Jeffrey Epstein’s War and the PedoFash International (Pt. II): Iran-Contra and the Year of the Spy

1985: Year of the Spy

Contrary to time traveling back to the squalling baby Epstein swaddled in cloth at his bris in a Sea Gate synagogue and then moving up from the 1950s to the present, examining Epstein’s hand in AmerIsraeli - Iran affairs sequentially, I’ve decided to dramatic wipe directly to in media Epstein to begin this next chapter, particularly his activities in 1985, as it is at this point that his status as an intelligence agency asset becomes incontestable. I think there’s a logic to this approach despite the historical hopping from decade to decade. An allegory: quantum physicists increasingly contend that time and the flow of the universe is retrocausal, that the present doesn’t just flow inexorably into the future but that the future can also influence the past. I’m mostly doing compositional gimmick now, but I genuinely feel it’s structurally wise to foreground some of Epstein’s surefire intel ties in the early installments and then project that reality back into the hoary mists of the “Talented” Mr. Jeffrey’s past and permit this knowledge to color our conclusions. Stockpiling gifted child grooming theories for later purposes, the loose decade between Epstein’s hiring at Dalton in 1974 and the mid-‘80s appears to be the likeliest candidate when it comes to sussing out when precisely Epstein’s relationship to AmerIsraeli agencies began in earnest. There’s compelling circumstantial evidence that he could have been first identified as an asset prospect by an agency while matriculating at NYU, but the clearest demarcative point for when Epstein the gray-shoe outsider investment pimp becomes Epstein the Int’l Pedo of Mystery is in 1981. By 1985, his ties to the parastatal underworld were undeniable.

Per the Vicky Ward profile of Epstein in Vanity Fair in 2003, the 30-something Epstein began riskily bragging to his friends that he was a “financial bounty hunter” who recovered money for the government & exorbitantly rich high level players and that he was licensed to carry a firearm in the early 1980s. Two years prior to Ward’s “The Talented Mr. Epstein” piece, Nigel Rosser wrote in an Evening Standard article pertaining to this early 1980s period that “Epstein once claimed to have worked for the CIA, although he now denies it”. Tellingly, that piece appears to have been nuked from Evening Standard online archives and is only available in digital medium via the website Just Security, which posted a transcribed version. In that same piece, it is relayed that Epstein once visited the Leese family in the UK bearing an NYPD-issue pump action shotgun, which is a fascinating anecdote as it flies in the face of an earlier run-in with the law and customs authorities that Epstein had in England when he tried to get an “antique sword stick” into the country. Furthermore, Towers Financial Corp. Ponzi schemer Steven Hoffenberg claimed to Ward in a Rolling Stone piece on Epstein’s spy bona fides that Jeff had told Hoffenberg that he’d gotten involved in “national security issues… (involving) blackmail, influence trading, trading information at a level that is very serious and dangerous” by way of Douglas Leese and Adnan Khashoggi, who we’ll introduce formally in a moment. Ward also claims in the same piece that four separate sources, some anonymously, went on the record and alleged that Epstein’s 1980s escapades as a Yuri Orlov esque Coney Island raised Lord of War 1 led to Robert Maxwell introducing Epstein to Isntreali leaders and his recruitment as a “sleeper agent”.

As of 6 months ago or so, we now know via Epstein’s BDay Album “The First 50 Years” that in 1985, the increasingly flush Jeff Gatsby took his family on a trip to the Holy Land, sumptuously accommodated at the Plaza Hotel in Tel Aviv and the infamous King David Hotel in Jerusalem. While in Tel Aviv, Epstein hired a chauffeur service’s limousine to tour his aging Jewish parents about the colonized sights in gleaming hubcap style. This trip may yet prove to be the smoking gun of Epstein’s direct involvement in Iran-Contra weapons shipments.

The incontrovertibility of Epstein’s spy status in 1985 partly hinges on the context of the tempestuous counterintelligence climate of that particular year, which received a nickname to commemorate all the tradecraft ferreting out of moles and rolling up of double agents that fell within it. The Year of the Spy is a bit of a misnomer, as 1984 had even more espionage related arrests, but the journos coined it and the name stuck. The majority of the moles identified were passing along classified intel to Communist countries such as the USSR, China, and Ghana, as illustrated by John Anthony Walker, Sharon Scarange, Larry Wu-Tai Chin (suicided the following year?), Ronald Pelton, Randy Miles Jeffries, and Edward Lee Howard. By comparison, the two solitary non-Communist spying scandals were affected by one of our “allies” and it’s these that have arguably exerted more of a staying power in the Amerikkkan public consciousness due to recent events involving Epstein and the fact they were early indications of the Isntreali intelligence disregard for frivolities such as alliances and mutual diplomatic respect, a reality that is befuddling to those who like their Special Relationship dynamic simple, neat, and clean.

We also know that by 1985, Epstein had secured mentorship in the dark arts of covert arms trading and money laundering from British merchant of death Douglas Leese and his Saudi associate Adnan Khashoggi, both of whom figure into the transnational clandestine armaments economy of the Iran-Contra era to a substantial degree. The professor and researcher Thomas Volscho tweeted in July of last year asserting that Epstein lived part time in London beginning in the early 1980s and he appears to have been in and out of the isle until at least 1986 while working as Leese’s understudy, which is germane to the Epstein-Contra case considering the timing. There’s a lot that can be gleaned from time and place, folks, as this investigative series will bear out. Volscho shared a picture of Douglas Leese with an assortment of other suits from AG Richard Thornbrugh’s papers and FOIA-ed passport applications contemporaneously filed by Epstein on which the residence 3 Halkin Street, London is listed. As we’ll soon find, this Jeff the Financier guy was burning through passports like griddle-baked Welsh hot cakes. I wonder why that might be... From Volscho’s FOIA receipts alone, we discover that Epstein requested a replacement passport after his was “stolen” on Feb. 16th, 1985 (once again the Year of the Spy), with Epstein claiming it was taken from a coat check at some fancy British eatery. What’s the over/under that Epstein was either lying to the State Department or else was swapping out passports on the reg at the express instruction of someone at William Casey’s CIA?

A year later, he once again applied for a passport after claiming he “lost” another one on July 21st, 1986, only a couple of months before the Eugene Hasenfus crash and a Lebanese article would inextricably lodge Contragate in the hippocampi of the public and trigger a full-blown political scandal. Jeffrey Epstein, Devourer of Passports, to put it mildly. There appears to be ample evidence of Epstein securing replacements and second valid passports so as to circumvent stringent entry stipulations in the latter years of his life as well, like in 2016 when Darren Indyke’s assistant submitted the necessary State Department forms on Epstein’s behalf to a Palm Beach based travel agency called G3 Global Services LLC. The application for a secondary passport looks to have been in preparation for a trip to Russia due to the fact that a company called “Go To Russia” is listed (very original, Mr. CIA Front Company Naming Conventions Officer). Not entirely sure what this means, but the final line of the cover page letter of the paperwork reads, “Please also note that processing should be on a ‘Mission Critical’ basis for which payment is provided on the enclosed order form.” Interesting choice of words. There are nearly 26k “passport” hits in the DOJ files, so this is one archival rabbit hole I likely won’t be rifling through in a completionist fashion any time soon, but also note that, when the townhouse was raided in 2019, a grand total of 4 passports were confiscated from a safe. We’re barely into the piece and a pattern of torching passports to conceal a glut of stamps and visas is already emerging. I’ll hold off on speculating too much on the possible efficacy of such an MO for now.

We also know that in 1985, Iran-Contra grandee Col. Oliver North 2 coordinated the under-the-table shipment of 2000 anti-tank missiles to Iran by way of Isntreal in exchange for assistance with securing the release of American hostages and monies that were then rerouted back to the Contras. Was the Epstein Family Pedostate Trip a perk of Epstein’s role in this operation? Was it cover for the former Bear Stearns tax avoidance expert to enter the Zionist Entity and then travel to Iran? Or could it have even been a preemptive exfiltration of an asset in the face of a tense diplomatic crisis confronting Isntreal’s intersecting secret services? All of the above? And which passport did Epstein have on his person on this particular trip? The Feb. ‘85 issued Jeffrey Epstein or the ‘82 Marius Fortelni? Time will tell if we can get to something approximating the bottom of these wonderments.

My Big, Fat Iran-Contra Wedding in Tel Aviv

Luckily for us, Epstein’s aging padre Seymour helpfully recounted the itinerary of the family’s ‘85 Isntreal trip in the BDay Album. Working in reverse order, Seymour lets slip that they returned to NYC on his Birthday, December 4th, 1985. Prior to that, the family spent about 4 days in Jerusalem at the King David Hotel and before that booking, they bunked at the upscale Plaza Hotel in Tel Aviv for another 5 days, during which time they attended the wedding of their “son’s friend” and visited Seymour’s “wife’s relatives”. Interestingly, the first mention of Jeffrey Epstein is in relation to the wedding (likely a few days into the trip) and it’s only later that Seymour gives an account of his son Epstein renting the limo for them in Jerusalem… Did Epstein not accompany his parents from NYC? Where was he during the first few days of their trip while they were with “relatives”? Was his parents’ convenient Holy Land visitation cover for his other activities?

