Caption: A preternaturally gifted child named Ronnie Schnell, 14, kicks back in his Nike sneaks in front of an array of computer monitors at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU in October of 1981. With plans to enroll at the Institute the following fall, the recently bar mitzvah-ed wunderkind already “spoke” 15-20 computer languages as a preteen. “Also English, French, and a little Hebrew”, the kid boasted to the Syracuse Herald-Journal reporter with a boyish grin. Hebrew, eh? This prodigy’s relationship with Courant Institute may have overlapped with Jonathan Pollard’s on-the-ground handler Israeli Col. Aviem Sella, which adds a slightly different complexion to his consulting with a “Maryland computer firm” prior to high school (this appears to have been the time sharing company Dialcom, which opened a door for Schnell to help test the BBC Microcomputer). Schnell began programming on an IBM 360 at age nine. By 1981, he was lecturing on SETL for VAX minicomputers at Courant. In 1982, Ronnie authored a Telenet chat program dubbed NET-TALK. Later in life, Schnell would co-found the pre-smartphone text-to-speech software Mail Call that allows a user to dial a toll free number and check their email auditorily. As recently as 2015, he served as the Chief Technology Officer on Rand Paul’s presidential campaign, building the poor-performing candidate’s app from scratch. Oh, and Schnell testified for Amber Heard during the litigation between her and Johnny Depp regarding the “hoax” language that had been promulgated by Depp’s representatives and which had trickled onto Twitter… Could this Riconosciuto or GMax esque baby genius have encountered Colonel Aviem Sella of Rafi Eitan’s LEKEM while doing gifted and talented extracurriculars at the Institute by day and playing Dungeons and Dragons by night? Or dare I hazard such a prospect…? Could the programming wunderkind have been recruited, even?

Welcome back to PPM. This is a brief dispatch investigating Epstein’s short-lived enrollment at NYU’s graduate mathematics department and the nest of Manhattan Project veterans, DoD researchers, and Israel-visiting mathematicians we find there (who I’ve typified as STEM spooks), as well as a highly suspicious discrepancy in the career history he listed on his Bear Stearns application that points back to the Pedostate. Our guiding light is weighing the likelihood that Epstein was a LEKEM asset, a through line across these articles, of course, which momentarily takes us into PROMIS Scandal and Inslaw Affair terrain. This standalone is a momentary intermission prior to picking the scent of Epstein’s relationship with Prince Bandar bin Sultan and prospective involvement in the Al Yamamah deal back up, which will tie off some of the threads dangling from the The Mystery of the Doctored Passport. Please keep in mind that all matters mathematical and scientific languish in the grey matter morass that makes up my knowledge weak suits, so don’t be too harsh on me if any descriptions of mathematical applications are found to be overly simplistic or wide of the mark.

Caption: An undated picture of the exterior of the Courant Institute

There’s a small chance it’s self-inflation, but Epstein supposedly attended the Courant Institute of Mathematical Studies at NYU for 2-3 years beginning in ‘71. Despite his blatant midwitted-ness in certain respects, this isn’t shocking, as Jeff Gatsby’s former Mark Twain Middle School teacher recalled his precociousness with numbers well enough to make note of it in the BDay Album. If Epstein was truly the mathematical and musical prodigy that he’s portrayed as and attended Courant as he’s claimed, it’s not inconceivable that Epstein could have also been recruited by LEKEM. The possibility that Epstein somehow landed on the radar of said Israeli intelligence agency during his interrupted mathematical matriculation there is well within the realm of possibility, as we’ll see.

In the past few months of research since the last Epstein Files disclosures and in preparation for the first season of PPM, I noticed a possibly telling coincidence in relation to the voluminous background checks initiated by Bear Stearns after Epstein’s past employment fibs were sussed out. For some inexplicable reason, he claimed to have been a lecturer at UC Berkeley and listed the Institute for Advanced Study mathematician Joseph A. Wolf as a reference. We may unpack these background checks in greater detail in a different section, but when the investigative consumer and employee screening reports firm tried to reach Wolf for comment, he was unavailable due to being abroad. Double Jeopardy: The Locale Prof. Wolf Was Visiting, Known for Its World Famous Hummus…

Believe it or not, Wolf was reportedly on sabbatical in Isntreal at the time Fidelifacts tried to reach him regarding the young Mr. Epstein. His obituary also notes that the mathematician was a visiting professor at Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University respectively at varying points. In light of this information, what are the chances that Wolf could have had a relationship with LEKEM, the Israeli intelligence agency known as the Bureau of Scientific Liaison?

Readers of the previous articles in this series will recall that I believe there’s a strong possibility that Epstein was recruited by Israel’s scientific intelligence agency LEKEM. This suspicion is in light of his relationship with its founder Shimon Peres, his continuous cultivation of contacts on the bleeding edge of scientific and technological research from the ‘90s on, his abrupt trip to Tel Aviv coinciding with the exfiltration of much of the LEKEM network in the aftermath of Jonathan Pollard's exposure and arrest in Nov. 1985, and the fact that Pollard’s handler Israeli Air Force Col. Aviem Sella happens to have been enrolled in doctoral studies in the same NYU program Epstein seemingly briefly attended while Pollard was passing off confidential documents to him from the Navy Anti-Terrorism Alert Center (ATAC), LEKEM maintaining a mid-Manhattan safe house in NY in the 1980s, and finally, and this is something we haven’t really addressed yet and which we’ll do our due diligence by covering more thoroughly in a later installment covering the covert career of LEKEM chief Rafi the Stinker in full, but Robert Maxwell was recruited by Rafi Eitan to help market the PROMIS surveillance that the Stinker had stolen from onetime NSA employee Bill Hamilton (Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy), who’d previously engineered and installed electronic listening posts for tracking Viet Cong movements in Vietnam and then moved into developing the case management and data aggregating system for judicial, intelligence, and law enforcement clients that became PROMIS and which the Stinker pilfered in an incident evocative of the Apollo Affair that we’ll cover at a later date.

I’ve stumbled upon a potentially pivotal breadcrumb to relate back to the pile of Epstein / Fortelni Doctored Passport crumbles we tossed into the bottom of the bag in the last article. I just shook this breadcrumb out of the pages of the Gordon Thomas book on Robert Maxwell. While conducting his business in the U.S. related to PROMIS, Eitan travelled into the country using forged papers under the assumed identity of Dr. Benjamin Orr. In a possible symmetry to Epstein’s Marius Fortelni cover, this tradecraft impersonation could be a tell tale sign, as Dr. Benjamin Orr was a real life individual, not some concocted confabulation. At age 57, Orr had just retired from a career as an assistant public prosecutor with the Ministry of Justice in Tel Aviv. Unlike an alias or a constructed legend, the use of imposture seems like a slightly uncommon espionage technique. Could the discovery that both Epstein and Eitan appear to have used imposture papers tethered to flesh and blood individuals indicate a mutual tradecraft MO and perhaps, by extension, that both were operating under LEKEM in that capacity? Like handler, like son? Likewise, I’ll note that the first of these trips of Eitan’s to the States to purloin the PROMIS software was in December of 1982, just a half year or so from when Epstein’s “passport” was issued in Austria (Thomas & Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy). Similarly, I should mention that Eitan was appointed as Liaison Bureau of Scientific Affairs or LEKEM chieftain sometime in 1981, so he would have been in office by the time the Austrian official signed on the dotted line, context worth appending to the last article.

Regardless, Eitan had PROMIS in hand upon his return from his second trip. Inslaw’s scorned ex-counsel C. Madison “Brick” Brewer gave a floppy disc up without a struggle, either unthinkingly due to Eitan the Avuncular Mossadist’s big-eyes-blinking-in-coke-bottle-glasses way of transmitting a false sense of security or harmlessness… Or else because Brick intentionally wanted to exact revenge against Hamilton and Inslaw and see the boutique developer tanked and bankrupt. Back in the Entity, Rafi set his LEKEM team of computer wizards to work reverse engineering it so that a difficult-to-detect trapdoor could be installed that would permit Israel to survey the streams of data passing through every international clients’ mainframe.

He enlisted Ari Ben-Menashe’s help in recruiting Earl Brian and a company called Hadron to conduct a field test of the pilfered software with a couple LEKEM bells and whistles attached. Once that went swimmingly, the Stinker called up Yitzhak Shamir for his advice on a loyal, trusted businessperson whose international operations had the requisite heft and clout to market the PROMIS software (they stole the name) properly so that they could maximize the embedding of these back doors in the computer systems of friends and foe alike. Shamir recommended one name only: a Mossad asset magnate of science and education publishing whose bombastic, conspicuously rich reputation preceded him. Robert Maxwell, of course (Thomas & Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy). By extension and keeping Ben-Menashe’s previous assertion that he routinely saw Epstein at Robert Maxwell’s London offices during the early 1980s in mind, it is reasonable to suspect that this LEKEM handler-handlee relationship would have extended to the young American, as well. Chances are decent that we’ll return to the Inslaw Affair and PROMIS at a later date when examining Rafi Eitan’s escapades in their entirety, but I wanted to briefly synopsize some of the Maxwell-LEKEM Connection to bolster our argument that Epstein was a LEKEM asset himself, at least for a time.

Before I flew off on that tangent, I’d mentioned that Epstein inscrutably listed a UC Berkeley mathematician named Joseph A. Wolf as a former supervisor and reference on his Bear Stearns application. A year after he couldn’t be reached for Epstein’s Bear Stearns screening due to being abroad in Israel, Wolf participated in a colloquium at the NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Liège, Belgium on September 5–17, 1977. Grist for the “Wolf was a STEM Spook” mill. Wolf edited a journal that consisted of the lectures delivered by the 3 visiting mathematicians titled Harmonic Analysis and Representations of Semisimple Lie Groups. If I understand correctly, harmonic analysis and Lie groups both have considerable military applications when it comes to modeling real world aerospace problems and monitoring unmanned land military vehicles with motion sensors (as well as assorted functions in areas such as robotics, radar, etc).

The Advanced Study Institute in Belgium is under the umbrella of the intergovernmental NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO), which fosters collaborative military research and development across the STEM corps of member nations. Considering Wolf was delivering lectures on topics with such applications and also had an established relationship with Israeli institutes of higher learning, it seems clear that this Professor that Epstein supposedly erroneously named as a reference would have at least been of passing interest to LEKEM. Now, conniving Epstein could have just pulled from his ass a name that sounded good, but it seems to be a weirdly specific reference to call upon amidst a chain of small fibs that were duly uncovered by Bear Stearns HR, especially if Jeffrey never was in Berkeley’s employ and Wolf seemingly didn’t have an NYU connection. I fully grant Epstein was a preeminent bullshitter and confidence man, but the coincidences are racking up. Regarding Epstein’s Courant attendance, the NYU registrar at least acknowledged that he was enrolled and both New York Magazine and professor/researcher Thomas Volscho have claimed he was enrolled there.

An NYU constituent school, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences’ origins trace back to the onset of the Third Reich. Richard Courant, the former director of the Math Institute at the University of Göttingen, fled the rise of fascism and was brought on at NYU as a visiting professor before he was tapped to implement a graduate Department of Mathematics. Having stepped off the boat with preexisting funding ties to the Rockefellers, Courant was privileged to call upon the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations for external financing to get the institute off the ground (reminder that Epstein seemingly had intermittent ties to the Rockefellers and served on the board of their university). Courant was joined by two other prestigious German mathematicians and they began building up NYU’s graduate mathematics department with a small core of extant faculty. Soon they were underwritten by the Vannevar Bush led Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) and had their services retained for various war projects. Speaking of which, Epstein associate Trump had an uncle named John who was an expert in x-rays and particle accelerators and he helped oversee the Radiation Lab at MIT, one of the OSRD’s largest programs, before rising to helm “Division 14 - Radar” after reorganization. An aside, but he also may have conducted Paperclip-esque recruitment interviews with Nazi Telefunken scientists. Courant’s highest honors, meanwhile, included the U.S. Navy Distinguished Public Service Award for his “outstanding contributions” to the national defense during and since WWII and the Knight Commander’s Cross and Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

So it should come as no surprise that coming out of WWII, the Office of Naval Research began to plink some pennies in the Courant Institute’s coffers, as well. ONR is a distinct division within the Navy that frequently collaborates with the Office of Naval Intelligence, which is germane for our purposes, as  Naval Intel employed Pollard and ONR provides the mission complementary technology upon which the SIGINT guys like Pollard rely. A prime example would be the first operational United States intelligence satellite, launched 52 days after that infamous American U-2 was shot down over Soviet territory. My understanding is that Courant still receives ONR money to this day and they were also underwritten by multiple other agencies during the Cold War, including the Air Force and Army. In 1952, the Atomic Energy Commission installed a state-of-the-art computer at the Institute around which the Computing Lab was formed, which still exists under the auspices of the Department of Energy today. Knowing a thing or two about LEKEM’s atomic purview, this would have been of great interest.

As the story goes, Epstein studied Mathematical Physiology at Courant prior to his suspiciously abrupt departure. The Swiss-holed narrative may have something to do with a bounced tuition check signed by his Mother, something that would have doubtlessly been immensely embarrassing for the young Jeff the Financier, with his “self-made billionaire pedophile who dragged himself out of the Sea Gate gutter” American Dreams. Embarrassing enough to make him red in the face, no doubt, so a reticence to discuss the incident may be partly responsible for the lack of clarity. Intriguingly, the invalid check he addressed to the Office of the Bursar led to the university pursuing a lawsuit against the youngster. The picture grows murkier in the knowledge that Epstein somehow managed to enroll in classes at Courant Institute despite the fact he’d never even been awarded an undergraduate degree.

Let’s rewind to his declared major of Mathematical Physiology, though. Once again, there are theoretical military applications within this field, as mathematical physiology can help with modeling and predicting physical limits, the survivability of extreme conditions (like this research paper on Russian troop freezing in Ukraine), the underlying mathematics of biometric measuring wearables like Fitbits, caloric demands and metabolism in the battlefield, etc. It’s not inconceivable this was a subject matter that could have been of interest to Israeli intelligence and placed Epstein on their radar.

During Epstein’s stint at Courant, he may have met faculty members such as:

• Abel Prize winning, Manhattan Project fluid dynamics and shockwave researcher Peter Lax, a Hungarian Jewish supercomputing pioneer.

  A refugee who fled with his family to the U.S. days before Pearl Harbor, Lax was drafted and employed on the Manhattan Project, first at Oak Ridge before transferring to Los Alamos, where he started on one of the lower rungs in the Special Engineer Detachment as a calculator operator. He soon graduated to the higher level math echelons, toiling under Robert Serber in the Theoretical Physics Division and exploring neuron transport with Enrico Fermi (Lax apparently likes to recount how he crushed Fermi on the tennis court). After the war, Lax earned his PhD and embarked on a blue ribbon career in pure and applied math, including topics such as scattering theory and shock waves.

• Louis Nirenberg, the Canadian-American son of a Hebrew language teacher who’s particularly remembered for a partial differential equations paper he authored with Israeli mathematician Shmuel Agmon.

  Per Agmon’s posthumous remembrance of the professor, Nirenberg visited Israel for the first international conference held in the young Pedostate in 1960, a Symposium on Linear Spaces, and he would last return to receive a tribute at Technion in celebration of his Abel Prize in 2016)… Psst, Shmuel also served in the Jewish Brigade in the British Army circa WWII and just died last year.

Speaking of Louis Nirenberg’s attendance at eyebrow-arching conferences:

He was a happy participant in the first big Soviet-American joint mathematics conference, which took place in 1963 in Akademgorodok (in Novosibirsk.)  It was organized by Richard Courant and Mikhail Lavrentiev, on partial differential equations.

Sounds like the kind of situation where prospective defectors or assets could be sussed out. Another prominent faculty member at Courant during Epstein’s brief stint was:

• Professor emirata Cathleen Morawetz, a student of PDEs governing fluid flow.

  Morawetz married Czech chemical engineer Herbert Morawetz, whose family fled the Nazis in 1939, and whose sister, funnily enough, was a Bletchley Park Signals Intelligence codebreaker stationed in a secretive Examination Unit office next to the Canadian PM during the war, an operation that coordinated closely with William Stephenson (codename: Intrepid) and the BSC holed away in the upper floors of Rockefeller Center.

Caption: Onetime Bletchley Park Signals Intel codebreaker Sonja Morawetz Sinclair

• In 1974, the final year of Epstein’s Courant tenure, according to Herbert Morawetz’s Wiki and MacLean’s, the Jewish chemical engineer and code breaking brother and sister duo helped Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov to defect to the United States, first spiriting him to the island Sonja Morawetz owned with her Canadian Air Force officer husband in Muskoka, before he was later transported across the border, where he began a tippy-toes turncoat career in New York. Sonja Morawetz Sinclair was a TIME-LIFE-CIA Inc. freelance correspondent in Canada at this point, to boot. Another Morawetz sibling was a Czech composer whose compositions were toured with a philharmonic in Israel.

• Kurt Otto Friedrichs, a part of the OG Courant Institute cell in which the mathematics program was cultivated. He was a student and assistant of Courant’s in Göttingen.

  • Friedrichs was an applied mathematician who followed Courant to the States from his rectorship in Braunschweig after he and various faculty attempted to intercede upon the Jewish mathematician’s behalf by circulating a petition addressed to the Third Reich’s Ministry of Education (he stuck his neck out despite the Nazis overlooking his Jewish fiance at the time). His appointment at NYU apparently benefitted from Charles Lindbergh’s stamp of approval, who was impressed with his aeronautics understanding.

  • During World War II Friedrichs returned to fluid dynamics. In spite of a number of contributions to theory made while working on problems of flow past airfoils, shock waves, and combustion, he considered that his most valuable wartime contribution was the manual Supersonic Flow and Shock Waves, which he and Courant wrote. After the war, when it had been declassified, the two authors decided to publish it as a book. Cathleen Morawetz, then a graduate mathematics student at NYU, was selected to edit the volume… During the war and after, Friedrichs also analyzed the mathematical aspects of deflagrations and detonations. He had always been interested in what goes on in the boundary layer. “He put it under the microscope, so to speak,” his long-time colleague Fritz John explains. Now he showed that a boundary-layer type of argument, which he had introduced earlier in airfoil theory, would explain why certain types of detonations (weak) and deflagrations (strong) would not occur.

  • The manual on supersonic flow and shockwaves that Friedrichs authored with Courant was a classified research paper produced by the Applied Math Panel of the National Defense Research Committee. Friedrichs’ bio goes on to state that he and his Jewish wife visited Israel on multiple occasions in their autumnal years.

• Last but not least, we have Martin Charles Golumbic, a mathematician and CompSci guy primarily known for “his research on perfect graphs, graph sandwich problems, tolerance graphs, compiler optimization, and spatial-temporal reasoning”.

  • While technically seemingly having missed out on overlapping with Jeffrey Epstein’s matriculation by a year or two, there are other prospective synchronicities and if Courant Institute was a hotbed of Zionist katsis or sayanim, it’s not unreasonable to postulate he could have met a fellow LEKEM asset there. Golumbic was appointed as an assistant professor at Courant after he completed his doctorate at Columbia in 1975. He served as a member of the faculty until 1980, at which point he jumped ship for Bell Laboratories.

  • In 1982, Golumbic permanently relocated to Israel… 1982, you say? Did I hear correctly? The same year Epstein received his Austrian passport, which was also circa Rafi Eitan’s initial PROMIS trips to the DC area? Placed in the context of Eitan’s tenure as LEKEM chief bedding-in and his appointment in 1981, could Golumbic have been poached with intent? From 1983-1992, Golumbic held positions at the IBM Israel Scientific Center. He then returned to the academy, taking a professorial seat in Bar-Ilan University’s math and CompSci programs. “He moved to the University of Haifa in 2000, where he founded the Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science.” We all know how much Epstein loves the Rothschilds and interdisciplinarians… Sounds right up his alley. Furthermore, Golumbic kickstarted a symposium on AI in Bar-Ilan in 1989 and the journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (Springer) the year following, for which he served as editor-in-chief. In 2019 at said symposium, he was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence.

From my vantage point, these Courant Institute figures would be in keeping with the types of former Manhattan Project researchers and STEM academics that LEKEM had been studiously cultivating as assets in the United States in the 1960s and ‘70s.

They strike me as the varieties of scientists and researchers that Epstein showered with attention in the last half of his life after Rafi Eitan stepped down and LEKEM was scuttled and renamed. The kind of brilliant people he curried favor with by taking advantage of their fatuous nerdiness and the lingering resentments of spurned collegiate advances in their undergrad days at various Ivies or bicoastal institutes of higher learning. Like some noxious fly catcher, Epstein would intoxicate his bleeding edge prey with orgiastic salon atmospheres unlike anything they’d experienced. A party or two and the damage was done—the leverage firmly in Epstein’s hands upon the revelation that whatever third-eye opening Tantric nonsense such and such derived premature ejaculating pleasure from may not have been entirely on the level… And then Epstein would take the velvet glove off the iron fist. “Oh, ____, I hate to break this to you, but we have a problem. The girl that you met the other night, Karyna’s friend. Well, Karyna just told me that she’s underage...” Trailing off into a glib smile not even making a half-assed attempt at sympathy. Voila. With a twist of the knife, the scientists would become like silly putty in Epstein the LEKEM asset’s hands, newly deployable to steal copies of research papers or compile dossiers on institute fellows, that kind of thing. Or at least that’s how I imagine it might have sometimes worked.

From this point forward, I’m going to be apportioning out written drafts of the material for the forthcoming first season on PPM in slightly more digestible, article sized chunks contrary to 50 page essays that require serious mastication and a bovine belly with multiple chambers to break down. I”m comfortable enough with this approach because I feel like I did enough heavy lifting in the first two parts to the point that readers are relatively up to speed and will be able to follow along and make the requisite mental connections to tether the revelations herein back to the larger thrust of this project. We’ve set enough of the varying scenes and furnished you with enough preliminary evidence to firmly establish that Epstein agitated against the Islamic Republic throughout his life and entered the worlds of international arms deals and espionage through his understudy role under Khashoggi and Leese as the American parastate egged on the Iran-Iraq War in hopes of seeing the proxy conflict destroy the two Middle Eastern upstart revolutionary governments.

You’ll hopefully recall the latter sections of the previous essay and our introduction to Bandar Bush and Epstein’s considerable links to the former Saudi Ambassador to the US, a relationship he appears to have cultivated over decades, as shown by the sampling of evidence I laid out stretching from:

• Prince Bandar bin Sultan’s instrumental role as a Contra slush fund beginning in ‘84

• his addressee appearance in the first Black Book 

• Epstein’s lawyer / handler Alan Dershowitz inadvertently divulging meetings with the recent head of Saudi intelligence when trying to build an alibi regarding Virginia Giuffre’s allegations

• Bandar’s purchasing of a massive mountainside manse in Aspen (a property that was passed to another Epstein associate in John Paulson and which is located in the billionaire summer house hub that Wexner also called home)

• the inclusion of multiple Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud progeny in Epstein’s email contacts

Having firmly established these ties, we will soon use the Epstein - Bandar friendship as a springboard to examine the possibility that Epstein was party to Al Yamamah, the priciest arms deal of all time, struck between the Saudis and the British in 1985. We’ll also mull whether Epstein even served as a go-between to Bandar and helped iron out the finer points of the arrangement whereby the Prince personally financed the Nicaraguan paramilitary at Reagan’s behest in early Iran-Contra.

