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Epstein Debunk: Part 3:

Arms, Blackmail and Spies: The Career of Jeffery Epstein:

Pondi would have you believe there is no blackmail.

But a trail of public statements, records, and settlements tell us that's untrue.

But more importantly, so does Epstein's money.

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The largest unanswered questions today about Epstein are:

1) Where did his money come from?

2) Who did he work for?

3) How did he meet all these people?

So I spent the weekend digging through archives to piece together his life story:

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After WWII, large swaths of now highly trained intelligence officers in Europe and the US found themselves out of work, experts in persuasion, blackmail and foreign relations, while many returned to regular work, others turned into conmen who robbed countries blind.

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In 1974, Jeffery Epstein was 21 years old.

He had no degree.

Apart from being known as a smart smooth talker - Epstein had no notable qualifications of any kind.

And yet, that didn't stop him suddenly getting a job offer.

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That year, a man named Donald Barr, offered him a job teaching at the prestigious Dalton School, an elite, private, college prep school in New York.

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It's a job Epstein didn't keep for long.

He was fired 2 years later for "poor performance" after multiple reports of making unwanted sexual advances towards young women and showing up at student parties and drinking with young girls.

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But while twisted, that's perhaps the least interesting thing about his time at Dalton School.

What stands out more is the headmaster who hired Epstein, Donald Barr.

Prior to his time at Dalton, Donald Barr was an officer in the "Office of the Strategic Services"

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Donald Barr, is also the father of former Trump Attorney General William Barr.

Barr later also served in the CIA, and was in charge of Trump's DoJ when Epstein was arrested and found dead.

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Now back to the OSS.

The OSS was America's first intelligence agency, and the predecessor to the CIA.

Formed during WWII, it was tasked with operations in propaganda, espionage, and subversion tactics, including developing blackmail and influence on adversaries.

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The OSS had many divisions, but under Bill Donovan, a lawyer and Columbia Alumni, it's R&A department, and its counter espionage department (X-2) used Columbia as a main recruitment hub (Entry 16 – “Research & Analysis (R&A) Branch, Administrative & Personnel Records”)

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Dalton's now declassified guides for operatives, list training and methods in:

-Morale operations and blackmail
-Cultivating and manipulating contacts
-Focusing on powerful people
-Creating/planting evidence
-And luring with sexual vices

Sound familiar?

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While it's unclear what specific role Barr had played in OSS, these were the manuals and tactics that Barr's own named "Columbia Mafia" were trained in at the time.

And it raises serious questions about why Barr suddenly hired so many unorthodox teachers at Dalton.

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Epstein only lasted 2 years at Dalton before being fired for "poor performance" but later both students and fellow teachers noted that it was more likely related to his involvement with young girls at the school.

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But other former students point out that it wasn't just Epstein doing this, and in fact many teachers at the time were rather openly involved with young students and frequently seen at parties.

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Which made it all the more weird when Donald Barr, who had allegedly hired Epstein, then left Dalton, and wrote a sci-fi novel called "Space Relations" where a ruling elite are sexual predators who blackmail diplomats are only saved by a hero who restores monogamy...

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At this point, you're probably saying: "This is super weird, but why does it matter?"

A few reasons:

-It shows the circles Epstein was learning from
-It shows AG Barr who oversaw the Epstein case potentially had a background with Epstein
-It led to Epstein's big break

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After getting fired from Dalton, Epstein was tutoring, Ted Greenberg, and allegedly dating his sister Lynne Greenberg.

These were the children of partner and later CEO of Bear Sterns, Alan Greenberg (which eventually became part of JPMorgan Chase)

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At the request of Lynne, Alan Greenspan gave Epstein a job at the firm, despite him having no formal credentials.

By 1980, smooth talking Epstein had somehow worked his way up to Limited Partner, something that was rare even by Bear's standards.

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But in 1981, he was asked to leave Bear Sterns over a "Reg D" violation, even though no SEC action was taken against him.

He also remained close with both Cayne and Greenberg after leaving.

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But we now know this isn't the case.

In 1981, Bear Sterns richest advisory client was Edgar Bronfman Sr and his company Seagram's, a Canadian conglomerate.

The Seagram company became embroiled in scandal during their 1980-1981 attempted take over of St Joe Minerals.

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According to SEC deposition testimony, while Bear Sterns was not formally advising the take over, when Seagram's had exceeded 5% of the shares in St Joe's, Bear Sterns had been buying shares for client advisory accounts and their own employee accounts.

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This insider trading favor is ultimately what pushed Epstein out the door, but cemented his friendship with Bronfman.

It also taught Epstein about asset protection in the Bahamas and Caymans, and offshore asset recovery

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Epstein learned in the St. Joe case that contested money often sat in European accounts, such as London based merchant banks and eurobond markets.

And it became a hunting ground for financial bounty hunters (and conmen) in asset recovery.

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Epstein's friendship with Bronfman was critical for two reasons.

