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Janet Atlantis: A Portrait of Ghislaine Maxwell
By Jason Jorjani | July 30, 2025
She was the founder and president of a project to build an extraterritorial state in the world's oceans, having been an aspiring marine biologist in her youth. A deep-sea diver, submarine captain, helicopter pilot, and robot operator, who studied French Literature and Business as a graduate of Oxford University. She was fluent in four languages, including those of the three countries of which she was a citizen: France, where she was born, Britain, where she grew up, and the United States of America – where she chose to settle and live most of her fascinating and tumultuous life. Her time in America was mostly spent at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, where she was invited to speak at the United Nations no less than nine times.
In any case, having been the subject of defamation in the "fake news" mainstream media myself, and at that as part of an intelligence operation, I can say that I have never seen a worse case of defamation by omission than that of Ghislaine Maxwell. As per Friedrich Nietzsche, what I am saying here lies beyond the scope of any moral judgments about "good" and "evil." It is not my concern to argue that Ghislaine Maxwell is a "good" person – not at all. Only that she is an interesting and impressive person. Her fascinating aims, ambitions, and concerns in life have been hidden because they involve truths that would unravel our world. Let's pull on those red threads.
Successor of a Super-Spy
The facts of Robert Maxwell's career as a businessman, media mogul, and politician are widely available, so I see no reason to rehash them here. What is of more interest in understanding what it would have been like to have this man as one’s father – especially if one is the youngest of nine siblings, and is "daddy's favorite girl," after whom he eventually names his yacht – is the extensive intelligence involvements of the man who would become 'Robert Maxwell.' He was born in 1923 as Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch, in what was then Slatinské Doly, Czechoslovakia and has since become Solotvyno, Ukraine. He was an Ashkenazi Jew from a Yiddish-speaking family who had long lived in the Carpathian Mountains (made famous by Dracula). His father – Ghislaine's grandfather – was a poor livestock trader and part-time Torah teacher. By the time he married Elisabeth (Betty) Jeanne Meynard, a French Christian woman who had studied at the Sorbonne and later earned a PhD from Oxford, Hoch had adopted the alias “Ivan du Maurier.” First, having escaped the Nazis in his native Eastern Europe, he joined the French Resistance as a fighter. During this time, he was recruited by British Intelligence. By the time he entered the British military, settled in the United Kingdom, and changed his name again to the entirely fabricated "Robert Maxwell," Binyamin Hoch was already a high-level operative of MI6.
What MI6 did not know was that, somewhere along the way, Hoch was also recruited by the KGB and was conducting espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union. Maxwell's work as a double agent for both MI6 and the KGB at the height of the Cold War made him very useful when, sometime in the late 1970s, he was also recruited by the Mossad.
The reason why Maxwell's media empire was found to be bankrupt after his death in November of 1991, is that his businesses had been artificially sustained by funds from the State of Israel which were cut off between 1989 and 1990 because the Cold War had ended and Maxwell's position as a triple agent with connections to both sides of the Iron Curtain was no longer valuable to the Mossad. Robert Maxwell was murdered in the middle of the night by a submarine-based Israeli covert ops team that surfaced near the Lady Ghislaine – the yacht named after his youngest daughter – because he had been threatening to use his newspapers to expose state secrets of Israel unless Mossad continued to pay him so that he could keep his businesses solvent.
In this light, the state funeral that Israel held for Maxwell, at which he was eulogized for "having done more for Israel than will ever be known," is particularly macabre and sinister. I can only imagine what Ghislaine must have felt attending that. Her tortured expression in the videos and photos of the event, when taken together with things she later told her confidants about her father's death, suggest that she knew from the outset who had murdered him and why. Allegedly, the order was given by Ehud Barak – who would go on to become the Prime Minister of Israel.
Ghislaine would have known because she was the only one of Robert's children who had been entrusted with all of the information about the various secret projects that he was involved with, including where he had stashed a part of his fortune that would survive the prosecution of her brothers, Kevin and Ian Maxwell, for pension fund plundering that they supposedly helped their father to commit (once his businesses began to fail). That money was vouchsafed to Jeffrey Epstein. But we'll come back to that.
For now, what is relevant about Epstein in relation to Ghislaine's father is that it was Robert Maxwell who flew Jeffrey Epstein to Israel with him, several times, in the mid-1980s, and secured a position for Epstein with the Mossad – particularly in arms-trafficking operations, including those that wound up being outed in the Iran Contra scandal. Prior to that Epstein had only been working for the CIA, having been recruited by Donald Barr in the 1970s, during his time as a teacher at the Dalton School. So, Maxwell, who was a triple agent, turned Epstein into a double agent. Ghislaine was not given an official position in the Maxwell business empire precisely to protect her from prosecution because she was the only one of Robert's children who had been given the big picture and was read into all the major projects.
