2013 Report: Academics repeatedly warned FBI that Robert Maxwell may be working for the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s 2013 Report: Academics repeatedly warned FBI that Robert Maxwell may be working for the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s Here's a twist, and with all the talk of Russia Russia Russia running on 3 years now, I had not heard talk about Maxwell and Russia. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304361/Was-Robert-Maxwell-Soviet-spy-FBI-files-reveal-US-fears-reveal-media-mogul-working-Russia.html http://archive.is/iXNg6  They closed the case in April 1957 but still faced further claims from scientists that he was working as a spy. Details of the investigation were revealed in heavily-redacted FBI files which have recently been published online. In 1958, Senator Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of the two future US presidents, forwarded a letter from Yale University which raised further questions about Maxwell. It said there were concerns he 'may be engaged in a large scale effort to transmit scientific information to the Russians.' Then this from 1992: BRITISH PAPER SAYS MAXWELL WAS USSR AGENT A British newspaper said Sunday that media tycoon Robert Maxwell was a high-level agent for the Soviet leadership. The Sunday Express said a secret document signed by the head of the KGB, only months before Maxwell's mysterious death at sea last year, showed he was a political and intelligence asset for the Politburo that ruled the now-defunct Soviet Union.Since Maxwell died last November going overboard from his luxury yacht, investigators have tried to trace hundreds of millions of dollars skimmed from the pension funds of his publishing companies. The Sunday Express said the document showed the Soviet leadership had instructed the KGB security police and intelligence organization to protect Maxwell's personal reputation and his business activities. "It is strictly forbidden to highlight the KGB's view of any activities pursued by Robert Maxwell," said the document circulated within the KGB and the Soviet Communist Party. It gets more interesting with this 2017 RT headline: Media mogul asked Thatcher for $20bn to save Soviet Union A Labour MP and media mogul, the late Robert Maxwell, attempted to secure a $20 billion loan from the British government to prop up the collapsing USSR, documents show.  A letter released by prime minister of the day Margaret Thatcher’s private secretary, Charles Powell, revealed that Maxwell claimed to be acting on behalf of Mikhail Gorbachev’s closest advisers when he visited the ‘Iron Lady’ at 10 Downing Street in March 1990. In that meeting, the owner of Daily Mirror allegedly asked Thatcher to provide a massive state loan to the Soviet government to ensure that perestroika reforms would continue. “It was quite clear that perestroika was in far worse trouble than even we had imagined,” Powell’s letter read. “The most urgent need was for short and medium-term credit of up to US $20 billion for the purchase of food, consumer goods, equipment and supplies. “Without this, there was no way that Mr. Gorbachev could get through.” In return, Maxwell said, the USSR was willing to supply coal, chemicals and fertilizers as well as the wide-bodied jets to the UK. Maxwell also discussed the sale of the Soviet civilian aircraft with Lord King of Wartnaby, the head of British Airways and a Tory peer. Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley, however, rejected the offer, as revealed by his personal secretary Martin Stanley. ...Robert Maxwell, who was born in Czechoslovakia and fought in the British Army during the Second World War, was linked to both the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence. Read more MI5 spied on suspected communists & anti-colonial leaders, secret files reveal  The new revelations of his meeting with Thatcher may further fuel allegations that the British media tycoon acted as an emissary of the Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB, to the British government. FBI documents released in 2013 show that his global media empire was under investigation during the Cold War for alleged ties with Soviet spies. The FCO published its investigation into Maxwell’s Pergamon Press 2003, stating that there was no evidence of him acting as an agent for the USSR.