Event
The claim that Robert Maxwell collaborated with the Mossad
A claim in Seymour Hersh’s 1991 book The Samson Option, sourced chiefly to Ari Ben-Menashe, that Robert Maxwell was a willing collaborator of the Mossad; Maxwell sued over it.
- Dates
- 1991
A claim in Seymour Hersh’s 1991 book The Samson Option, sourced chiefly to Ari Ben-Menashe, that Robert Maxwell was a willing collaborator of the Mossad; Maxwell sued over it.
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a tale about
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Robert Maxwell
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Maxwell sued over the claim and died in 1991. This story read no government or court record about it, and did not read how the suits ended.
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A tale told, not a fact on the record.
Timeline 1 date
- 1991 The claim that Robert Maxwell collaborated with the Mossad
Proof 2 sources
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One Man, Many Tales, Newsweek, 4 Nov 1991.
Scholarship & press
media magnate Robert Maxwell, the Mirror's owner, was a willing collaborator of the Mossad.
Maxwell sued, Davies sued, and Hersh's publisher in Great Britain, Faber & Faber, sued back.
Ben-Menashe, a former translator for the Israeli government who now lives in Australia, was Hersh's primary source for the allegations against Davies and Maxwell.
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Do the Epstein files show he was working for Russia or another intelligence agency?, Euronews, 3 Mar 2026.
Scholarship & press
whose father, Robert Maxwell, has been allegedly tied to Israeli intelligence.
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- Tell the Epstein record in four storiesde7c5f7a
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