But to construct such an argument and assess the persuasiveness of these theories, we must first tango with the doctored passport that was found in Epstein’s possession and the identity of the man for whom it was reportedly issued, conducting a forensically thorough sifting of its contents with a finetoothed comb to see what kinds of secrets get caught in its teeth. Along the way, we’ll juxtapose the various aspects of the passport identity’s past that lend themselves to the notion that he and Epstein were known quantities to each other and likely parastatal fellow travelers. This is what we will concern ourselves with today before unpacking the implications of the documented travel itinerary as filtered through the figure of Prince Bandar bin Sultan next time out.

The Mystery of Marius Fortelni’s Doctored Passport

In the latter part of 2025, pictures of Epstein’s Austrian passport under the real and/or double identity of Marius Fortelni finally entered the public domain. You can view the passport in its redacted entirety at the bottom of this article. From the present vantage, it’s likely impossible to say definitively what kind of arrangement was struck to permit the financier to step into the Austrian architect and restaurateur’s shoes on occasion (or whether there’s an even more fantastical tradecraft explanation wherein the Austrian died and Epstein stole his identity like some informal cover or else the Company phased in the use of real life individuals as cold bodies). There are sundry brainpicking interviews from the last couple of years regarding Fortelni’s oceanside, smart home condo development Forté Luxe in Jupiter Island and biography-bolstering ephemera dating back as far as 1989 in the American newspaper record that support the flesh and blood, corporeal existence of the sometimes Fort Lauderdale or Miami Beach based real estate developer. Still, one should be forgiven for being skeptical or wondering if all is not as it appears, as Epstein and Fortelni cut symmetrical paths across the planet and cropped up in similar places time and again, from Saudi Arabia to New York to West Africa to Florida.

I can conceive of a few different explanations for how the passport came to Epstein and was then doctored, Fortelni’s photo X-ACTO bladed off and swapped with a square dimensioned, black and white picture of a preppy Epstein in plaid. Cue: saucy To Live and Die in LA Willem Da-forgery montage. This is one of those contingency theory scenarios where I’ll ask you to hold these alternating possibilities in your mind at once. Each is beset with a hole or two and no size fits all.

I could see Epstein and Fortelni having been in cahoots in an organized criminal capacity and that Jeffrey secured the docs that way, with Marius a henchman or adopted consigliere of sorts. I could also see a scenario where they both were CIA assets with slightly different remits and the agency set Epstein up to inherit an old set of Fortelni’s papers (they were born only a year apart and while not doppelgängers, do have some slight facial similarities). It’s also not inconceivable that Epstein could have pilfered the passport, stolen it from Fortelni’s draftsman desk or something. And lastly, while this strikes me as most outlandish, it’s not entirely out of the realm of possibility that Fortelni could be a concocted cover identity or cold body that various assets or agents could slip into in the field.

From what I’ve gathered from others and his bio online, it sounds like Fortelni is the son of a successful German actor and real estate developer, so this last option seems highly doubtful, but the whole situation is such a profoundly cumbersome head scratcher that I struggle to dismiss the notion entirely. For example, if the fraudulent passport’s solitary purpose was to protect Epstein in case of a PFLP-era hijacking, as his legal team’s story goes, why on earth would you hold onto it for an additional 32 years past its expiration? Was Epstein simply a packrat hoarder who couldn’t let such evidence of passport forgery criminality go out of sentimentality? Such a notion runs counter to the portrayal of Epstein that is constructed by the Files of a meticulous scrubber of hard drives and digital evidence of his crimes. I reckon the passport must have had a continued usefulness for him to keep it as long as he did.

Marius Fortelni Makes the News

UES Eateries, Parties with Epstein Model Elle Macpherson, and Sus Storage Units 

There are seemingly only 5 hits for Fortelni on Newspapers.com. The most recent results date to February 2015, both of them Notices of imminent sale of items held in lapsed, unpaid storage units in the Fort Lauderdale area. How strange for the big shot real estate developer to have failed to make payments on one of his storage units for so long that they were about to auction off his stored items as shown by this South Florida Sun Sentinel issue… Seems uncharacteristic. Do you know who did exhibit a characteristic pattern of dispatching private investigators to move hard drives, laptops, and dirty magazines from storage unit to storage unit so as to evade the feds, though? Do I even need to say it? Was Epstein using the old Fortelni passport as ID to keep a degree of separation between himself and a storage unit with a trove of particularly sensitive items? Or is this sheer coincidence?

In the Oct. 29th, 1989 edition of Newark, New Jersey’s The Star Ledger, the paper’s food critic William A. Raidy reports back from his visit to the recently ribbon-cut Via Via restaurant on the Upper East Side. Founded by “international restaurateurs” Marius Fortelni and David Teller, he waxes rhapsodical about the girls “three deep at the bar”; the “generous highballs”; the samplings of ravioli Genovese, calamari al inferno, and veal paillard on arugula beds. Then located at 1294 Third Ave. near 74th Street, Via Via would have been mere blocks from Epstein’s E. 66th St. flat in the Solo Building that was his much more modest New York residence and temporary office of the Intercontinental Asset Group in the late 1980s before he inherited the townhouse from Wexner. It’s not hard to imagine Epstein having helped Fortelni populate the bar with the girls that Raidy was all agog over. This earliest mention of Fortelni that I’ve uncovered in American newspapers bears a couple blink-you-could-miss breadcrumbs. The UES Via Via was apparently cousin to another on 37th Street that was opened a little less than 2 years prior, meaning that the flagship appears to have debuted in NYC in 1987, right around the time Epstein was undergoing that post Iran-Contra career change. Auspicious timing for this Austrian double of Epstein’s to suddenly pop up in the U.S. (note: this is the same year the Fortelni Passport in Epstein’s possession expired). There’s also mention that Fortelni comes from a Milanese family of restaurateurs that have been setting white linen tablecloths for “discriminating diners” in Northern Italy since the early 1800s.

My curiosity is piqued more so by the passing mention that Via Via owners Fortelni and Teller met at the “American (International) School in Vienna”, though, and for good reason, as we’ll see. As tradition dictates for such institutions, the American International School in Vienna’s student body demographics include a 30% chunk of American children, an approximate 30% or so of natural born Austrians, and a plurality consisting of 70 other nationalities making up the rest. Most of the American students are the spawn of diplomats and assorted Embassy and intergovernmental sector employees. By virtue of this reality, it’s well within the realm of the reasonable that Fortelni could have had classmates whose parents were CIA. The AISV has strong ties to the State Department as illustrated by its highlighted inclusion in the Overseas Schools Fact Sheet and the singular seat on the 10-person school board that is strictly appointed by the U.S. Ambassador alone. AISV’s most recognizable alumni name is likely Romanian-American actor Sebastian Stan who enjoyed a starring turn as a young protege of Roy Cohn aka pre-hairpiece Trump in the recent film The Apprentice, to bring this aside full circle.

Anyways, could Fortelni have been recruited by Central Intelligence straight outta secondary school? Read on, dear reader.

Turning to the final “Marius Fortelni” search result in the digitized newspaper archives… In 1991, the Philadelphia Daily News gossiped about some “tent bash” he threw in the Hamptons to sample the “French and Russian delicacies he intends to serve when he opens his trendery this fall”. Lo and behold, the obligatory salacious anecdote that saw the party’s inclusion in the Philly paper’s gossip section: some paparazzi caught Aussie supermodel Elle Macpherson peeing in the bushes in a revealing tube dress. Elle Macpherson was inseparable from Epstein madam-in-waiting Naomi Campbell in the 1990s, with whom she helped cohost Miss Universe in 2001 smack dab during Trump’s peeping tom ownership of the pageant, and Macpherson’s also been snapped arm in arm with Ghislaine Maxwell and Black Book addressees Fiona Feeley and Tim Jeffries at a fundraising party for the Serpentine Gallery in 1999.

Not only that, but the swimsuit powerhouse once dubbed “The Body” by TIME-LIFE-CIA Inc. in the 1980s was also listed as part of a criminal grooming milieu by an alleged Epstein victim who filed a somewhat absurd online tip with the FBI. There’s just enough believability to stop me short of dismissing it as delusion at first glance, so I’ll leave it to you to decide. The redacted tipster weaves a strange tale wherein she attended a Hollywood high school with a number of Israelis and Serbians who were on a first name basis with the “princess of Yugoslavia” (presumably Catherine Oxenberg?). The tipster claims she was on the verge of applying for art school and had compiled her portfolio at which point the actor Matthew Settle of Band of Brothers and Gossip Girl c-list fame dated her under false pretenses and groomed her to be approached by Ghislaine for “modeling jobs”—it’s unclear if she even maintains she was actually victimized by Epstein in a sexual fashion. What she does feel particularly aggrieved about is that she is convinced Epstein et al “stole her portfolio” including the painting of Bill Clinton in the blue dress that was later attributed to NY Academy of Art Petrina Ryan-Kleid (a fellow Epstein NYAA alumnus with Maria Farmer, of course) and that all of her paintings and artwork were given fraudulent provenance and sold at inflated prices and the like. It is within this context that she lists Elle Macpherson and her manager Stuart as co-conspirators in this grooming art heist of sorts or at the very least related members of this modeling-art world rhizome.

Do I find her tale compelling? Not necessarily, although I don’t find it unbelievable either based on the ties to Macpherson that we documented and the much more well-known art academy links, so I’m duty bound to disclose, at the very least. To sum this section, though, we’ve shown that the identity contained within Epstein’s doctored passport corresponds with the Austro-German-Italian descendant of restaurateurs who attended a Viennese K-12 school for spy kids. This Marius Fortelni individual opened an eatery blocks away from the Epstein townhouse and a more modest apartment on the UES in the late 1980s, right around the time Epstein was settling back in the States post financial bounty hunting and gun running across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. We also discovered that Fortelni has thrown rambunctious enough outdoor saturnalias to land in the gossip pages and that they were attended by Epstein-Trump model trafficking nexus figures like Elle Macpherson. Finally, we speculated a tad about a Fort Lauderdale storage unit under Fortelni’s name that appears to have been emptied out to the Storage War wolves by the miffed proprietors, evoking Epstein’s use of storage liminal spaces like freeports for squirreling away the evidence of his crimes.

The Viennese Connection

Ambassador Honeypots, Hotel Diplomacy, and Iran-Contra Hostage Negotiations

The journalist Edward Szall previously speculated that the doctored Fortelni papers sporting Epstein’s photograph were issued by Ronald Lauder during his stint as Ambassador to Austria, which lasted all of April ‘86 - Oct. ‘87, claims that are also investigated in the 2nd volume of Whitney Webb’s blackmail omnibus. This would compute in the light of Epstein’s clientele relationship with the Estée Lauder heir, for whom he set up a fine art tax evasion LLC called Friends Ventures jointly owned with Leon Black that was used to purchase and share a Kurt Schwitters piece. Epstein and Lauder remained on friendly terms until at least 2017, with over 900 mentions of the Diddy-linked fragrance kingpin in the files and Epstein inviting him to Terje Rød-Larsen hosted soirées and the like. While it’s still a distinct possibility that the World Jewish Congress president Lauder helped set up Epstein with Fortelni’s documents, I think the evidence is increasingly pointing in a different direction.

As previously acknowledged by Epstein’s lawyers in 2019 and now seemingly confirmed by the images, the Austrian passport was issued on May 21st, 1982, a full  four years prior to Lauder’s brief stint at the Embassy. With an expiration date 5 years on, it seems unlikely that Epstein would have continued to carry the lapsed passport once defunct unless his lawyers’ official explanation that it was a crude failsafe in case of a hostage-taking onboard one of his flights by PFLP militants is genuine. Seeing as they contradicted themselves and refused to answer questions about how it was obtained and whether the stamp evidence proved it had been used by Epstein in transit, questions that were raised by the prosecution during proceedings regarding flight risk, I think we can dismiss their version of events out of hand.

In which case, an expiry of 1987 is an intriguing detail, as 1987 would be right around the time that Iran-Contra had concluded, erm… Or put in other words, been outed by the Hasenfus Crash and the investigative derring-do of the Lebanese press and henceforth blown up in the public sphere, leading to Congressional and Presidential investigatory commissions. By 1987, Epstein was transitioning into life as a Ponzi schemer with Steven Hoffenberg and as the fresh faced financial advisor to one Les Wexner, pretty cozy landing spots coming out of the massive scandal (One Nation Under Blackmail, Webb). Also, mind you, his new jobs wouldn’t necessitate a doctored passport in quite the same way that being a transnational financial bounty hunter and Iran-Contra arms dealer might, at least on the face of it… Taking the timing into account, I’m inclined to believe that the Fortelni passport was used by Epstein as a cover identity during his globetrotting as the mentee of various Contragate players such as Douglas Leese, Adnan Khashoggi, Robert Maxwell, and Ehud Barak between 1982 - 1987.

Back in 2019, after the expired subterfuge passport (amongst five others) was discovered in a safe with $70,000 in cash, 48 loose diamonds, and a U.S. Treasury Customs agent lapel pin in a credentials wallet (highly suspicious in the context of a doctored passport) during the raid on the NY townhouse, prosecutors alleged in one of the Epstein case hearings that the passport had received ingress and egress stamps from countries such as the UK, France, Spain, and Saudi Arabia on multiple occasions in the 1980s. We now have images and FBI internal emails to back up these claims. Furthermore, the passport lists Dammam, Saudi Arabia as Marius aka Epstein’s place of residence. Dammam is the fifth largest Saudi city, situated on the Persian Gulf approximately 400 or so miles West of the Strait of Hormuz as the crow flies and directly adjacent to the tiny island kingdom of Bahrain by bridge.

From here, we ought to begin our close reading of the Fortelni Passport in earnest, starting with its point of origin and provenance.

May 21st, 1982 - The Fortelni passport was issued in Austria under the authority of the “Bundespolizeidirektion Wien” (Vienna)  by an Oberkommisar named Dr. Mikuskovics. Based on what I’m seeing, the “Dr.” is an abbreviation signifying Doktor, likely denoting a recipient of a top-level doctoral degree in law based on the immigration and law enforcement context, although I wouldn’t be shocked if it stood for “director” (a German speaking listener might be able to set this matter straight). One of the emergent wonderments that the Fortelni Passport poses in my mind is: Why an Austrian passport for Epstein specifically? Circumstance and convenience? Or something more?

Setting aside a reading where Epstein encounters Fortelni in Saudi Arabia and purchases it off him or else where the passport passes hands through Lauder’s doing, I can think of one characteristic of the city in which it was authorized that might shed light on the “Why Austria?” question. Vienna is arguably the spy capital of Europe, after all, a noir reputation gained from dusky monochrome Cold War cinema such as The Third Man, the classic about a penicillin-diluting racketeer who has staged his death so as to escape the British military police on his tail and which captures post-war Wien in all its quadripartite occupation district intrigue. Vienna has enjoyed the reputation of a European city of strategic import and espionage due to its central location bridging east and west for millennia, with even Marcus Aurelius noting its geographic advantages long before the cafe culture and baroque architecture cropped up, long before MI6 man Graham Greene sent his cowboy fictioneer character Holly Martins scurrying down bombed out ruins after the Cheshire phantom Harry Lime aka Orson Welles, a cinematic adaptation that may have been inspired by the Philby-recruited Soviet spy Hans-Peter Smolka.

This perception has only been solidified in recent years, with some estimates placing as many as 7k agents of varying services active on its streets today. In the years of the Third Reich’s rise cresting into the Anschluss, you might have encountered Kim Philby, Freud, or Trotsky in its cafes. More recently, the hotbed of snooping played host to the largest spy swap between the U.S. and Russia since the Cold War, with British double agent and Russian military intel officer Sergei Skripal (later poisoned in Salisbury) and scarlet-haired Russian seductress Anna Chapman exchanged on the tarmac in Vienna in 2010.

Part of this tacit acceptance of Vienna as second spy capital of Europe (only surpassed by Brussels) is due to its neutrality, its historical geographic convenience as an operational launchpad beyond the Iron Curtain into countries such as Poland and Yugoslavia, and the fact that it also plays host to a number of intergovernmental organizations today. These include one of four major United Nations headquarters, the UN Office of Vienna (UNOV) located in the Vienna International Center, a holdover from the idiosyncrasies of the four part occupation of the city by the U.S., British, French, and Soviets that I alluded to earlier. The UNOV is home to key agencies like the International Atomic Energy Agency (which would be of monumental interest to Epstein’s likely parent agency LEKEM, the Bureau of Scientific Relations), the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Control (UNODC), and UNIDO (international development office), among others.

We may make a more thorough study of Epstein’s time in and ties to Vienna at a later date, but the Austrian capital hosts another intergovernmental organization we’ve already spoken about in Pt. I of this series and that may be even more germane to this line of inquiry. You’ll recall that we began to tease the thread of Epstein’s recruitment of recently resigned Slovakian national security adviser Miroslav Lajčák, onetime chair of the OSCE aka the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, specifically highlighting messages between the two in 2019 in which they discussed digital false flags and Epstein exhorted Miroslav to get the OSCE to take cybersecurity more seriously. The OSCE is officed in Vienna, of course.

Fascinatingly, it appears the issuance of the Fortelni passport, whether to Marius himself or to Jeffrey Epstein masquerading as the Austrian, arrived at a time when the U.S. Embassy in Austria was in crisis and transition following the March 1982 death of Reagan-appointed Special Envoy Theodore Cummings, a Jewish Austrian emigré and Food Giant supermarket magnate who first met Ronald in the 1960s as a GOP booster and who was a part of the actor’s informal “kitchen cabinet”. Apparently a Charge D’Affaires took charge of the Embassy until the following year, when another Reagan loyalist in the personage of Helene von Damm was promoted to the office. I’m unsure if this is a common occurrence, but even the State Department’s Timeline of the Chiefs of the Austrian Mission has a conspicuous void where the year during which the Fortelni Passport was issued should be placed, which is notable considering it found its way into the hands of American citizen and likely CIA and LEKEM asset Epstein. I’ve yet to find any indication which Embassy officer rose to handle diplomatic duties between Cummings’ unexpected death and von Damm’s appointment, so that’s slightly curious. More uncanny than curious is her almost shocking resemblance of the Maxwell Sisters, a young Isabel in particular, as seen in this “candid” pic from Air Force One or another of the Ambassador in a sun hat and baring her décolletage.

If von Damm had anything to do with the passport making its way to Epstein, this could be further evidence of Jeff the Financier’s entrenchment in Iran-Contra, as von Damm was not only Ronald’s former secretary but also a Reagan insider and among 5 campaign aides including Edwin Meese and Deputy Chief of Staff Deaver who received questionable payouts from the 1980 Reagan / Bush transition foundation. It’s also worth adumbrating von Damm’s biography quickly. Raised in Amstetten where her father toiled as an engineer for the paper company Neuesiedler Papierfabrik (now Mondi), she married a US Army corporal named Charles McDonald during the Soviet occupation and emigrated to the US—one groom in a line of four ex-husbands that came to include a German-American Bank of America executive, whose surname she ultimately kept. Helene dug up her roots in Chicago and traveled to California when she became smitten with Reagan’s ardent anticommunism as a “refugee” of a “socialist country” herself. She ascended from a lowly gubernatorial campaign envelope-filler to Reagan’s personal secretary and then Finance Director for the Northeast in 1980, a position parlayed into Director of Presidential Personnel and then the brief Ambassadorship in Austria. She resigned after her tempestuous liaison with the recently divorced owner of the prestigious Viennese Hotel Sacher became a source of “public fascination”, divorcing Peter Gürtler a year after she stepped down, walking away with alimony, seats on the boards of a couple European companies, and a Doubleday book deal. Gürtler “committed suicide” in 1990—curious timing, that, considering all the parastatal criminal activities of the Reagan and Bush years, the fall of the Soviet Union, and his nearly annulled, lightning quick marriage to the U.S. Ambassador.

Sometimes a singular Google search leads to a eureka moment, sending you spilling out of the bathtub in a spray of foam and Epsom salt, racing naked for pen and paper to jot down a reminder of the revelatory piece of evidence that just fell into your lap. I was feeling like I was circling the drain a little bit, that I’d taken my Fortelni passport discoveries about as far as I could, when my mind stirred. “Klonny, you tried to find something linking Ambassador Helene von Damm to Iran-Contra… But did you ever search for an Austrian or Viennese Connection to the scandal more generally?”, so spoke my Shivers and Encyclopedia skills to me as I soaked like some wet dog Harry du Bois.

Wouldn’t you know it, dear reader… With even just a perfunctory internet conjuring, I quickly found a source that would support the Fortelni Passport having been allocated to Epstein as cover during his involvement in Iran-Contra related travels, showing that the use of aliases and false passports were a part of the Enterprise’s OpSec modus operandi. And it gets better yet. Not only will I establish that they relied upon fake passports and cover identities while jetting about on Contragate business, I’ll also show that the Iran-Contra architects used fraudulent passports to travel to Vienna, Austria to negotiate with an Iranian delegation for the release of hostages specifically.

But first, I ought to preface this by pointing out that even today, Western intelligence, national security think tanks like the Hudson Institute, and the Pahlavist anti-AOR lobby maintain that Vienna is the base of operations for Iranian intelligence networks in Europe due to its neutrality and lax regulations regarding covert activity. Per Die Presse, the Library of Congress released a report on Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence in 2012 that asserted Vienna is chock full of Iranian agents, with security experts estimating 100 or more individuals working for the ministry to surveil and pressure regime change advocates in exile there. The Library of Congress report alleges that Austria and Iran have enjoyed warm relations since the Islamic Revolution, meaning this dynamic was well-established prior to when the Fortelni Passport came into being in 1982.

Which brings us to a mini research climax of sorts. Pulling from the Aug. 1993 Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters during Lawrence E. Walsh’s tenure. Take your magnifying glass to “Part VIII Officers of the Department of Defense” specifically, now scroll down to Item #22. This is numbered evidence of various notes, diary entries, and testimonies that were withheld from the Tower Commission and the Select Committees which show that Secretary of Defense Weinberger and many of his closest aides were routinely informed of Contragate arms shipment developments and were personally conducting high-level meetings in the White House and the field regarding the black op. In Items #21 and #22, the OIC team subverts the testimony of a classified “senior military officer” who feigned ignorance when asked whether he’d been considered for a meeting with Iranians regarding the hostage crisis and claimed to be wholly unfamiliar with Col. Oliver North, who he characterized as a “staff officer on the periphery”.

To reiterate the underlined portions of the screenshot, Secretary Weinberger’s diary revealed that Oliver North and a Senior Military Officer whose identity was classified (national security reasons, ol’ chap) travelled to Vienna, Austria in September of 1985 to meet with Iranians about getting the hostages released. They did so at the express request of Robert McFarlane and with the permission of Weinberger and General Vessey. The Ambassador Robert B. Oakley helped to grease the wheels to get one of the false passports divvied out to the “Officer”, lending credence to the notion that the U.S. Embassy Charge D’Affaires or Amb. Von Damm could have put a finger on the scale related to the Epstein/Fortelni papers. The other two travel docs for North and Redacted were secured when Ollie invoked Admiral Moreau’s name.