Caption: CIA operations officer & member of the Iran-Contra “cowboy” clique Duane Dewey Clarridge in camo suit outside his 1991 arraignment

Judging from the timeline and discounting days on which they were in transit, Epstein’s parents likely flew into the Pedostate sometime around the 22nd-24th of November. What if I told you that Duane Dewey Clarridge, then CIA Chief of Covert Operations for the Middle East, was coordinating a shipment of Hawk missiles from Israel to Iran at North’s behest that fell smack dab during the Epstein stay and possibly during Epstein’s conspicuous absence on the trip’s front end? Clarridge had just been transferred from the Latin America theater where he’d been across much of the covert Contra action from 1981 - 1984 and had personally cooked up the economic warfare pipe bombing of Nicaraguan harbors that led to an exceedingly rare U.S. conviction at The Hague. Duane was one of six Iran-Contra defendants that President Bush preemptively pardoned in late 1992, at the very tail end of his tenure (much more on this and indirect links to Epstein later). Clarridge was also implicated in GLADIO as Istanbul station chief, where he kept a friendly eye on the Turkish anti-communist stay-behind units Counter-Guerrilla. Quoting from the Congressional Research Service’s Iran-Contra Affair Biographical Profiles:

On November 21, 1985, Mr. (Duane) Clarridge was asked by Lt. Col. Oliver North to assist in obtaining an overflight clearance for an El Al 747 flight. The flight was to deliver arms to Iran. Mr. Clarridge was informed by Charles Allen, CIA National Intelligence Officer, that the flight was part of an operation to liberate the American hostages in Lebanon. The clearance was denied. Mr. Clarridge then helped provide a CIA proprietary plane and personnel to Lt. Col. North to get a shipment of Hawk missiles from Israel to Iran on November 25, 1985. This action was authorized by Edward Juchniewicz, acting Deputy Director of Operations. (Tower Commission Report, Appendix B, V, B). Mr. Clarridge claims he thought the shipment contained oil drilling equipment.

Unfortunately I’ve thus far come up empty handed when trying to echolocate a wedding that would have fallen in the timeframe of the elder Epstein’s’ time in the Holy Land, so if there are any anti-Zionist Hebrew-speaking readers/listeners out there who aren’t Kidon assassins of Mossad’s Caesarea branch or IDF Unit 8200 cyberwarriors that are trying to doxx me, definitely hit me up if you manage to figure out who tied the knot in Tel Aviv with Jeffrey in attendance, as knowing the family might elucidate additional takeaways. We may yet encounter further Iran-Contra synchronicities that coincide within the Epstein Family Vacay, but that’s more than compelling enough to get us started.

Caption: A young Nicholas Leese and members of Oxford’s aristocratic and establishment Bullingdon Club, of which future PMs such as Ghislaine Maxwell affiliate Boris Johnson and David Cameron were both members. Note that Bullingdon is infamous for its Hellfire Club lite culture of sexual impropriety and raucous vandalism, as illustrated by these testimonials from members and recruiters contemporary to Boris’s membership and Epstein and Nick’s friendship in the 1980s who alleged that prostitutes were hired for the dining clubs’ banquets and any dinner partier who wished to be serviced would be upon the tendering of an extra fee. In 2010, Epstein and Nick shared reminiscences over email, seemingly inaugurating the election of PM David Cameron, and Nick remarked to his old mate, “Eton/oxford/bullingdon running the country what a wheeze!!!”

We know that by November in the Year of the Spy, the confirmed bachelor Epstein had inveigled his way into an adoptive son relationship with Douglas Leese and befriended Leese’s eldest Nick, an Oxford educated member of the aristocratic all-boys Bullingdon Club. Anecdotes reminisced by Nick in the BDay album include a possible simultaneous sexual assault of a “call girl” who also happened to be Leese’s mistress by Douglas and a Filipino associate of his nicknamed Toto in the back of town car outside Harry’s Bar, an Epstein-Maxwell haunt in London. The fact Nick can recall these prurient details regarding his father’s mistress’s mistreatment clearly gets at the bourgeois accumulative eropolitics that Marx describes as, “wives (and daughters & sons) in common”. 

Our bourgeois, not content with having wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives.

Bourgeois marriage is, in reality, a system of wives in common...it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of the community of women springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution both public and private.

• Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto

In his BDay Book reminiscences requested by Ghislaine in 2003, Nick also rattles off “massage classes” at their manor Wraxall and additional sex worker chasing escapades with Epstein in Hong Kong in the 1980s, sliding around in the back of a cab along hairpin turns towards the red light district. More than just sweet memories to jog Jeffrey for his 50th, these recountings illustrate the way in which the decadent eropolitics of the globalized bourgeoisie commingles with imperialist profiteering. I’d personally hazard a guess that it’s a 90% chance that their time in Hong Kong’s red light district was some after hours entertainment during a Leese-Epstein business trip involving Norinco Lorad Ltd negotiations and the roundabout sale of Chinese weaponry to Iran, parallel trades to what are generally considered Iran-Contra but which really ought to make the categorical grade for inclusion (One Nation Under Blackmail, Webb). We can at least be sure the extent of Epstein’s jetset sexual misadventures around the world in 80 days with Leese and his sons holds some key to the underlying Iran-Contra business relationship of the two. Nick’s ties to Oxford University may also bear out the rumors that Epstein was introduced to Robert Maxwell via the Leese Family.

Robert Maxwell’s daughter Ghislaine grew up outside Oxford in the stately 55-room Headington Hill Hall, where the future madame trained to program on the Wang 2200 while practically still in proverbial diapers. Ghislaine Maxwell graduated from Balliol College at Oxford in 1985 (the same year as the Epstein aliyah “vacay”), where she fraternized with future tribalism Tory PM Boris Johnson while resting a “high-heeled boot on his thigh”. While the source is sus, Tehran-born, Iraqi Jewish Israeli military intel officer turned arms trader and now Canadian lobbyist Ari Ben-Menashe claimed in his book Profits of War that Robert Maxwell was enlisted to use The Daily Mirror as a laundry for profits from these secret arms deals with Iran, the funds deposited in Soviet bloc banks at the behest of Ehud Barak, who was concerned that Shimon Peres or American politicians would ransack the slush for themselves. Ben-Menashe would have known, as Seymour Hersh previously reported that Ari, Robert, and Daily Mirror foreign editor Nick Davies were all in cahoots transferring weapons from Israel to Iran in the 1980s and this was the scene in which Ben-Menashe first met Epstein, who’d routinely swing through Maxwell’s London office (One Nation Under Blackmail, Webb).

Ben-Menashe has also acknowledged Ghislaine’s omnipresence orbiting her father’s espionage activities in the 1980s. Concurrent with all of this, doing my Klonny Gosch Closet Futbol Fan due diligence, a 22 year old, doted-on Ghislaine got to live out her own personal Ted Lasso fantasy beginning in 1984, in the thick of Iran-Contra. Robert Maxwell was chairman of EFL soccer club Oxford United and held a minority stake in Reading FC as of 1982-83, when he attempted to push through an unconventional merger of the two teams struggling in the lower tiers of the English football pyramid. The Frankensteinian superclub was to be called Thames Valley Royal, but it never came off because of the opposition of the fans. Despite this, his favorite child benefited at least, as Ghislaine got to play director for a time between 1984 - 1986 or thereabouts, styling the team in its new strip, taking promo photos with the players, and hoisting the trophy earned from Oxford’s victorious campaign in the Milk Cup aloft with her Da. There’s a non-zero chance that Maxwell’s dalliance with life as a younger version of the buxom blonde club owner character from Ted Lasso may have been underwritten with her father’s plundering of pension funds or commissions paid for his squirreling away of Iran-Contra moneys in Soviet bank accounts where it couldn’t be easily gotten at, as Maxwell swept in and purchased Oxford United in 1982 for a measly £128k to save it from bankruptcy and administration.

Returning to My Big Fat Iran-Contra Wedding in Tel Aviv, coincidentally enough, Ehud Barak was the head of AMAN, the IDF’s military intelligence from 1983-85/86 (either until shortly before Epstein’s Isntreal trip or not long after), at which point he made a lateral move to become a Major General (Alufs) at Central Command, overseeing installations and forces in the West Bank, before continuing his direct ascent, which would bring him to the precipice of Chief of the General Staff circa the implementation of the Oslo Accords. During his two years as head of AMAN, Ehud conducted strategic backchannel planning for the under the table shipments to Iran via Isntreal and oversaw the first successful smuggling run. Did he dip from AMAN just in time to shield his career with the foreknowledge that the illegal Reagan-Peres ops would soon come to light? As the Iran-Contra scandal was gradually dragged into the light from 1986 on, the AmerIsraeli partners quickly reverted to “Spider-Man pointing at himself” posture.

Caption: Members of the IDF’s AMAN or Military Intelligence Directorate stand at attention as Ehud Barak surveys them in the 1990s

Considering the proximal timing of the flight (successful & attempted) of LEKEM assets, supportive sayanim, and possible Embassy-embedded katsas in reaction to the Pollard and Smyth affairs in 1985, which butted up against the Epstein Family Retvrn to the Pedoland, it’s reasonable to ask some questions: 

Was Epstein helping to handle Pollard or another discrete branch of the larger LEKEM network? Pollard’s initial in-person contact was then ensconced on sabbatical at NYU, and quite coincidentally, the Israeli handler was working on a Computer Science MA and PhD at the very same institute Epstein was reported to have attended a decade earlier. Brigadier General Aviem Sella was the man on the ground who initially recruited Pollard for Rafi Eitan, with the two meeting at a party hosted by a wealthy Jewish gynecologist on the Upper East Side in 1984 (Gideon’s Spies, Gordon Thomas). His reputation preceded him as a flying ace of the Six-Day War and the commander of the surprise attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, war heroics that apparently attracted Pollard to him (put a pin in this for a later Eitan section). From what I can tell, graduate studies in computer science at NYU in the 1980s were firmly under the auspices of the Courant Institute for Applied Mathematics. Epstein and Sella sharing an alma mater is but one circumstantial coincidence among a host of them that, if you squint just right, backs up the theory that Epstein was a LEKEM asset. With one of the final swoops and loops of his autopen in 2021, Donald Trump pardoned fighter pilot Aviem Sella for his role in the Pollard Affair at Netanyahu’s behest, bringing a 35 year saga to a close. We’ll attempt to tango with whether, much akin to the Reagan-Bush CIA electoral insurrection before it, the Trump campaign was the culmination of another AmerIsraeli IC “cowboy” coup, a covert action revanchism against the Obama era and JCPOA. Or did Trump’s candidacy catch the “cowboys” by surprise and Epstein/Mega was activated to corral the Donald and get him to toe the MIC line? I think the answer ultimately depends on the dimensionality of the Chess.

