28 #1
Thank you! H2O Man Jul 28 #2
In many ways, Maxwell was worse than Epstein dlk Jul 28 #3
Right. H2O Man Jul 28 #4
Not only did she recruit and lure but, Mr. Evil Jul 29 #11
Exactly. H2O Man Jul 29 #12
They were a team dlk Jul 31 #38
As always, I await developments -- I can't possibly predict what the crazy people will actually do... Hekate Jul 28 #5
Thank you! H2O Man Jul 28 #7
The problem -- let's say evidence proves Orange Anal Fistula was in bed with say, a 12 year old girl from Bulgaria. 3Hotdogs Jul 28 #6
Oh, I so hope H2O Man Jul 29 #8
Yeah, he pardoned the Jan 6 insurrectionists. But one thing did come of that... slightlv Jul 29 #9
Is there any indication that boys were on the lolita? 3Hotdogs Jul 29 #15
No. H2O Man Jul 29 #17
I believe most them would have slightlv Jul 30 #37
I did my best to read through this, but don't understand the Jefferson Airplane reference... Jack Valentino Jul 29 #10
Alice H2O Man Jul 29 #13
'Go ask Alice Cooper?' Jack Valentino Aug 1 #39
Yes. H2O Man Aug 1 #40
BBC Documentary: The House of Maxwell - One family, 50 years of scandal... AntiFascist Jul 29 #14
Right. H2O Man Jul 29 #16
Talk about a rabbit hole... AntiFascist Jul 29 #18
Exactly. H2O Man Jul 29 #19
Maxwell's "character" in the UK was already being assassinated prior to his death... AntiFascist Jul 29 #21
You nailed it! H2O Man Jul 29 #22
Missed this last night malaise Jul 29 #20
Thank you! H2O Man Jul 29 #23
Yes malaise Jul 29 #24
As it now stands, H2O Man Jul 29 #25
And on the other hand, H2O Man Jul 29 #31
Oh, please do. mercuryblues Jul 29 #35
Looks like customers are starting to kick the multigraincracker Jul 29 #26
Yes. H2O Man Jul 29 #27
Maxwell certainly has an in-the-event-of-my-demise insurance list. live love laugh Jul 29 #28
Absolutely. H2O Man Jul 29 #29
Kick SheltieLover Jul 29 #30
In one way, she is worse than Epstein. Kid Berwyn Jul 29 #32
Right! H2O Man Jul 29 #33
Her father was Robert Maxwell. Kid Berwyn Jul 29 #34
I have said for a long time. mercuryblues Jul 29 #36
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