Finally, we see that their plane tickets and HOTEL RESERVATIONS were booked under their aliases (one of which was Goode). Their Iran-Contra negotiations trip to Vienna landed a mere month or two after Ambassador von Damm cabled a resignation letter to the White House, signaling her intent to step down over the growing din of gossip about her scandalous relationship with the hotelier. She would make good on the press release the following year, leaving her post in 1986, meaning… that Ambassador Von Damm was still in office at the time that a major secret meeting between the U.S. and Iranian Contragate delegations was held in her jurisdiction. Now, considering she and the recently divorced Gürtler shacked up together, got married in Feb. 1985 only a month after she’d finalized her divorce from computer industry consultant Byron Leeds (how fitting that the 4th wedding fell in the shortest month), and divorced again in the span of like 2ish years tops, I would be remiss if I didn’t speculate ever so slightly about the torrid-but-brief affair.

At the very least, I think we can deduce that chances are the Hotel Sacher would have played host to various comings-and-goings of Reagan officials, whether Contragate-related or not. For example, from the same WaPo profile, we find tell of a meeting between von Damm and Secretary Shultz, Assistant Sec. for Euro Affairs Richard Burt, and National Security Adviser and major Contragate player Robert A. McFarlane in Vienna that very May, 1985 (emphasis added, see article’s final stretch). How much do you want to bet they rendezvoused at the Sacher or at the very least stayed there? And not just because it’s Vienna’s fanciest and most prestigious hotel. It would only be logical to hold certain deliberations in the private confines of a spare room or conference room within a hotel whose proprietor could be trusted to keep a secret (perhaps incentivized to stay mum by sexy time with the hot lady Ambassador?).

If you’re attempting to have an off-the-books summit without inviting suspicion or the press sniffing it out, there are few better options than a five-star luxury hotel that caters to an international clientele in a neutral country. It’s called “hotel diplomacy”, for godsakes, I’m not just talkin’ out my rump here. To back up what I’m putting down, always going that extra mile, I’ve pulled a Wall Street Journal piece exploring the security and zipped lipped peculiarities of courting such business during the UN’s General Assembly of Nations and the background checks and metal detectors that hoteliers are expected to have on hand as an example.

To conclude this section, I’ll leave you with two speculative, inquisitive ponderances. How would you rate the likelihood that von Damm honeypotted Gürtler for the express purpose of gaining influence over the Hotel through romantic means in advance of it serving as a neutral ground for top secret meetings? And secondly, with all of this splayed before you, what do you think the chances are that Fortelni’s Austrian passport fell into Epstein’s hands because it was to play a pivotal role in enabling him to get in and out of Austria and/or Saudi Arabia to meet with Iranian arms dealers and dignitaries with ease and without inviting suspicion? From the little I’ve dredged up so far, it seems that while entry/exit stamps for Austrian citizens were routine, they weren’t uniform or always strictly enforced (especially at land crossings), so even though there seemingly isn’t any inky proof of Fortelni/Epstein revisiting Vienna after the passport was issued, this doesn’t mean the holder never returned. There are more involved ways of explaining away such a discrepancy (if we’re thinking there’s a compelling case to make regarding Austrian activities specifically), as even the North and Redacted anecdote describes the use of secondary passports, which is not uncommon when you wish to enter a country without tipping Immigration and Customs off to your point of departure.

Speaking of stamps, let’s hurry along through the queue before that border control officer pulls us aside for cavity checks.

The Bechtel Boys Are Buildin’ A Town

Ingress, Egress, and Visa Stamps Galore

From here, I will attempt to arrange the majority of the itinerary of Mr. Fortelni’s entrances and exits in this particular passport’s pages sequentially, particularly focusing on especially noteworthy visits and only barring entries where the smudging or faded ink render them illegible. Beginning with his Saudi work visa:

• May 25th, 1982 - An Entry Visa was rubber stamped at the Royal Saudi Arabian Consulate in Vienna, giving the holder permission to stay in the country for one month and listing an employer named something like “____ Corporation for Commerce and Importing”. Per Arabic fluent assistants online, the first word in the company title may be something like “Anji” or “Angi”, but the handwriting is difficult to make out. Needless to say, though, if you check Marius Fortelni’s bio, you’ll see that he claims to have worked as a “subcontractor for the Royal Saudi Commission while guiding a large real estate and construction firm” before moving to New York in the 1980s. There’s no way he could have been an employee of the massive construction contractors Saudi Binladin Group, is there? This seems like a potentially fruitful line of questioning to pose to Mr. Fortelni if one were ever to get him into a Tupamaros’ interrogation chair.

This broached an aspect of his bio that I hadn’t touched on yet. Fortelni apparently forewent a college education to “start his own cement and construction company in West Africa as a young man”. 1 Doesn’t Teen Fortelni’s African cement manufacturer sound like a front company for a young Central Intelligence agent? If not, what impetus could have caused a just graduated Fortelni to seek his fortune far from home in the developing world? And could he have somehow made a business contact at Saudi Binladin Group through construction and the cement trade? Doubtful he would have exported clinker to the Saudis, as they have one of the most robust and self-reliant cement industries in the world… Hard to say. But based on everything we know, I look at Fortelni’s time in Africa a little askance, like a Prelude to a Spy.

Either way, here’s the reasoning behind my wonderment as to whether he could have worked for SBG and Osama’s relatives. Firstly, he doesn’t name the “large real estate and construction firm” that he “guided” in Saudi Arabia, which could give the vibe of someone carefully eliding those specifics because he’s worried about the 9/11 shit sticking to him. Secondly, his bio states that he operated primarily in the cities of Jubail and Dammam while his company and the 130 workers in its employ built 150 houses for “prominent local figures”. From this, we can ascertain that the Saudi Royal Commission he is referring to is the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, which was founded in 1975 and whose stated mission is to "Plan, promote, develop and manage Petrochemicals and Energy intensive industrial cities through successful customer focus and partnerships with investors, employees, communities and other stakeholders." This means that Marius Fortelni was a subcontractor working on one of the largest urban planning, engineering, and industrial city development projects in history.

And here’s how we bring his bio and passport full circle and likely shine a flashlight on the gossamer webs that have insisted on avoiding our beam in the darkness up until this point… Built “from the sand up” atop the ruinous suburbs of an ancient fishing and pearling village on the Arabian Peninsula’s eastern seaboard, when the Saudi Royals initiated the largest civil engineering project of all time, they turned to two outfits they knew would be able to get the job done: Bechtel and the Saudi Binladin Group. In June of 1976, Bechtel was awarded a 20 year contract to,

…manage the implementation of the master plan it had submitted to the Saudi Royal Commission on Jubail and Yenbo, the policymaking body for the project. Mr. Yates, who was interviewed during a recent visit to Bechtel's San Francisco headquarters, is Bechtel's field manager.

Bechtel's task, he said, was to map out the entire infrastructure for the industrial complex and the city, supervise the granting of contracts after evaluating bids, and oversee the actual construction.

“We make sure all the pieces fit together,” says Charles G. Wolfe, engineering manager in the Bechtel's San Francisco support office, where some 20 technicians spent all of last year preparing “requests for proposals’ to go out to hundreds of contractors this year. Already more than 100 contracts have been awarded and nearly $2 billion spent.

The NYT article goes on to describe the international effort to fast track the construction of the eyesore, like a growth on the pristine unbroken ‘dermis of the desert, with Hyundai rallying to dredge & construct the industrial port, NYC’s Sanderson & Porter tackling the world’s largest desalination plant, and West Germany’s Karf-Stahl Co. jointly planning an 800k ton steel mill with the Saudis. In ‘76, Jubail had “no major road connections, no labor force, no power supply, no housing, and no sweet water, save for a few wells”. The prize was that sicklysweet crude, of course—the Khufu Pyramid esque scheme of Ozymandian proportions originated with a meeting between Stephen Bechtel Sr. And Saudi King Faisal in the Bechtel-bricked Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva (speaking of hotel diplomacy) in which the King complained of $1 billion in excess oil that they burned off in the desert per annum because they simply couldn’t deliver it to market.

Caption: Manucher Ghorbanifar

Speaking of Geneva, there are swirling stories regarding sit downs between Adnan Khashoggi and Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar and American representatives in 1985 and in one version, Geneva is the site of three days worth of top secret talks, this time at the Hilton. Citing Manucher Ghorbanifar’s sworn statement regarding Iran-Contra from 1986 in the Reagan Library, we find that Ghorbanifar, Khashoggi, and National Security Council consultant and staunch opponent of the Islamic Revolutionary “regime” Michael Ledeen intersect in Geneva in late October 1985, where they were joined by the number two man in Iran, Ayatollah Kabouli, who had driven in from Hamburg, a supposed “big Mullah” based in Frankfurt believed to have been close to Khomenei’s son (this may be a codename, finding scant evidence of a Karbouli). Karbouli was seemingly the “moderate” influence that the Reagan-Bush defense establishment and parastatal cowboys were trying to recruit parallel to the arms transfers. We can’t get into such weeds now, but Ledeen’s involvement is hugely instructive as he was one of the longest serving hawks against Iran and was a major architect of the Global War on Terror as prelude to regime change against Khamenei, for which he lobbied fervently.

Caption: Michael Ledeen

During the multiday meeting, Karbouli dished on the radical faction, “who took the hostages”, and requested technical help for seizing power in the country when the time comes, including Iranian money to feed to madrasas & bazaars so as to increase his base of support. He grew bolder still. “He ask(ed) for certain drops to put in drinks to try and kill Khomenei”. While Ledeen reportedly demurred and declined to hook Karbouli up with the Sidney Gottleib pupils in the Company’s technical services / dirty tricks department, likely because he didn’t want such a plot to blow back on Reagan or the CIA, Ghorbanifar maintains that they ultimately got the “drops” from the Israeli branch of the Iran-Contra nexus, which could mean Epstein or LEKEM or AMAN were involved.

The account of this planning meeting weeks before the Nov. 24th Hawk shipment / Epstein Fam Vacay coheres, as we know that Iranian payments on the arms transfers were deposited in a Monte Carlo bank by Ghorbanifar and then routed to accounts in Geneva with Credit Suisse and Compagnie de Services Fiduciaires, which were used to relay moneys to the Contras in Nicaragua. CSF was also reportedly affiliated with Albert Hakim, Iranian business partner of Gen. Secord, and helped to broker the purchase of the plane that Robert McFarlane used to fly to Tehran (possibly alluding to the Southern Air vessel). More significantly, the Genevan Connection illustrates that Iran-Contra wasn’t simply about a circuitous means of arming the Contras, it was also the tentative first attempts at assassination plots and succession plans that have yet to hatch, reinforcing my argument that the Americans weren’t as much making overtures as much as they were trying to fan the flames of the Iran-Iraq War towards mutually assured destruction or else get the Iranians’ guard down so they could strike.

Back to Bechtel and Fortelni. Early on at the Jubail worksite, they apparently had to freight in construction materials via the choked road from Dammam, which explains Fortelni’s bio stating that he split his time between the two cities. The article goes on to describe how the “initial team of Bechtel managers—mostly Americans and Europeans—was forced into Al Khobar, a city 35 miles north… for lack of housing…”. Based on what I’m seeing and in light of the fact that Fortelni also boasts of having built homes for the rich and famous like Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Mariah Carey, etc, I’m starting to think that there’s a good chance that Fortelni was enlisted to build the on-site homes in Jubail for Bechtel managers and their wives and kids—by extension, I’m starting to think he may have run a Bechtel subsidiary or been a direct employee, although the other theories aren’t fully out of the picture.

I ought to explain the implications of these revelations, what it means that Fortelni was either hired by Bechtel or worked for a subsidiary company, a tall order so deep into an article and with the particulate avalanche in my hourglass dwindling. We may have to return to this, but Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger were both former Bechtel men poached to serve in Reagan’s Cabinet and both men had operational knowledge of the Iran/Contra para-traffic of weapons and authorized various meetings with Iranian delegations by the more hands-on underlings such as Col. Oliver North, NSA Robert McFarlane, etc, as we’ve illustrated. So if Bechtel commissioned Fortelni’s company (whichever it may be, whether Saudi Binladin Group or his West African outfit) to work on building housing for Bechtel employees once ground was broken on Jubail Industrial City, that would likely mean by extension that someone like Shultz or Weinberger would have set the passport exchange in motion somehow, whether by introducing him to the Khashoggi - Leese - Maxwell - Epstein set or else by calling on Fortelni for a favor in a pinch…

Doubling back to the Saudi visa. To my untrained eye, a ‘Blank Corp. of Commerce and Importing” doesn’t sound like the parent company with which Fortelni would be contracted for architectural design and construction work in Jubail, unless that’s a charade and he was actually in the import/export business with Epstein. If his bio is factual, the employer’s name lends me to believe that this passport may have been taken out for the express purpose of allowing Epstein to travel into Saudi Arabia under a secondary identity, especially seeing as the very first ingress and egress stamps coincided with a trip to the Gulf.

Setting aside the Vienna Connection, 2 the immediate impetus for the passport appears to have been the trip to Saudi Arabia, which is undoubtedly its most eye-catching component. The أجنبي (ajnabi meaning foreigner) actually arrived at an equally auspicious and mournful time for the Saudi Royal Family, as King Khalid passed of a heart attack during the alien’s stay on June 13th and King Fahd was promptly coronated as the new figurehead of the royal family and statesman of the country. Believe me, I am dutifully doing my best not to read into this too much. Jesus, take the wheel. Side eye. Let’s proceed.

More itinerary dates:

• May 27th, 1982 - Charles de Gaulle (This likely indicates a layover in France and that Fortelni / Epstein was en route from Austria)

• May 28th, 1982 - Presumably departed Heathrow for Saudi

• May 29th, 1982 - Entered Saudi Arabia at Dhahran International Airport

• June 16th, 1982 - Exited Saudi Arabia at Dhahran

• June 18th, 1982 - Reentered France

Let me furnish you with one rationale for why the passport may have been used by Epstein from the very first or early in its lifecycle. Based on everything we know about the timeline of the Jubail city development project, it seems highly unlikely that a month long visa would have been sufficient for Fortelni to get into the country, journey to the off-the-beaten-path construction site, design, and construct some 150 homes for Bechtel employees or otherwise. Even with 130 workers to boss about, there’s no way in hell that you could manage such a feat. In which case, the passport should have another Work Visa or else Fortelni never left and simply handed the passport off to Epstein somewhere in Riyadh or the desert. Furthermore, the complete and utter lack of evidence of repeat trips to Saudi Arabia after exiting on June 16th, 1982 would seem to support this. It computes for Epstein to be kicking around France, Spain, and the UK in 1982/83. For Marius Fortelni, based on what we know about him and the magnitude of the project he was seemingly elbows deep in, not so much. Much to think about.

Time for some more stamp action. Don’t get a stiffy from all this passport porn, now…

• Aug. 20th, 1982 - Nice, Cote Azur

• Sept. 16th, 1982 - Presumably Entered, Charles de Gaulle

• Sept. 28th, 1982 - Left Charles de Gaulle again?

• Oct. 19th, 1982 - Entered Malaga, Spain

  • Note that 3 years after this, LEKEM nuclear krytron trigger smuggler and Arnon Milchan recruit Richard Kelly Smyth and his wife Emilie, would begin new lives under the assumed names of Dr. Jon and Emilie Schiller in Malaga, a seaside community known for lax customs and immigration laws, apparently enough so that it has the reputation of being a bastion of spies and Isntreali intel has clearly hollowed out a colony there between the handsome safe house apartment they lived in for 16 years and Epstein’s presumed passage through the city. You might think of Malaga as a miniature Vienna on the coast.

• Oct. 24th, 1982 - (Presumably) Entered Heathrow

• Oct. 26th, 1982 - Entered Charles de Gaulle

• Nov. 4th, 1982 - Charles de Gaulle

• Nov. 9th, 1982 - Charles de Gaulle again.

  • Clearly Fortelni / Epstein was back and forth betwixt France and some other destination between a couple of these stays, possibly returning to Austria or another country, perhaps Saudi, Israel, or the United States where he could have had an arrangement with customs not to stamp his passport if he was trying to enter covertly.

There are a couple more ingress/egress stamps, all of them for Heathrow and CDG in 1983. Two points. It’s not inconceivable that these could be the memorabilia of Fortelni’s travels and that the passport’s usage by Epstein was only after 1983, perhaps that year being a demarcation of when his gunrunning seriously picked up. And if he was using the passport when primarily flying on CIA proprietary airlines or chartered flights, he may have avoided customs entirely, in which case it was more so backup, a cover identity in case of capture. So the timeframe of Epstein’s movements with said papers may have been  from 1983-1987, primarily the period completely devoid of stamps, albeit it’s like drawing blood from a stone to use a negative to prove a secondary claim. If these stamps were from Epstein’s journeys and the passport wasn’t doctored post-‘83, we can draw some conclusions, though. For one, the repeated visits or stops at Heathrow may be evidence of his growing relationship with the Leese and Maxwell families around this time.

Similarly, quoting from the 2016 article in The Guardian titled “Declassified papers reveal real reason for Thatcher's dash to Riyadh” that pertains to the back and forth British v. French competition for Saudi biz, we may find that Epstein’s travels in 1983 coincided with a new campaign in the French charm offensive to land the Al-Yamamah deal, which was the side of the vying countries that Khashoggi was assisting:

It nearly unravelled after the French began courting the Saudis in 1983 with a rival bid for Mirage aircraft. After frantic government lobbying, Prince Bandar – an anglophile and the influential Saudi ambassador to Washington – invited Mrs Thatcher to drop in to Riyadh.

Further Fortelni / Epstein ingresses and egresses (sound like they should be long necked waterbirds):

• Feb. 5th, 1983 - Charles de Gaulle Airport, France

• April 30th, 1983 - Charles de Gaulle

• Oct. 24th, 1983 - Nice, Cote Azur

• Oct. 26th, 1983 - Charles de Gaulle

• Oct. 27th, 1983 - Charles de Gaulle again

To my understanding, Douglas Leese and Adnan Khashoggi were friendly and occasional colleagues and Epstein was introduced to Khashoggi through Leese (per Hoffenberg). Could all of this jetting back and forth between the UK and France in 1982/83 be evidence of Epstein serving as a go-between, assisting both sides to game the situation in hopes of extracting the maximum rubber stamping bribes for the Saudis and commissions for themselves? In the 1980s, Adnan Khashoggi kept residences all across the planet, including both Paris and Cannes in France, as well as Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, so it’s well within the realm of possibility that French and Saudi sojourns could have been Epstein meeting with the mysterious moneybags. Quoting from Brown University’s “Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs” online study guide, we find additional vague evidence that may support that these Epstein ingresses & egresses in France were related to pre-Contragate talks:

…Adnan Khashoggi met with National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane beginning in 1983 to discuss U.S.-Iran relations. Meanwhile, former CIA Associate Director of Operations Theodore Shackley was introduced to General Manucher Hashemi, a former head of the Shah's secret police, SAVAK. Hashemi then introduced Shackley to other Iranians, including Manucher Ghorbanifar and Hassan Karoubi, who became infamous during the ensuing investigation as the “first Iranian.” …

In 1985, Ghorbanifar and Khashoggi came into contact in Hamburg, Germany, and began devising the skeletons of the plan that would eventually become the Iran side of the Iran/Contra Affairs. Three Israelis were drawn into the discussion in the summer of 1985. A number of stories exist regarding the exact time, place, and specifics of these meetings. However, from these meetings came the idea to sell U.S. arms to Iran via Israel and the suggestion that, to gain the U.S.'s approval for the scheme, American hostages in Lebanon could be released.  At the same time this was happening, the NSC was searching for new ways to deal with Iran.

Was a young AmerIsraeli intelligence understudy named Jeffrey Epstein a party to these parleys in Hamburg? Or better yet, what if I could prove that Khashoggi and Ghorbanifar didn’t just confab in Hamburg, they’d also linked up in Vienna, of all places, to discuss the particulars of the Iran-Contra scheme as it began to take shape…? Wouldn’t that really be something? It would compute, after all, as we know Ollie North rendezvoused with unnamed Iranians in the ancien city. Was Hamburg a cover story? You’d almost have to assume that Epstein would have been party to these negotiations as a likely LEKEM asset and seemingly a Bill Casey Company Contragate player, especially seeing as there’s evidence that he was traveling with an Austrian passport at the time, one that wouldn’t expire until two years later. It could theoretically explain the von Damm - Gürtler tryst too and poor Peter the Hotel Failson’s eyebrow-crinkling “suicide” in 1990, two years prior to Bush pardoning a slew of the co-conspirators at Epstein associate William Barr’s behest and at a time when the OIC investigation was still in swing. Perhaps he overheard something he wasn’t supposed to or worse yet tried to extort his ex-Ambassador ex-wife over the concierge bit role he played in tending to such high profile low profile guests…

Too bad I’m not sure I can quite manage it. For a moment, I thought I was going to be able to stick the landing, as I could have sworn in the wee hours of composing parts of this last night I’d found a source that explicitly referenced Khashoggi and Ghorbanifar in Vienna, but sadly I may have been hallucinating what I wanted to see. I guess I could have dyslexically read “Geneva” as “Vienna”, the tears pooling in my bloodshot eyes and sending letters swimming. I’ve scoured my tabs to try and relocate the source I distinctly recall to no avail, it’s harsh blue light seared in my mind haunting me like the imprint of some banshee. It would compute, of course, as Ghorbanifar and Khashoggi are likely suspects for the gentlemen with whom Ollie North and Redacted rendezvoused, but short of hard evidence, I ought to keep my skis firmly on the powder. If someone can find a source that places Khashoggi or Ghorbanifar in Vienna sometime between May - November of 1985, I will throw a free subscription to the Patreon your way. The best I could summon after misplacing my goldmine source was mention of a 21st birthday party that Khashoggi threw for his son in Vienna in early 1985, which Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous host Robin Leach dubbed the “most extravagant event in European history”. No cigar, but close enough to speculate, at least! Was Daddy Khashoggi squeezing in business on the sly? If not for this slight disappointment, we might have ended this article with some proper Ronaldhino-esque showboating, albeit of the independent research variety…

I’ll be damned if I haven’t gotten close to some Rainbow Flicks, though. Even if I can’t definitively place Khashoggi (and likely Epstein) in Vienna during the May meeting between von Damm, McFarlane, and Shultz or the latter Ollie North and Redacted trip, I have found a handful of additional evidence of the Vienna Connection that show that the neutral spook interzone served as one of the “no questions asked” hubs for Iran-Contra planning, and that’s what I’ll leave you with today.

Some Viennese Connection quick hits to bolster our case, beginning with possible evidence that Shultz and McFarlane had even set up a temporary Situation Room to monitor the November 1985 arms shipment in Vienna or else had touched down there not long prior to the smuggling run to ensure everything was squared away with the Iranian side. Quoting from A.D. Sofaer’s essay Iran-Contra: Ethical Conduct and Public Policy published by the Houston Law Review:

…the administration, if not the President personally, had approved the 1985 sales.