Winding the clock back to the Year of the Spy and Epstein Vacay, was Jeff the Financier withdrawn to Isntreal preemptively to avoid further exposures in what became one of a number of full-blown diplomatic crises that put the “Special Relationship” at risk? While the source is disreputable, as it’s from Chuck Johnson’s mouth, we now know that the perpetually in hot water Bannon-affiliated federal informant claimed to the Bureau that Alan Dershowitz is a Mossad agent and that he was the one, as Epstein’s attorney, who tried to ward Alex Acosta off from the Epstein case by saying that Jeff Gatsby was AmerIsraeli intelligence. It just so happens that Alan Dershowitz also repped the Navy intel analyst mole Pollard during one of his appeals, lending credence to the notion Epstein could be LEKEM-linked in light of Dersh & Jeff’s well-documented client-confidential friendship.

New (Oil) Leese on Life

Nick Leese’s Hong Kong prostitutes anecdote for Epstein’s walk down memory lane is of grave import, as Steve Hoffenberg claimed that by 1983, Epstein, Leese, and Mossad asset Adnan Khashoggi made up a profit-sharing trifecta coordinating on the sale of Chinese weapons to Iran like some covert arms cartel (One Nation Under Blackmail, Whitney Webb). While there are disputing accounts and the NYT version portrays Epstein as having been first introduced to the Leese family via his Miss Indianapolis girlfriend Paula Heil, a carryover from his Bear Stearns days, Webb writes that Epstein encountered Nick Leese at a party hosted by a prominent “oil baron” in Texas in 1981. I bring this up as the location and the industrial sector of the host’s business concerns are potentially intriguing as far as how they might tie back into Iran-Contra.

While “oil baron” seems a tad overly generous, Contragate kingpin George H.W. Bush did make a small fortune in oil prior to his entrance into politics, founding the Zapata Corporation with a CIA staffer cum Texan wildcatter named Thomas J. Devine in 1953. The initial $12 million (today’s dollars) in seed money included contributions from Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker. Zapata features in various Cuba and Vietnam related skullduggery plots that we may delve into later (extra credit: they also sought to purchase controlling shares of United Fruit before Epstein associate Leon Black’s father’s company outbid them in the late ‘60s). Although HW had exited Zapata some decades back, in the early 1990s, the Bushes were squarely in investigative journos’ crosshairs due to the Harken Energy scandal, an imbroglio of insider trading and influence peddling proportions that stemmed from the titular company buying up Bush Jr.’s distressed oil outfit Spectrum 7 (likely at the behest of his powerful father), which resulted in Dubya ending up on the board of directors of the company and receiving a yearly consultancy salary and hundreds of thousands in stock, a cushy position that he later parlayed into ownership of the Texas Rangers baseball team and a gubernatorial term. The minnow company came to the fore in 1990 when it was revealed that Harken had secured exclusive oil exploration and production rights to Bahrain’s offshore reserves, a country that Epstein would later seek to wield indirect influence over during the blockade of Qatar by the Wahhabi comprador kings and other American proxies such as Bahrain as Qatar’s punishment for not breaking off ties with Iran entirely.

Recall the ribald anecdote about the elder lord of war Leese and a Filipino associate named Toto simultaneously groping the same girl? Harken Energy was a confluence of the more sus stratum of the rich and powerful, with its stockholders and financiers tying back to Iran-Contra and Bush-era covert action. They included Council on Foreign Relations member George Soros; the Bass Bros (heirs to Houstonian oiler Perry Richardson Bass’s fortune and possible “baron” hosts of the Epstein-Leese soirée intro); David Edwards of Little Rock (middle man on the Bahrain deal, more shortly); South African liquor, luxury goods, and tobacco tycoon Anton Rupert; and last but not least, Alan Grant Quasha, 3 the Filipino son of Lt. Col. William Quasha, a Freemason and lawyer who stayed behind in Manila following his WWII service as a lawyerly captain on Gen. MacArthur’s logistical, legal, and intel support staff during combat operations in the Philippines circa the campaign to wrest control of the islands from the Japanese. William Quasha is credibly linked to the Asian Pacific and Oceania dirty tricks slush fund known as Nugan Hand Bank by virtue of the fact that Quasha repped the co-administrators of the Manila offices, onetime Chief of Staff for U.S. Pacific Command and a British national named Wilfred Gregory, both confidantes of the Marcos regime (The Crimes of Patriots, Kwitny). In a scene evocative of P2 and the organized criminal-intel Masonic infiltration of the Catholic Church during GLADIO, William Quasha was also a major player in Freemasonry in the Philippines and lobbied for reconciliation between the Masons and the Catholic Church. Better yet, William Quasha’s bid for Catholic-Masonic convergence hinged on the argument that both traditions were beset and threatened with extinction by the “Communist menace” and so therefore couldn’t afford to quarrel amongst themselves.

Per Gregory, Quasha advised both he and Three Star Gen. Leroy J. Manor to promptly dip from the country as Aussie investigators zeroed in on Nugan Hand for its role in funding the destabilization campaign that led to The Dismissal of Aussie Labor Party PM Gough Whitlam in 1975 (a soft coup from which the original Harken founders profited from due to the Labor government’s protectionist embargoing of foreign prospecting per Mother Jones), the laundering of drug profits (foreshadowing Iran-Contra), and the shelling out of monies for Ted Shackley, Thomas Clines, and Edwin Wilson’s various highly illegal, off-the-books wet work and arms slinging activities in the late ‘70s. Alias: the “Secret Team”. This underground of chagrined right-wing Company lifers and “cowboys” were all heavily involved in architecting the 1980s Fascist International and the illegal gun flows of which Iran-Contra was but one node. For example: the Blond Ghost Theodore Shackley, director of the Phoenix Program circa the Secret and Vietnam Wars and former JM/WAVE station chief, was one of the first Americans to sit down with Iranian Gen. Manucher Hashemi (the former head of the Shah Pahlavi’s murderous secret police SAVAK) and ex-SAVAK arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar in Hamburg to discuss potential quid pro quos and arms deals that could “release the hostages” in 1984, a meeting that saw the Company man author memorandums that later made their way to Gen. Vernon Walters, Michael Ledeen, and Oliver North, illustrating his early role in setting the wheels in motion.

Caption: Ted Shackley and other CIA men receiving the Order of the Million Elephants and the Parasol from Laotian King Savang Vatthana in 1968 

The pivotal point that bears repeating is that there’s an espionage, shadow banking, arms dealing, and drug running continuum that stretches from Paul Helliwell’s Castle Bank and Trust in Nassau to Nugan Hand to BCCI and various Swiss Banks to Worthen Bank in the Clinton narco-republic of Arkansas and some of these covert financing mechanisms found their replication in front companies like Epstein’s Southern Trust Company or Arnon Milchan’s Milchan Brothers on the Israeli side. And from the 1950s through to the 1990s, many of the same players crop up time and again—it’s simply the obfuscatory corporate shells that shuffle and confuse the mind like a Game of Cups. Taking Epstein’s ties to the Leese’s and his attendance at this Texan oil baron party in 1981 into account, and staying mindful of the ungodly overlaps between the Epstein Nexus and Iran-Contra that we’ve only just begun to map, I think we can postulate that it’s relatively likely that the Filipino friend “Toto” that was groping around for that poor girl’s coochie at the same time as Douglas Leese was some kind of associate of the elder Quasha and that the social worlds collided by virtue of both parties’ enmeshment in Contragate and Revenge of the CIA Cowboy activities that were spanning the globe.

Similarly, could the Texan oil baron Epstein visited in 1981 have been the freshly minted Vice President George H. W. Bush? It’s not firmly out of the realm of possibility, particularly considering the fact that most students of Iran-Contra agree that Bush had an even more hands-on role than President Reagan, which is only natural, considering his intelligence community bona fides. In the Rolling Stone article “Was Jeffrey Epstein a Spy?”, an unnamed source anonymized due to the sensitivity of the topic alleges that Epstein and Leese flew to the Pentagon together as early as 1981, the same year as the Reagan-Bush inauguration and the same year as the aforementioned oil party. Even if it wasn’t some party at the Bush Crime Family Ranch, we can likely assume the hosts were backers of the Bushes, considering everything Epstein became involved in from that fateful calendar year up to the Year of the Spy and beyond.

In summa of this section, we can conclude that the late early 1980s saw Epstein’s entrance into the deadliest international games in earnest, that the relationships that led to Epstein profiting wildly off of the smuggling of arms were built off the back of upper crust carousing and impropriety, that many of Epstein’s closest co-conspirators in the kompromat operations like Ehud Barak and Maxwell were themselves a part of the larger Iran-Contra milieu, and that it can reasonably be inferred that by 1985, Epstein had an established rapport with AmerIsraeli intelligence. And that all of these deep political and bourgeois maneuverings coincided with the “unwelcome” rise of Islamist and Islamo-socialist movements in the Middle East that, if allowed to ally together, could have posed existential dangers to  AmerIsraeli hegemony in the region. The last half of the previous sentence being from the perspective of the deep state WASP Yankees, Cowboys, Atlanticists, and Zionists, of course.

