# Robert Maxwell > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "Robert Maxwell," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/robert-maxwell/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *British media proprietor and father of Ghislaine Maxwell; described by John Kiriakou as "a prolific Mossad spy — that's a historic fact," and as the family channel through which the Epstein operation, in Kiriakou's phrase, was "kept all in the family."* - **Nationality:** British - **Kiriakou attribution:** Prolific Mossad spy - **Daughter:** [Ghislaine Maxwell](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/ghislaine-maxwell) **Robert Maxwell** was a British media proprietor and the father of [Ghislaine Maxwell](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/ghislaine-maxwell). [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)'s position is stated flatly: *"Ghislaine Maxwell's father was a prolific Mossad spy. That's a historic fact."*[1] 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.[2][3][4] ## "Kept it all in the family" Kiriakou cites Maxwell's [MOSSAD](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/mossad) connections as the probable origin of [Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/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."*[1] 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](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/access-agent)."* 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."*[5][2] 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.[2] 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."*[6] By 2025 he was putting it as settled background — *"we know all about Ghislaine Maxwell's father, having had this long relationship with Mossad."*[4] ## The Kennedy flight log Kiriakou uses the family's social reach to explain one name in the Epstein flight logs. [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/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.[7][3] ## See also - [Ghislaine Maxwell](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/ghislaine-maxwell) - [Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/jeffrey-epstein) - [MOSSAD](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/mossad) - [Access agent](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/access-agent) ## Sources 1. CIA Whistleblower: 'I Told The World The CIA Was Torturing People' How To Control Anyone In Minutes! (2026-05-05), at 53:22. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp5ear1WulM&t=3202s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-05-05-morgan-nelson-cia-whistleblower/ 2. CIA Spy on 9/11, Enhanced Interrogation, AI, Jeffrey Epstein | John Kiriakou | Part 2 (2023-11-19), at 2:48:16. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynMg7-QfL10&t=10096s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2023-11-19-dalton-fischer-kiriakou-part-2/ 3. CIA Spy Breaks Down What's REALLY Happening in Israel (2023-12-11), at 2:57:14. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw_RQc2tpvY&t=10634s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2023-12-11-danny-jones-whats-really-happening-in-israel/ 4. Epstein Cover-Up, Ghislaine Maxwell & Israel's Role w/ CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou | PBD Podcast (2025-07-09), at 1:02:00. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsnKclNopDU&t=3720s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-07-09-pbd-podcast-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-israel/ 5. CIA Spy on 9/11, Enhanced Interrogation, AI, Jeffrey Epstein | John Kiriakou | Part 2 (2023-11-19), at 2:47:45. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynMg7-QfL10&t=10065s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2023-11-19-dalton-fischer-kiriakou-part-2/ 6. Graham Elwood (2019-09-05), at 14:10. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Jx9h97-ig&t=850s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2019-09-05-graham-elwood-graham-elwood/ 7. CIA Spy Breaks Down What's REALLY Happening in Israel (2023-12-11), at 2:56:42. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw_RQc2tpvY&t=10602s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2023-12-11-danny-jones-whats-really-happening-in-israel/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/robert-maxwell/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt