The Maxwell and Epstein Octopus: The Prequel Part 3
The Cambridge Spy Ring, Victor Rothschild, LUDWIG, MAXIMOV, Robert Maxwell and the Boomer Truth Regime
We pick up the Robert Maxwell story from Lyndon LaRouche’s original description again.
Since August last year a number of new documents have been discovered and released by the UK government. A digital copy of Robert Maxwell’s UK Home Office files containing the information that he used to gain UK citizenship (Arkord link) were sent to me in Autumn 2023. The Czech military archives in Prague returned a personnel card for ‘Ludvit Hoch’ of the Czech foreign resistance forces (Arweave link), whose details broadly match known details about Robert Maxwell. Recently, on February 21st 2024, Robert Maxwell’s UK military service records (Arweave link) were sent to me by the Ministry of Defence. Both UK documents are substantially redacted, further FOIAs to remove redactions are pending, one of which currently sits in the in-tray of the Right Honourable Lucy Frazer MP (Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport)’s in-tray. Regardless of this much can still be gleaned from what the Great Black Pen of Babylon hath not decided to removed from our conscious field of awareness.
What immediately stands out from Robert Maxwell’s military records is what the MoD chose to redact: his location data. Location attaches people to a sense of place, culture and belonging most of all, readers will find these sorts of redaction throughout: redactions of religious persuasion (although clearly Jewish just from the tail of the cursive cursive ‘J’), wife, parents, children, along with redactions of service records at key points during World War Two. Robert Maxwell’s date of birth in his military records in the 10th of June 1921, but his publicly recognized date of birth and the date of birth listed in his UK Home Office files, for the purpose of getting UK citizenship and a passport, is the 10th of June 1923.
Additionally his Home Office files state that he was born in ‘Selo-Slatina’, then in Czechoslovakia, today ‘Solotvyno’ in Ukraine, to parents of Czechoslovak nationality, named Michael and Hanna Hoch. Jan Ludvik Hoch’s namesake and doppelganger, Johann Hoch, meanwhile had a German mother called Anna. Robert Maxwell requests permission from the Czech authorities to become a British citizen also, and the Czechs confirm that from the military commission in Berlin.
Did Robert Maxwell retain undeclared dual nationality? From the records there is no way to establish his claim of Hungarian nationality. Was he lying to the Czechs or to us? What we do know is that Maxwell spoke both fluent Czech and Hungarian in addition to German and English. If Maxwell could have several different names, several different birthdays and two different nationalities, it’s also likely that he could have posed as a German Communist PoW to become an SOE agent and call himself Johann too.
Several things do not make sense in Robert Maxwell’s recently released Army B199A form. The school he attended is redacted, his place of birth is redacted, his mother and father’s names, his wife and next of kin’s names are redacted along with his place of birth and religion. All we know is that Robert Maxwell was fluent in four languages and proficient in three more, and that he was Jewish. If Maxwell really was a poor Yiddish goat milker from the Danube valleys then why redact his ‘business qualifications’? If he really was milking goats before the war there would be nothing linking that to his post-war business activity in Germany, for example. Why redact the school he attended? Probably because it’s the sort of school where children learn to speak seven languages and not to milk goats. Yiddish isn’t even listed as one of his seven languages. If all of Maxwell’s family died in the Nazi concentration camps, then there would be no requirement at all to redact next of kin information nearly 80 years later. Also these redactions have not been annotated with any justification whatsoever, as they are usually required to be and are below.
Confirmation of Maxwell’s stint with the Czech army in 1940 in the UK can be found on Maxwell’s ‘Naturalization Form S’: 6 weeks between September and October 1940 at Sutton Couldfield.
Maxwell arrived at the Czech soldiers’ camp in Sutton Couldfield just four months after signing up to the Czech foreign resistance. His date of birth on that record is stated to be a third different date of birth: New Year’s Day 1922 and his place of birth, while close to Solotvyno, is again different, it is Rakhiv, 45 kilometers away. You’d think a man could remember his own place of birth, especially as a ‘poor Yiddish boy’ 45km is a long way to walk your goats and mothers giving birth. SOE agent, namesake and doppelganger Johann Hoch was in Odessa, Ukraine, and escaped concentration camp in Poland in May 1940, before being recaptured in September 1940. Sounds a lot like a made up cover story based on real life dates and events (easier the remember that way).
