Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786712953 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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The world knows only half the story of British media magnate Robert Maxwell's well-publicized career. For in November 1991, as his yacht cruised offshore of the Canary Islands, the life of Robert Maxwell ended—officially, by drowning. The facts that the news media did not then report or know, what truths even the autopsies concealed, are now revealed. He was born poor but thrived on ruthless ambition, devoured his competitors and outsmarted his most formidable peers to build an international empire as a publisher, politician, and industrialist. technology being developed at Los Alamos; cultivated his vast KGB connections and strove to involve Israel in a coup to oust Mikhail Gorbachev; and how Maxwell ultimately became Mossad's target in an elaborately prepared assassination plot. Eight pages of black-and-white illustrations add to this compelling work.. We are shown how Maxwell achieved his topmost objective as a superspy for Israel's Mossad; sold PROMIS—America's state-of-the-art surveillance software stolen by Mossad—to the USSR and many other countries; recruited foremost Rep
8 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. Much of the book has a breathless tone, particularly when the authors describe, in detail, the night of Maxwell's death. Thomas (Gideon's Spies) and Dillon (Shankill Butchers) have little sympathy for Maxwell-they build an unflattering portrait of an overweight and vain man who rose from a pre-WWII Jewish childhood in Czechoslovakia and England to become one of the world's most powerful media barons. The official cause of death was drowning, but this intriguing, if somewhat overreaching, investigative work argues that Maxwell died at the hands of the spy agency he worked for, Israel's Mossad. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly In 1991, British media tycoon Robert Maxwell died in mysterious circumstances off his yacht in the Canary Islands. . They also depict Maxwell's involvement in several other international intrigu
"Super crook." according to LaMonte W Johnson. This is a great book. Unbelievable!. "Spy Thriller" according to Joneve. Through British citizen Robert Maxwell, vain, gross, brilliant and criminal, Thomas and Dillon paint a picture of corruption and decadence in the West, Eastern Europe and the Middle East today. Maxwell's loyalties are to himself and to Israel; Senator John Tower is in his pocket; and so forth. The United States, apart from furnishing the likes of Tower, furnishes the intelligence stolen by Israel and the subsidies that keep that country in business stealing from its patron. Maxwell is a kind of super sayan (singular form of sayanim) and the book to some degree is an expose of. "Excellent Research" according to Oscar L. Vazquez. This is the story of the downfall of Robert Maxwell, a man who had almost everything that a simple mortal could dream with, a family, a billionary business, fame, important business and political contacts but with a huge megalomaniac complex that pushed him to play several dangerous games with the espionage of Israel, the industrial espionage and the underworld factions of the East mafias but his biggest mistake was when he try to play the blackmail game which put in jeopardy the security of the state of Israel and the Mossad agent around the world forcing then to "eliminate"