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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 03:18 AM Jul 2025

BBC Documentary: The House of Maxwell - One family, 50 years of scandal...

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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