Enter “Rafi the Stinker”, Arnon Milchan, and LEKEM

Let’s chip through the rocky Temple Mount topsoil and dig a little deeper, as it may quickly elucidate that there’s a close to ironclad circumstantial case that the Familia Epstein were in Isntreal on official Iran-Contra covert business. Firstly, there’s a handful of supremely suspicious synchronicities to the trip. On Nov. 21st, 1985, treasonous Israeli mole Jonathan Pollard was finally arrested by the FBI for leaking tens of thousands of—in intelligence parlance—“unredacted” classified documents to his handler Rafi Eitan. Pollard was a once-in-a-lifetime mole for the Israelis by virtue of the fact he was stationed at the Naval Anti-Terrorist Alert Center (ATAC) with the necessary clearance to handle top secret docs and transport them to other agencies. Were it not for the bespectacled money-grubbing double agent’s studied clumsiness, he may well have avoided detection for decades.

I think one aspect of the Pollard tale that gets glossed over somewhat is that the ATAC was a state-of-the-art, 24 hour monitoring the situation bay and military fusion center of sorts that was founded in December of 1983 to mitigate against threats like the Beirut Marine Corps barracks bombing and the assassination of a Naval officer by the FMLN in El Salvador, the latter particularly notable in relation to Iran-Contra as the Salvadoran Ilopango Air Base was one of the main logistics hubs and layovers for guns-for-drugs traffic to the Contras and back.

Caption: U.S military personnel bazooka-training Salvadoran soldiers at Ilopango in 1983, one year before Pollard would begin his very brief analyst tenure at ATAC

By extension, ATAC was an early test case for a lot of technology and software that has since seen wider LEO and civilian usage. The precise kinds of surveillance and multi-source intel-aggregating technologies that an agency like LEKEM or someone like Robert Maxwell or his son-in-law-ish would have taken an interest in. As detailed by the DCI’s “The Jonathan Jay Pollard Espionage Case: A Damage Assessment" report, one example of the purloined classified materials passed from Pollard to his handlers involves bleeding edge Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) or SATINT, as he handed over crisp American-made satellite images of the damage done to the Osirak reactor that far exceeded any visuals the Israelis then had access to, as well as studies on the Saudi armed forces and their ground troop logistics, all docs that would have attracted the Isntrealis like flies to honey.

Pollard reported to Eitan, who then headed up Isntreal’s acronymous LEKEM, aka the Bureau of Scientific Relations, a deceptively short-lived agency that was scuttled and renamed following exposure from the Pollard and Richard Kelly Smyth affairs, both in 1985, the same year as the Epstein Fam Birthright-Taglit Trip that came to be colloquially known as the Year of the Spy due to the Reagan FBI’s endeavoring to suss out treasonous intel-sellers. There is a very real possibility that Eitan was Epstein’s handler on the Isntreali side for a time and even if he wasn’t, he’s inextricably enmeshed in the wider, intel-criminal web of which Epstein was a singular node.

Eitan had a storied intelligence career, which we’ll examine in more studious fashion later on, a career that made him a microcosm of the Isntreali lack of scruples when it comes to working with Nazis. In his memoir Capturing Eichmann, Eitan presents a whitewashed and historically revisionist version of Mossad’s recruitment of the SS colonel and unconventional warfare wizard Otto Skorzeny during Operation Countdown in the early 1960s. Eitan became involved when he was appointed as the head of Tzomet operations in Europe in 1963 (Tzomet means ‘Junction’  and is in essence Mossad’s HUMINT division). His newfound title’s assignment included the leadership of Hamoked and the Mossad unit known as Colossus, with Eitan’s primary remits being the recruitment of Arab assets for planting in target countries and to find a way to scuttle the Egyptian guided missile program and the German scientists that had been hired to oversee it, the success of which was of pivotal strategic importance to the Isntrealis during the Six Day War just 4 years later, as it deprived the Egyptians of such armaments (Capturing Eichmann, Eitan). Rafi’s account of this time period is characteristically defanged, as he elides that Otto Skorzeny was already working for Mossad circa Operation Damocles.

On Sept. 11th, 1962 (lol), Skorzeny drove German rocket scientist Heinz Krug out into a forest after drawing him in with promises of shielding him from Mossad retaliation over his work for Nasser and the Egyptians, one of a cohort of ex V-2 experts who were building ballistics at Factory 333. Krug was the director of an Egyptian dummy company that linked back to the weapons program. Skorzeny shot the defenseless man in the back and disposed of his body outside of Munich, an operation that Eitan handwaves as an “unexplained disappearance”. Per the Jewish Virtual Library, Skorzeny also mailed the package bomb that killed 5 Egyptian workers at one of the front companies that received the missile components shipped from Germany to Cairo, an Egyptian-German collaboration that had been set up by Nasser to maintain Cold War non-alignment. In Eitan’s version of events, there’s little mention of these assassinations, and he portrays himself as having been strictly involved with Operation Countdown, the successor program that used Skorzeny as an intermediary to basically buy the scientist team away from the Egyptians with superior Rothschild moneys. I’m sure it helped that they were all already petrified and looking over their shoulder constantly, expecting a bullet in their vertebrae (Capturing Eichmann, Eitan). Eitan writes that he had “no hesitation about employing Nazis to ensure the security of Israel”. If one takes a magnifying glass to the footage of Otto Skorzeny’s funeral in 1976, which at least Mossad agent Yosef Raanan attended, you might be able to spy the avuncular, bespectacled Rafi Eitan amongst the siegheiling SS officers and commandos who’d graduated to West German intelligence positions and welcomed their Isntreali allies at the Austrian funeral. This is but one miniature illustration of the closeness that ethnosupremacism engenders between its fellows. Keep it in mind as it will relate back to the Epstein-Bannon PedoFash International and Eitan’s spectral looming later on.

But back to the Year of the Spy and Eitan’s likely asset Jeffrey Epstein’s arrival in Tel Aviv riding on the back of the Pollard and Smyth Affairs. This is largely intuitive, but I suspect that the Reagan admin directive to federal law enforcement from on high to clamp down on the sale of classified info to foreign governments had something to do with keeping up appearances in anticipation of the imminent optics snafu of Iran-Contra. The fact of the matter is that, despite American media swallowing the Isntreali clean-up and professions of innocence hook line and sinker, LEKEM still operates all around the globe under a different name to this day and was simply restructured. Last LEKEM boss Rafi Eitan served mostly uncomplainingly as sin eater and the directorate was formally “abolished” and excoriated as a “rogue agency” in hopes of salvaging relations with the American security services and State Department. In actuality, though, its technological, scientific research, and military hardware acquisition by any means necessary function and personnel were simply absorbed—either by MALMAB (Director of the Security of the Defense Establishment), which is also under the auspices of the Ministry of Defense, or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, depending on who you ask.

To that point, LEKEM was founded by Epstein associate Shimon Peres in 1957, then Isntreal’s youngest ever Director General of the Ministry of Defense. Peres is considered the architect of Isntreal’s strategically ambiguous “maybe we do, maybe we don’t” secret nuclear weapons program and played an instrumental fundraising role in the construction of the Dimona reactor, panhandling $40 million around the world from Israel’s friends, which has since been renamed after the PM. In the early ‘60s, Peres recruited the Hollywood proto-Epstein Arnon Milchan, producer of Fight Club, Pretty Woman, & LA Confidential, for decades of defense-related procurement and intel operations. At the height of his arms dealing, Milchan ran an opaque network of 30 shell companies in over 15 countries. The skim and commissions of the under-the-table and embargo skirting arms deals that he struck on behalf of Israel landed in Swiss bank accounts that served as slush funds for much of Mossad’s international espionage expenses over the last half century, a system that Epstein appears to have learned the ropes of in the ‘80s and somewhat replicated, albeit perhaps to a lesser extent.

Richard Kelly Smyth was a North American Rockwell exec (avionics and defense electronics, etc) and a security-cleared member of various advisory boards at the Pentagon, NATO, and NASA. He was initially wooed by Arnon Milchan at the command of his higher ups in LEKEM upon a visit of Smyth’s to Isntreal in the 1970s. Milchan weaponized a lipstick-red Chevy convertible and the whipping salty air of the Mediterranean, the flecks of dust less irksome because of that beguiling archaic sense for Protestant WASPs… The Holy Land. And a beautiful companion or two to win Dick Kelly over. Smyth had been sent to cancel Rockwell’s contracts with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) only to discover that a far more profitable joint venture than their $10 mil a year contract – which was paling in the face of Saudi oil money – was on offer (Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon - Arnon Milchan, Doron & Gelman). The Isntrealis needed Rockwell’s help with implementing a ring of SIGINT listening posts and early warning radar along the mountains in Iran for the Shah, this being still a ways off from the Revolution. The plan had been initially laid by IAI CEO Al Schwimmer (a weapons smuggler and Mahal operative in his own right) and Yaakov Nimrodi, the military attaché in Tehran who trained the deadly secret police SAVAK and later orchestrated major early stage Iran-Contra deals. While the pair were confident IAI could manage the antennas and assorted electronics installs, they felt a larger contractor was necessary because of Iran’s vast size and rocky topography. Enter Milchan, LEKEM, the unsuspecting Smyth, and Rockwell. This hugely profitable deal for Rockwell in Pahlavist Iran would not only mint the very young Milchan as LEKEM’s most prized agent, but it would set Smyth on a collision course with his eventual recruitment to open the so-blatant-it’s-painful front company Milco (for “military company, not in honor of Milchan, according to Doron & Bergman), and in his largely ceremonial role as CEO and part owner, Smyth would become one of the Isntrealis’ primary procurers of tech and hardware in the U.S. that they wanted to palm quietly.