The most important of those projects involved control of the establishment scientific discourse and constraining the scope of public sphere technological development in the late 20th century. Robert Maxwell turned Pergamon Press into one of the key instruments of his rise as a transnational information baron – and a tool of covert geopolitical influence. Pergamon was not simply a publishing company. In Maxwell's hands, it became a knowledge syndicate, an intelligence operation, and a node in an emerging postwar technocratic order. Maxwell founded Pergamon Press after he took over the Butterworth-Springer scientific publishing business in the wake of World War II. Originally based in Oxford, it focused on the publication of scientific and technical journals – an area deliberately chosen by Maxwell because of its immense strategic value. This was not leisure reading material. It was cutting-edge research in nuclear physics, aerospace, information systems, and industrial chemistry.
By controlling most scientific journal publications through the acquisition and establishment of these journals by Pergamon/Springer, Maxwell was able to get a look at all the latest scientific discoveries and breakthrough technological developments. Then, as a gatekeeper, he selectively suppressed or sequestered from the public sphere of establishment techno-scientific R&D any revolutionary and destabilizing information – including defense-related research with military applications. Maxwell almost singlehandedly set up the "peer review" protocols of scientific journal publication to facilitate this marginalization of certain scientific discoveries and inventions to the fringe of established domains of knowledge. Whether these same techno-scientific discoveries and inventions were being developed secretly by associates of his remains an open question, but we will see that some of Epstein’s activities suggest that this may in fact have been the case.
Pergamon Press also functioned as an intelligence front that cultivated scientific contacts across the Iron Curtain and played a key role in facilitating communication between Soviet and Western scientists. This gave Maxwell extraordinary access to individuals, institutions, and discoveries that were otherwise sealed off by national security regimes. This access was reciprocated – and possibly directed – by Maxwell's handlers in MI6, KGB, and the Mossad, with whom he maintained labyrinthine relationships. He used Pergamon to develop a network of collaborators, informants, and influence agents embedded in universities, defense contractors, and research institutions. It allowed him to play both sides of the Cold War divide – supplying intelligence and disinformation in a double or triple game. His role in securing scientific papers for publication sometimes veiled the laundering of sensitive research or the recruitment of operatives under the guise of editorial collaboration.
That Maxwell named the press "Pergamon" is telling. Pergamon, the ancient Greek city in Asia Minor, was the site of a vast library that rivaled Alexandria in the ancient world. It was also, not coincidentally, the location of the so-called "Throne of Satan" mentioned in the Book of Revelation – later excavated by German archeologists and brought to Berlin, where it was revered by the Nazis for its putatively occult power. The mythico-political resonance of this name cannot be ignored. Maxwell saw himself as a kind of Promethean or Mercurial intermediary – a trickster thief and merchant of arcane knowledge, and a hermetic manipulator of cultural destinies who was playing with fire. Through Pergamon, he aspired not merely to publish scientific knowledge, but to monopolize, redirect, and weaponize it.
Names were very significant to this man who adopted numerous aliases during his work as a super-spy, and officially changed his name twice. So perhaps it is also significant that the rather rare name "Ghislaine" (pronounced Gi-len), which he gave to the daughter who would become his closest confidant, means "sweet hostage." Again, recall that he would eventually name his beloved yacht after her, and aboard the Lady Ghislaine (where he was eventually assassinated) Maxwell was known as "Captain Bob."
Ghislaine was, in many ways, a hostage of her extremely domineering, charismatic, and sometimes sadistically brutal father. Within days of her birth, on Christmas of 1961, her brother Michael was permanently incapacitated in a car crash. In reaction to this, her mother, Elisabeth, traveled to India and Australia, leaving Ghislaine as a toddler in the care of a nanny and her father. By the age of three Ghislaine had become anorexic and, on one occasion, when her mother returned, the little girl cried out, "Mummy, I exist!"
Please go to Jason Jorjani's substack to continue reading.
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And?
