Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy : The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul - Hardcover

Thomas, Gordon; Dillon, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786710780 ISBN 13: 9780786710782

Publisher: Da Capo Pr, 2002

Synopsis

Identifies the publishing tycoon's work as a spy for the Israeli Mossad, citing his theft of the United States's most sophisticated intelligence-gathering software and the illicit dealings that eventually resulted in his demise.

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"An impeccable job ... fascinating ... takes the reader deep into the intricate and dangerous world of international espionage."

Synopsis:

Robert Maxwellruthless, volatile, defiant; a man of gargantuan appetites, for food, wine, women, power, moneyunabashedly 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, anduntil nowaltogether 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 profitsas well as $750 million from his employees' pension fundin 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786710780
• ISBN 13: 9780786710782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448