so originally black cube had been contacted originally black cube had been co nta cted by originallyontacted by harvey weinstein through his lawyers, and he claimed that there was a plot to oust him from his company. he thought his brother was behind it, he thought that various other high executive level people were scheming to get rid of him. and that's quite a standard job in the corporate intelligence space. you have a dispute between powerful businesspeople, and our job dispute between powerful businesspeople, and ourjob to find out actually is there a problem going on. so the original list of names that he came to black cube that were fed to me was around six oi’ that were fed to me was around six or seven people, most of the men, a couple of women in there as well, and they were all very high level people in the wayne steen company or close to it. —— weinstein company. and what was yourjob? my job was to find out what people are saying into her, and i wouldn't know if i was the only one investigating this or ifi the only one investigating this or if i was one of many other oper

not for any government, but for the private investigators black cube. it is one of the companies harvey weinstein hired to investigate his accusers. seth freedman posed as a journalist to gather information for mr weinstein, and says he was just doing his job, and that someone has to do it. but do they, and who polices this billion—dollar, shadowy world of private intelligence? seth freedman, welcome to hardtalk. hi. now, spies would normally want secrecy, but you started the year by writing an article in the sunday times talking about your work for black cube. why go so public? i was quite happy to stay in the shadows, and then ronan farrow and jodi kantor and megan twohey outed me in their books about the harvey weinstein case and their role in it. and it was their investigation into those women who had allegations of sexual assault against harvey weinstein, who of course is on trial in new york at the moment. he denies the allegations. but you did, with this article, decide actually to be perhaps much more open than you might otherwise have been. can

shareholder, vincent tchenguiz, of cocourse, was involved in the early establishment of the company black cubein some of its early funding, i believe. i don't know h how long they stayed in any kind of relationship with that firm. however, the firirm black cucube werere also targeting obama administration officials with a massive smear campaign, as has been revealeled in the media. and, you know, this opposition to the iran deal and the promotion of these kinds of, you know, really fearmongering advertising that brittany is talking about is very disturbing when this same compmpany is also driving, you know, advertising for gun sales and things like that. amy: wait. explain what black cube is, which goes right to today's headlines -- >> exactly. amy: because harvey weinstein, accused of raping i don't know how many women at last count, also employed black cube, former israeli intelligence folks, to go after the women who were accusing him, and even to try to deceive the reporters, like at "the new york times," to try to get them to write falslse stori. >> absolutely. i mean, this is an intellig

harvey weinstein hired an israeli firm called black cube, which is staffed by former members of the mossadntities and front companies. this is how far the wealthy and connected can go to bury the truth. ok, of course he's — will be facing trial next year. he will. and i — one imagines he would dispute all these allegations. how do you get to the bottom of it? how did you establish those facts? well, i know the format is back and forth but this is not a "he said, she said". he doesn't dispute that. we have the contracts, we have the signatures of his attorney. all parties involved have admitted to that. so, for you, you're in a situation where you're moving out of your home. you are, what, worried about your life? you know, i'm careful to draw the distinction. i was not a journalist in pakistan, in russia, in any number of places where journalists turn up dead all the time when they report on powerful interests. i had the fortunate position of being protected by american criminal laws, being protected by the american first amendment — which, by the way, creates more space in my country than

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