Maxwell - Mossad - Arms Traffickers - Oligarchs - Ostrovsky

http://www.infoukes.com/lists/politics/1999/12/0465.html

Maariv Publisher Nimrodi Accused of Murder - Maxwell -

Mossad - KGB - Gusinsky -Daily Telegraph 27Dec99



http://www.infoukes.com/lists/politics/2001/07/0099.html

Henry Kissinger - Max Network - Robert Maxwell - Marc Rich



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Further to the postings on Robert Maxwell, and Israeli/Jewish

arms/drug dealers/traffickers (Leonid Minin, Yair Klein, Arkadi

Gaydamak, Semion Mogilevich, Vadim Rabinovich, Mike Harari,

Maurice Sarfati, Shaul Eisenberg, Grigori Loutchansky, Pyotr

Aven, Mikhail Friedman, Arnon Michan, Meyer Lansky, Amos

Golan, etc.). some of whom are linked to the Mossad and

weapons looted from Ukraine, Victor Ostrovsky, a former

Mossad agent, has an interesting commentary on Robert

Maxwell in his book "The Other Side of Deception: A

Rogue Agent Exposes The Mossad's Secret Agenda".



Ostrovsky mentions that the Mossad financed the media

mogul's business ventures, provided him with inside information,

and then used Maxwell and his business enterprise to fund

the Mossad's covert operations. Maxwell's funds supplemented

the "Mossad's income from drug trafficking".



Earlier postings mentioned Maxwell's meetings with the KGB

vice chairman Viktor Chebrikov, wrt a money laundering plot to

mask payments for weapons involved in the Iran-Contra Affair.

In his book, Ostrovsky refers to Maxwell's meeting with Vladimir

Kryuchkov, an ex-KGB boss, and his role in the August 1991

coup to oust Gorbachev, as well as the Mossad's support for

the coup. He does not provide many details, and it seems to

me that the topic of Mossad's role in Russian or even Ukrainian

politics is rarely discussed.



In any case, further to reports about the Mossad's ties with

successful international businessmen (eg. Marc Rich, Robert

Maxwell, Shaul Eisenberg, etc.), Ostrovsky's expose raises the

question whether the Mossad has links to the oligarchs in

Ukraine and Russia?



Stefan Lemieszewski



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The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent

Exposes The Mossad's Secret Agenda

By Victor Ostrovsky



Chapter 31



WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1991



Robert Maxwell's contact was not in the best of moods

when he received a call on a special secure line at the

Israeli embassy in Madrid. Maxwell was phoning from

London, saying it was imperative that a meeting be set

up. He was willing to come to Madrid.



The ties between Maxwell and the Mossad went back

a long way. Elements within the Mossad had offered

to finance Maxwell's first big business ventures, and in

later years Maxwell received inside information on global

matters from the Office. Maxwell was originally code-

named "the Little Czech," and the sobriquet stuck. Only

a handful of people in the Israeli intelligence community

knew who the Little Czech was, yet he provided an

unending supply of slush money for the organization

whenever it ran low.



For years, Maxwell would hit financial lows whenever the

Mossad was in the midst of expensive operations that

could not be funded legitimately and when other less

legitimate sources were unavailable, as was the case

after the American invasion of Panama in 1990, which

dried up the Mossad's income from drug trafficking and

forced Maxwell to dig deep into his corporate pockets.



But the Mossad had used its ace in the hole one time

too many. Asking Maxwell to get involved in a matter of

secondary importance (namely, the Vanunu affair) had

been a big mistake, for which the media mogul would be

made to pay the price.



That involvement caused suspicion in the British Parliament

that there was no smoke without fire, particularly after the

publication of a book by an American reporter claiming

Maxwell was a Mossad agent. Maxwell retaliated in a lawsuit,

but the ground was starting to burn under his feet. The

Mossad was late in giving him back his money, and the usual

last-minute rescue of his financial empire was looking less

and less feasible.



For Maxwell, what was already bad was about to get worse.

His call couldn't have been more poorly timed. Israel was

participating in a peace negotiation process that the Mossad

top clique believed would be detrimental to the country's

security. At the same time, news was reaching the Office

of a growing scandal caused by Mossad involvement in

Germany. This scandal was a result of Uri's having made a

call to the Hamburg River Police informing them that a

shipment of arms was about to be loaded onto an Israeli

ship.



The arms consisted of Soviet tanks and antiaircraft

equipment, concealed in large crates marked agricultural

equipment. The shipment had been arranged with the help

of the END, without the knowledge of the German

government or the Ministry of Defense. It was exactly the

same equipment that the Ministry of Defense had refused

to send to Israel in March of the same year, because they

believed the shipment would defy the German law forbidding

the shipment of war materiel to a conflict zone.