Janet Atlantis: A Portrait of Ghislaine Maxwell
By Jason Jorjani | July 30, 2025
She was the founder and president of a project to build an extraterritorial state in the world's oceans, having been an aspiring marine biologist in her youth. A deep-sea diver, submarine captain, helicopter pilot, and robot operator, who studied French Literature and Business as a graduate of Oxford University. She was fluent in four languages, including those of the three countries of which she was a citizen: France, where she was born, Britain, where she grew up, and the United States of America – where she chose to settle and live most of her fascinating and tumultuous life. Her time in America was mostly spent at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, where she was invited to speak at the United Nations no less than nine times.
I'm talking about Ghislaine Maxwell. In this portrait, there will barely be a mention of any activities on account of which the "Madam sex trafficker" cardboard cutout has been crafted by the mainstream media and their intelligence community handlers. This even though I was friends with one of the young women who knew Ghislaine Maxwell and was "involved" with Jeffrey Epstein. This was at the Dalton School, where both of my mentors had been hired by Headmaster Donald Barr – the sci-fi author and CIA operative who also hired Epstein to teach there. One of these two mentors worked very hard at trying to recruit me into the CIA when I was between the ages of 13 and 14 (even suggesting that the Agency would pay my college tuition).
In any case, having been the subject of defamation in the "fake news" mainstream media myself, and at that as part of an intelligence operation, I can say that I have never seen a worse case of defamation by omission than that of Ghislaine Maxwell. As per Friedrich Nietzsche, what I am saying here lies beyond the scope of any moral judgments about "good" and "evil." It is not my concern to argue that Ghislaine Maxwell is a "good" person – not at all. Only that she is an interesting and impressive person. Her fascinating aims, ambitions, and concerns in life have been hidden because they involve truths that would unravel our world. Let's pull on those red threads.
Successor of a Super-Spy
The facts of Robert Maxwell's career as a businessman, media mogul, and politician are widely available, so I see no reason to rehash them here. What is of more interest in understanding what it would have been like to have this man as one’s father – especially if one is the youngest of nine siblings, and is "daddy's favorite girl," after whom he eventually names his yacht – is the extensive intelligence involvements of the man who would become 'Robert Maxwell.' He was born in 1923 as Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch, in what was then Slatinské Doly, Czechoslovakia and has since become Solotvyno, Ukraine. He was an Ashkenazi Jew from a Yiddish-speaking family who had long lived in the Carpathian Mountains (made famous by Dracula). His father – Ghislaine's grandfather – was a poor livestock trader and part-time Torah teacher. By the time he married Elisabeth (Betty) Jeanne Meynard, a French Christian woman who had studied at the Sorbonne and later earned a PhD from Oxford, Hoch had adopted the alias “Ivan du Maurier.” First, having escaped the Nazis in his native Eastern Europe, he joined the French Resistance as a fighter. During this time, he was recruited by British Intelligence. By the time he entered the British military, settled in the United Kingdom, and changed his name again to the entirely fabricated "Robert Maxwell," Binyamin Hoch was already a high-level operative of MI6.
What MI6 did not know was that, somewhere along the way, Hoch was also recruited by the KGB and was conducting espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union. Maxwell's work as a double agent for both MI6 and the KGB at the height of the Cold War made him very useful when, sometime in the late 1970s, he was also recruited by the Mossad.
The reason why Maxwell's media empire was found to be bankrupt after his death in November of 1991, is that his businesses had been artificially sustained by funds from the State of Israel which were cut off between 1989 and 1990 because the Cold War had ended and Maxwell's position as a triple agent with connections to both sides of the Iron Curtain was no longer valuable to the Mossad. Robert Maxwell was murdered in the middle of the night by a submarine-based Israeli covert ops team that surfaced near the Lady Ghislaine – the yacht named after his youngest daughter – because he had been threatening to use his newspapers to expose state secrets of Israel unless Mossad continued to pay him so that he could keep his businesses solvent.
In this light, the state funeral that Israel held for Maxwell, at which he was eulogized for "having done more for Israel than will ever be known," is particularly macabre and sinister. I can only imagine what Ghislaine must have felt attending that. Her tortured expression in the videos and photos of the event, when taken together with things she later told her confidants about her father's death, suggest that she knew from the outset who had murdered him and why. Allegedly, the order was given by Ehud Barak – who would go on to become the Prime Minister of Israel.
Ghislaine would have known because she was the only one of Robert's children who had been entrusted with all of the information about the various secret projects that he was involved with, including where he had stashed a part of his fortune that would survive the prosecution of her brothers, Kevin and Ian Maxwell, for pension fund plundering that they supposedly helped their father to commit (once his businesses began to fail). That money was vouchsafed to Jeffrey Epstein. But we'll come back to that.