In this capacity, Smyth and the family shop of Milco smuggled over 800 krytron switches to Hollywood producer spy Arnon Milchan’s company Heli Corp. (or Heli Trading Co.) between the years of 1980-82. In a May 28th LA Times article regarding the 15 violations of Arms Control Act he was eventually arraigned over, Smyth professed total ignorance that the krytrons could be used as atomic triggers and plead his innocence, claiming they were intended for laser systems, radars, and conventional ordnance. As LEKEM fate would have it, Richard Kelly Smyth and his wife up and vanished in August, 1985, before his pretrial hearing could proceed; they would only be found 16 years later, in late 2001, on the lam in Málaga, Spain, at which point they were extradited back to the States… Funny timing, that, just a few months after the catastrophic false flag that sent the United States catapulting into the disastrous Global War on Terror. Are you beginning to note some of these temporal patterns in relation to the Epstein Tel Aviv Trip? 

And here’s the kicker… This is another one of those emphasis added datapoints, triple underlined. In 2002, upon his and his wife’s capture in Málaga by Interpol and his extradition, Richard Kelly Smyth gave an interview to the FBI in which he divulged that a young BIBI NETANYAHU WORKED FOR ARNON MILCHAN’S HELI TRADING CORP. AND THAT HE WOULD RENDEZVOUS WITH BIBI TO PASS ALONG “UNCLASSIFIED INFO” IN RESTAURANTS IN TEL AVIV. Please file this away for later. Reminder that Milchan has testified in Bibi’s interminable corruption trial in Isntreal under allegations that the LEKEM billionaire lavished Bibi with expensive watches and cigars to secure assistance with visa issues and other favors.

Around the same time the walls were caving in on Mr. And Mrs. Smyth, the noose was tightening around Jonathan Pollard. While the Naval Officer who coincidentally lived next door to the Pollards and to whom Jonathan’s wife had entrusted a suitcase stuffed with documents stowed during the raid on their home began to ask around about the situation to his Naval Intelligence contacts, Pollard was also on the verge of fleeing the United States. According to his handler Rafi Eitan, Pollard bungled his escape despite the communication of a prearranged signal to alert him that he’d been ferreted out by dallying for 3 days and then seeking asylum at the Israeli Embassy. After he was apprehended as soon as he backed out the gate of the Embassy having been refused safe haven, Pollard’s panicked wife Anne rendezvoused with Aviem Sella, still on sabbatical as the Israeli Air Force’s Director of Operations to study computer science at NYU, who alerted Eitan and LEKEM of the developments. This led two science attachés and an embassy secretary implicated in the operation to hurriedly flee the country. Were it not for the previous escape of the Smyth Family, which had forced the FBI to up the ante with multiple tails who cycled in and out while following the Pollard vehicle so as to ensure another perpetrator didn’t slip through their fingers, Jonathan and his wife may well have shook their tails and quietly slipped out of the country. But due to the recent failure and the Bureau’s additional precautions, Pollard failed to pick up that he was being surveilled.

These were some of the espionage events that transpired in the months prior to the Epstein Family Vacation in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and which implicate an agency that may have been handling Epstein even then. I’ve clearly made up my mind up to tango with a tentative sub-thesis in the ensuing pages of the next article or two, that Epstein, like Jonathan Pollard and Richard Kelly Smyth, may have been recruited to serve as a LEKEM asset initially, and that he was in effect an understudy to Arnon Milchan and Robert Maxwell, with his mysterious wealth of uncertain providence also serving as a covert funding mechanism for AmerIsntreali intel ops at home and abroad. Your job, reader, is to conclude whether the case is compelling or not.

From Spygate to Contragate to Whitewatergate to Chinagate to Pedogate…

Plus Slush Fund Analogues Run By Royal Family Epstein Associates

Another criminal armaments slush fund analogue can be found in Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar’s reciprocity arrangement with Robert McFarlane to finance the Contras, a handshake agreement circumnavigating the Boland Amendments, the third of which completely closed the dollar spigot for the Contras in Oct. 1984. We will deal with Prince Bandar properly in due course, but the most crucial barebones piece of info for you to keep in your mind is that Bandar conduited $32 million to the Contras between July 1984, when he began depositing $1 million monthly in a Cayman Islands offshore bank called BAC International, until March of 1985, around the time at which this early phase of Iran-Contra off-the-books financing concluded with a lump sum payment of approximately $24 million. While not a formal line-item (as that would have defeated the entire purpose of duping Congress), the quid pro quo essentially boiled down to the Saudis agreeing to fund anti-communist rebel groups such as the Afghan mujahideen, Angolan fighters, and the Contras in return for the U.S. pushing through a major arms deal that we’ll discuss further along.

The Los Angeles Times article by Doyle McManus that I just cited alludes to the Contras aid having been requested from the Saudis by CIA Director William Casey, as well. Ratcheting up the level of instructive synchrony, the same piece mentions that the Sultan of Brunei also donated $10 million to the Contras at the behest of Sec. George Shultz and the Reagan admin, one of the more slapstick anecdotes from Iran-Contra, as Lt. Col. Oliver North allegedly “accidentally” sent the Sultan’s “humanitarian aid” to a “Swiss shipping magnate” instead of the Swiss account that funneled to the paramilitary, monies the Swiss businessman promptly invested before reportedly returning with interest. According to Peter Dale Scott’s book The Iran-Contra Connection, though, the Sultan of Brunei was a key creditor for Adnan Khashoggi, who was fronting millions of dollars to the U.S. government to pay for the arms that were sold to the Iranians on the down low, and “some U.S. officials suspect that the Sultan’s money… went to reimburse Khashoggi”.

Why is it that almost every other major player in Iran-Contra links back to Epstein? Is this dynamic simply an extension of bourgeois unanimity with regards to both the Reagan Doctrine anti-communism crusade that undergirded Iran-Contra and the Epstein nexus, that it’s simply a small club and you ain’t in it? Or, on the contrary, is Epstein’s Iran-Contra social circle a result of his involvement in the scandal in an operational capacity?

Due to the treacherous terrain of the speculative realm, the shakiness of the ground only intensified by explorations of the wilderness of mirrors that is such covert history, I once again ask you to open yourself to the merits of retrocausal evidence, to consider whether we can deduce certain realities in reverse. Along these lines, the Sultan of Brunei is named in the recent Epstein FilesOp email trove in various places. President Clinton recently gave Congressional testimony in response to questions posed regarding those suggestive “hot tub pics”, to boot. He responded that he, Epstein, and Maxwell stayed at a resort in Brunei at the personal invitation of the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah at the end of a “very long leg” of their globetrotting advocacy on the “AIDS issue”. Clinton claimed that he was luxuriating in the hot tub next to a redacted victim when he was surreptitiously photographed unbeknownst to him, with Clinton downplaying the R+R as a strictly asexual soaking. Furthermore, in Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 115-cv-07433, the 2015 lawsuit filed in the Southern District of NY, Virginia Giuffre alleged that she was abused and forced to have sex with girls in Brunei while underage (I would link to the lawsuit docs on the DOJ site, but they are conspicuously nuked). On March 14th, 2013, Epstein invited British powerbroker Ian Osborne to rendezvous with him and the Sultan in New York, plans to which Osborne gave the affirmative. Keep this evidence of an enduring relationship between Epstein & the Sultan in mind when considering the case I’m assembling that Epstein was a direct participant in the Iran-Contra Affair and that his fortune was seeded by his gunrunning in the ‘80s, arms dealing that directly predicates the present aggressions against Iran.

Surveying similar lines, I’ve pulled together disparate proof of a decades-long relationship between Epstein and the early Contragate conduit Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, an interlock the implications of which have seemingly gone mostly unnoticed by investigative journalists and independent researchers (save for Whitney Webb, who mentions the Prince as a client of the CIA-linked Riggs Bank in DC in One Nation Under Blackmail, I’m not sure I’ve even seen anyone else touch on these links). With access to the recent tranches of documents, I’ll attempt to fill in some of the gaps regarding the Epstein - Bandar friendship, which should fortify other arguments I’ll pose regarding the prospect of Epstein’s direct participation in Contragate and the Al-Yamamah deal. To my knowledge, some of these expanded arguments are quite novel. Part of the reason that the Prince’s ties to Epstein appear to have slipped through the cracks somewhat is due to the fact that his address & contact info entry in the first Black Book is listed in alphabetical order with surname first and “Prince” second, a confusing use of the honorific. So he appears as Bandar Prince. It doesn’t help that the entry is also split up by a page break and there’s no comma.

In 1989, Prince Bandar purchased 95 acres of prime Rocky Mt. real estate near Aspen (possibly using commission bribes from various Saudi-American arms deals), atop which he constructed a rustic lodge from timber beams and stone columns surrounded by snaking ski trails, waterfalls, and a reflecting pool. From the early ‘90s until 2007, the Ambassador Prince would escape to the ski lodge estate that dwarfs the White House, whiling away his Stateside vacays triannually. Funnily enough, Hala Ranch, as it’s known, was sold by Prince Bandar to a fellow Black Book addressee, passing over to the billionaire John Paulson, who is infamous for betting against the subprime mortgage lending market during the Great Recession. As fate would have it, Bandar is a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute, a national security think tank that Epstein denigrates somewhat as unserious in comparison to CSIS, despite the fact that he clearly used his proximity to it to cultivate sources in the highest echelons of power. The Aspen Institute will come up repeatedly in “Jeffrey Epstein’s War & the PedoFash International” due to various round tables of ex-bureaucrats hosted there. One or two of these round tables have featured sundry Epstein affiliates discussing  the “inevitability” of hot war with Iran or the conflict with Iraq and on at least one occasion, notes from a closed session were passed on to Epstein by Pritzker.

