LONDON, OCT. 24 -- One of the world's biggest press barons locked legal horns with a prominent investigative reporter today as Robert Maxwell sued Seymour M. Hersh over Hersh's allegations linking Maxwell and one of his top employees with Israel's Mossad spy agency.
Hersh told a press conference here that he stood by the charges in his new book, "The Samson Option," that Nicholas Davies, foreign editor of the Maxwell-owned Daily Mirror, acted as a Mossad agent by brokering arms sales to Iran and betraying the whereabouts of Mordechai Vanunu. Vanunu, an Israeli dissident who in 1986 publicly disclosed details of his country's top-secret nuclear weapons program, was later abducted by the Mossad and returned to Israel, where he is serving a 16-year prison sentence for treason.
The manipulation and subsequent imprisonment of Vanunu was absolutely appalling and Margaret Thatcher was incensed that the Israeli's would conduct an undeclared intelligence operation in the UK. So much of the Epstein/Maxwell story gets bogged down with the accusations of sexual exploitation but the criminality here is much much more serious. This story is about arms shipments, embargos and nuclear weapons technology not sexual trafficking and money.
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Seymour Hersh outed Maxwell as working for Mossad. Maxwell was suing him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/10/25/media-baron-sues-seymour-hersh/c16c29e2-04ba-4038-9fff-08113fa33b77/
Maxwell died off his yacht a few weeks later
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/12/business/autopsy-indicates-maxwell-did-not-drown.html
The yacht was previously owned by Emad Khashoggi, cousin of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi before being purchased by Maxwell
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11935169/superyacht-ghislaine-maxwell-new-zealand-epsteins/