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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe history of Epstein as an international intelligence asset
Mind blowing.
We follow the documented world Jeffrey Epstein entered in the 1980s, a nexus of Cold War arms trafficking, offshore finance, and intelligence-linked dealmakers operating between London, Geneva, Washington, and the Gulf. Working alongside British defense intermediary Douglas Leese and Saudi billionaire arms broker Adnan Khashoggi, Epstein moved inside networks connected to the Al-Yamamah oil-for-weapons agreement and the broader shadow economy of deniable weapons transfers. These systems relied on shell corporations, Swiss banking secrecy, and layered intermediaries to move billions in commissions tied to fighter jets, missiles, and covert supply chains linked to Iran-Contraera operations.
This episode traces how intelligence agencies and allied governments used private financiers and brokers as cut-outs to maintain plausible deniability while sustaining geopolitical arms flows during the late Cold War. We examine Epsteins early financial activities, his role restructuring and shielding assets for powerful clients, and the emergence of a transnational arms-finance ecosystem that blurred the line between state policy and private profit. The result is a true-crime geopolitical investigation into how Epstein rose within the clandestine world of global arms dealing, intelligence relationships, and covert money networks that shaped his later empire.
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leftstreet
(39,736 posts)Come on whistleblowers!
orangecrush
(29,566 posts)blm
(114,506 posts)orangecrush
(29,566 posts)Response to orangecrush (Original post)
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DJ Synikus Makisimus
(1,307 posts)The CIA, together with the military, serve "America's interests abroad" (though not always abroad). That catchphrase "America's interests" is shorthand for the interests of the wealthy, privileged and powerful; both individuals and corporations historically. Epstein cultivated relationships with those people to get rich and keep getting richer. Of course, he got rich the old-fashioned way: he stole it.(1) Epstein sees to have used investment schemes that evaded taxation to lure folks into his clutches. If you understand rich people, you know that the last thing they think they need to do is pay taxes, so he had lots of takers. That gave him lots of connections that the CIA could cultivate. I would also suspect that the digger one digs, what the CIA did FOR Epstein in exchange will likely become clearer, if it's not buried as "national security secrets." I would expect things to get even more sordid.
Pedo Island and such are just the next level of kompromat that Epstein could use to his ends, whatever they may have been. I expect that was also occasionally useful to the CIA and others. Mossad and the GRU have been hinted at, and Epstein seems the type to have taken money and "benefits" from anyone. Digging into these connections also may reveal why he was murdered in jail.
BTW, if you don't how sordid the history of the CIA is, and precisely HOW they serve the interests of America's elite, read The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot. (2)
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(1) https://www.dw.com/en/where-did-jeffrey-epstein-get-all-his-money/a-75944096
(2) https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Devil_s_Chessboard.html?id=QLT-rQEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description
orangecrush
(29,566 posts)Epstein's lawyers sent an FOIA to the CIA asking for any records of Epstein's connections, and got a "can neither confirm nor deny" response.
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(1,307 posts)summary for those of us who read about 5-10 times faster than any talking head can speak, as well as those of us who would rather avoid the introductions by said talking heads who usually spend inordinate time A) telling us their credentials and why we should listen to them and B) advertising further broadcasts to maximize their viewership (and thus earnings) on whatever website.
I realize that most people believe what they see much more than what they read. That, IMHO, is a major miscalculation given what the internet has become since Al Gore "invented" it.
Also, I really hate the 21st century.