In the files, there are segmented partial printouts of Epstein’s Mac Mail contacts within which a “Loulou Bandar” and a “Fuzzy Bandar” are both listed, presumably nicknames for relatives or children of the Prince. In 2013, Epstein explored the prospect of purchasing the Bin Ennakhil Palace outside of Casablanca in Marrakech (Morocco) from an agent with Kensington / Christie’s, a property that just so happens to be kitty corner to one of Prince Bandar bin Sultan’s many homes. Epstein appears to have been gestating a plan to purchase or build a palatial saraya in Morocco for some years, as he informs the owner of an “afrixp” email account that he plans to get the floor plans for the Bandar property, to which “afrixp’ reminds Epstein not to forget the “harem”, volunteering to help manage it, before Epstein jokes that the main building will be for “eunuchs only” and that the women will be stowed away in a guesthouse. There’s also a group email from a year later titled “Bahrain racing” that’s addressed to the aforementioned Fuzzy and Loulou Bandar, as well as Prince Bandar’s son Khalid, his wife Lucy Cuthbert, and presumably prominent Saudi citizen Mohamed Alkholi, a board member of the construction and facilities management firm Alkholi Group.

Although we know he’s a bold-faced liar, Ehud Barak has adamantly claimed that he first met Epstein through LEKEM godfather Shimon Peres in 2003 at an event attended by “American dignitaries”—seems likelier that they first met in the ‘80s when both were involved in Iran-Contra but somehow escaped unscathed and without any of the radioactive shit sticking to them. Additionally, Alan Dershowitz’s retelling of his first encounter with Epstein in a “Continuation of Off the Record” convo transcript goes like this: he was phoned by Lynn Forester (future Rothschild) in July of ‘96 and Forester asked to set up the Dersh with her friend Epstein who’d just flown into Martha’s Vineyard via Pedo Leer Jet. A month later, Dersh and Jeff were already fast friends over “mutual interest”—SCIENCE and ACADEMIA, Dersh barks in all caps as if the shouting typeface will convince anyone—and Epstein took him to meet Wexner in New Albany in August. Also present were, drum roll, the wizardly spymaster Shimon Peres, astronaut Senator John Glenn, and Sotheby’s pricefixer A. Alfred Taubman, a Wexner associate and post-Soviet real estate raider in Russia & Azerbaijan. Multiplying the degree of cross-pollination amongst this Epstein-Contra nexus, Dershowitz once advised Iran-Contra missile-slinger cum Epstein mentor Adnan Khashoggi on legal matters and he also represented convicted LEKEM asset Jonathan Pollard during one of his appeals, as a draft of one of Dersh’s memoirs in the Files makes plain. And, if you can believe it, a NY Magazine profile of Dersh from 2019 which was basically a crisis PR opportunity for the embattled prof-perv-lawyer contains this hilarious example of shooting oneself in the foot:

In the sunny dining room, which looked out on the pool, a large stack of spreadsheets was waiting on the table. They were a detailed breakdown, Dershowitz said, of his whereabouts and activities during the years his primary accuser, a former member of Epstein’s entourage named Virginia Giuffre, says that Dershowitz had sex with her when she was a teenager in New York, Palm Beach, and other locales. “Every single one of those days is accounted for,” he said. On August 1, 1999, for instance, the spreadsheets say he stayed on the Vineyard and had a meeting with a certain “Prince Bandar.” (Dershowitz later clarified it wasn’t the famous Saudi prince.)

How many Prince Bandar’s do you think there are on this planet? My god, it’s putting a stitch in my side that Dershowitz invites a NYMag journo over to his Martha’s Vineyard estate to set the record straight on Giuffre’s massage allegations and yet he doesn’t even realize that one of these alibis hinges on a liaison potentially much more dangerous to expose, namely a meeting with the former head of Saudi intelligence, a big player in Contragate, not long before 9/11. Keep these relationships in mind.

Brief deep politics addendum to the anecdote about Epstein meeting Dersh at the party with Peres, this one regarding flying ace John Glenn. Just to illustrate that every step of the way, we find nonpareil sus lords in Epstein proximity. Glenn ascended to the rank of Colonel in the Marine Corps and earned 6 Flying Crosses and 18 Air Medals over the span of a distinguished anticommunist fighter pilot career (ugh) stretching from Midway Atoll takeoffs circa WWII to patrolling North China with Corsair squadrons in a VMF-218 in support of the Kuomintang counter-revolutionary forces of fascist Director-General Chiang Kai-Shek, the mobbed up occupying forces that fought against Mao and the communist Chinese tooth and nail on behalf of Western capital and American imperial interests. Furthermore, the KMT were like a practice run for Iran-Contra as they worked with the Triads and CIA proprietary airline CAT, which evolved into Barry Seal’s Air America, to smuggle opium/heroin from the Golden Triangle to the U.S. and elsewhere. The drug trade commingled with the use of CIA dummy corporations such as the Taiwanese Western Enterprises Inc. to finance the war effort. The organized criminality was supported by Wall Street so as to indoctrinate middle class mainlanders in Taiwan and SE Asia into “secret society” patronage networks that would batten the hatches against communist influence and see some of the Hip Sing opium proceeds diverted to Chiang Kai-Shek’s hawkish China Lobby so as to secure American political support for the KMT’s exiled commandos in Burma, Laos, and Thailand during the Cold War. In 1954, Chiang Kai-shek requested the formation of the Asian People’s Anti-communist League, a chartered WACL member, the founders primarily composed of the dictatorial governments of South Korea and the KMT’s Taiwan, in the usual fashion, with Chiang allying himself with Rev. Moon and his Unification Church, Japanese billionaire gangster war criminal Ryiochi Sasakawa, and the fash Yoshio Kodama.

All still-living parties and their political progeny would come to play principal roles on the margins of the Iran-Contra Affair, with the APACL helping significantly on the fundraising side. While Sen. John Glenn styled as a critic of Reagan executive branch excesses during Iran-Contra, per the book The Shadow World, a massive tome on international arms trafficking, during Prince Bandar’s negotiations of the Saudi-U.S. AWACS deal:

The Prince had taken up regular squash matches with General David Jones, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and took to mimicking aerial dogfights with John Glenn, a Democratic Senator “and former pilot and astronaut, as if they were ‘old pilot buddies’. He became closely acquainted with James Baker III, Reagan’s Chief of Staff who would one day be President George H. W. Bush’s Secretary of State, and at one point was involved in negotiating between King Khalid and President Reagan about the type of compromises that might secure the sale. A compromise was eventually struck to sell the AWACS on the condition that there would be sharing of information with the US, and various safeguards were included to prevent third parties from accessing the system. The deal, together with other initiatives to extend its military influence in the region, would culminate in the US using the kingdom as a launching pad for the First Gulf War.

So, in one sense, while Epstein associate John Glenn was one of the more vocal Congressional critics of Iran-Contra and played the part of the performative corruption crusader well during the politicking surrounding the 1981 sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia, a deal that links indelibly to Contragate and indirectly to Epstein, the Astro-Senator had already seemingly had his palms greased by Bandar and the Saudis circa the sale of the F-15s in the late ‘70s and beyond the watchful eye of cameras they were as close as a pair of dogfighters could be (The Shadow World, Feinstein). John Glenn’s early air support of the Kuomintang flows directly into Air America, the Secret War on Laos, and the opium smuggling that would serve as precedent for the later crack-Contra traffic bridging Nicaragua, Arkansas, Miami, and Oakland. To this point, John Glenn’s 20-plus Congressional career ended with accusations of partisan foot-dragging and dereliction of duty from his Republican counterparts in relation to various Congressional investigations into possible Clinton corruption in the mid 1990s.

This should be tackled in a more expanded fashion, and while there’s a relative dearth of credible direct ties between Epstein and the Bushes outside of an FBI interview in a which a clearly traumatized and mentally unwell individual alleges they were raped during a “blood ritual” on a yacht by Bush Sr. in the presence of Epstein, Trump and Clinton that was recently released in the files… I’d like to point out an oft-overlooked aspect of American presidential politics between the Reagan and Clinton eras. For 28 straight years, from Reagan to Bush Sr. to Clinton and then to Bush Jr., the highest executive office in the land was filled with the ass of a man who either had direct involvement in Iran-Contra or else was the son of one of its primary architects. Relatedly, in 1995, John Glenn was one of three Democratic partisans to vote against a Congressional inquiry into the Whitewater controversy, a possibly telling breadcrumb as, if Whitewater posed any significant risk to the Iran-Contra Cartel and the Intelligence Community, it would have been because of the potential that Clinton’s gubernatorial facilitation of much more incendiary and illegal activities in Arkansas in the mid-1980s circa Iran-Contra could have come to light. Even more of consequence, Glenn faced accusations of sabotaging Chinagate, the Woodward and Duffy spurred contemporary investigation into allegations that the PRC had directed campaign contribution funds to the Democratic Party during the 1996 election cycle. As the senior most top Democrat on the panel, the investigation came to be characterized by the supposedly exceptional acrimony between John Glenn and the man spearheading the probe, Sen. Fred Thompson. While we can’t do it justice in the remainder of this essay, as I’m due an intermission, to set us up for the next installment, I want to make exceptionally clear that the quieting of Chinagate was of critical importance to the Bush-Clinton Crime Families as two of the fundraisers fingered in the probe were Lippo Group executives, the Taiwanese John Huang and the Chinese Indonesian James Riady, son of billionaire Mochtar Riady, businessmen who bind together everything from Iran-Conra to the CIA abetting Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) and its Hong Kong based subsidiary, a bank that Epstein was likely intimately involved with by virtue of his Iran-Contra gunrunning with Adnan Khashoggi and the Norinco Lorad connection via Douglas Leese, and even the bloodthirsty Indonesian dictator Suharto. Epstein’s carousing companion Clinton met the Riady father and son team in the early 1970s and they became inextricably enmeshed by extension with all of the CIA-adjacent and Contra-crack criminality that went down in Arkansas during that decade, elements of this investigation that link back to our earlier discussion of the Harken Energy Scandal via broker David Edwards that we’ll have to explicate next time.