That morning, Shultz decided to give me and Armacost access to some of the notes that Charlie Hill had kept of meetings and calls from the time Shultz became Secretary of State. He asked Hill to review the notebooks and read us the key events related to the 1985 arms sales. Armacost and I sat in Hill’s office and listened to a number of excerpts. Among these was a note of a meeting with McFarlane while he and Shultz were in Vienna during November of 1985. The notes recounted that McFarlane, then still the NSC Adviser, told Shultz that a shipment of HAWKs was being made to Iran that month by Israel with U.S. approval for the purpose of securing the release of hostages. This single note established beyond any doubt that the White House knew of and had approved that shipment.

Along similar lines, Shultz met with a Soviet delegation in Vienna in May 1985, doubtlessly overlapping with the same trip during which he, Richard Burt, and Robert McFarlane confabbed with Ambassador von Damm.

Shultz traveled to Vienna to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Austrian neutrality and sat down across from Foreign Minister Gromyko during that time to discuss space arms control and the like. The same European trip involved meetings regarding the Middle East and Palestine…

A potential sit down between Reagan and Gorbachev was floated, with Shultz touting Austria as a model for Soviet-American Accord, but minimal progress was made during the talks, reportedly.

Robert McFarlane diplomatically dialogued with South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha in Vienna in early August of 1985, mere days before the first TOW anti-tank missile shipment was carried by plane into Iran. While the public facing occasion for the talks were further “racial reforms” that the Reagan team had requested from the P.W. Botha government, Apartheid South Africa and its longstanding Foreign Minister Botha were among the PedoFash International coalition of players who helped to arm the Contras (in exchange for King Fahd and the Saudis plying the narsty Afrikaaners with oil at Reagan’s request), so it seems highly likely that such Contragate negotiations were partly what was going down in Vienna.

Ah, and now the Austrian passport makes even more sense… Per The Brattleboro Informer, it turns out that Austria was basically the designated way station for the Iranian Jewry movement, with thousands of Jewish Iranians congregating in Vienna as they awaited clearance to emigrate to the U.S. in 1985 and 1986. Between the Islamic Revolution and Iran-Contra, the Jewish populace had allegedly dwindled from 80k to approximately 30k as they fled enlistment and death in the Iran-Iraq War and Mossadist suspicions. This helps elucidate Iranian intelligence’s intense interest in the city, as it’s becoming increasingly apparent that not only was Vienna a neutral zone in which one could commingle with the enemy if you’re trying to get a message across, but it was also an Iranian opposition and Pahlavist enclave where one could go fishing for regime change agents. 

I’ve been toiling assiduously to try and substantiate my theory that Ambassador Helene von Damm and Peter Gürtler played host to American dignitaries at the Hotel Sacher (ideally with a tangential Contragate sinew) and I think I hit the jackpot. In my dogged newspaper archive spelunking, I found two examples of the Hotel Sacher catering to the whims and appetites of internationally-minded governors and members of the diplomatic corps and Beltway high society.

We’ll start with the less interesting and disconcerting of the two. Democratic-Farmer-Labor Gov. Rudy Perpich, Minnesota’s 34th and 36th, faced allegations of financial impropriety over a late Oct. 1985 business trip to Vienna that appears to have been as much an excuse for a pleasant getaway for he and the First Lady as it was a trip to explore purchasing a castle to serve as an “educational center” tied to the University of Minnesota’s study abroad program and double Fulbright honoree Prof. William Wright of the Center of Austrian Studies. They spent 6 days holed up in the $189 a night Hotel Sacher (later claiming state expenses), bookings paid for with a “business development fund”. They eventually acknowledged the trip was partly a vacation in a press release two months later.

Intriguingly, they made three such voyages to Austria in the calendar year of 1985 (I’d kill to know when the other two fell) and the business development impetuses included meeting with Austrian officials regarding “medical high tech”, shopping the opening of a Hotel Sacher in Minnesota with the Ambassador and her new husband, and connecting with the Viennese operations of several businesses owned by Minnesotan corpo-raider Irwin L. Jacobs. Also known as Irv the Liquidator, the onetime minor stakeholder in companies such as Disney, Pabst, and the Minnesota Vikings founded a catalog mail order called COMB in 1973 that led to him opening the Cable Value Network so they could monotonously, sunnily hawk their wares on TV. After many years of buying distressed assets and stripping them for parts landed him on the Forbes 500 list between the years of 1986 - 1988 (funny timing), Jacobs served as CEO of pleasure boat builder Genmar Holdings in his twilight years. That was until he murder-suicided himself and his wife with dementia in the Year of Our Eventful Lord 2019, coincidentally. Of all the years in which to show up dead, it had to be this one… Their bodies were discovered in bed by a home care nurse at their Lake Minnetonka manse that April (she’d later sue for damages and emotional distress and was diagnosed with PTSD from the grisly scene). Now, if we build a compelling case that Vienna served as a neutral field for Iran-Contra negotiations, I have to point out that the September Gov. Perpich trip to the Hotel Sacher was only a week after the Sept. 14th smuggling of 408 TOW missiles to Iran (matter of fact, they allegedly departed on the 17th for a “trade mission” in France first).

That he was pursuing potential business with von Damm, this stalwart aide of Reagan’s and someone on the other side of the aisle, does make me a little suspicious about the possibility he ties into all this somehow. Which is weird, because Perpich was actually one of the more outspoken Contragate critics and even sued the Department of Defense over the deployment of National Guardsmen to Honduras where the Contras were based and trained without his blessing—it should be noted the lawsuit didn’t play out in his favor and resulted in the Supreme Court ruling against the governors who’d objected and confirming the constitutionality of Congress authorizing the deployment of the National Guard without gubernatorial permission or the President in a state of emergency. Just another case of the Faux-Duopoly establishment working in tandem? I’ll tag on to this that Perpich was a U.S. Army man from 1946-48 and following his nonconsecutive two terms, Rudy settled into a brief spate as a consultant with the post-communist government in Zagreb, Croatia after the Fall in 1991 and then with a French business the following year before colorectal cancer necessitated a return to the U.S. What to make of the bespectacled accountant looking retiree doing mini George Soros shit in Eastern Europe and what that might say about his Vienna stops? Enough on that.

To wrap this article off, I have to regale you with some stray high society pages reporting in the Palm Beach Daily News that inadvertently takes us to an unexpectedly salacious, bleak place, tying up Vienna, Prince Bandar, Khashoggi, and a renowned astronomer with a penchant for making some of the most depraved, raspy voiced, Star67 harassment calls you’ve ever heard. Penned by woman on the town Garnett Stackelberg, the February 2nd, 1986 piece is primarily about the social circle surrounding American University President Richard Berendzen, who was then enjoying a triumphal turn, having just published a memoir detailing his experience as the president of a major university and also having succeeded in extracting $5 million in donations earmarked for the construction of a sports complex at the University from the world’s mysteriously “wealthiest” man, one Adnan Khashoggi, Epstein’s mentor and Iran-Contra architect.

Stackelberg relays that the highly successful astronomer and administrator had just been feted by the Khashoggis in their marble-encased Olympic Towers penthouse in NYC. She then proceeds to describe how Beltway hostess with the mostest Esther Coopersmith convinced President Berendzen to hire the widow of former Egypt leader Anwar Sadat for a speaking engagement at the University. From there, she chugs along into another luncheon held in honor of the Berendzens, this time by Jack and Esther Coopersmith (more on her in a moment), which drew respected members of the diplomatic corps such as former Ambassador to Egypt Lucius Battle, journalists like Austin Kiplinger, and former Endowment for the Arts director Livingston Biddle.

Stackelberg then pivots into prattling on about how Ambassador von Damm helped Coopersmith to coordinate a fundraiser for the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, a pond-hopping event abroad that drew much of this circle of Berendzen’s out to Hotel Sacher, including the Biddles, the wife of the former Ambassador to Austria John Hume, “writer-socialite Ina Ginsburg”, and the wife of Democratic Senator from Louisiana J. Bennet Johnston. The coterie, led by Coopersmith, were greeted by von Damm and moonlighting bellhops with bouquets of red roses as they disembarked their Pan Am flight. While in Austria, the Ambassador pulled out all the luxurious stops and somehow got Leonard Bernstein to give a pro bono concert, which the Austrian chancellor also attended.

You’re probably wondering where I’m going with this at present, perhaps feeling like I’m clutching at straws. Let’s land this ship. The year following the Vienna Freud fete and the celebrations of the Khashoggi endowment Berendzen had scored, this Coopersmith woman hosted a dinner party in the District of Columbia for Epstein associate Prince Bandar bin Sultan as thanks for his pecuniary support of the Children’s Museum, which she’d founded. Bandar cracked jokes during the toast about wishing his gifts towards children’s educational recreation received as much notoriety as his Iran-Contra investments to scattered laughs. He remarked that, “Watching the Reagan admin’s tribal wars made him a born-again monarchist”. This wife of real estate developer Jack Coopersmith, by the way, was a big BBQ booster of Lyndon Johnson’s, she pledged her support to Biden’s senatorial campaign early on in the 1970s, she hosted every president at her home from Harry S. Truman to today barring Trump (tradition dictates), and she played a small role in the Camp David Accords by throwing a party for the news media, a favor Carter repaid by appointing her as a representative to the U.N. She was the second ever woman to win the United Nations’ Peace Medal in 1984. A few years following this anecdote, she’d accompany suspected CIA asset Bill Clinton to Moscow to help him cut his teeth in a foreign policy sense, conveniently taking the trip the same year the Soviet Union fell. Point being that this major mover and shaker who was friendly with Iran-Contra players like Prince Bandar and Adnan Khashoggi was on a party-planning first name basis with Ambassador von Damm and called upon the Hotel Sacher for such needs, lending further credence to the picture that’s surfacing like chemical bath flowing off the face of a photograph.

As far as Epstein material is concerned, this article has been relatively trigger and sex trafficking free, one of the perks of digging so deeply into the Iran-Contra era activities is that you don’t have to deal with quite as many sordid details, partly because of the lack of primary and secondary sources pertaining to Epstein in that timeframe but also due to the fact that he was mostly being initiated as a ruling class pimp in the 1980s and the meat of the sex criminality was being committed by people like his mentor Khashoggi, those who taught him the ropes. So considering we’ve only had the one Ambassadorial tryst so far, I don’t feel too bad about taking us into a very dingy dungeon corner to close. Trigger warnings.

Now that we’ve established how the Berendzen and Esther Coopersmith social circle ties back to Epstein, Khashoggi, Bandar, von Damm, and Vienna, we have to submerge ourselves in the phone sex assault scandal that saw the American University astronomer removed from his position and institutionalized , even. Once again, consider this in the context of what had come in the few years prior, Berendzen securing monies from known philanderer and Epstein mentor Adnan Khashoggi as he strutted about the top of the academia and publishing house world, not to mention tangential linkages to Austria circa Iran-Contra.

In March of 1990, a cavalcade of day care employees and babysitters approached the Fairfax County police with complaints regarding anonymous calls they’d received that would make your blood run cold in your veins, “filthy beyond your most horrible nightmares”. How he found her, I can’t say, whether he just pulled out the Yellow Pages brick or what… But Berendzen was ultimately caught in his spree of indecent phone calls (that interrupted the lives of 10-15 traumatized people) when he called a daycare owner named Susan Allen who just so happened to be married to a Fairfax Co. law enforcement officer. She proceeded to goad Berendzen into a series of increasingly disturbing calls while his phone was traced and recorded.

Berendzen allegedly asked the recipients disgustingly probing questions like whether they’d ever raped children, he’d taunt them with claims that he had a 4 year old sex slave chained in his basement, he spoke of purchasing victims at child auctions, and made repeated allusions to child pornography. On April 7th, 1990, once the law had positively identified him, the board of trustees of American University demanded his resignation and he was checked into Johns Hopkins. In a tale of poetic justice and the cycle of abuse, Berendzen allegedly attributed his perverse behavior to “exhaustion” and claimed that he had unprocessed trauma stemming from childhood abuse that he’d suffered at the hands of his schizophrenic mother (I’ll spare us the details, click the second hyperlink in this paragraph if you want to know more about this case); as fate would have it, Susan Allen was also the victim of CSA and this doubtlessly played no small part in the doggedness with which she pursued the Phantom Pervert to ensure that he was caught and children were rescued, if they existed. Remarkably, Berendzen somehow managed to convince the trustees  he was rehabilitated post Johns Hopkins stint and they ended up permitting him to return to his astronomy professorship, which seems pretty negligent if not more troubling than that… As Allen remonstrated, “I had tremendous childhood trauma, but I am a very normal, healthy adult who doesn’t make obscene phone calls.”

While I haven’t found a direct line from Jeffrey Epstein to Richard Berendzen, the Int’l Pedo of Mystery did subsidize someone named JP’s tuition at American University, seemingly the son of former US Virgin Islands First Lady Cecile de Jongh. Either way, one can’t help but wonder what this pedophilia scandal involving an astronomy professor slash president at the Washington-based, CIA feeder school American University who secured Iran-Contra monies from Epstein associate Adnan Khashoggi for a sports complex might say about the PedoFash International… Perhaps the call is coming from inside the house?

Next time out, we will further consider whether Epstein / Fortelni’s Saudi visa is evidence supporting theories regarding his involvement in Iran-Contra smuggling and the possibility that at least a portion of his mysterious fortune originated in the largest and most corrupt arms deal of all time, namely Al-Yamamah (The Dove), a purchasing agreement struck between the Saudi government and the London-based aerospace giant BAE Systems. The Al-Yamamah Arms Deal was brokered by at least 3-4 different direct associates of Epstein’s, as we will soon uncover. I’m almost remiss to rattle them off at this point, as it feels premature and anticlimactic, but for foreshadowing’s sake… I will attempt to map the interlocks between Jeffrey Epstein and various Al-Yamamah players such as Prince Bandar, Douglas Leese, Adnan Khashoggi, and Wafic Said.

1. I alluded to it before, but Epstein had a Rolodex populated with West African connects such as Karim Wade, the son of the former Senegalese president, whose defense he helped fund during a corruption investigation, and Nina Keita, niece of the Côte d’Ivoire president. He also helped Sultan bin Sulayem secure a port deal in Nigeria and pitched Israeli biometric surveillance systems with Ehud Barak in Ivory Coast.

2. There’s a Year of the Spy connection to be found via Vienna and which may shed a different hue of light on the Epstein / Fortelni passport. NSA employee Ronald Pelton, one of the labour of Soviet and Israeli moles that included LEKEM’s Jonathan Pollard, was revealed to have courted disaster by staying in the home of the Soviet ambassador in Vienna during at least two trips in 1980 and 1983 to link up with his KGB handlers before he was ultimately ratted out by Vitaly Yurchenko in ‘85. This means he was spying for the Soviets during some of Ambassador von Damm’s tenure and aside from various SIGINT and SATINT capabilities, the secrets passed along allegedly included the floor plans of the U.S. Embassy in Austria.

Lastly, the promised Fortelni / Epstein passport in toto:

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.

Epstein Fury Opening Salvo

Time and word count limitations prevent one from assembling an unassailable and comprehensive cork board ParaPower Map of Jeffrey Epstein’s lengthy role in the world-historical, market-celebrating staged play that is the fraught and complicated relationship between the United States, the country of his birth; Isntreal, the PedoState for which he served admirably as asset, fixer, connector, lord of war, and kompromat collector; and the Islamic Republic of Iran, an upstanding nation of indomitable people who bravely rally in the face of missile strikes, and who have found themselves pinned on the atlas as the AmerIsraeli Burger Reich’s sworn enemy and final long Global War on “Terror” target… Even someone predisposed towards bullet-pointed economy of language would find it challenging to array the full scope of the evidence in the span of a series of articles shy of Dostoevsky omnibus length.

This is an excerpted article c-sectioned from the gravid first draft of a larger project—a series of episodes, perhaps a self-published book, working title something like Epstein’s Inferno: Techno-Capitalism & the Nonce Circles of Hell. Depending on segmentation, the ensuing pieces will amount to a preliminary survey of Epstein’s sway over the domestic political, geopolitical, & deep political affairs that have brought us to the apparent precipice of a boots-on-the-ground “regime change” invasion of Iran. As of March 13th, 2026, while writing  this intro, the Pentagon announced that they are deploying an Amphibious Ready Group, an expeditionary force numbering 5,000 Marines and sailors, an amphibious assault ship, a dock landing ship, and a transport dock for helis and F-35B Lightning IIs, assets that can amount to a landing party. The signs are grim and getting grimmer.

Small update: the Zionist technocrats have also begun to crackdown on anyone who dares circulate unsanctioned info or video pertaining to the Little St. James Imperium’s multifront war against the Axis of Resistance, victims including yours truly, as my Twitter account was just demonetized yesterday, which is unfortunate, as the creator revenue sharing payouts were starting to grow into a decent and much needed chunk of change. Nothing crazy, of course, I think I’d made a grand total of $4-5k from Twitter over the span of 9 months, but it was still money I can’t turn my nose up at since I bring in less than $30k a year from Patreon pre-taxes and that’s the entirety of my income. It’s unclear exactly what posts ran afoul of their “Creator Monetization Standards” because they don’t even explain their reasoning or furnish you with the guilty post and the appeal link is seemingly broken. All of which is to say, I’ll put the perfunctory plug here and ask that you please subscribe to my Patreon or Substack to support my research, writing, and podcast work.

Although it’s far from my focus, I do dedicate some of my feed to aggregating or disseminating important real time info from the Gulf (not infallibly) and probably invest even more of my Twitter labor towards combatting what I view as hasbara. To reframe my inane lament in the context of this essay, the censorial clamp down on the Twitter environment of the Banopticon (credit to Coexist Inc. for the phrase) is a product of the preliminary favor currying & kompromat work that Epstein put in, a long recruitment campaign in Silicon Valley that doubtlessly predicated Bibi being able to speak so confidently last year at the time of the Ellison-driven Zionist TikTok Takeover and assure the assembled influencers that Elon is a “friend” and that he would do his part to rein in Zillennial AOR stans like myself. At the very least, suffering loves good company and I’m amongst it as reliable OSINT accounts like Bonzer Barry were temporarily suspended before being handed a reprieve and Palestinian-Americans like filmmaker Lexi Alexander lost their accounts entirely and had to start over from scratch. Meanwhile British journalist Steven Sweeney of RT was just targeted with Isntreali rockets while reporting on the ethnic cleansing and bombardment of bridges at the site of a previous blast radius in Southern Lebanon. We all have crosses to bear, some much deadlier than others.

As for Jeffrey Epstein aka Jeff Gatsby aka the “Talented” Mr. Jeffrey aka Int’l Pedo of Mystery. Sadly, there are reams of intelligence and organized criminal interlocks that I’ll have to dispose of while wrestling with Epstein’s role in the “Operation Epic Fury” debacle or else treat in the most perfunctory manner for article cohesion, sleep, and sanity’s sake. Some cutting room floor examples: 

• Suspected childhood Chabad-Lubavitch ties via the synagogue across from the family home in Sea Gate 1

• Teen Epstein’s Eurotrip and possible chance U.S. Embassy encounters

• FBI interviews hinting that Epstein paid his way part way through college by selling his likeness to porno mags or peep show booths

• His grooming by nascent gifted programs as contained within the Interlochen and Mark Twain anecdotes, as we will hopefully discuss elsewhere

Set those aside for now. For this particular piece, as we ease ourselves into tracing the continuum from Iran-Contra to Operation Epstein Fury, we will be zeroing in on the present day and the last decade of Epstein’s life in particular. We will begin by sketching aspects of the Musk node of the Epstein nexus and the brothers’ involvement in providing technical support to failed Colour Revolutions in the Middle East and neo-Nazi brigadists in E. Europe, considering whether this might color our perceptions of an Austin mass shooting that conveniently landed right after war’s outbreak. This will provide us with an opportunity to get Epstein’s conversance with false flags and the use of foreign interventions abroad to defuse domestic unrest on the board. From there, we will embark on mapping a node that I frankly didn’t anticipate would be so fruitful or worthy of attention, digging into Epstein’s connections to ActiVision CEO Bobby Kotick and surprisingly robust evidence that Epstein may have instigated a covert pressure campaign to push for the video game Call of Duty to predictively program and psyop American youths into supporting a war against Iran. We will compare two different Call of Duty games to recent events such as the Maduro Abduction Op and the assassination of Qassem Soleimani and parse how the cultural products of this Pentagon-linked, Microsoft-owned studio reinforce AmerIsraeli security state scaremongering hasbara about vulnerabilities to “terrorist” attacks via the southern border, fueling the astroturfing of a supposed cartel and Axis of Resistance “narco-terrorism” alliance. The timing is of the essence in regards to the possibility that Epstein was weaponizing his influence and kompromat over Kotick to extract such a promise. You see, the Epstein and Kotick interactions that we’re going to explore in relation to Call of Duty and then Epstein’s attendance at at least one hacker conference in Vegas didn’t occur in a vacuum.

These events transpired in the midst of the Obama admin’s rapprochement with Iran, right around the beginning of secret delegative deliberations in Oman that laid the groundwork for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action aka the Iran Nuclear Deal that would ultimately be adopted in October of 2015. The JCPOA marked perhaps the nadir of recent relations between the U.S. government and Israel and we know from the Files that Epstein was strongly opposed to the negotiations, an opinion in keeping with those of his handlers on the Isntreali side. Who better to take it from that the diplomatic coup is considered the “lowest point” in recent memory between hegemon and satellite amongst the Epstein class than from Epstein associate Tom Pritzker’s own Center for Strategic and International Studies? Furthermore, simultaneously to the thawing between the Obama and Ahmadinejad presidential admins and early talks, the AmerIsraelis were in the midst of a multi-pronged proxy war against Iran’s crucial ally Syria and the Bashar al-Assad government, and Epstein was involved in back room politicking to try and pressure Obama to put troops on the ground in order to further isolate the Iranians in advance of the eventual big daddy of regime changes (which they’re now trying to carry out). He encouraged Barak to write an op-ed on why the Syrian situation necessitated American involvement in Aug. 2013. Similarly, the sequence we’ll highlight and Epstein’s possible recruiter presence at these hackathons took place at a time when a 5th generation cyberwar between the AmerIsraelis and the Iranians was rapidly gathering pace, so a pretty compelling picture begins to emerge that Epstein’s efforts were, while not entirely, certainly partly oriented around preventing the implementation of the JCPOA during this time period.

