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Ghislaine Maxwell is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, who was a suspected Mossad spy. Per Wikipedia: > The Foreign Office suspected that Maxwell was a secret ag

Ghislaine Maxwell is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, who was a suspected Mossad spy. Per Wikipedia: > The Foreign Office suspected that Maxwell was a secret agent of a foreign government, possibly a double agent or a triple agent, and "a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia". He had known links to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to the Soviet KGB, and to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.[52] Six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended Maxwell's funeral in Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogised him and stated: "He has done more for Israel than can today be told."[53] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell

thefounder 4y ago
Ok but how does that make his doughter a super spy?
- voltaireodactyl 4y ago
  Espionage, like all significant industries, relies heavily on one’s personal contacts. In the spy game, reputation and trust are much harder to build, given the necessary lack of transparency on all sides. For this reason, espionage has often been something of a family business — the children meet the contacts of the parent, and thereby essentially inherit the store.
  - thefounder 4y ago
    But can the doughter be a good spy if it's well known her father was a spy and most likely she is a spy as well? I mean her cover is blown.
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    - morelisp 4y ago
      There's probably a good ("good") argument to be made that you shouldn't get your underage prostitutes via a famous spook's daughter, but those are not the contentious parts of the story; they're the facts. You should instead be thinking: She's purveying wildly illegal services for rich and high-profile people, and her father worked for an intelligence agency. In the unlikely event the IC wasn't involved in the beginning, why would they not approach her post-hoc? You don't need "cover" to be a good spy. You just need information and contacts. Cover is a tool to get those, because most people aren't as dumb as Bill Gates.
- gadders 4y ago
  Nepo baby.

thefounder 4y ago

Ok but how does that make his doughter a super spy?

voltaireodactyl 4y ago
Espionage, like all significant industries, relies heavily on one’s personal contacts. In the spy game, reputation and trust are much harder to build, given the necessary lack of transparency on all sides. For this reason, espionage has often been something of a family business — the children meet the contacts of the parent, and thereby essentially inherit the store.
- thefounder 4y ago
  But can the doughter be a good spy if it's well known her father was a spy and most likely she is a spy as well? I mean her cover is blown.
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  - morelisp 4y ago
    There's probably a good ("good") argument to be made that you shouldn't get your underage prostitutes via a famous spook's daughter, but those are not the contentious parts of the story; they're the facts. You should instead be thinking: She's purveying wildly illegal services for rich and high-profile people, and her father worked for an intelligence agency. In the unlikely event the IC wasn't involved in the beginning, why would they not approach her post-hoc? You don't need "cover" to be a good spy. You just need information and contacts. Cover is a tool to get those, because most people aren't as dumb as Bill Gates.
gadders 4y ago
Nepo baby.