Robert Maxwell
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Robert Maxwell was a British media proprietor and the father of Ghislaine Maxwell. John Kiriakou's position is stated flatly: "Ghislaine Maxwell's father was a prolific Mossad spy. That's a historic fact." Across retellings his term for Maxwell varies, spy, "a known Mossad agent," "a very well-known Mossad asset", but the claim of a long relationship with the Israeli service does not.

"Kept it all in the family"

Kiriakou cites Maxwell's MOSSAD connections as the probable origin of Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Israeli intelligence: "It stands to reason that she would have introduced him to the Mossad or even her father would have introduced Epstein to Mossad."

The reasoning runs through what Kiriakou takes Epstein to have been. A service that wants information from figures it can never recruit directly recruits instead someone with access to all of them, and Epstein, in his assessment, "bore all the hallmarks of an Israeli access operation." It was the daughter's role that closed the circuit: "his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father was also a Mossad agent, a known Mossad agent, leads me to believe that they kept it all in the family." Epstein's access improved as his wealth grew, and Kiriakou notes that the source of that wealth remains unclear, it could not all have come from Les Wexner.

Asked in 2019 to weigh the same connection, Kiriakou's answer was that "there's so much smoke here that there has to be some fire." By 2025 he was putting it as settled background, "we know all about Ghislaine Maxwell's father, having had this long relationship with Mossad."

The Kennedy flight log

Kiriakou uses the family's social reach to explain one name in the Epstein flight logs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he says, appears on at least one released log and has dealt with it head-on: Kennedy's wife at the time was a friend of Ghislaine Maxwell, mentioned that the family was flying to Palm Beach for Easter, and was offered a lift, so the whole Kennedy family flew down on Epstein's aircraft. Kiriakou calls the episode innocent, and offers it as a measure of the reach the operation had.

See also

- Ghislaine Maxwell
- Jeffrey Epstein
- MOSSAD
- Access agent