On February 11th, 2013, Epstein emailed former Obama economic advisor Larry Summers seven articles condemning Obama’s somewhat comparatively dovish and diplomatic policy towards Iran and spewing the usual Iran and Ayatollah canards. The subject line appears to imply that these are preparatory materials for a dinner that Isntreali President Shimon Peres will be in attendance at and that the contents of the article are for Summers to study up in advance of attempting to convince other guests of their arguments. Approximately two weeks later, six world powers and Iran formally and publicly meet to confer on nuclear matters in Almaty, Kazakhstan. After leaving the summit, Deputy Sec of State William Burns, NatSec advisor to Biden Jake Sullivan, WH Iran advisor Puneet Talwar, and State Dep’t arms control advisor Robert Einhorn made a secretive, unannounced stop at a beachside villa owned by Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, where they opened negotiations with Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Asghar Khaji and the rest of the Iranian delegation. Relations continued to thaw over the ensuing months, as some of the first publicly acknowledged high level contacts took place between Obama and newly-elected President Rouhani and Kerry parlayed with Foreign Minister Zarif in September. The next year, we find Epstein editing an Op-Ed penned by Ehud Barak at his request, mangling the thing with his total disregard for grammar and incessant typos, the pair writing:

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And to really drive home how Epstein would have salivated over the present conflict, 5 years later, after Isntreal and Epstein finally got their man and Donald Trump was elected to his first term, just 2 and a half months after Trump and the U.S. federal government formally withdrew from the JCPOA, Epstein texted Slovak foreign minister and European security apparatchik Miroslav Lajčák, “Trump threatened Iran ;)”. Winking smiley. To which Miro replies, “Yes, I saw that and immediately remember our conversation”… Now you tell me if this comes across as a powerbroker gloating and resting on their laurels after extorting or applying pressure to the President of the United States or not? 

A quick note regarding compositional structure: 

Due to the rhizomatic and temporal-teleporting aspects of the historical materialist continuum we are going to endeavor to sketch in this series, bridging Epstein in Iran-Contra, Jeff the Financier circa 9/11 & Global War on Terror, and Operation Epstein Fury (aka the present campaign against Iran that is already verging on genocidally intentional), I will be using an unorthodox system of sectional end notes so as to draw pertinent linkages while trying to avoid having the piece fall into a Discombobulator-esque prose weapon mess.

Here’s how it will work: superscript numbers will correspond with notes at the end of sections confined within horizontal line breaks. After a line break, the count resets. You can think of them as intersecting extensions of the facial plane of the great stellated dodecahedron model of the Epstein network that we’re assembling or else Choose Your Own Epstein Nexus Misadventures, the order in which you progress through the research contained herein opening up new dimensionalities. Like a good RPG, no playthrough may be exactly alike and each reader can clear the dungeons of these Nonce Circles of Hell in the order they wish. The eventual aim for the larger project is structural cohesion, incisiveness, and something approximating a unified system of metamedia modeling the human, social, material, and imperial relations and the opaque corporate shell impenetrability that obscures them, the girder edifices atop which this story is built. If I get really inspired, by project's end, the fruits of these hundreds of hours of labor may come accompanied with a node-link diagram that is a condensed, secondary visual representation of the historical and relational flows described.

Hopefully this formatting method will help an intuitive historicizing and mapping shape to surface from the thousands of clipped documents that I’ve sifted out of the millions of files disclosed by the PayPal-MAGAmafia as they panickedly try to do one better than the Warren Commission and transform the materials and ephemera of the case into a veritable real time, limhang labyrinth from which the most noided of us are at risk of never emerging, a kind of participatory bread & SchizOlympics. I’m at danger myself by virtue of the way my commodified subjectivity as a conspiracy cultural producer has been incentivized to submerge in the Files without end. Who can dive the farthest without coming up for air? Allow me to shoulder that research burden & be the Ariadne to your Theseus, threading the yarn that will lead us through the Nonce Circles of Hell, past the Little St. James Minotaur in the bull mask, and back towards the light.

The technocapitalist Epstein class are aiming to commodify and subsume the Epstein Nexus’s crimes and trap the whitehot antipathy towards the bourgeoisie that long hours with its infernal contents engenders in said maze. They’re angling to defuse the bombshells, to retroactively bury them like the millions of land mines and unexploded ordnance littering the Thai border of Cambodia, carelessly left behind by Epstein associate Henry Kissinger’s secret war and his Ford/Nixon cronies, the shrunken playboy Kissinger being a Janus-like totem of the dual nature of imperialism and the Epstein traffic, as we’ll see. The one feeds the other and vice versa, Medusa sucking on her own serpentine strands.

The Epstein class are doing a Copperfield esque stage magiCIAn misdirection with one hand – when I snap my fingers & say abracadabra you’ll be chained and plunged into a tank of mundane Epstein infoglut – while with the other, they sweep up the most salacious breadcrumbs when people aren’t looking. The psywarlock’s assistants at the DOJ pulled 76,000 documents offline while we were focused on finding a key for the shackles and not drowning under the sheer weight of the depravity.

“Unless he launches a foreign intervention. That’s a good way how (sic) to unite the nation”

And now for my next trick… Since the last disclosure, they launched Jeffrey Epstein’s War on Iran in earnest, the manipulator’s sleight of hand running cover as they shred part of the deck. While the degree to which Trump is compromised by Epstein-Maxwell kompromat gave the Epstein Class the necessary leverage, in times of immense societal crisis at home, the most tried and true remedy is a war abroad. In March of 2019, Epstein messaged Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák, then the Chair of the intergovernmental Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE’s mandates are arms control, “fair elections”, etc), exhorting him to push for OSCE to take cybersecurity more seriously, claiming that, “with computers I can bounce of (sic) 100 false flags in a nanosecond”. In the interaction, Epstein basically stressed the primacy of 5th Gen, Info Warfare in the 21st century. Epstein next waxes midwit about the evolution into 5th Generation Warfare corresponding with the progression of science, from physics to biology and now information systems. He prophesies that the next stage will be hyperspecific personalized targeting and his examples are funny and discomfiting in equal measure: people with blue eyes or Jewish genes. Epstein the Eugenicist rears its head from the Hydra.

In the past few weeks since the war kicked off, the American populace has seemingly suffered at least 2-3 discrete ISISraeli false flags creating pretext for a  boots-on-the-ground invasion in Iran. A bar called Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden that primarily caters to college students and which was jam packed with people at the time was shot to pieces in downtown Austin by a Tesla employee wearing a Mike Tyson-inspired Property of Allah sweatshirt with an Iranian flag shirt as a second layer, purportedly (would be really funny if it was accidentally the Pahlavist rag).

As if you needed reminding, Tesla is owned by Epstein edgelord Nazi associate slash “world’s wealthiest man” Elon Musk. In the next section, an Epstein tour of ActiVision’s studios in 2013 will factor into our excavation significantly, so keep in mind that the ActiVision drop by was tagged onto a California trip to see the SpaceX facilities, with 3 foreign girls from Russia and S. Africa in tow. SpaceX reps claim the women weren’t allowed past the lobby, despite Epstein lunching with Musk. The Hawthorne, CA visit coincided with a larger charm offensive of Epstein’s that included honeypotting Elon’s cowboy dweeb brother Kimbal repeatedly between 2012-2015, who is a major shareholder / director on Tesla’s board and a founding director of SpaceX.

By virtue of his role at SpaceX, Kimbal claimed while donning his goofy ten-gallon in a YouTube interview that he helped facilitate Elon and the SpaceX subsidiary Starlink’s smuggling of terminals into Ukraine via Canada so as to circumvent the Biden admin and provide satellite internet link up and logistical support to the Ukrainian “defense” on the battlefield. In 2022, he tweeted out, “Starlink Internet dishes are now in the hands of the badass Klitschko brothers in Kyiv”—the Klitschko Bros. refers to mayor of Kyiv Vitali and his heavyweight boxing champion brother Wladimir, who worked directly with Deputy PM cum Minister of Digital Transformation Fedorov on the Ukrainian side. The dishes were meant to supplement telecom networks degraded or destroyed during the war, with the military aid subsidized by the DoD at least as of 2023 and ironically, Trump and Elon’s arch-nemesis USAID assisting with the delivery of 5k terminals into the country. According to Estonian English language news broadcaster ERR from this year, disruption and prevention of Russian forces’ access to Starlink signal via smuggled terminals as they made headway into Ukrainian territory provided Ukraine with a crucial advantage, as Starlink is nigh impossible to jam and they were seemingly able to isolate the Russian dishes with a comparable strategy to the one the IRGC harnessed. Starlink has also contributed to territorial defense and counterattacks on Russian positions. Reminder that since the recent disclosures, our understanding of Epstein’s ties to Ukraine have been vastly updated, as we are now beginning to uncover that, much like with other E. European former Soviet bloc states, the oblasts were one of his favorite hunting grounds for girls and Epstein appealed to Larry Summers for advice on Zelenskyy’s behalf in 2019 and another of his infofeeders notified Don Pedo that they would be meeting with Zelenskyy in advance a month later.

Relating this back to the former Tesla employee who went berserk, quick sidebar: a 65 year old worker is suing the company because she alleges they behaved negligently and failed to maintain a “safe work environment” at the Texan gigafactory as shooter Ndiaga Diagne attacked her last year on the job, so his violent outbursts were known to management. Side eye… I’ll also point out that, in relation to Tesla specifically, Epstein was sought out to assist with an infamous deal to take Tesla private that never came to fruition, with consultant and ex-lobbyist Juleanna Glover inquiring whether Epstein could help secure investment via his backchannels to the Saudi Public Investment Fund, his aid pursued at the height of Musk’s erratic SEC-attracting tweets and Thai soccer team submarine rescue shitstorm. Epstein’s close ties to the various Arab comprador monarchies will play a pivotal role in the larger geopoliticking efforts to isolate Iran in advance of this war, as we will quickly discover as the series progresses.

Epstein was also approached about buying secondary shares in Starlink parent co. SpaceX in 2017, although it’s unclear if he or one of his fleet of offshore shell corps committed. While there’s no concrete direct link between Epstein and Starlink, seemingly, he did advise low Earth orbit satellite internet company OneWeb on funding, which is one of Starlink’s primary competitors and now has 600+ satellites ringing the planet, enough for “global coverage”, apparently. This could be evidence of a breakdown in Epstein-Musk ties late in the day, as Elon would love us to believe, or else just proof of Epstein’s mercenary streak when it comes to business, that even the most prized infiltration and honey trapping targets never gained Epstein’s total fealty, that he was always be trying to make a buck or two on the side. Or else there’s the industrial espionage read. Epstein’s mission mandate may have included not only the recruitment of technocrats, pioneering scientists, academics, and incubator engineers (potentially a continuation of his objectives as a likely LEKEM asset) and the compiling of kompromat on said individuals to get them to kowtow to the Zio•nists, but he may have also been charged with trade theft, tasked with funding the most promising business ideas percolating in the Burger Reich and relaying them to his spymasters so that Isntreal might implement them in their tech sector, free of American meddling and prying eyes.

How does the thrown-together false flag in Austin relate to Starlink and Epstein? The deep event costuming department ridding the clothes rack of subtlety and making it exceedingly plain what they wanted you to take away from it is reason enough to suspect this was a pro-war psyop, clearly – the desired message: “the Lonestar State is under attack by Iranian-financed AOR proxy sleeper cells who wear flags across their chests & sweatshirts that scream ‘I am Islamic’ when they’re going to go ‘terrorize’ the populace!” This is borne out by the NYT lazily reporting that investigators are considering the “Iran War as possible motive”, with FBI SAC of the San Antonio division Alex Doran calling it a potential “act of terrorism” and the Austin police chief referring to the clothing as “indicators”. The fact that the alleged Senegalese perp was an employee of Tesla, a Musk owned company, is significant, as we’ve recently seen Musk providing technical support to Colour Revolution Mossadist insurrectionists. My point being that a wealthy industrialist and defense contractor who is implicated in AmerIsraeli intel regime change efforts abroad should be viewed as a usual suspect when it comes to strategy of tension deep events at home perpetrated by people whose paychecks he figuratively signs. Especially when the deep event reinforces the Islamophobic hasbara and misconceptions regarding the shitcoated “enemy” populace that effectively serves as the basis of the support for the war among the fraction of the Burger Reich who are fully onboard.

While it’s wildly speculative to claim that this half-trillionaire Epstein affiliate could be at all privy to or across such a parastatal maneuver in this specific case, the fact that the Austin attack was just so convenient as it relates to this war that is practically the culmination of Epstein’s life work (as I’ll attempt to argue) makes it more than worthy of inclusion. As due diligent evidence:

• When protests by trade unionists broke out in Iran in December in response to the sharp depreciation of the rial (caused by the Trump admin’s reversal and application of snapback economic sanctions after its withdrawal from the JCPOA in his first term, so often these crises begin with economic imperialism), the AmerIsraelis set their plan to armchair quarterback the coup of the Ayatollah Khamenei via Starlink SATCOM in motion, greatly underestimating Iranian society and the government’s resilience. There’s surveillance footage from January 8th that shows a group of “protesters” handing out Kalashnikovs and submachine guns while a couple men in hoodies retrieve what appears to be a Starlink terminal from a canvas backpack and another converses on a satellite phone while squatting next to a storefront. The fact that there wasn’t a successful uprising is partly due to Persian ingenuity and excellence, as well as the lessons learned by their half-allies Russia in Ukraine. This article does a much more thorough job of describing how the Iranian military used GPS denial to prevent the terminals from geolocating themselves and mobile jamming units to largely neutralize the coverage, resulting in a “98.5% collapse in Internet traffic” per CloudFlare, killing access at the critical moment when the U.S. planned to initiate preemptive strikes to clear the way for the uprising, which is likely why the strikes arrived on Feb. 28th contrary to January. The fate of the Islamic Revolution may well have hung in the signal balance.

• In February, a European diplomat refused to pass a luggage case through a scanner while attempting to enter the country at Tehran’s airport, citing diplomatic immunity, eventually abandoning his belongings and departing on a return flight to Europe, at which point transit and customs authorities discovered 3 Starlink terminals and satellite phones inside.

• Since the outbreak of the war, the Iranian authorities have continued to confiscate hundreds of Starlink devices from armed sleeper cells and discontented monarchists, highlighting the avalanche of dishes that the AmerIsraelis have smuggled inside the Persian confines so as to coordinate regime change remotely in hopes of re-crowning their chosen Squidward King.

The Austin Tesla attack wasn’t the only sus incident worth exploring since the first blow was struck. Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan was rammed by a vehicle packed with fireworks and firearms driven by a heartbroken Lebanese man named Ayman Ghazali, who’d recently lost 4 family members to AmerIsraeli airstrike. This example seems a less cut and dry false flag on the face of it and clearly Ayman had genuine cause to feel aggrieved, but the IDF quickly issued a statement to excuse their criminal eliminations of his niece and nephew by claiming Ghazali’s brother was a Hezbollah commander and people have rightly noted that it’s now quite feasible for a vehicle to be remotely piloted (some believe such tech was used for the Trump Int’l Hotel Cybertruck bombing and that Matthew Livelsberger was already deceased at the time of the detonation), so I’d hazard that you can rarely have too much vigilant skepticism. For the record, Ayman didn’t kill anyone and it should be noted that this synagogue has put on settlement events in the past. Temple Israel is a JNF-partnering congregation that has hosted ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt & Tiran Attia, the director of Special In Uniform, a JNF-funded nonprofit that advocates for people with special needs and disabilities to have the privilege of becoming IOF stormtroopers and dying for Israel or else mutating into genocidaires.

On the very same day, there was another, much more nailed-on false flag shooting at Old Dominion University perpetrated by a National Guardsman who was quite possibly honeycucked into joining ISIS and had already been entrapped by the FBI once previously a full decade prior to the incident. The shooting ended in grisly fashion, by the sound of it, as the entrapperator Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was reportedly beaten or stabbed to death by ROTC students after killing one and wounding two others. SAC Dominique Evans of the Norfolk Field Office claimed he shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the attack. Viewed in bulk, you can see how these discrete events could congeal into perspirative night terrors of an Axis of Resistance jihadist Fifth Column in the psyches of gullible Americans: one PTKed Senegalese immigrant kills college students “in the name of Iran”; a Lebanese man related to an assassinated Hezbollah commander (Iranian proxy force, as hawks love to remind us) rams a synagogue with his car; and a Virginian National Guardsman with an Islamic-sounding name murders “devoted ROTC instructor Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, a father and husband”. They’re dabbing on us by having one of the Old Dominion victims literally be named SHAH. C’mon, man.

Just realized that I spaced a thwarted deep event that fell in this few week span, such is the surplus: two Pennsylvania teenagers reportedly inspired by ISIS & the Boston Marathon bombing (sus) tossed two IEDs at police officers loitering about bat-wielding Jan. 6th “insurrectionist” cum newly minted pedo Jake Lang’s anti-Islam protest in front of Ziohran’s Gracie Mansion in NYC. This whole event was basically a convocation of federal informants. Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi jerryrigged the bombs out of canisters, duck tape, and the volatile explosive TATP (colloquially known as “Mother of Satan”) and filled them with nuts & bolts for shrapnel. They were all duds (surprise surprise). The glossy, theatrical pictures from the DOJ Office of Public Affairs press release don’t exactly dispel skepticism that the protest was a staged entrapment sting, especially considering the loyalties of its organizer.

Trump’s shiny new Epstein limhang artist Attorney General Pam Bondi framed their “act of terrorism” as the product of “ISIS’s poisonous, anti-American ideology”. As we’ve discussed on the pod previously in our NOLA-Vegas coverage “New Year New Psyops”, the new parastate meta is the braided deep event and they duly attempted to trigger the Temple Israel car attack and Old Dominion shooting on the same day. Whether it’s incompetence, laziness, or a lack of cold Cheney cutting edge, they no longer seem to have their hearts in planning 9/11 level sacrifices on the blood soaked altar to Mammon. At least not yet. If good ol’ Jeff Gatsby were still around, things might be slightly different… Regardless, it’s palpably obvious to the noidsavant that the slew of half-assed harebrained deep events & entrapment stings since the conflict’s kickoff are meant to put the fear of Allah in Burger Reich simpletons and fearmonger the numbers of support up. Shocking, I know, but even the libs at NPR are taking the bait despite their deepseated distaste for the Orange Man. Quoting a Weekend Edition conversation titled “Investigators in the U.S. examine if recent targeted attacks are linked to the Iran war”:

MICHAEL MASTERS: We have seen the calls for violence coming from Iran, coming from its proxies. We have seen the calls for violence coming from other designated terrorist organizations, from the so-called Islamic State to al-Qaida and others. We know that people are working to answer that call and that they are answering it at a quicker pace.

If Epstein were (is?) still kicking, he’d be hard at work rallying the troops on Gmail to spin incidents such as these as pretext for full-on regime change. He’d also likely be encouraging the use of AI bot sock puppet accounts to fan the flames of war online, as hinted at by his familiarity with the potentialities offered by the Internet & social media to “bounce 100 false flags off (each other) in a nanosecond”. Further crash courses in the Deep State playbook can be found in a December 2018 exchange, possibly with Bannon. The messages were sent a few weeks after the outbreak of the Yellow Vests insurgent movement in France, spurred on by skyrocketing crude prices and cost of living. Epstein asks how a President should balance power and calm in response to “vast riots” and Epstein’s epistolary partner pontificates that a “foreign intervention… (is) a good way to unite a nation” in the face of such unrest.

“Edutainment is for pussies”… The Epstein Class Indoctrinate Treatler Youth into the Imperial Economy with Call of Duty Predictive Programming

The 21st century has been most marked by the proliferation and morphogenesis of technological fixed capital and the production of the hyperreality that serves as the new opiate of the masses, the digital commodication and marketization of social relations and the construction of this inescapable marketplace-in-pocket (aka all-seeing-&-hearing surveillance device) that’s bursting with more media and simulacral distraction than you can buy. The acceleration of the technologization of fixed capital reflects the growing alienation of the masses in relation to production and nature and each other. Marx thought the relations of production were alienating when even a plow and donkey constituted a machine? Imagine his horror now. These aren’t just the fruits of impersonal economic and structural forces, though. This state of affairs is the culmination of a technocapitalist utopian project that Epstein had an intimate role in via his financing of AI startup labs like those affiliated with OpenCog founder slash AGI pioneer Ben Goertzel, his strong arming of online forums as in the case of 4chan, his investments in cryptocurrency companies like Coinbase, and his possible involvement in fostering the adoption of microtransactions in militaristic video games like Call of Duty. By examining his role as connector & bankroller, we can perceive how these newfangled mechanisms of cybernetic & technocratic control enable the Epstein class’s economic warfare, parastatal off-the-books money flows, the introduction “(of) kids into… (the) economy”, and their indoctrination into supporting the imperialism upon which bourgeois profits depend.

While Call of Duty’s biggest draw these days is its online multiplayer and arm-and-a-leg costing gun skins (in Black Ops 6, the priciest is $350, the Gold Lightning Camo), each iteration still comes with an American Sniper-esque single player experience. If you’re lucky enough to be wholly ignorant of the think tank-infected Pentagonslop that passes for Call of Duty campaigns these days, allow me to illuminate you with a prime example that illustrates the kind of Burger Reich hasbara and craven Islamophobic attitudes that salt the cultural earth in advance of wars like these, affixing the video game industry firmly to the superstructure. Oh, before I proceed, some numbers: since its inception in 2003, the series has sold over 500 million units worldwide, placing it in the top 3 of selling-est franchises of all time. The Burger Reich exports its lust for blood.

In 2019, supposedly the final year of Epstein’s life, ActiVision began a reboot of the Modern Warfare subseries, the games that buried Medal of Honor and established COD as the blockbuster narrative-driven war sim by bringing it into the present day, making it one of the bestselling series in the world in the process. At this point, you’re probably thinking, where the hell is Klonny going with this, what does this have to do with Epstein & Iran? Bear with me a moment. The 2022 title Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II features a storyline that goes something like this, broadest strokes… An elite multinational SpecOps unit called Task Force 141 that prominently features British and Americans carries out a thinly-veiled version of the General Soleimani assassination during an arms deal, which causes the Iranian lieutenant of the remixed Qasem Soleimani named something dumb like Gen. Ghorbrani (they even rendered the General so he looks like Qasem with a slightly fuller beard), to commit himself to vengeance against the States.

The primary antagonist of the game is this Quds Force unconventional warfare & military intel Maj. Hassan Zyani who has the temerity to seek revenge against Trump’s extralegal assassination of his commander. Eventually the Task Force 141 protagonists end up in the Mexican border lands, as, inevitably, the Iranians have allied themselves with the “Las Almas” cartel and have American ballistic missiles pointed at the U.S. from Mexico and an oil rig in the Gulf. Elements of the plot feel like a direct derivative of covert border war fantasy Sicario: Day of the Soldado, which begins with an ISIS bombing at a Kansas City grocery store and quickly progresses to a joint DoD-CIA-PMC op consisting of the cross-border abduction of a Sonoran cartel boss’s teen daughter disguised as the doing of the rival Matamoros so as to trigger an inter-cartel conflict with the hope they’ll self-destruct and eliminate coyote networks that smuggled the ISISraeli jihadis cough proxies into the country. This naked scaremongering about a putative alliance between “terror networks” and the drug cartels that don’t exist harkens back to the past decade plus or so of security state propagandizing about the dangers of an ISIS-cartel alliance.

And the biggest irony here is that one of the stories that I’ve heard of late most evocative of Sicario is a tale unspooled across multiple documents contained within the Library of Pedo that tells of an American private investigator deputized by AMLO and the Mexican government who was supposedly heading up a long running trafficking case linking:

• the U.S. Embassy, then under the charge of Amb. Earl Wayne Anthony, who was accused of impregnating an 11 year old and per the investigator, was tried in absentia and arranged to have a Marine serve his sentence

• SEAL Team Six founder Richard Marcinko, aka Rogue Warrior, who supposedly organized a pedo-party in a consular building that both Anthony & Epstein attended in Ciudad Juarez

• and Epstein, albeit more so as an apparent target of Marcinko’s blackmail in this instance, although Epstein was also reportedly bringing in scores of girls from the Americas to his orgies at various Mexican properties he owned.

