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[Music] I wanted to find out who Maxwell really was and how he'd built such an empire. You know, Maxwell was keen to let everyone know he was a decorated war hero.
[Music] But his life in post-war Berlin is where things got very shady. He runs a very, very lucrative black market operation, buying, selling cigarettes and nylons and all chewing gum, food, everything. He is the heart of taking goods from zone to zone and putting the cash in his pockets.
And Maxwell was someone who wants power, who wants influence, who wants wealth, who wants to change the world. He goes across the Russians, declares himself, gets on very well with them, and establishes good connections. He becomes a KGB agent.
Maxwell was a special person. He was received in our highest spheres. In our parlance, it was called an "useful official relation." So that meant that a foreigner can be useful to us as a person who would have an access to some information, who would willingly or unwillingly share it with us.
At the same time, he presents himself to MI6 and he says that he's established amazing connections with leading scientists all over the world. Unbelievably, what he really wanted was MI6 to finance him to start a publishing company.
It was obvious that he'd been doing odd things for MI6 from Germany already, and he suggested that we should subsidize him to buy a book business. I don't know of any other case, um, I was certainly never involved in any other case of MI6 buying a business for anybody. He's both working for British intelligence and Russian intelligence. No loyalties other than to himself.