Notes on Robert Maxwell

Born Lev Hoch in the Maramures in Carpatho-Ruthenia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Joined the French resistance and was arrested by the Nazis as a spy.
Managed to evade the law by beating his Nazi guard to death and then fleeing to Istanbul.
Joined the French Foreign legion and made his way to England as France surrendered to her German masters.
Was interred in a POW camp where he became close fiend and associate of Communist Vladimir Clementis.
Was able to join the British Army as a ditch digger.
Managed to be come major war hero and was commissioned as an officer.
Sent to Military intelligence he excelled and was able to start his publishing empire.
It is unclear exactly when he became an Zionist/Israeli spy.
But by 1947 he felt called by his Zionist leanings to betray his adopted country by selling out to the Socialists and to the Communists.
Died as his publishing empire crumbled. May have been murdered but there are too many people who want him dead to be sure who was most likely. Was given a State Funeral in Jeusalem and is buried in a sacred spot next to the Temple Mount. .
Loftus & Aarons. Secret War page 197 - 218.

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J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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