According to AI the face similarity between SOE Johann Hoch (Akord link) and Robert Maxwell is at least as similar as that between Robert Maxwell and Ghislaine Maxwell or Ghislaine and Ian Maxwell. So if Johann Hoch is not Robert Maxwell he is at least a close relation.
The above letter was written on the same day that Major Robert Maxwell ‘disembarked’, presumably from post-war duties on the continent, in the UK, the 15th of April 1946.
Major Robert Maxwell did not relinquish his commission until the 1st of July 1959, over 13 years later. None of his military activities were public in that time, presumably because they were within the intelligence services, but for those 13 years he was building his scientific publishing business in direct partnership with the KGB. Major Robert Maxwell’s military service after the war lasted twice as long as his military service during it. The man swore an oath of allegiance to this country to gain citizenship, yet in hindsight even the professional media opinion-havers concede that at best his only loyalty was to his own self interest. While our intelligence services were being torn asunder by the revelations of the Cambridge Spy Ring, Maxwell had been in the middle of the ‘war for ideas, for hearts and minds’ from the beginning, clearly against the interests of this country and its citizens all along.
Maxwell relinquished his military commission at precisely the same time, 1959, that he’d feathered his own nest well enough to operate from Headington Hill Hall: ‘the best council house in the country’.
This fills in most of the gaps in what was previously unknowned about Robert Maxwell. It’s clear that both the Home Office and the Ministry of Defence have skeletons in the closet that they’re afraid will fall out. Just cursory inspection of the type of information still being concealed is enough to draw the conclusion that Jan or Ivan or Johann or Leslie or Ludwik or Ludwit Hoch or DuMarrier born 20th June 1911 or 10th June 1921 or 1st January 1922 or 10th June 1923 of Czech or Hungarian or German nationality was never who he said he was. No one bothered to even go through the motions of the procedure with respect to his UK naturalization process either, it was rubber stamped with no questions asked before he’d even stepped ashore.
Three decades later Maxwell was running a global communications conglomerate, selling as much or more compromised PROMIS software, central to the Danny Casolaro narrative, than prime mover and prime suspect Earl Brian, as Israel’s ‘Super Spy’.
As far as Danny Casolaro putting the story together, the relationship between Robert Maxwell, Kim Philby, Victor Rothschild and the Cambridge Spy Ring was clearly an important missing piece of his puzzle. He’d identified Kim Philby, but other researchers were, and still are to this day, unpacking the British side of the story. The recently deceased Jacob Rothschild worked with Mirror Newspaper while owned by Robert Maxwell. Given the links between them in money, business, the intelligence services, their ties with the KGB, their allegiance to Israel and the impact that PROMIS software had on the intelligence and financial industries themselves, it’s impossible that they were not collaborating. Their motives and interests were fully aligned, it’s just a question of ‘to what degree?’.
It’s great to see the internet starting to wake up to this phenomenon of global racketeering and organised crime. What was a relatively innocuous Vanity Fair article about Robert Maxwell’s funeral in 1992 is a lot more revealing, and sinister, in hindsight in 2024.
Ludwig and Maximov
It seems a shame that we might have run into a dead end with respect to the Ludwig and Maximov story from here. Ludwig the triple or even quadruple Comintern agent and Rothschild senior management figure; and Maximov the Chief Communications Officer of the Chinese Communist Party in 1933. Again it’s possible that they could, in fact, be the same person. Roland Perry highlights Rudolph Katz as a relatively minor figure in his work exposing Victor Rothschild, but it’s clear from the MI5 and CIA records that he was a major figure working from the shadows. Perry mentions an ‘Otto’ that trained the Cambridge Spy Ring, my money’s on a coin flip between Rudolph and Otto Katz for being that ‘Otto’: remember to begin with the government didn’t even know which was which, they only knew both worked together as Comintern agents.
Many of those who might have been able to shed light on the mystery are getting long in the tooth, so to speak, or dead now. I feel I’m probably going to draw blank on any further Ludwig and Maximov connections, but better a known mystery that shaped the world’s past and will continue to shape its future than an unknown one, haunting us from the shadows.
Until next time, TTFN