Mind you, it’s not impossible that he’s a crank and there may be holes in his story, as Wayne unequivocally denied the allegations and the American Academy of Diplomacy put out a press release rejecting the claims…  But per the PI Ken Turner’s account, he and his Mexican federale allies apparently upset some very powerful people and they ended up having a run-in with American agents who’d been dispatched by U.S. authorities to silencer-silence the investigation and the ensuing Mexican trials in 2019. These gringo sicarios allegedly tailed the men in white U.S. Embassy vans, resulting in the killing of 2 American agents and the wounding of 5 more by Ken’s partner Jorge, who was also struck and supposedly lost his arm.

Concurrently, Ken Turner’s nephew was killed in the Dayton mass shooting in 2019, which folks have understandably read into as evidence of retaliation. Whether fantastical emails or actual covert war, this was all happening at the height of the Epstein investigation, as documented by Turner’s missives offering intel-sharing and to put the FBI’s NOTC and the NYPD in touch with Mexican victims at certain points. Also, quick note regarding Earl Wayne Anthony’s landing spots after leaving his ambassadorial post in 2015 and Turner’s claim of a Mexican raid on the Embassy, I’m going to focus on two specific cushy sinecures, because they’ll relate to later research: Anthony is now a non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (although interestingly the bio page has been nuked and the archived link isn’t working either), CSIS being the think tank that Epstein viewed as a cut above and for which close Epstein confidante Tom Pritzker serves as chairman and corporate officer.

One other irony that I will quickly highlight is that, regardless of the verisimilitude of Turner’s tale, there’s a real chance that the Epstein Files contain actual evidence of an organized criminal configuration linking Mexico, the borderlands, Isntrealis, and Arabs, albeit it implicates the Epstein ring contrary to jihadis. Only skimming the surface, there are communiques regarding a demo flight to Toluca (near Mexico City) in 2015, seemingly related to the potential sale of a private jet to Mexicans by Epstein and as facilitated by Larry Visoski and Darren Indyke, as well as an itinerary from February, 2018, showing stops in Mexico City and Monterrey. Two months later in April 2018, we find the most ear perking example, that Epstein appears to have connected Bannon, Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney (ex Chief of Staff), and Sultan bin Sulayem, seemingly angling to get Sultan and DP World in the mix, the UAE logistics and shipping company he helmed until his recent ignominious resignation over his rape-y brotherhood with Epstein. Sultan’s vision included a, “progressive idea for how the US can leverage the gates in the Border Wall (US-MEX) as a significant revenue generator for the US and additional layer of security.” Most reductively, he & Epstein look to have schemed to install a DP World free port or free trade zone and given the company oversight of security of the gates in the wall, instituting lax visa requirements that would have allowed global trade and the entrance of competitively priced labor from Latin America while “balancing the Import/Export deficit”. I wonder why Epstein and his cronies would have sought private control of such an immigration and commerce artery… Surely it couldn’t have anything to do with their child sex and drug trafficking held over from Iran-Contra, could it? Later in 2019, Steve Bannon would text Epstein to boast about the private wall that he’d broken ground on just across the New Mexican border from El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. Bolaño alert.

Returning to Call of Duty’s “narco-terrorism” psyops and predictive programming and to illustrate some of the media and military narratives from which they’re pulling, one example can be found in this Naval Postgrad School thesis that, despite downplaying the likelihood of the threat more than some, stresses the critical vulnerabilities that could be taken advantage of in the borderlands and recommends continued monitoring of nonexistent ISIS-cartel relations. A cursory perusal of this Small Wars Journal propaganda piece will give you a sense of the nonstop PayPal-MAGA national security efforts to astroturf and tether the “border crisis” to an amorphous Axis of Faceless, Turbaned Brown Jihadis and Sicarios, smudging together discrete “attacks” by Palestinians, Jordanians, Uzbeks, & Tajiks (a number affiliated with ISIS-K proxies) and unrelated border crossings by Afghanis, Lebanese, Kyrgyz, Mauritanians, etc blah blah blah like a child with racialist finger paints. This is all about inculcating xenophobia and Islamophobia in the pliant amygdalas of the Burger Reich populace to build buy-in for AmerIsraeli Donroe Doctrine bloodshed in Venezuela, Colombia, the Middle East. Here’s a smattering of other examples, including MSM disinformation that sought to psyop viewers into believing the vehicle used in the NOLA attack last year had crossed the border not long before, since retracted.

COD’s blatant propaganda also behooves me to point out  that the franchise has long faced accusations of Islamophobia. The 2021 title Vanguard incited an optics scandal as Muslim players noticed that one level in the game features blood-spattered pages of the Qur’an scattered on the ground that players could tread on, which lead to advocacy groups calling for their removal (ActiVision obliged). And then there’s the reality that many of the modern iterations, informed by the GWOT, popularize Islamophobic perceptions of Muslim and Arab peoples and reify the war culture of the Amerikkkan “virtual citizen-soldier”, exploiting the enduring trauma of televised terror like the 9/11 deep event and funneling its subconscious residue into a military male power fantasy, a digital shooting gallery wherein predominantly young male players inhabit a hulking Chad soldier (perhaps a little homoerotically, in some cases) and gun down Othered, nameless hordes of “terrorists” with impunity. Dehumanizing Arabs or Persians and sapping war of the viscera, the horror, the real human toll. Painless practice for killing. No wonder Epstein and the AmerIsraeli security establishments would take an interest in such simulations for their respective purposes of brainwashing children into Islamophobes and then programming them into killing machines. You can’t have a GWOTwo without them, after all. This essay, penned by two Turkish academics surnamed Büke Okyar and Abdullayeva, does a good job of dissecting the problematic aspects of the game and the stereotyping that “killable” Muslim antagonists viewed through players’ gun sights are subjected to in some of the COD offerings.

These interplays are underlined by a too-perfect Iran related example: the previously alluded to brainstorming session regarding the implementation of virtual currency & items in video games between Epstein and former ActiVision CEO Bobby Kotick, publishers of Pentagon propaganda game Call of Duty 2. To be clear out the gate, the proposals regarding the use of “virtual item” incentivization seem to be flowing from Kotick’s mind to Epstein instead of vice versa and Epstein then relays the ideas of “earning iPhone credits” and the like to a hacker friend, who expresses support for such forms of virtual capitalist indoctrination.

To prime this foray, here’s the lowdown on COD & ActiVision’s Military-Industrial Complex ties in brief: they often have to pay licensing fees to gun manufacturers to use the likeness of models from brands like Colt & Barrett in game, they sponsor a non-profit that supports veterans in finding employment opportunities in civilian life, they help finance the Call of Duty Endowment Bowl esports championship that brings teams formed from military branches around the world to compete in COD (and which saw Trump’s pet Space Force win in the second annual tourney), and they retain a fools gallery of Pentagon advisors and consultants who calibrate the combat authenticity (and possibly make certain narrative demands), consultants like Col. Oliver North of Iran-Epstein-Contra infamy, who was called upon for his first hand vantage of the late Cold War and retellings of his meetings with Panamanian drug slinging Presidente Manuel Noriega, details that inspired Black Ops II. We will revisit Oliver North in relation to Epstein’s arms smuggling into Iran later on, but here’s a still from the crack-Contra architect’s brief appearance in BOII. Drawing up a heavy dose of synchrony, this was the most recent COD installment that directly preceded Epstein’s three way dialogue with Kotick & Holman. 3

ActiVision is the very same game publishing co. (formerly 3rd party, now Microsoft / Epstein affiliate Bill Gates owned) that, funnily enough, was recently outed by subsidiary developer Infinity Ward’s producer Chance Glasco (COD1 - COD Ghosts) for having placed the dev team under pressure to incorporate an Iranian invasion of Isntreal into a COD title after ActiVision rolled up the studio. Glasco made the claim in response to the White House’s release of a since-deleted stitched up edit of satellite footage showing their monochromatic IRL bombings and drone strikes of Iran spliced together with Call of Duty kill streak clips and other jingoism-inducing Burger Reich media. While his remembrance is a little hazy, Glasco alleges the pressure came down from the ActiVision top floor during pre-production of either their titles Ghosts or Modern Warfare III, which not only would have placed the coercion squarely within Epstein’s official lifetime, but also smack dab during the time when Epstein’s relationship with Kotick was well established. For ex. here’s Ghislaine reporting to Epstein that she helped set up Bobby with a pilot friend of Lolita Express flyer Larry Visoski for his 407 back in 2009.

But wait, there’s more. The COD & virtual items convo was in May, 2013. ActiVision released Ghosts in November of that same year. The game’s plot begins with an expositional backstory involving the “Tel Aviv War” (2005-2015). The belligerents? An alliance between the U.S., NATO, & Israel vs. Iran and a smattering of Arab countries. The conflict creates a massive, “first world crippling” oil crisis that presents an opportunity for Sudamerican countries with bountiful reserves to form an oil producing federation. Can you channel where I’m going with this…? At the pinnacle of this new alliance sits Venezuela. The Federation of the Americas, as it’s called, then begins behaving in a counterintuitively Donroe Doctrine-esque fashion (every accusation a confession), annexing the rest of S. America, Mexico, the Caribbean.

The narrative jumps back and forth between 2015 & 2027 and concerns the titular U.S. SpecOps unit and their efforts to combat this new “communist dictatorship” menace in the Americas. Yup, this is the very same. The game that people immediately glommed onto as being markedly similar to the Maduro Abduction op, as, at one point, you embark on a mission to infiltrate the Federacion capital of Caracas by chopper and assassinate the “dangerous” General Almagro (eye roll), who has ordered the executions of American civilian expats. The mission ends with you gunning down the General in an escaping heli that then crashes, resulting in one Ghost getting left behind, who is duly subjected to Manchurian Candidate esque programming with a regimen of hallucinogens, his will ultimately broken, until he’s transformed into the big bad of the remaining narrative. All the anticommunist war-telegraphing slop has to have the old “brainwashing” canard somewhere, of course. Glasco also popped up on Twitter to note Ghosts’ prescience in foreseeing the basic contours of the Maduro Abduction op after the smash & grab. Simply tooting his own horn or something more of the predictive programming sort?

All of this means it wouldn’t be unreasonable to wonder whether the pressure to include a War against Iran could have been placed on ActiVision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick by Epstein and then from there, was applied to the devs, who, per Glasco, ultimately demurred (such a plotline clearly seems to have been inserted in a limited fashion in Ghosts despite Glasco’s hairsplitting). Here’s an irony, though: even this Glasco fella is today a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the supremely sus Atlantic Council, the MIC-funded Atlanticist think tank that monitors rival “Great Powers” and which was supportive of the majority of GWOT objectives & the War in Ukraine. Glasco provides insight on all things video games & VR to the Climate Resilience Center with the AC. On March 2nd of this year, the AC’s blog ran a piece tripping over themselves to see stalwart Amerikkkan ally Saudi Arabia come out of Epstein Fury as the heavyweight power in the Middle East. Sidenote: Epstein appears to have had at least one infofeeder on the Council in the personage of Indian billionaire Anil Ambani.

Further solidifying COD & MIC ties, a former DoD deputy undersecretary in industrial affairs named Steve Grundman who is now with the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security appears to have poached other devs like Dave Anthony to join the Atlantic Council back in the 20teens. So it’s admittedly a little curious that Glasco came out of the woodwork to seed that story about pressure to telegraph the Iran War in the game online. I would be remiss if I didn’t note that Glasco also founded a VR conferencing application called rumii (interesting Persian language & Sufi subtext here) that has been used, per the Council, to “provide therapy to victims of human trafficking” and virtual classroom settings during quarantine. Godwilling, the guy isn’t a limhang artist and he’s just coming at this from a place of genuine aggrievement at another foreign war, but I feel duty bound to disclose, as it’s clear such think tanks are fully infested by the Epstein class. As an animator on COD and Medal of Honor, Glasco specialized in the intricate gun designs, trying to render as realistic weapons as possible.

To tie off these somewhat inchoate tangled strands hinting at the possibility Epstein exerted pressure on ActiVision via Kotick into psyopping Burger Reich youths that a war with Iran would be badass & based and something they’d want to experience… Smacking of the “Jeffrey’s War” AI generated meme video that’s going around that shows Epstein hosting a The Price is Right like game show save that the contestants are basement-dwelling gooners destined for death in the Zagros Mountains or outskirts of Tehran and the prizes are either “liberated” de-burka-ed Persian women (revealed to be dressed like pageant contestants underneath) or else a spit-polished new casket. I’m duty bound to point out that Epstein’s influence over Bobby Kotick stretches back at least as far as the Nick Bryant released “Black Book” that’s believed to date to 2004/05 or thereabouts and it was clearly predicated upon sexual favors per usual, with Epstein dusting his emails seeking out a rendezvous with Bobby at ActiVision HQ on Feb. 24/25th, 2013, with pointed mentions that “the girls” will be on hand.

Kotick was invited to Little St. James at the same time as 9/11 “near miss” beneficiary Howard Lutnick and Sergey Brin the December prior (post plea deal, LSJ was reputed to have been one of the sites where the most sex trafficking was taking place because of the territorial jurisdiction and lack of oversight). His legal representatives quickly closed down the rumors as the news got out following the recent doc tranches and insisted that Kotick never actually visited, which appears to be confirmed by a Dec. 9th email expressing regret that he couldn’t make it to LSJ. That said, part of me almost feels like he appears seated on the right hand side in this photo of Epstein and friends taking in the LSJ bluff overlooking the Caribbean that contradicted Lutnick’s earlier claims that he “vowed” to never see Epstein again after a 2005 encounter (note the picture was briefly deleted from the DOJ site before being reinstated).

Regardless of whether I’m hallucinating a likeness, I would say at this point that we should be mindful that some of the savvier Epstein confidantes were doubtlessly covering their tracks with red herrings and the sham declining of RSVPs.

To cap this section off, drawing once again upon our earlier Epstein & false flags discursion and also adding heft to the contention that Epstein could have been involved in exerting pressure on Kotick and ActiVision to predictively program a war with Iran… What if I told you that there is a direct escalatory continuum from a couple of AmerIsraeli oil tanker false flags in the Strait of Hormuz in 2019 to the real life drone strike martyrdom of Soleimani as he met with members of Iraqi Kata’ib Hezbollah and the Popular Mobilization Forces on the runway in Baghdad? And what if I told you that there’s somewhat shocking evidence in the Files indicating Epstein and Bannon may have had prior knowledge of these maritime false flag ops and/or even were involved in coordinating the effort?

Digital Holodomor on Substack ran a piece worth reading that digs into this corner of the files and the Soleimani assassination and I encourage folks to seek it out to get the fuller Iranian-AmerIsraeli relations picture at that particular moment. That said, I do feel required to issue one or two minor corrections. DH explicitly claims that the text exchange definitively proves Epstein and Bannon were intimately involved in planning the scheme—while this may yet be true, the primary evidence DH supplies falls a little short of supporting such an assertion. The above texts are from June 13th, 2019, the very same day as the second of the two instances of nautical sabotage. Bannon’s reply of “Torpedoed!” isn’t irrefutable textual proof that they were privy to the planning of this op, as, based on the time zones having been standardized to UTC, they appear to have had this brief interaction approximately 9 hours after the attack itself.

Similarly, I double checked, and while there was fog of sabotage and the American military maintained and tried to strong arm the shipping companies and MSM into reporting that the attack was once again the result of Iranian mines having been placed on the hulls of the frigates (it wasn’t), the 4:00 UTC distress signal sent out by the Norwegian vessel Front Altair, which was then relayed by CPC Corp, the Taiwanese state oil co that contracted the voyage, claimed that the ship had been struck by a “torpedo” and this was already reported by SkyNews at 10:51 UTC, meaning that the news (archived) was out there a good two hours prior to Epstein and Bannon’s texts. That said, the fact that Epstein displays a modicum of surprise at the timing, saying that, “(it was) two days early”, is likely more than sufficient to at least contend that he’d caught wind that the attack was imminent from one of his sources, if not playing an active participant in a smoky Syndicate Room planning sesh with Cancer Man and the rest. One small argument that I’ll append that might also bolster DH’s false flag contention would be the flags the various ships targeted in May and June were flying:

• May - merchant vessels flagged in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Norway (all countries to which Epstein had considerable ties)

• June - the Norwegian operated Front Altair was flagged in the Marshall Islands and the Japanese operated Kokuka Courageous was flying Panamanian colors

As we will discover in a future investigation (fingers-crossed), Epstein was inextricably enmeshed in Norwegian bourgeois society and the Royal Court, especially by way of one of his closest allies, the Oslo Accords architect Terje Rød-Larsen and his wife, Mona Juul, recently resigned from her post as Ambassador to Iraq and Jordan. The disgraced pair currently being investigated for “gross corruption” were some of the biggest players in Middle Eastern diplomacy over the past 4 decades and it’s no accident that Epstein was not only plying them with financial support but appears to have set up a minor organized criminal operation with them and others. Not only this, but Epstein’s Rolodex of Norwegian associates also appears to have included a surprising number of linkages to fishing, petrol, frozen food, and international shipping industries. Point being that it’s not inconceivable he could have pulled some strings to get Norwegian tankers in the right place at the right time. Ever the dabbling “Renaissance Man” (as you can when you have moolah to spare):

• In Oct. 2012, Morits Skaugen, the heir to I.M. Skaugen, a Norwegian horizontally integrated liquefied petrol shipping company and boat builder that acquired industrial shipper A/S Kosmos, seemingly pitched Epstein on a scheme to distro Kazakh small scale liquefied natural gas in Africa. His co. declared bankruptcy in 2018, but I reckon Skaugen would have retained considerable contacts in the shipping industry and oil sectors… The sale of one of Skaugen’s posh Oslo apartments at way under value to a Norwegian diplomat was also linked to Epstein.

• Epstein also contemplated investing in frozen food company Findus, once associated with Fergie’s former Norwegian beau Geir Frantzen, the “Salmon King”. Despite Epstein seemingly not biting on Lion Capital and Findus’s floating of investment opportunities, not long after the interactions, he appears to get a female victim or associate situated with a paid internship at the company.

• Finally, and perhaps most intriguingly in relation to the Front Altair, the Norwegian operated ship flagged in the Marshall Islands, for some reason in 2018, in response to an email from Bannon informing Epstein that MBS would be meeting with Kushner in DC, he sends Steve a copy+pasted excerpt from an article about how the 70k person Marshall Islands was planning to release their own cryptocurrency as official tender, a digital coin called the Sovereign.

There’s more besides, but that’s just the most perfunctory evidence that Epstein had ample Norwegian maritime connections, so if someone were to chase the angle that Epstein could have been involved in the May and June 2019 Gulf of Oman incidents further, which Iran roundly defied and accused of being false flags, the Norwegian nodes and prospective financial or relation links to shipping or fishing companies could be something worth pursuing.

Spokesman Abbas Mousavi spoke of a vague "conspiracy orchestrated by ill-wishers" and "adventurism by foreigners," according to the state-run IRNA news agency.

As Digital Holodomor argues, the assassination of Quds Force commander Soleimani had the potential to be a critical stroke against the Iranians (history will ultimately decide the victor, of course) and we’re only really seeing the fruits of years of military restructuring and alliance regrouping now, as this most recent conflict staggers on and Iran exceeds every patronizing Amerikkkan expectation. The assassination of Khamenei’s right hand man had the potential to be a deathblow to the Islamic Revolution because the revered, upstanding, hardened warrior-general was perceived by his Western enemies as, "the single most powerful operative in the Middle East today" and his politicking, deal-making, and training of disparate, predominantly Shia paramilitaries throughout the Gulf and the Levant tempered the bonds that linked the Axis of Resistance together. Soleimani’s battle-earned reputation of leading from the front during the Syrian Civil War, when he coordinated the Iranian, Assadist, and Hezbollah coalition from a base near Damascus and successfully repelled rebels and ISIS alike, mystified the hero into a symbol and made him larger than life. To make plain his veneration among Iranians, the war hero Soleimani had a favorability rating somewhere between 60-80%. I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that Trump formed the sham basis for the strikes and violation of Iraqi sovereignty by designating the entirety of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization and singling out Soleimani, as well, despite it being totally illogical for the state-sanctioned military of a foreign democratic theocratic republic to be branded as such. It’s no understatement to say that the May and June 2019 Gulf of Oman incidents that Epstein and Bannon appear to have had insider or even operational knowledge of and which in turn set the stage for the Soleimani assassination, as the failure to stick the landing and convince the world that Iran had planted “limpet mines” on the hulls of the boats thereby caused Trump to backpedal Bolton’s desired airstrikes or invasion, which in turn backed Trump into a corner to make a facesaving show of force.

Back in Black Hat: Epstein’s Hacker Recruitment, the Stuxnet Attack on Iran, and the Alexandrovich Affair Prefigured

Momentarily looping back to Postcolonial Pedostate Theory, Epstein appears to have attended the Black Hat USA hacker convention in Vegas in late July and early August 2013, mere weeks after the COD discourse, the very same event that later drew Isntreali cyber directorate official Artiom Alexandrovich and led to his pedo sting arrest (as discussed in the early portions of Pedostate). Epstein invited ActiVision CEO Kotick to join him and the harem at DEF CON, another hackathon also held immediately after Black Hat in Vegas, over the following weekend.

This is highly intriguing timing for Epstein to be making a point of visiting these Hackathons and cyber security events for a few reasons. One would be that in the approximate half year preceding, two prominent hackers died under murder mystery circumstances, one of them a bona fide white hat in the person of Reddit co-owner Aaron Swartz 4 and the other the Robin Hood esque Barnaby Jack, infamous for his Black Hat 2010 presentation in which he “jackpotted” two ATMs into dispensing cash without withdrawing from a bank account and another demo in Vegas while working as a McAfee employee where he proved the workability of assassinating individuals without leaving a trace by remotely accessing their insulin pumps or pacemakers with a high-gain antenna and delivering lethal doses of insulin or electric shock. He was due to present similar exploits of heart implants at Black Hat when he unexpectedly died of a coke, heroin, Xanax, and Benadryl overdose in his San Francisco apartment. So there’s that Drugs As Weapons Against Us: Hacktivist Version detour…

But even more salient for our purposes would be a compelling confluence of factors that were causing a bit of a security state recruitment & optics crisis at a time when intelligence agencies would have been doubly invested in finding the brightest hacktivist talents. Re the aforementioned crisis, DEF CON requested federal cyber workers not to attend in light of whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaks revealing widespread NSA snooping and digital surveillance.

Epstein was apprised of this reality by Joi Ito a few weeks in advance (mightn’t this say something about his asset credentials?) and he and his bevy of girls ended up securing 8 tickets via Patty at Caesars Palace’s concierge service, purchased on the down low. Epstein says, “Great”, in response to Ito’s forwarded email, which contains a chain of about 3 forwards, including an email from American recommendation engine entrepreneur and former Wired / Time journo Declan McCullagh, in which Dec claims the anti-fed ban is more PR stunt than hardline, stating that it will make DEF CON’s traditional “Spot the Fed” game even more enjoyable than years past as the feds come doubly incognito (honorable gimmick mention goes to the Wall of Sheep that displays usernames and passwords of slack hackers who didn’t use encryption).

