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Tories blocked Maxwell inquiry
BBC News
Maxwell stole an estimated £400m from the Mirror Group pension fund
An official inquiry into the death of Robert Maxwell was secretly blocked by ministers in John Major's Conservative government, records reveal. Malcolm Rifkind, then transport secretary, ordered that no investigation be held in Britain.
Mr Maxwell had looted an estimated £400m from the Mirror Group pension fund and was crippled by debt.
The political manoeuvring was revealed in records released to the National Archives at Kew, London.
Files show that there were fears among officials that an inquiry in Britain would spark a media frenzy.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3681364.stm Happy "50th" Birthday Cherie Blair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great day to release this archived material.
The real reason Major's government blocked the enquiry was to continue the massive deception of Margaret Thatcher's collusion with George Herbert Bush (as Vice President 1980-88):
Not just Spanish:"ROBERT MAXWELL WAS A MOSSAD SPY"
Dec 2 2002
New claim on tycoon's mystery death
By Gordon Thomas And Martin Dillon
The Mirror
"But now, after two and a half years of investigative journalism, we believe we have unearthed the true story of Maxwell's death and can reveal how he was murdered by the Israeli secret service, Mossad.
Our work, supported by documents, including FBI reports and secret intelligence files from behind the Iron Curtain, shows Maxwell had worked as a secret super spy for Mossad for six years.
The Czech-born millionaire and former Labour MP died the way he had lived - threatening. He had threatened his wife. Threatened his children. Threatened the staff of this newspaper.But finally he issued one threat too many - he threatened Mossad. He told them that unless they gave him £400million to save his crumbling empire, he would expose all he had done for them."...............
In that time, he had free access to Margaret Thatcher's Downing Street, to Ronald Reagan's White House, to the Kremlin and to the corridors of power throughout Europe.
On top of that he had built himself a position of power within the crime families of eastern Europe, teaching them how to funnel their vast wealth from drugs, arms smuggling and prostitution to banks in safe havens around the globe.
MAXWELL passed on all the secrets he learned to Mossad in Tel Aviv. In turn, they tolerated his excesses, vanities and insatiable appetite for a luxurious lifestyle and women.He told his controllers who they should target and how they should do it. He appointed himself as Israel's unofficial ambassador to the Soviet Bloc. Mossad saw the advantage in that.Having learned many of the key secrets of the Soviet empire, Maxwell was given his greatest chance to be a super spy.Mossad had stolen from America the most important piece of software in the US arsenal. Maxwell was given the job of marketing the stolen software, called Promis.Mossad had reconstructed the software and inserted into it a device which enabled them to track the use any purchaser made of the it.Sitting in Israel, Mossad would know exactly what was going on inside all the intelligence services that bought it. In all, Maxwell sold it to 42 countries, including China and Soviet Bloc nations. But his greatest triumph was selling it to Los Alamos, the very heart of the US nuclear defence system.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12419168&method=full&siteid=50143There are UK government papers relating to Robert Maxwell and
Richard McGarrach Helms and their involvement in BCCI (the London class action is currently sitting in the Royal Courts of Justice where the Bank of England is being sued for misfeasance for £1billion). Some of these were finally subpoenaed late last year from MI5 and MI6 by the plaintiffs and are to be heard in evidence, re money laundering connected to Bush 1 when VP. Helms was director and minority shareholder of BCCI Holdings in the Antilles in the early 1980s.
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