While people look at Bronfman's Israeli connections and wrongly jump straight to Mossad, Bronfman was critical in introducing Epstein to two key people:

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1. He likely introduced him to Rosa Monckton, at the time executive of Tiffany & Co, the daughter of a Viscount and sister to newspaper Editor Christopher Monckton.

2. He likely introduced Epstein to Robert Maxwell.

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Robert Maxwell, father of Ghisaline Maxwell, was an Czechoslovak-British media proprietor, who had escaped Nazi occupation and joined the Czechoslovak Army in Exile in WWII, and eventually the British Army.

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Robert dedicated much of his live to anti-Nazi causes, and sat on the boards of Beth Hatefutsoth and the World Jewish Congress, along with none other than Edgar Bronfman Sr whom Epstein advised.

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Conspiracy theorists are quick to jump to ideas of Epstein being a zionist, and Mossad recruit.

When it'd be foolish to even paint Robert Maxwell in that light. But conspiracy theories act as great red herrings when trying to cover-up the truth.

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It's well documented that Robert Maxwell, had an intelligence handler named Ari Ben-Menashe, a disgraced Israeli Military Intelligence agent. Who was involved with violations of arms smuggling, and wrote whistleblower books on war profiteering.

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Ben-Menashe's stories were often assumed to be fabrications until a 2002 report under Canada's freedom of information legislation that showed after Ben-Menashe moved to Canada, Canadian intelligence officials regularly interviewed him validating many of his stories.

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Instead of being an agent for Mossad, it seems as if Robert Maxwell was an asset, a person recruited who can be useful, handled and motivated to help agencies at arms length achieve goals that they both believe in.

But he was first and foremost a businessman.

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In 1981, Epstein had moved suddenly to London, and focused his sights on trapped embezzlement funds in European banks.

He made fast friends with socialite with Baroness Rosa Monckton

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The Baroness was Epstein's entry into European social circles.

The Baronesses was a close friend of Princess Diana, and her daughter even had the Princess as a godmother.

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Rosa Monckton at the time was also a business executive who founded and ran Tiffany & Co's UK and European branches, including lending lavish items to British socialites for publicity.

But Monckton was his introduction to the British scene.

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Monckton was also Epstein's introduction to the Leese's.

With Epstein leaving the US after the Bear scandal, he needed new opportunities, he & is girlfriend Paula Heil Fisher through Monckton met Nick Leese at party in Texas and secured an introduction to Douglas Leese

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No one would blame you for being unfamiliar with Leese. He was a highly private man, that very little was known about until the Al Yamamah deal scandal was brought up in the British House of Commons.

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In 1981, Saudi Arabia turned to the UK for a new arms deal, set to be one of the largest deals in history.

But one that was riddled by bribery and embezzlement.

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The Saudi side was brokered by Adnan Khashoggi, a deal broker who made billions managing deals between Saudis & the West.

(The same Khashoggi that sold Trump a yacht, was a US foreign asset, & a "client" of Epstein's wealth management company.)

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As well as Saudi turned British businessman Wafic Saïd, who was close friends with Mark Thatcher at the time, the son of then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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On the British side the deal was brokered by Douglas Leese, of which I've tracked down only two known pictures of.

The supposed machine business man, found himself with extensive defense business relationships in the UK.

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Leese is believed to have been a key part in brokering the arms deal.

Which in the investigation of Wafic Saïd, it was estimated that the middlemen had siphoned off more than $6B in excess of the bribes that had been paid to Saudi Royals.

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Douglas Leese, now flush with cash, needed somewhere to hide it.

Luckily, he had just been introduced to Jeffery Epstein, a smart young financier with expertise in offshore money laundering from his time at Bear Sterns.

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And so in 1986, we see the formation of the first Barbados entity that we can likely tie to Epstein.

"Kingsley Inn Limited" which of course doesn't exist but instead is a corporate holding company for Douglas Leese's money.

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We also know at this time that Epstein was already making his money through on-going fraud and embezzlement from his clients.

Including steeling from the Leese's corporate accounts.

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Around this time, Epstein frequently travelled back and forth from the US to Europe, continuing his "financial bounty hunting" for wealthy European clients, and likely continuing to offshore funds.

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His crowd moved from simply socialites to arms dealers, smugglers, and the political elite.

To some people Epstein claimed to work for the CIA, as the Evening Standard reported in 2001, and noted he had a concealed carry permit, and had smuggled weapons into the UK.

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And during Epstein's eventual trial, a fake passport was found in his safe, that was Austrian but said his residence was Saudi Arabia - but the passport had actively been used going back to the 1980s to enter multiple European countries.

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At that exact time period, he also submitted paper work for a second US passport, and then just two years later a lost passport which listed a London residency (despite no residency Visa in the UK)

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The CIA claim struck me as odd, and so I looked into what illegal domestic operations the CIA had done in the past.

And it brought me to an article in Newsweek in 2013, about the CIA's "
National Resources Division"

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The National Resource Division, is the only domestic component of the CIA, that is supposed to be limited to gathering information from foreigners abroad.

Or so the NRD claims.

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