The Mossad's right-wing element wasn't sure to what extent

this scandal would grow. They remembered very well the

scandal that had occurred in 1978 when the German police

had allowed Mossad officers posing as German intelligence

officers to interrogate Palestinians in German prisons. If the

German government could contain the situation, things would

be fine. But once the story was in the hands of the media,

there was no telling where it would go.



And then came this call from Maxwell, insisting he must

meet his contact on a matter of great urgency. The mogul

was rebuffed at first, but then he issued a veiled threat: Now

that he was being investigated by Parliament and the British

media, if he wasn't able to straighten out his financial affairs,

he wasn't sure he could keep the Kryuchkov meeting a secret.



What he was referring to (and in doing so, he sealed his fate)

was a meeting that he'd helped arrange between the Mossad

liaison and the former head of the KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov,

who was now jailed in Number Four Remand Center in

Moscow for his role in the Soviet Union's August coup to oust

Mikhail Gorbachev.



At that meeting, which took place on Maxwell's yacht at

anchor in Yugoslav waters, Mossad support for the plot to

oust Gorbachev was discussed. The Mossad promised to

bring about, through its political connections, an early

recognition of the new regime, as well as other logistical

assistance for the coup. In exchange, it requested that all

Soviet Jews be released, or rather expelled, which would

create a massive exodus of people that would be too large

to be absorbed by other countries and would therefore go

to Israel.



Certain right-wingers within the government had believed

this meeting with the coup plotters was a necessity. They

knew that if the Soviet Union were to stop being the enemy,

there'd no longer be a threat from the East, and the strategic

value of Israel to its greatest ally, the United States, would

diminish. Alliances between the United States and the Arab

nations in the region would then be a realistic prospect.



It was Maxwell who'd helped create the ties with the

now-defunct KGB. The right-wingers realized it would be

a devastating blow to Israel's standing in the West if the

world were to learn that the Mossad had participated in

any way, as minute as that participation might be, in the

attempted coup to stop the democratization of the Soviet

Union. It would be perceived as treason against the West.

Maxwell was now using the Mossad's participation as a

threat, however veiled, to force an immediate burst of aid

to his ailing empire. His contact asked him to call back in

a few hours.



A small meeting of right-wingers at Mossad headquarters

resulted in a consensus to terminate Maxwell. At first, the

participants thought it would take several weeks to put

together a plan, but then someone pointed out that the

process could be accelerated if the Little Czech could be

made to travel to a rendezvous where the Mossad would be

waiting to strike.



Maxwell was asked to come to Spain the following day. His

contact promised that things would be worked out and that

there was no need to panic. The mogul was asked to sail

on his yacht to Madeira and wait there for a message.



Maxwell arrived in Gibraltar on October 31, 1991, boarded

his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, and set sail for Madeira, as

instructed. There he waited for directions. Meanwhile, the

Mossad was getting read to strike. On Friday, November 1,

a special Mossad troubleshooting team that was in Spain

to cover the peace talks was dispatched. The team flew to

Morocco, where they were met by a confederate who'd

already taken care of all the necessary equipment and

other arrangements.



At first, Maxwell was told that the meeting would take

place in Madeira and that he'd receive as much money

as he needed to calm the situation. Additional moneys

would be advanced to him later. All this was to be kept

completely quiet, since there was no point in providing

more fodder for his enemies, who would have liked

nothing better than to show his direct connection to the

Mossad.



On November 2, the Mossad learned that Maxwell had

called his son in England and scheduled a meeting with

him on the island. Maxwell was told to cancel the meeting.

He was also told that the meeting with the money people

would now take place on the island of Tenerife.



When he reached Santa Cruz on the island of Tenerife,

he headed for a meeting in the Hotel Mency. As he dined

alone in the hotel restaurant, someone walked over to him

and gave him a message indicating that he should be in

Los Cristos on the other side of the island the next morning.

He was to make his way there in his yacht, sailing around

the island of Grand Canary.



I learned all this in a phone conversation with Ephraim. He

had no idea how the Kidon team had managed to get to

Maxwell at sea while the yacht was cruising at fifteen knots,

but making it look impossible was part of the Kidon magic.

Some time during the night of November 4-5, the Mossad's

problem was laid to rest in the salty waters of the Atlantic.



After an autopsy that raised more questions than it answered,

a second autopsy was held in Israel under the watchful eye

of the security apparatus. Whatever was not detected then

was buried forever on Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, the

resting place for the nation's most revered heroes.



"He had done more for Israel than can today be said,"

Prime Minister Shamir eulogized at Maxwell's burial.



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