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The Steele dossier is a collection of unverified intelligence memos compiled in 2016 by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele while working for Orbis Business Intelligence; it contain...
Ian Robert Maxwell was a Czechoslovak‑born British media baron, war veteran and politician whose commercial empire collapsed amid posthumous revelations of massive fraud and whose life spawned persist...
Robert Maxwell has long been portrayed in reporting and books as having "known links" or suspected contacts with MI6, the Soviet KGB and Israel’s Mossad; contemporary press and intelligence-files repo...
Robert Maxwell is widely alleged to have had , but available accounts are contested and uneven in documentary support; sensational biographies assert explicit ties while mainstream profiles stop short...
Robert Maxwell is widely alleged to have had ties to Israeli intelligence, particularly the Mossad, but the . Major allegations include Maxwell acting as a Mossad asset who facilitated transfer of int...
Ghislaine Maxwell’s alleged links to Israeli intelligence rest chiefly on her father Robert Maxwell’s reputed ties to Mossad and on later, disputed claims tying Jeffrey Epstein — and by extension asso...
The available reporting shows Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid the law firm Perkins Coie, which in turn hired Fusion GPS, and Fusion GPS later contracted Chri...
Multiple books and journalists have alleged Robert Maxwell had ties to Mossad and that those ties help explain theories he was killed rather than having died accidentally; the most detailed claims app...
Multiple contemporary accounts and retrospectives report longstanding allegations that Robert Maxwell had ties to Israeli intelligence (Mossad) alongside claims of links to MI6 and the KGB, but the so...
Robert Maxwell died on 5 November 1991 after falling from his yacht off the Canary Islands; Spanish police at the time said no foul play was suspected and the official immediate finding was drowning ....
Robert Maxwell is widely alleged to have had ties to Israeli intelligence, chiefly Mossad, alongside reported contacts with MI6 and the KGB; multiple journalistic accounts and retrospective profiles r...
Ben Macintyre’s bestselling book The Spy and the Traitor recounts the career of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB colonel who spied for MI6 and—according to Macintyre’s reporting and multiple reviews—provided “t...
Robert Maxwell’s documented links to MI6, the KGB and Israel’s Mossad helped turn his November 1991 death—found floating off his yacht in the Canary Islands and officially ruled an accidental drowning...
Intelligence agencies have long recruited wealthy or well-connected civilians both overtly and covertly: historical pipelines include post‑war OSS/CIA ties to universities and elites, embassy/diplomat...
Robert Maxwell has been widely alleged to have spied for Israel’s Mossad, with several investigative books and journalists arguing he helped distribute a backdoored version of PROMIS software and perf...
The Steele dossier is a 35‑page set of reports compiled in 2016 by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, containing unverified allegations of links between Donald Trump’s campaign an...
There is no verified evidence that " information to "; reporting documents instances where Trump disclosed or declassified sensitive material and where a former British intelligence officer says his s...
Before September 11, 2001, U.S. and allied intelligence services possessed multiple pieces of intelligence that touched on al‑Qaeda operatives who would become hijackers — including intercepts and lis...
The man born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch did serve in wartime roles and later adopted Ian/Robert Maxwell after a series of name changes; contemporary reporting and later biographies tie those name ...
The Steele dossier was a series of raw-intelligence memoranda — 16–17 reports totaling about 35 pages — compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele for Fusion GPS between June and December 2016;...