For now, what is relevant about Epstein in relation to Ghislaine's father is that it was Robert Maxwell who flew Jeffrey Epstein to Israel with him, several times, in the mid-1980s, and secured a position for Epstein with the Mossad – particularly in arms-trafficking operations, including those that wound up being outed in the Iran Contra scandal. Prior to that Epstein had only been working for the CIA, having been recruited by Donald Barr in the 1970s, during his time as a teacher at the Dalton School. So, Maxwell, who was a triple agent, turned Epstein into a double agent. Ghislaine was not given an official position in the Maxwell business empire precisely to protect her from prosecution because she was the only one of Robert's children who had been given the big picture and was read into all the major projects.
The most important of those projects involved control of the establishment scientific discourse and constraining the scope of public sphere technological development in the late 20th century. Robert Maxwell turned Pergamon Press into one of the key instruments of his rise as a transnational information baron – and a tool of covert geopolitical influence. Pergamon was not simply a publishing company. In Maxwell's hands, it became a knowledge syndicate, an intelligence operation, and a node in an emerging postwar technocratic order. Maxwell founded Pergamon Press after he took over the Butterworth-Springer scientific publishing business in the wake of World War II. Originally based in Oxford, it focused on the publication of scientific and technical journals – an area deliberately chosen by Maxwell because of its immense strategic value. This was not leisure reading material. It was cutting-edge research in nuclear physics, aerospace, information systems, and industrial chemistry.
By controlling most scientific journal publications through the acquisition and establishment of these journals by Pergamon/Springer, Maxwell was able to get a look at all the latest scientific discoveries and breakthrough technological developments. Then, as a gatekeeper, he selectively suppressed or sequestered from the public sphere of establishment techno-scientific R&D any revolutionary and destabilizing information – including defense-related research with military applications. Maxwell almost singlehandedly set up the "peer review" protocols of scientific journal publication to facilitate this marginalization of certain scientific discoveries and inventions to the fringe of established domains of knowledge. Whether these same techno-scientific discoveries and inventions were being developed secretly by associates of his remains an open question, but we will see that some of Epstein’s activities suggest that this may in fact have been the case.
Pergamon Press also functioned as an intelligence front that cultivated scientific contacts across the Iron Curtain and played a key role in facilitating communication between Soviet and Western scientists. This gave Maxwell extraordinary access to individuals, institutions, and discoveries that were otherwise sealed off by national security regimes. This access was reciprocated – and possibly directed – by Maxwell's handlers in MI6, KGB, and the Mossad, with whom he maintained labyrinthine relationships. He used Pergamon to develop a network of collaborators, informants, and influence agents embedded in universities, defense contractors, and research institutions. It allowed him to play both sides of the Cold War divide – supplying intelligence and disinformation in a double or triple game. His role in securing scientific papers for publication sometimes veiled the laundering of sensitive research or the recruitment of operatives under the guise of editorial collaboration.
That Maxwell named the press "Pergamon" is telling. Pergamon, the ancient Greek city in Asia Minor, was the site of a vast library that rivaled Alexandria in the ancient world. It was also, not coincidentally, the location of the so-called "Throne of Satan" mentioned in the Book of Revelation – later excavated by German archeologists and brought to Berlin, where it was revered by the Nazis for its putatively occult power. The mythico-political resonance of this name cannot be ignored. Maxwell saw himself as a kind of Promethean or Mercurial intermediary – a trickster thief and merchant of arcane knowledge, and a hermetic manipulator of cultural destinies who was playing with fire. Through Pergamon, he aspired not merely to publish scientific knowledge, but to monopolize, redirect, and weaponize it.
Names were very significant to this man who adopted numerous aliases during his work as a super-spy, and officially changed his name twice. So perhaps it is also significant that the rather rare name "Ghislaine" (pronounced Gi-len), which he gave to the daughter who would become his closest confidant, means "sweet hostage." Again, recall that he would eventually name his beloved yacht after her, and aboard the Lady Ghislaine (where he was eventually assassinated) Maxwell was known as "Captain Bob."
Ghislaine was, in many ways, a hostage of her extremely domineering, charismatic, and sometimes sadistically brutal father. Within days of her birth, on Christmas of 1961, her brother Michael was permanently incapacitated in a car crash. In reaction to this, her mother, Elisabeth, traveled to India and Australia, leaving Ghislaine as a toddler in the care of a nanny and her father. By the age of three Ghislaine had become anorexic and, on one occasion, when her mother returned, the little girl cried out, "Mummy, I exist!"
Please go to Jason Jorjani's substack to continue reading.
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