1/🚨 Epstein Files bombshell: Jeffrey Epstein ran a 6-year private backchannel directing Gates Foundation polio strategy in Taliban zones—committing funds, routing military-grade intel, and architecting anonymity.
Emails debate paying "the bad guys" for vaccine access.
Full investigation:
Deep dive thread🧵👇sayerji.substack.com/p/pay-the-bad-…
2/11
March 2013: Epstein emails Boris Nikolic (Gates' chief science advisor) about polio in Afghanistan/Pakistan/Nigeria/Syria.
Epstein poses the dilemma: "If the only path... runs through payments to the people doing the blocking... do you pay?"
Nikolic: "Results justify means. Invoke Machiavelli. Purchase the access."
EFTA01901953 justice.gov/age-verify?des…
3/11
June 9, 2013: Epstein forwards urgent field intel, then commits cash.
Raw line from the email: "bg will send 5 million to start."
Epstein was the hub—directing, funding, connecting.
[EFTA01971254] justice.gov/epstein/files/…
4/11
The moral core: "The only way to win them over is to pay the bad guys to allow vaccines."
Debate includes FCPA risks (bribing foreign officials).
Epstein designs anonymity: "No Gates name on it. At all." (Sept 4, 2013).
He wasn't advising—he was operating the channel.
5/11
Epstein routes sensitive reports (Taliban movements, security threats) to Nikolic and Terje Rød-Larsen, who briefs "Bill" directly.
Rød-Larsen was in Epstein's office during the March 6, 2013 ethics call. This was an informal apparatus above Foundation staff.
6/11
Channel active 2013–2019. January 2019 docs show it still flowing post-grant expiry—Epstein as gatekeeper for polio access in conflict zones.
No illegality proven, but the structure is extraordinary.
[Bill Gates (from left), Terje Rød-Larsen, Jeffrey Epstein, Boris Nikolic (advisor to Gates) and Thorbjørn Jagland]
7/11
Why this hits now: DOJ's Jan 2026 EFTA dump (3M+ pages) still unfolding. Gates Foundation polio work continues amid WHO priorities.
Reveals blurred lines in mega-philanthropy: private power shaping humanitarian ops in war zones.
8/11
Epstein positioned as primary authority here—posing questions, committing millions, receiving intel—not peripheral.
Docs show him central for years in one of the hardest vaccine campaigns on earth
9/11
This is part of an ongoing series on Epstein's infrastructure, not just names. Primary sources only.
Full piece with DOJ citations:
Read the emails. Draw your own conclusions. sayerji.substack.com/p/pay-the-bad-…
10/11
The facts stand intolerable on their own: A registered sex offender embedded in Gates Foundation field ops, funding commitments, intel flows, and ethical trade-offs in Taliban territory.
No hedging. No questions. Just the record.
11/11
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