Fascinatingly, even Bush Sr. solicitor general and head of the Office of the Independent Counsel (OIC) Ken Starr was opposed to the length, breadth, and cost of the Whitewater investigation, a likely instructive dithering as Ken Starr would steer Whitewater and related scandals away from questions of foreign bribes, money laundering, shadow banking, and criminal activity in Arkansas and towards the salacious details of President Clinton nutting on Monica Lewinsky's blouse. Reminder that throughout Clinton’s two terms, Epstein was signed into the White House innumerable times and many believe that he and his harem had been expressly deployed by the Isntrealis to manipulate Clinton against getting too serious about peace in the Middle East. Was Ken Starr’s Lewinsky probe the culmination of sexual kompromat efforts against Clinton or was it the titillating cover story to conceal a much darker reality, namely that the bourgeois political elite of this country, the Bush and Clinton families, who are commonly viewed by the mind-programmed cattle as if they are sworn blood feud enemies, had secretly worked together to arm Iran and the Contras and flood this country with drugs in the 1980s?

The fact that Bush Sr. advised Clinton to allow the legislation that created the independent investigatory office of OIC to lapse, which Carter first signed into law so as to try and uphold the executive branch to a higher ethical and accountable standard in the aftermath of Watergate, upholds this perspective. The Independent Counsel Act first lapsed for 18 months after the seven year Contragate probe concluded with Lawrence Walsh’s report issued mere weeks before the election, rhyming with later politicized weaponization of Russiagate, the Mueller Report, and Crossfire Hurricane, part of the reason that Presidents have allowed the Office to survive despite their own illegal dealings and impropriety, as it can sometimes be politically expedient or give you a leg up. While I’m not certain, I’d also assume that some of Clinton’s thinking to renew the bill was that he felt it would inure him to the Congressional GOP, indicate he had nothing to hide, and earn some brownie points from Starr. He also doubtlessly knew that the whole operation was a limhang and coverup of sorts intended to settle Iran-Contra and overshadow any questions of his involvement. I’m sure he was also well aware that he would be insulated from any serious legal ramifications as President, a status quo that’s lasted for decades. Similarly, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that Kenneth Starr graduated from Whitewater to eventually serve as part of Jeffrey Epstein’s defense and was allegedly in the room at the time the sweetheart plea deal and non-prosecution agreement were negotiated, meaning that he may have been party to the talking down of Alex Acosta and the insinuations that Epstein was untouchable because he was intelligence. Julie K. Brown maintains in Perversion of Justice that Starr was also lobbying the DOJ to drop its case against Epstein at the time. People forget, but much of this was occurring during the final years of George W. Bush’s two terms, which also underlines the notion that Epstein’s favorable treatment doubtlessly was informed in part by the secrets he safeguarded regarding Iran-Contra.

Sources:

Peter Dale Scott - The Iran-Contra Connection

Gordon Thomas - Gideon’s Spies

Whitney Webb - One Nation Under Blackmail (predominantly Vol. 2)

Anderson & Anderson - Inside the League

Andrew Feinstein - The Shadow World

Rafi Eitan - Capturing Eichmann

Doron & Gelman - Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan

Jonathan Kwitny - The Crimes of Patriots

Sally Denton - The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World (although this figures in more so later).

End Notes:

1. Sidebar: The 2005 arms trading flick Lords of War begins with Nick Cage’s Yuri securing a source for Isntreali-manufactured Uzis via his father’s synagogue and then he and his Jared “Suslord” Leto-played brother land their big break by way of the Lebanese Civil War hostilities, which connects back to Iran-Contra IRL as Hezbollah seized American hostages (including William F. Buckley, who died in captivity) in order to try and dissuade the U.S. from intervening.  The government’s excuse for circumventing Congress by supporting the Contras and selling arms to Iran was that they were currying favor with the Islamic Republic so that they might apply pressure to Hezbollah to release said hostages. To really drive the Epstein uncanniness in the plot home, the neighborhood of Little Odessa and Epstein’s childhood stomping grounds of Sea Gate are both a part of the general vicinity that is Coney Island and approximately 2 miles from each other… Another reported source of inspiration for Cage’s character besides Viktor Bout is Syrian-Lebanese-Armenian arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian, who was enlisted by the CIA to sell arms to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War concurrent with the Iran-Contra gunrunning with which Epstein became enmeshed. To this point, Epstein’s activities and Soghanalian’s were respective sides of a two pronged approach. During the Reagan admin, the U.S. armed both sides of the conflict as a means of weakening the two developing MENA countries so that the regime change of the Pan-Arab, secular nationalist, revolutionary socialist and anti-Zionist Ba’athists and the Shia theocratic, populist, and anti-imperialist Islamic Republican Party of Iran would be easier to affect later on. All of which is to say, what did writer/director Andrew Niccol know?

2. Epstein & Bannon Build the New Pedo International

It’s a little patchy and there’s no guarantee it indicates personal familiarity, and it will take me a moment to work up to it, but… Put Col. Oliver North & Iran-Contra squarely in your mind’s frame again. Conjure once again Epstein’s King David Hotel sojourn in ‘85 circa Ollie North anti-tank missile movements.  

July 4th, 2018, almost a year following Bannon’s resignation as senior adviser to Trump, he and Epstein were in near daily contact, with Bannon reporting that he’s in Richmond with his Dad, to which Epstein replies that Sebastian Kurz wants to meet Bannon, Kurz being the baby-faced Austrian Foreign Minister who’d recently been elected Chancellor as Chairman of the center-right People’s Party and who had formed a coalition cabinet & government with the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) Epstein. Kurz rode a wave of anti-migrant animus and “refugee crisis” anxiety to power and promised Austrians strict immigration controls. Let’s put this plainly. At this point in 2018, Bannon and Trump have seemingly acrimoniously and performatively split. I think the feud may have been astroturfed, as we now know that journalist Michael Wolff, who published Bannon’s derogatory comments about Trump’s dumb-as-rocks kids was also advising Epstein on media relations and optics throughout nearly a decade of contact, and that prior to a Trump debate performance in 2015, he sent Epstein possibly embargoed info regarding the CNN broadcast, that they were planning on asking Trump about his ties to Epstein on stage or in the scrum, and Wolff encouraged Epstein to let Trump hang himself instead of crafting a response because it could create an opportunity for Epstein to gain leverage over Trump by denying his ties so as to helpfully free him of Epstein’s “toxicity” by association in the case of Trump emerging victorious. Point being Wolff, Epstein, Bannon, and Trump seem to have always been in a degree of questionable cahoots and I think the break may have been strategic to avoid the shit of Bannon’s new pet project rubbing off on Trump. 

And what is the project that Bannon and Epstein begin to coordinate together in 2018? Namely the coalescing of a Neo-WACL, a Fascist International 3.0 to mirror that of the Reagan aka Iran-Contra era. Perhaps more aptly put, a PedoFash International. Epstein, ever the Self-Hating Jew, refers to the prospect of a trifecta of him, Bannon, and Kurz as “Goebbels, Bronstein…”. It’s unclear whether he’s referring to Goebbels and Trotsky or whether he’s alluding to Bronstein, Nathan Rothschild’s obsequious assistant in the 1940 Nazi propaganda film The Rothschilds, which warned the German populace of the Rothschilds’ war profiteering in league with “International Jewry” so as to generate buy-in for the Blitzkrieg of the U.K., the European banking dynasty’s new-ish home. I think the second is a possibility as Epstein may have been cracking an inside joke at his own expense in relation to his alleged handling of Rothschild finances and close ties to Ariane. Whereas Trump probably wouldn't have gone to that place in 2018, in private, Epstein framed his political activities as if they were squarely within the lineage of Goebbels. This is far from the only instance in which he invokes Nazis or elements of Hitler Studies verging on the antisemitic conspiracy trope.

In this 2018 chain, Epstein messaged Bannon a link to an episode of The Bill Walton Show on July 13th, 2018, featuring longtime CIA operative and FBI “confidential human source” Stefan Halper and five term commissioner of the US-China Economic & Security Review Commission Patrick Mulloy. The basic gist of the discussion is: “Don’t focus on a flailing, fading Russia or Stormy Daniels, instead be petrified by China’s economic growth and reef-top airstrips in the South China Sea.” Epstein specifically directs Bannon to listen to the final 8 minutes, in which Halper unpacks the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) “Three Warfares”—media war, psywar, lawfare—and tries to present a convincing case where this “warfare by other means” is scarier than American Agent Orange and napalm dropping attempts to rule a country’s heart & mind with an iron fist. Now, Epstein follows up the YouTube link he’s zapped to Bannon with the direction to “Have one of your guys ask Oliver North”. Bannon replies that he is, “overthrowing (Theresa) May (in the UK) right now”. This is during peak Mueller probe, the investigation headed up by the former FBI-directing special prosecutor to investigate Democrat-alleged Russian interference in the election, Trump team obstruction of justice, etc, Now, there’s a clear conflict of interest here, as the titular host Bill Walton was an economic advisor on Trump’s transition team, so Walton and guests aren’t going to be particularly evenhanded. But what’s fascinating here is that, beyond the Oliver North invocation and hint that there is continued coordination between Epstein-Bannon and the ol’ Contragate colonel, there’s also considerable evidence in the files that Epstein and Halper are old brothers-in-arms, as Epstein extends an invite to Bannon to visit the Norwegian Embassy in London and in the same breath says that, “- BTW Stefan Halper real deal !!”. Bannon asks, “Why…?”, to which Epstein replies that it will have to wait until face-to-face, but “lots of fun stories”. This is on July 11th, 2018.

