For years, Maxwell was accorded favoured status in the Soviet Union as he frequently travelled back and forth through the Iron Curtain. From the late 1940s, he was in regular contact with Soviet leaders and the KGB."
He was secretly paid by the KGB to publish 50,000 copies of a series of fawning biographies of communist leaders, although he duped them about the number that were actually printed."
In the mid-1950s, he had begun to translate and publish the work of Soviet scientists in journals which were sold to libraries and research institutions throughout the west. The Soviets had given him exclusive rights and he made millions."
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"It appears that, ever the opportunist in search of profit, Maxwell cooperated with both the KGB and Britain's foreign spying agency, MI6."
The Trump administration is playing games with the information by not releasing it