Epstein's South African girlfriend, Francis Jardine—recently revealed in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial/flight and WH house visitor logs—has another billionaire, CIA-linked association:
1980's international oil trader John Deuss
They were married until 2005
Jardine said that she would 'always be grateful to have known him (Epstein) no matter how people have slated him'
Francis Jardine, like many of Epstein's other girlfriends, was housed in the Mark Epstein-owned apt building at 301 E 66th Street in NYC
Francis Jardine appeared in the Epstein Flight logs at least 12 times spanning 1994-95 and was also listed in Epstein's 'Other Black Book' (1996)
On to John Deuss “Secretly procuring oil for S. Africa is the business of a very select group of oil traders. Besides Deuss, the central players include West German Gert Lutter; Marc Rich, a fugitive from American justice; and the South Africa-based Italian, Marino Chiavelli”
John Duess and CIA's Theodore ('Ted') Shackley were deeply connected.
Shackley was involved in just about every major CIA initiative starting in the 1960s with the Cuban Project (Operation Mongoose) through to the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_…
John Deuss was described as 'Shackley's piggybank'
"According to several intelligence community sources,
Deuss is a major financial backer of Ted Shackley"
larouchepub.com/eiw/public/198…
Richard Helms, reportedly said: "Ted (Shackley) is what we call in the spook business a quadruple threat - Drugs, Arms, Money and Murder."
"Ted Shackley had been running a top-secret assassination unit since the early 1960s."
spartacus-educational.com/JFKshackley.htm
Shackley was also a key member of the anti-communist 'informal' intel network known as the Safari Club. While Epstein/Leese client and associate Adnon Khashoggi was the primary financial backer "the actual chief of the Safari Club was (...) Ted Shackley"
"Leese was involved in brokering the first of a series of controversial British arms deals that involved Khashoggi, known as the Al Yamamah Deal and allegedly involving bribery of members of the Saudi royal family and top Saudi officials...."
"In addition to Khashoggi, several of those officials and royal family members had deep ties to BCCI."
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More on Douglas Leese
In their various roles as gun runners, commodity traders, tax cheats, and money launders Leese, Rich, Deuss, and Epstein all had significant Bermuda business connections, and at times all benefited from infamous Bermuda legal firm Appleby to hide their shell holdings/tradings
Even to the point where Deuss and Jeffrey Epstein, along with Mark Epstein's South African business partner Jonathan Barrett, were all sharing the same Appleby lawyer, Canadian citizen Hugh Edwin Gillespie, as a director in ea. of their Bermuda based co's
Besides offshore accounts, what Khashoggi, Rich, Deuss and Epstein all had in common:
Women (or children) as business favors/blackmail material
1. Adnan Khashoggi:
"After their liaison, she became a part of the Khashoggi bank of women ready and willing to be used in his business deals."
vanityfair.com/magazine/1989/…
2. Marc Rich (Metal Men):
"He voiced no qualms about renting women for Rich customers visiting London"
3. John Deuss (The Oil and the Glory):
'Another method to "take the edge off" (of business deals) was a traditional one: women. No matter where the talks were, Deuss flew in beauties from the London, Paris, and New York offices of a modeling agency he owned.'
4. Epstein
Decades of sex trafficking and child rape. No Epstein/Maxwell client has yet been brought to criminal trial, although several prominent politicians, businessmen, royality, etc have been named in various court documents. Like Deuss, Epstein was also a (part) owner of..
...a model agency, and held parties in exotic locations with woman and children from all over the world to 'entertain' his guests."
miamiherald.com/news/local/art…
Epstein's Adnan Khashoggi/Safari Club connection:
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
More Epstein/Maxwell Africa and Safari Club connections
Mossad connections. While Marc Rich and John Deuss professed agnosticism regarding trading partners (Rich trading between Iran and Israel via a secret pipeline in the 70s/80s for example)...
...intelligence gained from this high-level access to normally inaccessible 'conflict' businessmen and politicians was flowing in only a couple of primary directions: Israel and the US.
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