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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Und Maxwell ist so, warte einen Moment. Gratis? The most like important valuable resource in the world. People aren't even really charging for it. I got a motherfucking idea. And yeah, part of his idea is that Springer can't do anything with all these papers because German nationals are not allowed to ship things overseas right now.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Like there's a limited quantity that you can mail outside of Germany as a German for obvious reasons. But Robert Maxwell can mail whatever the fuck he wants. Wow. Wow. All of German science, right? As long as he can find a way to move it. Now, Maxwell is comfortable at this point, but he's not rich. And 63,000 books worth of stuff, you have to be rich to ship that somewhere.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Like there's a limited quantity that you can mail outside of Germany as a German for obvious reasons. But Robert Maxwell can mail whatever the fuck he wants. Wow. Wow. All of German science, right? As long as he can find a way to move it. Now, Maxwell is comfortable at this point, but he's not rich. And 63,000 books worth of stuff, you have to be rich to ship that somewhere.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Like there's a limited quantity that you can mail outside of Germany as a German for obvious reasons. But Robert Maxwell can mail whatever the fuck he wants. Wow. Wow. All of German science, right? As long as he can find a way to move it. Now, Maxwell is comfortable at this point, but he's not rich. And 63,000 books worth of stuff, you have to be rich to ship that somewhere.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

We don't actually know how he pays for this. Because it's expensive, he has no real customers initially. For years, he'll have kind of claimed that like, oh, my wife's family has some money, so I use my savings and theirs, and that funded this. But his family is like, no, we didn't really give him, we didn't like him.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

We don't actually know how he pays for this. Because it's expensive, he has no real customers initially. For years, he'll have kind of claimed that like, oh, my wife's family has some money, so I use my savings and theirs, and that funded this. But his family is like, no, we didn't really give him, we didn't like him.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

We don't actually know how he pays for this. Because it's expensive, he has no real customers initially. For years, he'll have kind of claimed that like, oh, my wife's family has some money, so I use my savings and theirs, and that funded this. But his family is like, no, we didn't really give him, we didn't like him.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Like, we didn't give him anything, because his wife comes from like kind of a bougie family, and they do know that Maxwell's like a poor Jewish kid from nowhere. They don't care that he's like a war hero now. So...

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Like, we didn't give him anything, because his wife comes from like kind of a bougie family, and they do know that Maxwell's like a poor Jewish kid from nowhere. They don't care that he's like a war hero now. So...

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Like, we didn't give him anything, because his wife comes from like kind of a bougie family, and they do know that Maxwell's like a poor Jewish kid from nowhere. They don't care that he's like a war hero now. So...

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

We find out years later, we don't learn this until after Maxwell dies in the year 2000, a former MI6 officer claims that British intelligence, literally the James Bond agency, funds Maxwell's startup because he had been working undercover for them and they considered it a potentially valuable venture. MI6 is intelligently like, probably good to have a hand in all of scientific publishing.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

We find out years later, we don't learn this until after Maxwell dies in the year 2000, a former MI6 officer claims that British intelligence, literally the James Bond agency, funds Maxwell's startup because he had been working undercover for them and they considered it a potentially valuable venture. MI6 is intelligently like, probably good to have a hand in all of scientific publishing.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

We find out years later, we don't learn this until after Maxwell dies in the year 2000, a former MI6 officer claims that British intelligence, literally the James Bond agency, funds Maxwell's startup because he had been working undercover for them and they considered it a potentially valuable venture. MI6 is intelligently like, probably good to have a hand in all of scientific publishing.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

That might work out for us actually. Here's some money. And the MI6 officer who reveals this says it's the only time MI6 ever completely funded a startup. Maybe that's true, maybe that's not. I don't credit a literal MI6 officer with necessarily being honest about everything.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

That might work out for us actually. Here's some money. And the MI6 officer who reveals this says it's the only time MI6 ever completely funded a startup. Maybe that's true, maybe that's not. I don't credit a literal MI6 officer with necessarily being honest about everything.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

That might work out for us actually. Here's some money. And the MI6 officer who reveals this says it's the only time MI6 ever completely funded a startup. Maybe that's true, maybe that's not. I don't credit a literal MI6 officer with necessarily being honest about everything.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Right, right, right. Yeah, there's gotta be a couple of those, right? Q's gotta have some companies he's working with. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Right, right, right. Yeah, there's gotta be a couple of those, right? Q's gotta have some companies he's working with. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Right, right, right. Yeah, there's gotta be a couple of those, right? Q's gotta have some companies he's working with. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

So, as noted earlier, Maxwell starts shipping this stuff to the UK and while he's doing this, his plan right now, his business is just, I want to get this over to the UK and I'll figure out a way to make it work financially because there's obviously a hunger for this material.