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November 8, 2017

New Yorker: Weinstein Hired Ex-Israeli Intel Agents to Suppress Accusations
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Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein hired a corporate intelligence
firm and a secretive agency run by former Israeli intelligence officers
to suppress allegations Weinstein sexually harassed and assaulted women.
That's according to The New Yorker's Ronan Farrow, who reports one agent
hired by Weinstein repeatedly met with the actor Rose Mc Gowan, claiming
to be a powerful executive launching an initiative to combat
discrimination against women in the workplace. In fact, the agent was an
undercover former officer with the Israeli Defense Forces and an
employee of the firm Black Cube who was seeking information on Mc
Gowan's contacts with the press. Mc Gowan went on to tell reporters
Weinstein raped her in a hotel room in 1997 at the Sundance Film
Festival. In other instances, freelance journalists working for
Weinstein called his alleged victims for interviews, only to report back
on details of the conversations. Weinstein's operation was partly
overseen by David Boies, a powerful lawyer known for representing Al
Gore in the 2000 Florida election recount and for successfully arguing
for marriage equality at the Supreme Court.


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