The DEF CON 13 (2005) “Spot the Fed” rules dictate that if attendees see any “MIB earphone penny loafer…To Live & Die In LA type lurking about”, they are immediately to accuse them of being feds, at which point discussion between passersby, accuser, and accused is settled by an informal vote, and if decided in the affirmative, the “Identified Fed” is festooned with an “I am the Fed!” t-shirt.

Why would Epstein bring so many girls with him on this particular trip? As you’ll see a little further down in the essay, they reserve 6 separate rooms at Caesar’s Palace, which doesn’t exactly lend itself to a simple, one-big-bed Birthday Orgy read… Could it be that the partial purpose of the Vegas popover is to dispatch some of his most trusted honey traps to ensnare a couple of tech execs or up and coming hacktivists that could prove useful down the line? The article from The Conversation in a hyperlink two paragraphs above describes how DEF CON was historically a practically estrogen-free zone, so I can only imagine the degree to which attendees of the more incel persuasion might have been susceptible to non-digital honeypots. It’s not hard to imagine Epstein deploying a Karyna Shuliak or some other poor, groomed girl from Eastern Europe to sashay across the Caesar’s Palace casino and lay their hand on one of the sweaty hackers from the victorious “Capture the Flag” competition team sitting at a Craps table, the Siren whisper in their ear. The lure has been cast, Epstein arrives to reel them in.

Aside: possibly one of the most sadistic of close Epstein associates financed the accommodations and entertainment on this particular Birthday Vegas trip for Epstein, which included Cirque du Soleil tickets and dinner at Nobu… I’m referring to Leon Black, the Apollo Global Management billionaire for whom Epstein gave offshoring tax advice, the associate who has been accused via federal lawsuit of brutally raping an underage girl with Mosaic Down syndrome and a developmental age of 12 at Epstein’s townhouse, biting her private parts so fiercely that blood was drawn.

The reason why Epstein’s presence in Vegas seems like it could be instructive has to do with the ramping up of a cyberwar between the U.S. and Iran over the 3-4 years preceding that began with the Stuxnet computer worm attack that first targeted the Natanz Nuclear Facility in 2009, a 5th Gen aggression in a long line of escalations which led to a massive injection of capital that increased Iran’s cyberwarfare and defense budget by 1200% (per an Atlantic Council article, staying on theme), and which appears to have triggered a series of alleged cyber Iranian reprisals against Saudi Aramco, U.S. banks, and Qatari natural gas firm RasGas. I’d caution us to stay cognizant of the possibility that these were Mossadist false flags to try and drive a wedge between Obama and Iran in advance of the Isntreali-detested nuclear deal.

Per Ars Technica, the U.S. and Israel developed the worm in tandem and deployed it against the Natanz Nuclear Facility via thumb drive delivered by a double agent at first. The malware was intended to destroy the centrifuges by issuing specific commands to the control system dictating spin rate that would ratchet up the rotational speed to breaking point (as I understand it). Conceived under the auspices of a Bush cyber program codenamed Olympic Games, Obama ordered the program’s continuation and Stuxnet’s activation shortly after coming into office. In 2010, the Stuxnet worm escaped despite the fact the facility was air-gapped, infecting the global DARPAnet. DCI Leon Panetta and VP Biden urged that the President stay the course, which resulted in the cyberattack successfully taking 1k of the 5k centrifuges offline temporarily. The supposed calculus on Obama’s part was laughably akin to Trump’s explanation for why he initiated hot war this time around, with reports claiming the Obama admin sought to prevent preemptive strikes by Isntreal by incrementally escalating just enough to keep their bloodlust sated. Much like with the Fordow operation last summer, estimations of how much Iran’s nuclear program had been set back varied greatly, from 18 months amongst WH insiders to not at all by the security establishment.

To fast forward back to the summer of 2013 and Epstein’s apparent attendance or at least interest in Black Hat and Def Con in Vegas, his attention may have been drawn by a February 28th report culled from a dossier compiled by a Def Con hacker named “y3ti” who apparently uncovered an Iranian hacker collective called Parastoo that had purportedly targeted the U.S. DOE and the International Atomic Energy Agency, releasing satellite images, SafeGuard docs, & several confidential files posted on Cryptome & Pastebin. Parastoo also allegedly threatened to hack drones to strike VP Biden’s convoy. Considering the ample Maxwell - PROMIS - Magellan - Chiliad and Epstein - Palantir - Carbyne - DARPA ties, I wouldn’t be the least bit shocked if Epstein was dispatched by his handlers to find new hacker hotshots at said conferences to work on behalf of AmerIsraeli intelligence (potentially IDF Unit 8200 or whatever continuity program replaced LEKEM, the science & technical intel bureau founded by Shimon Peres, more on that later). That DEF CON was being uncharacteristically vocal and adamant that federal employees not attend might be the precise decoder ring for why someone like Epstein, an access agent with informal relationships to agencies (unless proven otherwise), would be on the scene. Recruitment without making a scene, perhaps.

A couple days after Epstein’s attendance at the conference, Business Insider churned an article out of the proverbial presses that cites presentations at Black Hat 2013 and which warns of the United States’ vulnerability to cyberattacks that could shut down industrial systems across the country, sending high voltage transformers exploding and water mains bursting—“Pure mayhem”, reporter Geoffrey Ingersoll calls it. In seeding fears about possible hacker-triggered blackouts and invoking the Stuxnet attack and recent retaliation by Iran, the journo quotes Tim Simonite of the MIT Technology Review, who’d just presented at Black Hat on vulnerabilities in the “Dbus” protocol that could expose 90k industrial controls to sabotage. On Saturday, Aug. 3rd, 3 days prior to this piece’s publication date and the very same day Epstein attended DEF CON, Steve Sinofsky sent Epstein a body-less email, the subject line of which is the title to an article by Simonite in the Review.

Sinofsky is the former head of the Windows Division at Microsoft, who’d resigned the year prior to this email after the cataclysmic launch of Windows 8, and today Sinofsky is a board member of Andreessen Horowitz as an investment partner. Perhaps at this point I should note that, per The Times of Israel, the very same year Epstein was keeping tabs on Black Hat and possibly in attendance,

At least a dozen Israeli companies are either presenting solutions or briefings at Black Hat, with representatives from top Israeli security and IT companies like Seculert, Cyber Ark, Radware, Versafe, and others.

In the piece by Simonite, he describes a presentation by Alex Stamos, CTO of online security company Artemis, in which he recites the findings of himself and 3 other academic cryptography security researchers warning of the small but distinct chance that RSA and Diffie-Hellman will be obsolete and potentially unusable in 4-5 years. RSA and Diffie-Hellman rely on the discrete logarithm problem, which is generally computationally laborious to decode, making it a vast time sink for anyone without the secret key to solve it. The risk arises from the prospect that an algorithm that would expedite decryption could soon be found. As of 2026, RSA encryption appears to still be intact and unbroken, although there’s slight controversy in this regard, as Chinese researchers in 2024 claimed to have used quantum computers and the D-Wave Advantage to successfully “factor a 22-bit integer, demoing the potential for quantum machines to tackle cryptographic problems”. Keep in mind such technical topics are much more frailties than fortes of mine, but 2048-bit RSA is still considered secure to traditional hacking threats at this point, but it’s acknowledged by experts that quantum computing may soon pose issues.

Why is this important? Well, aside from the prospect that Sinofsky sent this article of Simonite’s to Epstein because he requested it in advance of meeting Simonite or one of the tech wizards quoted therein and was doing some prelim research on a possible asset, this would be of interest because the RSA cryptosystem is still considered one of the gold standards and is widely used by intel agencies and militaries around the world for verifying identities and sending classified data and communiques across unsecured networks. For ex, apparently over 95% of the U.S. intel community and defense contractors use RSA SecurID hardware tokens for authentication purposes and RSA keys are used for digital signatures and verifying sensitive file integrity. To sum, RSA is a fundamental check in military-grade security infrastructures but may soon be outmoded by lattice-based cryptography that’s more resistant to quantum computing. In the latter half of the article, Simonite relates how Stamos seconds the NSA’s move away from RSA and Diffie, also encouraging the adoption of ECC or elliptic curve cryptography, which was then seen as the most reliable protection. Setting aside potential espionage and cyberwarfare questions and applications that might be driving Epstein’s interest, placed within the larger context that I’ve been unpacking, and considering that the author Simonite would be quoted in this BI piece days later that is alarmist about the dangers of Iranian hackers and cypherpunks, I think we can safely assume that Epstein was in Vegas for more than Alexandrovich esque pleasure.

Guess what? Kotick isn’t the only Epstein bosom buddy (literally) who scored an invite to reconnoiter DEF CON with Epstein… Fellow Call of Duty microtransactions convo partner, hacker-inventor Pablos Holman, ended up joining the Epstein gamine seraglio party ensconced in Caesar’s Palace after his appearance at DEF CON. Here’s the itinerary for the Saturday, Aug. 3rd leg of Epstein’s Birthday trip to Vegas, DEF CON at the Rio Hotel, return to Caesar’s Palace, dinner at Nobu, a Rod Stewart concert, and then finishing the night off with “Mystere” by Cirque du Soleil at Treasure Island. As far as the repast, Pablos appears to have played the role of invitation committee, likely tasked with assembling a slate of hacker dinner companions for keeping Epstein entertained, and more importantly, who might warrant recruitment by his AmerIsraeli Intel handlers. Just a hunch.

Following the AmerIsntreali asset’s “lurking” at DEF CON in ‘13, it appears that whatever his experience with Pablos Holman et al was like, it was productive enough to warrant repeated attendances at the conference. When the notion of a DEF CON visit was first floated, it came from Pablos, and he promised to introduce Epstein to “interesting hackers”.

In June of 2016, Vincenzo Iozzo emailed Epstein inquiring if he was in NYC and about a coffee date the following week. Epstein rebuffed him, but said that he wants to attend DEF CON again, enlisting Iozzo to secure tickets for him this time around. This is a couple weeks after crypto angel investor and Char Network Labs founder Jeremy Rubin, an MIT grad, emailed Epstein to ask if he’d be hitting that year’s conference. On June 8th, Vincenzo asks how many tickets Epstein will require, to which the Big Pedo Boss replies, “I think I will bring Tom Pritzker and Ehud Barak plus 4 girls.” Talk about a DEF CON entourage. Spot the Fed must have been a proverbial cake walk in 2016. And once again the honeypots in tow. The PedoFash International takes Vegas. These are three of the most egregious offenders in the Epstein Class when it comes to pressing for the dissolution of American and Iranian relations.

Inquiring minds are likely wondering who this Vincenzo individual is exactly, if they don’t know already… Brace yourself for another Alexandrovich Affair parallel impact. As of 2013, the much younger Vincenzo was already a member of the Black Hat Review Board—a hacker of some renown himself, at that time the 24ish Vincenzo was a published co-author of the iOS Hacker’s Handbook, had participated in Google’s Summer of Code in ‘08, had directed security engineering or served as a penetration tester for various European companies, and was best known for his contest winning exploits of BlackBerry and iOS at Pwn2Own. According to legend, he and his partner were the first people to successfully hack an iPhone. From there, Iozzo received intros to Epstein after what appears to have been Epstein’s first DEF CON turnout in 2013, with Joi Ito recommending Iozzo to Jeff Gatsby, saying that he’s “one of the best network security guys I know”.

Since then, he’s founded a mobile security company called IperLane that was acquired by CrowdStrike, after which he transitioned into his ongoing tenure as CEO and co-founder of SlashID, a leading identity-security company. All the while, at least until the most recent tranches made his discomfiting relationship to a pedo plain, he continued to serve on the board of the Black Hat hacker conference in Vegas, the very same event that another Isntreali cyberwarfare pedo attended prior to his arrest and speedy exfiltration from the country.

And a thematically topical addendum: mere days ago, the Iranian hacktivist collective Handala allegedly hit a med tech company called Stryker with a data wiping attack, deleting data from over 200,000 servers, systems, and mobile devices in the 79 countries in which the medical and surgical products company operates, disrupting its Microsoft environment in major ways. If they picked this particular company because they price gouge and charge egregious rates, I’m all fucking for it. Anyways, for whatever reason, Iozzo was called upon by the author of this trade rag journal to weigh in on the attack, stressing the importance of segregating duties and privileges in cloud environments.

The theory that Epstein would have been recruiting quickfingered coder-extraordinaires for intel gigs while at Black Hat and DEF CON is quickly rendered the opposite of outlandish when you realize that he kept his own mini stable of hackers, albeit to maintain his cover, scrub the DARPAweb of problematic info, hire Filipino content mills, downrank negative posts, and possibly collect kompromat and dirt on adversaries.

Here’s where things get bonkers. In Dec. 2017, approximately a full year before the second investigation into Epstein’s wrongdoing would seriously commence (granted the feds had been studiously ignoring him for decades), a Confidential Human Source made a number of incendiary claims to their handler regarding Vincenzo Iozzo. I’m unsure of the identity of the CHS, so can’t rubber stamp their verisimilitude, but here’s an adumbration of the biggest hits. I’ll include a screenshot of the doc, too, and encourage reading it in its entirety. The CHS alleges Epstein would lure underage girls to Zorro Ranch to record videos of them (seemingly since corroborated, and I’ll point out that this was probably before such theories were commonplace considering it’s filed nearly 2 years prior to his arrest & death). The CHS claims Epstein managed money for Putin and Mugabe and that he was linked to Iozzo via Ito & the MIT Media Lab (since corroborated, as we covered). He claims redacted (Vincenzo Iozzo) was Epstein’s personal hacker. The CHS states that the hacker was born in Calabria (reluctant to use this as corroboration, but an Italian site that confirms it seems to have been nuked, so Grok it is). The CHS claims that Iozzo developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to governments. Zero-days explained here, basically they are vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit or else sell anonymously to the highest bidder for beaucoup bucks:

“(Iozzo) established the Saudi cyber surveillance program”. CHS claims Iozzo sold a zero-day to Hezbollah “for political reasons” (veeeerrrrryyy interesting, I wonder if this was some kind of back door or else a booby-trapped peace offering to try and get Hezbollah’s guard down before sticking the knife in some other way). The fact the document references the individual being reputed as the first person to have hacked iPhones and Blackberries and that his former company was acquired by CrowdStrike puts any doubts that it’s not Iozzo to bed. There’s mention of the founding of a possible Japanese company with Epstein & billionaire assistance. And then - “Iozzo was friends with ‘old school’ European hackers”…. “Another friend was redacted (PH)” in parentheses. Whose initials are PH? Motherfucking Pablos Holman of the titanium Oakley goggles and sneaks. By the way, Pablos Holman is a bit of a Sinophobe like Epstein, which likely inured Jeff the Financier to him, if the fear of China’s engineering might and the petty accusation that they’ve been copying “renegades” like Holman’s work wasn’t instilled by way of Epstein in the first place. Keep this in mind for a later section. Anyways, there’s reams in here, like Vincenzo Iozzo’s alleged receipt of a “trunk of cash from Hezbollah” that he then deposited in a Swiss bank and some unnamed California theater company he apparently uses to launder his zero-day dollars. What I especially want to highlight for the time being is the last two sentences, though.

He lived in Dubai at one time, and was acquainted with the __________. ___ lived in Oman as well. He may have an Iranian and Israeli passport, in addition to his Vatican City passport.

If legit, the fact that this CHS claims that Iozzo “may have an Iranian and Israeli passport” and also helped found the Saudi cyber surveillance program makes the offhand quotation I alluded to earlier in a piece related to the Handala Iranian cyber collective far more compelling. Recall that I said Epstein was introduced to Iozzo by Joichi Ito in 2014, not long after his first DEF CON? Add all these elements and this picture is beginning to truly support my contention that Epstein may have been on the prowl for a loyal Praetorian Cyber Guard who could serve in a covert campaign to escalate tensions between the U.S. and the Axis of Resistance and tank the JCPOA. The CHS’s claims are lent credence by one of Epstein’s Russian contacts, an FSB Academy graduate and former deputy economic minister named Sergei Belyakov, requesting that Epstein put him in touch with Vincenzo. Seems unlikely he would have requested such a meet up unless a decent number of the above claims are true. This is doubly fascinating because the CHS says that Iozzo is “terrified of Russia, and would never travel there”. Had Vincenzo run afoul of FSB with one of his zero-days and thus Iozzo supposedly quaking in his boots over the prospect of getting sent to Siberia or worse?

Finally, to lay the matter of the Epstein - Iozzo link to rest for the time being, on Sept. 12th of 2014, Joichi Ito forwards two emails from Vincenzo in which he’s giddy over the potential applications of the new BadUSB exploit which was revealed to the world at Black Hat that year in a demo by 3 German hackers named Karsten Nohl, Sascha Krißler and Jakob Lell. By actually reprogramming the controller chip in a USB stick, you can transform the physical Trojan horse into a keyboard emulator or fake ethernet card. In the keyboard instance, as soon as the thumb drive is plugged in, it dupes the computer into believing it’s a keyboard, enters keystrokes that open a Command Window, and then downloads malware (for one example, although there are other applications sans the malicious software at the end). Anyways, Vincenzo then extols that, for comparison, BadUSB is 10x better than “the USB one in Stuxnet” or any other public USB attacks out there. So the question becomes… Did Joichi send this to Epstein because he knew such a devastating exploit would be of interest? Did Epstein enlist Vincenzo to reverse engineer their findings and crack the BadUSB case? At the time, the initial trio were sitting on their methods and code to give manufacturers time to patch the issue—it was futile, as a month after Vincenzo’s email, another hacker group put it out there all the same. Did an Intel agency wish to weaponize BadUSB?

With Iozzo well and truly on the board, here’s further proof Epstein kept a number of hacker hotshots on retainer. This dynamic dates back to at least 2010, although likely much earlier, when Epstein tapped futurist Pablos Holman by way of none other than Isabel Maxwell’s husband Al Seckel to help him with search engine optimization, forming a “team of hackers”.

The emails are replete with messages between Epstein and the various tech junkies to whom he threw gig work. There’s concrete indication that, despite his denials, Holman was intimately involved in these hack jobs to bury all of the irradiated Google hits that spoke to Epstein’s sex offender status and conviction, which Seckel noted was pretty much the only info available pertaining to Epstein online. On September 14th, 2010, Epstein emailed Seckel and instructed him to put Pablos on the phone in a chain in which they were discussing the services rendered. The crack hack team employed various black hat search engine optimization schemes and the opening of domains and designing of websites to trumpet Epstein’s “philanthropic” efforts so as to displace problematic result pages, with Epstein paying Seckel and Holman $12,500 a month for their rep mgmt services at one point, wiring the fee to Isabel Maxwell’s account. These weren’t just above board by the letter of the law rep manipulation techniques, either. At one point, Holman or Al hacked Wikipedia’s back end to block the IP addresses of various users who had been reverting their edits removing evidence of Epstein’s sex crimes.

Speaking of Isabel, she’s a tech maven in her own right, as the elder sister of Ghislaine co-founded early search engine Magellan with her twin sister Christine of Chiliad infamy. Magellan was an outgrowth of Research on Demand and it was shuttered prematurely prior to an IPO, before getting sold off to a competitor named Excite for $18 million in stock in 1996. Isabel graduated from her Magellan experience to become president of binational AmerIsraeli email security company Commtouch from 1997-2001… Huh. How about that timing? We’ll return to the Epstein Nexus’s profligate 9/11 insider trading at a later date.

Isabel, though, it must be noted, lost her pencil-pusher looking hubby under mysterious “fall” circumstances in 2015, his cadaver was reportedly discovered at the bottom of a cliff near their French home. That said, it was conveniently timed to follow a Tablet magazine expose that unveiled Seckel’s financial misdeeds and spiriting away of money. Since the French authorities seemingly never filed an official record of death, some people like journalist Mark Oppenheimer suspect he faked his demise. 5 Either way, one less loose thread to snip, I guess.

Concluding the Back to Black Hat section for the time being, I wish to foreshadow one of the areas where the Epstein Nexus lattice intersects the Epstein - Bannon PedoFash International project of 2018 and 2019, bringing these disparate strands together, merging our discussions of false flags, a possible Epstein connection to Call of Duty predictive programming and hyperreal hasbara, and Epstein’s uptick in hacker recruitment right as American cyberwarfare with Iran was coming to a head and the Ayatollah and Obama admin were secretly attempting to find a way to forestall war, ultimately leading to the JCPOA.

June 4th, 2018, Epstein texted Bannon to remind him that DEF CON was upcoming and would be held in Vegas Aug. 9th through 12th of that year. He then jogged the drunken Bannon of the acid-eaten bathtub’s memory that Norwegian ex-diplomat cum WEF President Børge  Brende was in DC at the time.

On July 21st, Epstein and Vincenzo’s rapport resumed, with Epstein once again requesting ticket stubs after they briefly share opinions about the “layer1” guys, presumably referring to Layer1 Technologies Inc., the San Fran based, “vertically-integrated Bitcoin mining company” that was established that same year, the first of its kind in the U.S., and which was in the midst of a Series A seed funding round, ultimately trapping angels such as Peter Thiel and Shasta Ventures. Both Epstein and Iozzo share some skepticism, with Jeffrey saying that they don’t have their ducks in a row (whatever that means). They hoped to raise the requisite funds to build one of the absurdly pricey mines in Midland, Texas. With that out of the way, Epstein asks for 3 tickets for the 9th and Iozzo offers to put him in touch with Dark Tangent (aka the founder of DEF CON, who has since outright denied he met with Epstein and claimed he advised Iozzo to steer clear too).

19 days prior to this, Epstein finger jabbed out an epistle to Bannon that included links to that year’s DEF CON and Black Hat and the paraphrased lines, “I’m wrestling with how to get these guys on your side. You want disruption? Wow. 20k strong, they all need the China speech as they are enamored with the size and naively do not recognize the ruse…”. Bannon asks if he knows them—seemingly meaning the hacker subculture moreover—and Epstein replies:

I’m going to just reproduce the rest of the interaction in full with screenshots here:

“Every sophisticated Intel agency has its insertions in the crowd. Chinese especially. How do you think they get the hacks? They are not creative.” From Epstein’s mouth to Pablo’s’ ear to Pablos’ mouth or vice versa. Highlight the zero day exploits mention, as well, minor indirect support for the earlier CHS allegations.

Pay particular heed to Bannon feeling out a possible invite, which leads to the following near-monosyllabic, hilarious discourse between Epstein and Vincenzo.

JEE - “Do you think the organizers would allow Steve Bannon to speak?”

VI - “Btw, out of curiosity, doesn’t Bannon allegedly hate everything you represent (at least in theory)?”

