Harvey Weinstein hired ex-Mossad agents to suppress sex harassment allegations - Sensationalist Headlines

[url]https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies[/url] [quote]In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations. According to dozens of pages of documents, and seven people directly involved in the effort, the firms that Weinstein hired included Kroll, one of the world’s largest corporate intelligence companies, and Black Cube, an enterprise run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies. Black Cube, which has branches in Tel Aviv, London, and Paris, offers its clients the skills of operatives “highly experienced and trained in Israel’s elite military and governmental intelligence units,” according to its literature. Two private investigators from Black Cube, using false identities, met with the actress Rose McGowan, who eventually publicly accused Weinstein of rape, to extract information from her. One of the investigators pretended to be a women’s-rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan. The same operative, using a different false identity and implying that she had an allegation against Weinstein, met twice with a journalist to find out which women were talking to the press. In other cases, journalists directed by Weinstein or the private investigators interviewed women and reported back the details. The explicit goal of the investigations, laid out in one contract with Black Cube, signed in July, was to stop the publication of the abuse allegations against Weinstein that eventually emerged in the New York Times and The New Yorker. Over the course of a year, Weinstein had the agencies “target,” or collect information on, dozens of individuals, and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focussed on their personal or sexual histories. Weinstein monitored the progress of the investigations personally. He also enlisted former employees from his film enterprises to join in the effort, collecting names and placing calls that, according to some sources who received them, felt intimidating.[/quote]

He's a dangerous man, clearly.

Maybe a few more weeks in rehab will fix him

Weinstein belongs in prison.

Guess they sucked at their jobs lol

ex-Mossad what is [URL=http://www.sho.com/ray-donovan]Ray Donovan[/URL] based on real life?

and this fucker still thinks he has a second chance. I hope they lock him up without bail

But remember, we shouldn't call out sexual abuses, because it might ruin entertainment!!!!

[QUOTE=IKTM;52863872]Guess they sucked at their jobs lol[/QUOTE] Well in their defense, Weinstein wanted them to put out a fire using only shotglasses.

This is so fucking mental. The "Black Cube" organisation was sent on a deep cover mission to prevent publication of "the Article", sounds like a shit movie plot

What's easier? 1. Don't sexually assault women. 2. Hire veteran intelligence agents to keep your actions from being known. Somehow people like Weinstein think it's the latter. I'm glad he was wrong, and not even the best could stop this scandal from happening.

We already thought the women who spoke out were brave, that was [I]before[/I] we knew they had a fucking private intelligence agency on a mission to stop them. What the fuck.

Holy shit so this guy actually exists: [IMG]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ray-donovan/images/7/76/Avi.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150929162154[/IMG]

how is all this shit just now coming back to him? we've known he was a lecherous prick since the '90s

[QUOTE=butre;52864479]how is all this shit just now coming back to him? we've known he was a lecherous prick since the '90s[/QUOTE] my view on it is very politicized, so some may disagree, but trump and clinton brought along a lot of distaste for the elites, while trump's election pushed many towards more progressive causes, sexual assault awareness being one of them. it has been a massive rallying point for a while now, and there were big pushes for it even before the cosby scandal (which btw is yet another factor in this)

I'm still waiting for Scientology to get dragged into this. I mean they are the poster boy for Hollywood Cult activity, and Weinstein certainly fits the profile to a loose degree.

[QUOTE=Megadave;52864518]I'm still waiting for Scientology to get dragged into this. I mean they are the poster boy for Hollywood Cult activity, and Weinstein certainly fits the profile to a loose degree.[/QUOTE] Scientology cares about scientology way more than it cares about its members. Honestly, if they learned that one of their members was involved in something like this they'd probably try to bury the information and, failing that, totally cut that member out of the organization entirely and pretend like they were never affiliated.

[QUOTE=phygon;52864528]Scientology cares about scientology way more than it cares about its members. Honestly, if they learned that one of their members was involved in something like this they'd probably try to bury the information and, failing that, totally cut that member out of the organization entirely and pretend like they were never affiliated.[/QUOTE] [URL="https://www.thecut.com/2017/11/danny-masterson-sexual-assault-claims.html"]Ahem[/URL]. [QUOTE]This is not the first time that a case against Masterson has been scuttled. One of the victims actually reported her rape to the LAPD in 2004, but according to HuffPost, “the case didn’t move forward after [B]the Church of Scientology intervened and submitted over 50 affidavits from Scientologists who denied the woman’s account[/B].”[/QUOTE]

I can already see the /pol/acks pointing this all towards a jewish conspiracy.

[QUOTE=phygon;52864528]Scientology cares about scientology way more than it cares about its members. Honestly, if they learned that one of their members was involved in something like this they'd probably try to bury the information and, failing that, totally cut that member out of the organization entirely and pretend like they were never affiliated.[/QUOTE] In Scientology, the words "Fair Game" have very special and chilling meaning. The Church isn't at all nice to people they deem Suppressive Persons, or troublemakers threatening CoS specifically (by speaking the truth about the cult, for example). If you go after someone with any pull in Scientology, you'll face harassment and flashmob tactics intended to silence you. When the IRS revoked the Church of Scientology's tax exemption, CoS smacked them with several hundred frivolous lawsuits intended to DDOS the IRS' legal department and followed this up with sending PIs to stalk and profile various IRS officers and administrators to gather (and use) blackmail. They only stopped and called off the trillion bogus lawsuits when they cut a secret deal that made the CoS not only tax-exempt but they got additional benefits [I]actual religious churches[/I] didn't get. It's inevitable that eventually a prominent Scientologist is going to come up in a reveal from either a Panama Papers-like leak of offshore tax haven documents or a Weinstein-style situation of accusations of sexual harassment/etc. with strong corroboration. The difference between these two is that a document leak merely happens and can be accomplished anonymously, but breaking the silence is going to require getting past the [I]considerable[/I] intimidation and threat factor the CoS poses to the victim of a sexually-predatory high-ranking Scientologist. You can't gaslight or blackmail a bunch of released PDFs. I haven't heard of Scientology using ex-Mossad for their espionage, though.

They're the same firm that apprently seriously helped the Tchenguizs when they were being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office, relating to the Icelandic bank collapse. [quote] Lawyers for Tchenguiz said in court filings that £820,000 had been paid to Black Cube over 13 months, suggesting this sum was provided for "open source intelligence". [/quote] [url]https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/22/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute[/url]

[QUOTE=Bob The Knob;52863951]This is so fucking mental. The "Black Cube" organisation was sent on a deep cover mission to prevent publication of "the Article", sounds like a shit movie plot[/QUOTE] now it needs is a lowly min. wage worker to be the protag. and we're set for the summer viewing crowd.