Three days later, he and Bannon message again and Epstein writes that he loves the idea of Bannon quoting Halper on China at the Seeking Alpha speech, to which Bannon replies, “That will make heads blow up”. Bannon is evoking minds blown at the prospect of him quoting Stefan Halper because this is a mere month or two on from the scandal litigated in the public sphere and on Twitter known as Spygate, which entered the public consciousness after first the Nunes memo confirmed that a counterintel investigation had been opened into campaign foreign adviser George Papadopoulos on July 31st, 2016 after a tip was lodged alleging links between the Trump team and Russia and the possibility of electoral interference. By late May of 2018, Trump was routinely firing off reproachful tweets littered with the classic “deep state conspiracy against him” canards. 

There are a few reasons why these exchanges between Epstein and Bannon regarding Halper are so telling. For starters, this is because Stefan Halper, the Cambridge University Professor Emeritus of American Studies and International Relations, a close confidante of former MI6 head Richard Dearlove, with whom he helped to direct the Cambridge Security Initiative, and longtime servant of DCI Bush, is the confidential human source that the FBI mobilized to sidle up to Papadopoulos, Carter Page, and Sam Clovis to innocently pick their brains about the possibility of Russian interference or collusion. Mind you, Stefan Halper was shortlisted for an ambassadorship in 2016… The trickster Epstein’s exhortation of Bannon to invoke Halper can perhaps be read in one of a few ways: he’s either attempting to sabotage Trump by undercutting Trump’s own narratives regarding Spygate by getting Trump ally Bannon to publicly tether Trump and Halper together or else it’s simply a playful inside joke between the two and is possibly reflective of the fact that Spygate was entirely a psyop put-on and that Halper was reprising a role he’d played with alacrity during the 1980 campaign season. This really drives home every point I’ve been making thus far about the Epstein-Bannon PedoFash International being a continuation of the earlier Reaganite WACL Fascist International that precipitated the Actor’s ascension to the White House. As regards go Trump, history never repeats, but it often rhymes.

For starters, Stefan Halper is the son-in-law of OSS and CIA neocolonial-luminary Ray S. Cline, who spent his OSS days as part of a legendary troop of Burger Reich operatives spread across the Sino continent that included John K. Singlaub (WACL US branch founder and MACV-SOG unconventional warfare chieftain who oversaw assassination campaigns throughout the SE Asian theater circa Vietnam), Richard Helms, E. Howard Hunt (needs no introduction for Watergate and JFK assassination heads), Mitch WerBell, Paul Helliwell (Civil Air Transport which would molt into Air America, helped planned KMT invasion plans against China, became JM/WAVE paymaster, architect of Castle Bank) etc. Of these men, John K. Singlaub and Ray S. Cline arguably had the most significant, direct impacts on the surreptitious Contras arming effort, with both playing prominent roles in the coalescence of the World Anti-communist League (WACL). And then it just so happens that Stefan Halper was tapped to take on feeding classified national security information to the Reagan/Bush campaign and the “Secret Team” by extension during the less-heralded Debategate scandal, which kinda feeds into the October Surprise by virtue of Halper helping to keep the Covert Cowboys apprised of Carter admin diplomatic overtures and geopolitical strategies so that the CIA revanchist saboteurs could negate them and then rack up early wins for Ronald. Reagan aides later alleged that Stefan Halper had quarterbacked this operation to hand off classified docs from Carter’s briefing case to the Reagan team, especially pertaining to the Iran Hostage Crisis response, and that former DCI Bush had handled Halper during this pivotal moment in the 1980 campaign.

I mentioned that Bannon and Epstein were allies in this project of bringing populist and far-right movements together in Europe that evokes the WACL of old. To this point, the World Anti-Communist League was intimately involved in providing the Contras’ war on the Sandinistas with the requisite weaponry and ammo. Iran-Contra truly is a passe-partout for the past 40 years, as even John McCain joined Maj. Gen. John Singlaub’s Phoenix-based U.S. chapter of the League. WACL conventions were used as private fundraising opportunities for Col. North’s covert war on Nicaraguan socialism: 

• The closely allied Unification Church set up “its own channels of shipment and programs”, dispatching clothes, toys, blankets, & tent canvas via its arm CAUSA and as overseen by retired General E. David Woellner with Negroponte assisting

• Singlaub claimed to have raised a cool $2 million for the Contras in private funds on his lonesome

• Other charities like Americares got in on the fun.

At the same time that it was playing a pivotal although less-studied role in Iran-Contra, WACL was bringing together all the shittiest lights of the global New Right, including LatAm death squad members. As we will discover, Epstein made his buck and cut his teeth as a Gatsby type circa Iran-Contra, primarily involved in the trafficking of weapons in the Israel -> Iran branch of that illicit rhizome, and come 2018 and the last year ish before his assassination/exfiltration, we find Epstein working hand-in-hand with Bannon on bringing an alt right into the ascendant once again. You can also read this as Bannon throwing his lot in with Epstein after being on the rocks with Trump, but I’d presently lean in the direction that Bannon’s careening about Europe and interfacing with reactionaries was largely aligned with the larger MAGA project and had received the Zionist capitalist class’s blessing. This is underlined by the fact that at present, Steve Bannon is stumping and advocating for Trump to run for a third term, telling The Economist that he is privy to a plan to skirt the 22nd Amendment barring three term presidencies and characterizing Trump as an “instrument of divine will” in Thielian terms.

To that point, remember ol’ Rafi Eitan from the Pollard Affair context of Epstein’s Tel Aviv getaway? In Feb. 2018, the former Mossadist publicly celebrated Germany’s far right AfD party, a proverbial ship overrun with neo-Nazi rats, the same ballot that Epstein-associate Elon Musk has thrown his lot in with in recent times, thanking them for their commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Mind you, this is the literal Nazi hunter who escorted Adolf Eichmann back to Isntreal to stand trial, if you want to ratchet up the irony and perversion. In a promotional endorsement released online, the 91 year old Eitan encouraged AfD to end the “immense influx of Muslim immigrants” and the “Islamization of Europe” and outgrow Germany and become “…an Alternative for Europe”. I read this as the psywar and propaganda groundwork for the present AmerIsraeli aggressions we are witnessing: genocide in Gaza, Assad deposed, hand rubbing the plans to partition Syria & Lebanon, war of attrition on Iran. I think the Israel security establishment genuinely possess imperial aspirations lopsidedly overweight in relation to the size of their entity. But wait, there’s more! And it will reopen that can of worms that Epstein might have been LEKEM back in the day, as we will see that he and Eitan were basically in mutual pursuit of the same goals with their calls to fortify Fortress Europe and psyop Nazis into supporting Isntreal as the last bastion of the West. As Epstein emailed actual German technocratic Nazi Peter Thiel on June 26, 2016, “return to tribalism . counter to globalization. amazing new alliances.”

The sickening irony here is that this astroturfed return to tribalism that Bannon, Thiel, Musk, Eitan, and the shadowy influence of Epstein are all pushing is in the service of a globalized, socialized capitalist class who are, akin to the industrialists circa the rise of the Third Reich and the fascisti, striking a devil’s bargain with the far right around the globe to guard their hoarded wealth and to carve out spheres of influence. To put it simply, these technocratic fascists want to weaponize their monopoly on the social media means of communication to cultivate disunion amongst the masses while growing their own international bonds and class solidarity amongst themselves.

In relation to Epstein & Bannon embarking on their project of building the Fascist International 3.0 in the year or two before his “death”, Bannon’s first summit with AfD’s Alice Weidel was held in the hush hush banking jurisdiction of Switzerland in March of 2018, a country with which Epstein is well-acquainted. That means that Bannon’s endorsement of AfD was even downstream of Eitan’s. Intriguing. May 23rd, ‘19, Epstein’s hawkishness towards China once again rears its head. Bannon emails him an Axios piece about the trade war—which Epstein was considerably more down on than Bannon, seemingly anticipating the economic blowback—and fascinatingly, Epstein almost pleadingly asks Bannon who’s going to make the overtures to China to get a deal done and invokes his own willingness to sacrifice himself by, paraphrasing, stepping down for the country he “loves so much”, and the “cessation of all investigations” (is Epstein alluding to his imminent suicide here?)… Anyways, over the next couple of days, Epstein is ecstatic at the signals he’s received from Modi’s camp regarding the reelected Indian leader’s adamant intention of “stopping China” and he encourages Bannon to sit down with Narendra. They then herald centrist Theresa May’s fall in the UK and prophesy further rightward swings across Europe. From the sounds of it, Bannon was even hunkered down in AfD HQ, as Epstein asks, “What does Germany look like? Are you having fun where you are?” Bannon replies, “Merkel thrown out Monday. AfD 12 to 13.”

To summarize, in this end note (which should perhaps be in the body of the text), we discover Epstein’s familiarity with old Company boy psyoperator Stefan Halper, who he pushes on Bannon, and that around the same time the Debategate Redux of “Spygate”, which seems to be have been a half-inverted retread of the previous scandal, was percolating in the discourse, Epstein and Bannon were joking about subverting the proceedings by showing it to be a ginned up partisan charade. And around the same time that these interactions occurred, we find Epstein and Bannon working together on the PedoFash International, with Bannon making overtures to the German AfD not long after the wizened spymaster Rafi Eitan, possibly Epstein’s old handler, ENDORSES the nationalist party before quietly retracting, likely due to the blowback over his perceived coziness with literal Nazis.

3. Extra credit: PPM oldheads will remember the Year of the Tunnel series from early 2024. Funnily enough, ex-Columbia University hasbarist and Israeli campus counterprotester Shai Davidai’s parents are/were actually coinvested with Alan Quasha. Folks will also recall that Davidai’s grandfather Benjamin Davidai was Deputy CEO of El Al airlines and assisted with the Eichmann Abduction, which makes him a likely candidate for someone who knew Rafi Eitan and furthermore may have even had a look-the-other-way or support role during the apport-ing of guns from Israel to Iran.