In 1988, Robert Maxwell acquired Macmillan Publishers for approximately $2.6 billion as part of an aggressive media empire expansion strategy. The acquisition, driven by his rivalry with Rupert Murdoch, was financed through a $3 billion loan and represented a key moment in Maxwell’s …
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Robert Maxwell begins systematic distribution of the weaponized PROMIS software with intelligence backdoors to foreign governments including the Soviet KGB and Chinese Military Intelligence (PLA-2). According to multiple sources, Maxwell sold China a copy of PROMIS for $9 million in 1985, revealing …
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Robert Maxwell acquires Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) from Reed International for £113 million in July 1984, gaining control of six British newspapers including the Daily Mirror. This strategic acquisition significantly expanded Maxwell’s media influence in Britain and triggered an intense …
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After losing his Parliamentary seat in 1970, Robert Maxwell focuses intensively on expanding his business connections with Eastern Bloc countries, becoming heavily involved in publishing scientific literature and biographies of communist leaders throughout the 1970s. Through his Pergamon Press, …
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British media mogul and Labour MP Robert Maxwell secretly travels to Moscow to meet KGB head Yuri Andropov in 1968. This meeting occurs during Soviet planning for the invasion of Czechoslovakia, with Andropov as the main advocate for ’extreme measures’ against Prague Spring reforms. …
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