Although many people have taken an interest in Jeffrey Epstein’s salacious saga due to his conviction as a child rapist and sex trafficker, as well as his inexplicably mysterious death, the larger question surrounding the man was his apparent ties to Israeli intelligence via the Mossad or military intelligence. Why? Because if he was in fact an asset of Israeli intelligence, as were the likes of several in his network, it reveals a history of double-dealing and back stabbing by the nation referred to by many as “America’s greatest ally” that has many conservatives questioning our relationship to the Middle Eastern democracy and its influence over our elected politicians.
The difficulty in establishing these facts is tied to the very nature of intelligence agencies and how they function. It is their modus operandi to operate in secret, traffic in secrets, and also weave webs of deception in order to escape detection. So it’s left to the investigators to cull whatever concrete evidence one can find while supporting it with circumstantial and other corroborating evidence.
Epstein’s biography essentially begins with close ties to the intelligence community. Prior to his foray into the financial wizardry world we learn he was hired at the Dalton school by Donald Barr, former Attorney General Bill Barr’s father. Both Barrs are known to have worked for the CIA, which makes Epstein’s unusual hiring as a math teacher at an elite school with no college degree all the more suspicious. Epstein is fired from his math teaching job for inappropriate behavior toward female students, yet fortuitously lands a job with prestigious Bear Stearns on Wall Street, again lacking credentials or experience. He ascends the corporate ladder quickly, becoming a partner in just four years, having entered at the ground floor. He is then fired from Stearns for violating company policy per fraudulent financial practices before going out on his own. At this point in his career, we only have weak links to American intelligence.
However, there is a large amount of both circumstantial and direct evidence that points to Epstein’s role as an Israeli asset. His infamous co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving twenty years in federal prison for sex trafficking, is the daughter of the late Robert Maxwell, himself a known Mossad asset, who was found dead by drowning off his yacht. Autopsy reports show blunt trauma to his body, indicating foul play, yet it was ruled a suicide. Reports reveal he was about to be hauled into court for pilfering the pensions of his employees at the Mirror newspaper, which he owned in the UK. The reports indicate that he was using the money to fund operations at the Mossad’s behest, which they were repaying from another account. Maxwell’s penchant for the finer things led to his abusing this arrangement, and it’s believed he was assassinated for both his greed and to avoid his testimony in the upcoming court case that would expose his intelligence ties to Israel. Maxwell is the one who introduced his daughter to Epstein. He was buried in Israel, given a hero’s funeral attended by several former Israeli heads of state and intelligence officers. They eulogized him as having “done more for Israel than anyone” at that time.
Then there is Adnan Kashoggi, Epstein’s lone client for a period of time in the early 1980s. Kashoggi was, like Maxwell, a multi-millionaire who was caught at the center of the Iran-Contra arms deals that revealed the US was helping Israel back the Iranian army for fear of Saddam Hussein and Iraq’s growing power. By this time, Epstein was well known among the wealthy for his ability to both launder and recover money in large quantities using a variety of offshore techniques such as front companies and complex routing via his vast networks. Kashoggi was made famous as a central figure in the scandal as a go-between for Israel and Iranian parties used to move both weapons and money. Epstein’s role was to launder the money, which is detailed in volume 2 of Whitney Webb’s book One Nation Under Blackmail.
Epstein’s then meteoric rise is connected to his mysterious relationship with Les Wexner. Wexner is most famously known for his company Victoria’s Secret, which in itself symbolizes a focus on beautiful young women that become central to Epstein’s saga of blackmail via what’s known in intelligence circles as a “honey-trap”- the honey being nubile young women used to compromise the powerful. Wexner owned the largest residence in Manhattan at the time and sold it to Epstein as a gift for $0, estimated to be worth $77 million at one point. However, the FBI found the lair contained a video monitoring room with over forty screens where victims reported men sat monitoring them. Even the entryway to the estate indicated Epstein’s intentions, lined with glass eyeballs obtained from dead World War 2 soldiers. Wexner, an open and avowed Zionist, was also the reason Epstein was able to convince Southern Air Transport (SAT) to move to Wexner’s home city of Columbus, Ohio. SAT was previously owned by the CIA and used to transport drugs amidst the Iran-Contra scandal.
In the 2019 book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales, author Ari Ben-Menashe, himself a former Israeli intelligence officer, claims to have worked with both Robert Maxwell and Epstein, knew he ran a honey-trap operation, and was funded by Israeli intelligence.
In 2014, Epstein is known to have met with former CIA director William Burns, then Deputy Secretary of State, on three separate occasions, where told for advice on transitioning to the private sector, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.
A 2021 article by Vicky Ward in Rolling Stone magazine reveals that Epstein bragged about being in intelligence blackmail operations to associate Steven Hoffenberg. Epstein would betray Hoffenberg following their role in the then-largest Ponzi scheme in American history, landing Hoffenberg in federal prison. This was yet another instance in which Epstein evaded justice despite his obvious role.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was captured on camera entering Epstein’s Manhattan estate wearing a mask (not during COVID) and is recorded to have stayed there on multiple occasions. He is also in Epstein’s infamous black book, having flown to his private island several times, where surveillance cameras were also found similar to his setup in Manhattan.
During Epstein’s initial sex trafficking case in Florida in 2008, as his attorneys were crafting a “sweetheart deal” that would allow him to escape a multiple-year sentence, he flew to Israel in violation of US Law, yet was also not convicted for it. It’s assumed he was looking to repatriate there to escape prison as Israel has non-extradition laws allowing even pedophiles to use it as a safe haven. Curiously, it’s been reported in TRT Global that he met with research scientists and was given a tour of Israeli military bases.
In 2015, Epstein invested in the Israeli tech startup Reporty Homeland Security (later rebranded as Carbyne), headed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a former IDF chief and defense minister. Carbyne was connected to Israel’s defense industry, as reported by Haaretz.
Perhaps the most famous link comes from former US Attorney Alexander Acosta, who was part of the federal prosecution team that ultimately delivered the sweetheart deal Epstein enjoyed in Florida. Both Vanity Fair and other sources reported this; however, Acosta has since denied having said it. So the question remains: if he wasn’t some high-level asset, why was he given the sweetheart deal allowing him to leave jail 12 hours a day, five days a week?
The larger question many conservatives, and also non-conservatives, are unwilling to let go of is, given Epstein’s obvious connections to the intelligence community, who are known to have heightened awareness of who they associate with, what are we to believe about who he was and what he was doing? Furthermore, what are we learning about Israel’s role in American foreign policy and our propensity to elect people of questionable ethics and morals? If they are willing to break sacred relationships, violate young women and girls, and hide their crimes, what confidence can we have that they deserve our trust?
We will try to answer these questions and more in the next piece in this series.
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