Darryl Cooper
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Aug
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And he gets involved in
you know some dirty work i mean he was involved in uh interrogating captured ss soldiers for example which i imagine those were not always pleasant experiences um actually later on in life this didn't come out until quite a bit later when he's an older guy like soon before his death he was actually fingered an investigation for murdering a bunch of german unarmed german civilians while he was there it never went to the point of uh you know having to be proven in court or anything so it was just something that was out there but he was was named in the investigation
And so he's working for British intelligence for a while there in Berlin, which is a pretty hot assignment, obviously, especially as the Iron Curtain is starting to come down.
And when the war ends, he goes back to Britain.
He's changed his name to Robert Maxwell by this point, gets British citizenship.
And one of the first things we have him doing in the late 1940s after the war when he gets back to Britain is,
is you have this guy who, again, is from the other side of the line.
He's got connections with people across Europe.
He's involved with British intelligence.
And he hooks up with the British Zionist movement and, in contravention of British law at the time, is helping to smuggle weapons, specifically aircraft parts were kind of his main bag, through Czechoslovakia down to the Zionist movement in Israel to fight the Arabs.
And again, this is still, I think he's probably 25 or something like that at this point, maybe 27, 28, young guy.
And not
Well,
yeah.
just saying.
There is that, yeah.
You know, that whole thing is a little bit of a tangent, but I mean, all that stuff is so interesting because when you think about something like that, right, like...
If you have a situation like the Zionists in Palestine in the late 1940s who were facing down the possibility of war with several countries around them and you're just a movement that kind of just drove the British out of the country and now you've got to figure out how to hold on to it.
And the British were the main people who have any foreign presence, you know, European foreign presence in the region of a weapons embargo against you.
You need to get weapons and supplies.
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