Published: 10 October 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
IN OCTOBER OF 2016, as reporters circled allegations of sexual assault and harassment against the film producer Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein and his lawyers hired Black Cube, an Israeli private intelligence agency.
At first, according to sources close to the Black Cube operation, the agency believed that it had been hired to counter a negative campaign against Weinstein, and expected that the work would concentrate on his business rivals.
But the agency soon began to receive assignments to spy on women with sexual-harassment and assault accusations against Weinstein, and on reporters investigating those accusations.
Black Cube, whose staff included former members of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence and military agencies, specialized in deception, including the use of front companies and operatives with false identities. (Weinstein denied “any allegations of non-consensual sex.”)
FULL STORY The Black Cube chronicles: the private investigators (New Yorker)
Illustration: Karolis Strautniekas (New Yorker)
