by Aaron Warner
Although many people have taken an interest in Jeffrey Epstein’s salacious saga due to his conviction as a child rapist, 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 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 Barr’s 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 point 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 daughter to the late Robert Maxwell, himself a known Mossad asset, who was found dead of 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 he owned in the UK. The reports tell us he was using that money to fund operations at the behest of the Mossad which they were re-paying in 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 Iran 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 off-shore 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 report 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 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.
A 2021 article by Vicky Ward in Rolling Stone magazine reveals Epstein bragged about being in intelligence blackmail operations to associate Steven Hoffenberg. Hoffenberg would be betrayed by Epstein following their role in the then largest Ponzi scheme in American history landing Hoffenberg in federal prison. This was yet another instance of Epstein evading 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 set up 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 he met with research scientists and was given a tour of Israeli military bases.
Perhaps the most famous link comes from former US Attorney Alexander Acosta who was part of the federal prosecution team who 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 hi-level asset why was he given the sweetheart deal allowing him to leave the jail 12 hours a day five days a week?
The larger question many conservatives, and also non-conservatives, are unwilling to let go 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 they deserve our trust?