1/🚨Everyone asks: "Did Bill Gates know about Epstein?"
Wrong question.
The right question: How did a convicted sex offender gain editorial control over confidential intelligence from the Gates Foundation's polio program in Pakistan — and keep it for five years?
I have 16 documents. Thread 🧵👇
2/11 In Pakistan's tribal areas, polio workers were being shot. Kidnapped. Bombed.
The Gates Foundation funded the International Peace Institute (IPI) to gather intelligence on the ground — Taliban back-channels, military assessments, corruption mapping, attack analysis.
This wasn't public health. This was statecraft. 🧬🔒
3/11 March 9, 2013: Boris Nikolic, senior advisor at Bill Gates's private office, emails Epstein with "specific asks."
Who can mediate with the Taliban? How willing are armed groups to accept vaccination?
Epstein's reply: "Im on it."
Five days later, the first confidential document hits Epstein's inbox. 📨
EFTA01900866 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
4/11 What followed: at least TEN separate forwarding events over two years. IPI president Terje Rød-Larsen — self-described "best friend" of Epstein — sent it all to Epstein's personal Gmail.
📎 Taliban negotiation plans
📎 Pakistani military ops assessments
📎 Drone strike impact reports
📎 Briefing notes for meetings with Gates himself
Every one of them confidential.
5/11 And the intelligence flowed BOTH ways.
May 30, 2013: Epstein forwards a polio update BACK to Nikolic at Gates's office — a CIA drone strike killed the Taliban's No. 2, complicating vaccination negotiations.
Gates's office asked Epstein for help. Epstein delivered. ↔️
6/11 Then came the document that blows this open.
October 9, 2013: Rød-Larsen forwards IPI's grant correspondence with the Gates Foundation to Epstein.
Epstein's response:
"do not send anything else, anything! without letting me see it before it goes not after."
He wasn't CC'd. He was in charge. 🔑
EFTA00972411 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
7/11 Follow the money.
Two weeks after that email: Gates Foundation awards IPI $2.5 million for polio work.
Same year: Epstein lends Rød-Larsen $130,000 personally.
Later: Epstein's will leaves $10 million to Rød-Larsen's children.
Norwegian police are now investigating Rød-Larsen for "aggravated corruption." 💰
8/11 August 20, 2014. Rød-Larsen forwards Epstein a document with this subject line:
"Fwd: Striclty Confidential: Polio update"
The attachment: "Update Polio Pakistan 19 August 2014_Stricly Confidential.pdf"
It says CONFIDENTIAL on it. Twice. He sent it to Epstein's Gmail anyway. 📄
EFTA02717812 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
9/11 February 2015. IPI researcher Nasra Hassan sends Rød-Larsen an urgent report — the first suicide bombing connected to polio. Four dead.
Her subject line: "Urgent, Confi, plz pass on to Bill Gates"
Rød-Larsen forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein.
Material marked for Gates. Delivered to a sex offender. ⚠️
EFTA00864113 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
10/11 Think this ended in 2014? It didn't.
January 25, 2018 — FIVE YEARS after the channel opened.
Epstein emails Gates's private office:
"Terje Larsen asked if bill could dare a few minutes Tomorrow in Davos. Recall opinion worked on polio for him"
Still brokering. Still using polio as the credential. Still at it. 🇨🇭
EFTA02534783 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
11/11 Sixteen documents. 5 years. At least 10 forwarding events. One gatekeeper who held no title, no clearance, and no accountability.
The question isn't whether Gates "knew" Epstein.
It's this: How did the world's largest health foundation lose control of its own intelligence — and who, if anyone, is asking?
Full investigation 🔗 sayerji.substack.com/p/plz-pass-on-…
Part V of the Epstein Files Investigation Series sayerji.substack.com/t/epstein-files
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