JEE - “You mean Jews? :)”

Even Iozzo was positively stumped on the Epstein-Bannon alliance, but that’s likely because he’s not a CommuNoided anti-Zionist who fundamentally understands the present symbiosis between the Isntrealis and neo-Nazis’ slightly differing flavors of ethnosupremacism. The great unifier between Azov and the JDL settlers now is mutual Islamophobia and prejudice towards Arabs. Just wait until the next chapter when we get to a node from right around this time that maps an endorsement of AfD by legendary Mossadist Rafi Eitan of the Eichmann Abduction and PROMIS, aka Jonathan Pollard’s old handler (and possibly Epstein’s). Eitan’s endorsement lands in the general temporal vicinity as Bannon linking up with AfD’s Alice Weidel in Germany before the European Parliamentary elections. This is a microcosm of what I mean by the PedoFash International, a legacy program of the WACL era Fascist International, itself a mutated gene of the abortive attempts to coalesce a Fascist International in the ‘30s. While Epstein may be burnt, dead, and buried, this PedoFash International has outlasted him—if anything, he was a B-List player—and this formation, most aptly referred to as the globalized and socialized bourgeoisie, make up the infinitesimal sliver of humanity who stand to profit from the campaigns of extermination against the Palestinians and the Islamic Republic. The PedoFash International, when properly modeled, illustrates the connective tissue of the politicking and geopoliticking and backroom dealmaking that have brought us to the precipice of Samson Option nuclear-geddon in this 11th hour.

While Bannon clearly was too much of an ingrate with likely a total lack of technical know-how (not to mention too much of a persona non grata) to actually score a speaking engagement at DEF CON in 2018, Epstein passed along the following report from his DEF CON experience to Bannon on the 22nd of August:

“At DEF CON, my boys tell me the newer trick is to get caught. False flags popular. Iran, China, Russia, Balkans. Accomplishes the same goal as not. Calls into question results.” That just about brings us full circle to Epstein’s email to Miro in which he warns of the new cybersecurity false flag aeon. Pay particular heed to how he stresses Iran first. Top o’ the noggin. Note the convo originates with a link to a story about the IPO Saudi Aramco was considering pursuing at the time (refer to end note 2 for additional context). 

The ruling class are trying to sell us on a number of things with the Epstein FilesOp. Not only do the powers that be wish to repurpose the entirety of the gnarled Pedocratic Akashic Records into an exhibition for AI and visualization tools, which is why I do the arduous work of reading these things with my own two sunken eyeballs like a proper Luddite… Not only do they hope the tranche of 3 million docs will socially engineer a sense of hopelessness and complacency in the face of bourgeois pedo rapaciousness and the Sisyphean effort required to even contend with the case (the search engine’s user-hostility-by-design and the disorganization of its contents have this effect)…  Not only do their psyop objectives include eliciting a witch-hunt against the supposed “witch-hunt hysteria”, a position inculcated amongst the vanishing petite bourgeoisie, intelligentsia, and commentariat to consolidate their position and build a superstructural bulwark against the masses’ discoveries and hankering for guillotine justice, prime example being the oily hairsplitting and equivocations of captured journos like Michael Tracey… Not only are they identifying the next crop of ball-playing disinfo agents and Compatible Left controlled oppo mouthpieces to ply with disproportionate Twitter payouts by tracking who rises to Noam Chomsky’s defense… But they’re also praying that their sloppy censorship efforts, which toe the line between Bondi contempt of Congress charges and the prospective blowback if Trump bites and calls upon Ghislaine Maxwell to bail him out in return for a pardon or potential commutation of sentence… They’re praying the sloppy censorship and infoglut will congeal into enough of a morass that the public ultimately chalks the whole thing up to a nothingburger out of exhausted resignation and accepts the injustice rendered of a few slaps on the wrist as punishment enough, with powerful friends like Thomas Pritzker and World Economic Forum chief Børge Brende tendering resignations but the bulk of the Epstein Class otherwise avoiding charges or any form of mob justice.

Thankfully, on the one hand, the optics struggle stemming from the Files is going horribly for the Epstein establishment outside of the fortification of in-group solidarity amongst the pedocratic capitalists borne of their feeling that they’ve been beset from all sides. On the other hand, the degree to which the public aren’t buying the desired takeaways is contributing to our present predicament. Thus enter Uncle Jeff’s War, a distraction formed out of the spectacular fireworks of silent Hellfire, the deafening percussion of bunker busters, weeping fizzle of cluster munitions, the Dune-like shriek of hypersonic Fattahs, the drifting white phosphorous over Lebanon, and acidic black gold raining from the sky in Tehran. Allah and the Axis of Resistance willing, there will be no fissile of tactical nukes. The Little St. James Imperium of Trump 2.0 is the culmination of Epstein’s life work, no matter how you slice it. Whether in death or diddling retirement in the peripheral kibbutz fringe, you can be certain that Epstein’s looking up at this capitalist hellworld he helped create and Iran ablaze with that punchable gummy smile. May we soon see the Island of Corruption’s collapse into a pile of dust, inshallah.

1. Yeshivas affiliated with the Mossadist shluchim missionary group received funding from Epstein later in life. Relatedly, an old speculation of mine dating back to the Year of the Tunnel series that the Chabad House of the U.S. Virgin Islands is connected to Epstein was confirmed as more than theory by the emails.

2. A disheartening detour related to Call of Duty and Epstein’s interest in video games as vehicles for indoctrination. On the 13th of June, 2018, Epstein received an email from a Saudi woman living in the UAE named Aziza Al-Ahmadi. The email contains a market report from Business Insider bugling esports competitive gaming’s arrival in the mainstream, heralding that the various tournaments are now attracting investors & growing revenue, and COD is mentioned in passing, of course. The subtext appears to be that they’ve had in-person discussions regarding investing in esports. A former Emirates School Establishment Science Teacher in Abu Dhabi, Al-Ahmadi founded a mobile video game company called Boss Bunny Games that’s based in Chennai and which reportedly employs a staff of approximately 10-13 people (via her Crunchbase profile). Deepening the nexus interlocks, among Boss Bunny’s slate of mobile games, one stands out: DP World Logistics Legends. A Sim City international freight forwarding & cargo shipping simulator.

DP World is Dubai Ports World, the Emirati multinational logistics, maritime services, and free trade zone company that handles 70 million shipping containers per annum, a company that was, until very recently, chaired by Epstein associate Sultan bin Sulayem who was forced to step down due to his questionable, torture video sharing ties to Jeff Gatsby and reliance upon the lothario’s harem for “pussyness” (more on that later). DP World has yearly revenue of $18.25 billion as of 2023 and handles approximately 10% of the global container traffic via 82 marine and island terminals in over 40 countries arrayed across the planet. Now contemplate the prospect that, in The Wire-esque fashion, the various illicit Epstein Nexus traffics call upon this logistics company to serve as a front for girls, contraband, weapons, etc. Now think about that possible context in relation to Al-Ahmadi’s work designing mobile logistics games for children. All of this gets equally more intriguing and disturbing, though. Firstly, it appears Aziza may be more than meets the eye, as, per The Detroit News, Epstein emailed extensively with her trying to discourage Saudi Aramco from making an initial public offering (not entirely certain why he feels she’d have the pull to influence such high level financial decisions—we’re talking about the 4th largest company on the planet based on revenue, the majority state aka Saudi royal family owned national petrol company with the largest proven crude reserves and the single largest hydrocarbon network. Why Epstein feels Aziza, this former science teacher with a boutique mobile game studio, is a back door to influencing such a magnitudinous deal beats me, but perhaps she has an immensely powerful husband or relatives that I’m missing or alternatively is a spy. Regardless of how it came about, Aziza is apparently an advisor to the Kingdom on Aramco and the Saudi economic future, per The New Arab. Epstein’s motivation for trying to discourage the Saudi IPO appears manifold, but the most intriguing reasoning given is that Epstein was petrified at the prospect that working with the “Wall St. demons” would open the door for MBS and company to face lawsuits from the family members of 9/11 victims stemming from the 2016 backdating of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), which was perceived as having opened Saudi Arabia up to liability at the time. He also sounds a warning of the potential valuation volatility caused by a public listing open to global private investment, instead attempting to edge the Saudis towards selling options to China or establish an oil-pegged digital currency almost akin to the CIA asset pushed scheme we saw in Venezuela in the years before Maduro was deposed. We also find evidence that Epstein and Aziza appear to have been workshopping a formal letter to the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the matter in 2017. And then there’s correspondence between Epstein and a Royal Saudi advisor named Rafaat Al-Sabbagh who was seemingly appointed to Mohammed Bin Salman’s staff circa MBS’s rise to Deputy and eventual Crown Prince and his consolidation of power was cresting in 2016. Once again, Epstein’s sex trafficking & bourgeois hypersexuality seems to have served as icebreaker and divide-bridger, creating a mutual language between these powerful men that lubricated the dealmaking machinery of commerce and political capital exchange, as we see that Epstein and Al-Sabbagh sent each other lewd emails about virginal Russian beauty queen escorts and “opening so many legs”. Epstein’s warnings regarding the IPO is one preliminary piece of evidentiary investment in the ongoing 9/11 coverup on Epstein’s part that may buttress a later case we’ll make that he was a tangential or direct operative participant in the larger false flag conspiracy, the foundational, Great Satanic national trauma of the 21st century that Iranian Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larjani has warned may soon be replicated by the AmerIsraelis and blamed on Iran so as to justify ground invasion. Will there be shockingly fireproof Saudi passports involved?

Regarding Aziza, lo and behold, she is also one of the individuals with whom Epstein and his sundry assistants communicated most frequently, with over 1000 hits in the files for her full name alone. Here’s where the picture grows darkly sacrilegious. Aziza Al-Ahmadi appears to have brokered the sale of 3 strips of sacred kiswa cloth, the fabric that is adorned with golden Quranic verses and draped over the Kaaba in Mecca annually, one of the holiest symbols and relics in the entirety of the Islamic faith. There is a picture from 2014 that appears to show Epstein with Sultan Sulayem, presumably at his home in the UAE, and they are examining a swatch of Kiswa spread out across a tiled floor and people, particularly Muslims, took grave offense, as it almost looked as if they were on the precipice of trampling the relics. Shipped to Little St. James with the help of customs broker Lund & Pullara  Inc. for a $511 fee and sent via Riyadh by British Airways World Cargo, the 3 pieces of Kiswa cloth that Epstein purchased via Aziza for $10k arrived at the Island in 2017. BBC Indonesia writes that the Saudi government has total control of the kiswah cloth and that the decorative golden & silver “Belts” or Samadias and are reserved for and dispensed by officials of the Saudi Royal Palace—the one Samadia-like piece that Epstein received seems to have been produced by the same atelier as the pieces that make it onto the Kaaba, but it seems his was either a replica or else a lesser production that didn’t make the grade, which may indicate the Palace wasn’t looped in on this. It’s largely inconsequential, as we now know that Epstein was in deep with MBS and his court regardless. The kiswa were accompanied by a document from Aziza laying out the swatches’ design and translating some of the white and golden stitched calligraphy from Arab to English. One of the major selling points appears to be that 10 million Muslims touched the black kiswa Epstein received and the fact that the items appear to have been marked for placement in the Five Palms Temple on Little Saint James has caused Kuwaiti imams and Westerners alike to suspect that Epstein was after these holy artifacts for dark sorcery reasons. Not to dip into the woo woo conjectural too deeply, but considering that Epstein was in service of this larger capitalist imperial and sometimes eschatological vision of Zionism and seeing as Islam is anathema to Zionists, perhaps such witchcraft would involve wishing ill upon Arab and Persian Shiites and Sunnis who still oppose AmerIsraeli hegemony in the Middle East. Finally, to wrap this voluminous end note off with a bow, it’s clear that Epstein’s back channel deal brokering between his AmerIsraeli handlers and Gulf monarchies like Saudi Arabia served a larger extractive and imperialist project that was in league with the long term objectives of the Global War on Terror. As we progress, we will see that Epstein was elbows deep in the covert diplomatic guts of politically and economically isolating Iran and waging proxy conflicts against the Axis of Resistance, as evinced by this briefing he was sent that was authored by a Pakistani UN official named Nasra Hassan, then employed by Terje Rød-Larsen, president of the International Peace Institute, an Epstein affiliate who played a seminal role in the Oslo Accords (much more on Terje & IPI later). Citing Middle East Eye here, the 2015 confidential briefing concerns a clandestine deal to dispatch Pakistani “Black Stork” commandos to the Saudi-Yemen border to wage war against the “Iran-aligned” Houthis. There it is, AOR. The Saudi, UAE, and Pakistani coalition loosed a bombardment of missiles that left thousands of civilians dead in its wake. Thankfully, they didn’t succeed in unseating Ansar Allah entirely, otherwise Gaza might have been just a scorch mark by now. I reckon that’s good enough as far as getting us from Call of Duty to kiswa to Operation Epstein Fury. A prime example of the way in which Epstein’s Gulf politicking and the Boss Tweed-esque list of informers and inside women he kept all across the globe worked in tandem to manifest the present tumult through historical and material means.

3. Here’s what appears to be the inception of the Epstein <> Kotick <> Holman Email BCC merry-go-round regarding COD and microtransactions and whatnot. In early May of 2013, Epstein receives a novella length email from hacker/inventor Pablos Holman who is rhapsodizing about the prospects for education in video games, which he says are adept at teaching kids how to “(shoot) bad guys”. Once again, we find capitalism, imperialism, operator culture, and the hypersexual objectification of women commingling as Holman lays out his plan for indoctrinating children into capitalistic modes of thought and churning out a bunch of Treatler Youths fluent in Japanese in the process. “Edutainment is for pussies,” he tells Epstein. “We have to keep the boobs and guns and profit.” His foolproof methodology for teaching 5th graders with video games is to retain adult aspects and to turn it into something taboo, so that they are studying behind their parents’ back, schooled by an NPC of a big titted Japanese princess in a thong. Epstein solicits a list of recs for games that succeed at instructing kids while keeping them engaged, mentioning that he’ll be sitting down with Joel Klein, the head of NYC public schools, the day following. As to be expected, Holman proceeds to champion Call of Duty, which he says is teaching grade school kids American history through a “meticulously culled” selection of historically accurate battlefields, weapons, vehicles, etc. Chances are that Epstein was already familiar because of the prior tour of ActiVision that was set up back in February, two months prior to Epstein’s picking of Holman’s brain. Per the NYT, Epstein’s meeting with Klein was partly related to Mort Zuckerman’s consideration of Jeffrey as an estate planner candidate, but it seems highly likely the bounds of their conversation soon expanded to include the bleeding virtual edge. Wouldn’t you know it: Joel Klein was CEO of Amplify, an education technologies company (smacking of Robert Maxwell) at the time, which has produced a slate of scholarly-geared game offerings such as SimCell, in which the player maneuvers a nanobot to repair cells from the inside.

Lastly on this note, an addendum regarding this Pablos individual. Pulling from his self-hosted website CV, Holman was a “cypherpunk” who worked on crypto in the ‘90s; with AI and stock market applications in the Oughts; he worked in rocketry while employed by Jeff Bezos at Blue Origin for a time; and then he was a founding member of former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures Lab, where he contributed to inventions such as a mosquito-singing laser machine and thousands of others with more practical applications. Since then, he’s phased into public speaking and penning bestsellers in the startup space, lecturing in auspicious settings such as the U.N., WEF, the FORTUNE CEO Summit, and the CIA, among others.

If my assertion is correct that it’s not unreasonable to speculate that Epstein may have had a hand in gently encouraging anti-Iran storylines in Call of Duty, a game he was once again recommended by this close associate of Nathan Myhrvold’s (who himself is under increasing fire and scrutiny for his ample Epstein ties, which is impacting Gates-founded nuclear energy firm TerraPower to boot), then it goes to show that these intra-bourgeois and parastatal influence back channel networks are quite sophisticated in their own way. Epstein was doing side quests that seem way off the beaten path at first glance, mucking about in the edutainment video games and esports spaces and yet invariably they somehow managed to intersect with our main storyline this season: Epstein and Iran.

4. We’ll return to this later on, but Joi Ito of the MIT Media Lab sent Epstein a blog post contending that Swartz had been working to “expose elite pedophilia” a month or two after Black Hat in October and it should also be noted that JSTOR, the paywalled online scholarly article repository that Swarz was accused of ransacking, was a byproduct of Robert Maxwell’s colonization of the education publishing industry and his commercialization of scientific & scholarly texts.

5. Al Seckel the Fraudster is deserving of a dedicated deep dive, but I clearly have to keep the blinders on. That said, I would forever regret it if I didn’t mention that Seckel was a founding member of a group called the Southern California Skeptics (SCS), one of the fastest growing chapters of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. They would congregate for lectures at CalTech by University of Kentucky professors excoriating the Shroud of Turin’s claim of authenticity or the occasional meeting at Cal State Fullerton to discuss possible phenomena such as extra-sensory perception and firewalking and all the rest. Seckel was also an avid collector of and popularizer of sensory illusions, but it appears that like Epstein, many of his academic credentials were outright inflated if not downright invented. Which raises the question, was he simply a snake oil salesman? Or something more? Regardless, had to mention this because it’s just far too evocative of Harry Houdini and the Society of Psychical Research’s crusade against supposedly telepathic or psychic charlatans 60 or so years earlier.

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We’re resuming our admirably thorough subtextual mapping of Pynchon’s possible swan song Shadow Ticket, and no expense is being spared as we embark on a discursive, brief history of 19th century class warfare in the young U.S.; the development of the false flag, one of the capitalist class’s favored strikebreaking counterinsurgent stratagems; and the erection of the anticommunist surveillance apparatus, systemized forms of domestic political control that bedded in during the latter half of the 1800s and which serve as historical backdrop to the dialoguing narratives of ST and AtD.

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1/ Shadow Ticket’s Wisconsin parm-wheel robber baron character “Bruno Airmont, the Al Capone of Cheese” is an index-name motioning at Al Capone & the Chicago Outfit’s war against the Milk Wagon Drivers Union (Local 753) circa the Mob’s expansion into labor racketeering…

2/…so as to undercut unionist and farmer efforts to increase & standardize dairy prices during the Depression’s roiling milk strikes. Thomas Pynchon seems to imply the Mafia’s muscling into dairy labor was at ruling class corpo WASP behest, perhaps a result of Mob-Kraft collusion…

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3/…that evokes a shadowy International Cheese Syndicate. In the early ‘30s, the milk bound for condenseries and cheez & butter manufacturers was going for a fraction of the bottled fluid market (which was a mere 10% of the industry), and farmers and milk wagoners wanted a taste of that creamier cheddar, so to speak. Pynchon seems to be implying that the Chicago Outfit was deployed to prevent this from happening.

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4/ The Outfit & the Capones purchased Meadowmoor Dairies in Chicago & a string of dairy farms around Fond du Lac, WI, the lactic fruits of which they smuggled across state lines and directly to counters using their own teamsters to circumvent the local Milk Wagoners & delivery men.

(Side note: Al Capone and his bottling assembly wiz brother Ralph “Bottles” Capone, one of the top vendors at Chicago’s World Fair ‘33 calling back to Against the Day, lobbied to have expiry dates added to milk bottles, one small way the mob-bros tried to give back to counterbalance their strong-arming of the dairy industry in pursuit of non-illicit revenue streams w/ the imminent repeal of the Volstead Act and Prohibition… one small reason they developed a bit of that “social bandit” aura among ChiTownsfolk.)

5/ They got their toe in the dairy barn door via the ingenuity of chief-kidnapper / labor racketeer Curly Humphreys (also alluded to in ST via 2 Curly index-name references). The Outfit first moved in on Local 753 in ‘28. Curly went so far as dispatching Red Barker to kidnap the Milk Wagon Drivers President “Old Doc” Fitchie during their takeover attempt, demanding a ransom of $50,000, which they used as the down payment on the Meadowmoor Dairies milk company.

6/ Curly then set about trying to bribe Milk Wagon 753 boss Steve Sumner to step down with $100k. He refused and this led to years of hostility between Sumner and the Outfit, with Steve installing a steel door w/ a gun slot in the local’s office and purchasing an armored car.

During an 18-month period, there were numerous beatings of vendors and drivers, windows broken, damaged trucks, and bombings. Striking dairy farmers and drivers even bombed Meadowmoor Dairies just after it opened in 1932.

Eventually, as I understand it, a lawsuit between Meadowmoor Dairies and the Milk Wagon Drivers Union would lead to a grand jury injunction against Sumner and over 100 individuals tied to Associated Milk Dealers, Borden, and assorted smaller milkman outfits. The injunction was upheld by the Supreme Court and ruled against the union men’s “peaceable picketing” with a majority opinion by Justice Felix Frankfurter connecting the picketing to the recurrent violence. The 100 defendants were reprimanded for having tried to “fix the price of milk” (those cheap cheap cheap dairy prices that the Outfit made sure were maintained, a coup for cheese producers like Kraft). The great irony is that both the Outfit and their cream collar backers escaped scrutiny when they were the ones who were really fixing the prices of this two tiered system (as Pynchon writes in Shadow Ticket, there are TWO KINDS OF MILK).

7/ This back and forth has come to be known as the Chicago Milk Wars & is but one node in the larger labor curdling in the Midwest circa ST’s action, including the Wisconsin Milk Strikes of ‘33, which Pynchon weaves into the backdrop of his alternate universe Business Plot…

8/…and “Red Hour” wherein FDR is overthrown by semi-Wisconsinite Gen. MacArthur (departing from IRL history) & the aggrieved preterite class finally throws off their yolks & rise up, dumping milk gallons & bombing Teamster trucks, developing a taste for capitalist blood.

9/ Pynchon’s hinting at the Chicago Outfit’s Cheese Packer Central -> Windy City dairy smuggling system as a microcosm of their increasing focus on labor rackets and trade associations at the tail end of Prohibition also reflects the Outfit’s gradual assimilation into the bourgeoisie and transcendence from the criminal underworld to white collar criminal upper world, what Gramsci deems “transformismo”, which always occurs in a time of contraction during which the ruling class enlist organized crime as an anticommunist buffer. This is significant as their strikebreaking & undercutting of local dairy labor in Chicago, in turn bringing the Milk Wagons union under their control as well as upwards of 70% of all Chicagoan locals, was doubtlessly beneficial for area cheese producers like Kraft and Pabst and their almost inescapable labor infiltration had the knock-on effect of stymieing prospective mass solidarity and union militancy, which was surely part of the point.

(Note: it appears relatives of Sumner’s dispute that the Outfit got their talons in # 753, but that’s how historian Gus Russo portrays the end result and my sense is the local would have been pulled under their influence eventually anyways with Curly’s successor Glimco’s increasing influence w/in the IBT)

10/ The Outfit’s progression from:

• predatory (against the bourgeoisie, ex. Black Hand esque extortion & armed robbery) ->

• parasitic (ex. labor racketeering, prostitution, plying the upper strata with unequally enforced illicit booze circa Probibition) ->

• symbiotic (white collar assimilation)

holds a number of clues to 20th century deep politics, as their overcoming of WASP society’s anti-Italian animus was enabled by the rendering of certain key covert services in mid-century, from preventing domestic Bolshevism and revolution thru labor infiltration to Giancana and the JFK assassination and their links to the training of Brigade 2506 / OP 40 hit men to the Fidel Assassination Prank Show and even onward to tangential GLADIO connections via Cicero, Illinois hailing Cardinal Marcinkus and the Banco Ambrosiano scandal.

11/ Shadow Ticket PI protagonist Hicks McTaggart’s rival for April Randazzo’s amore Don Peppino is also an index-name referring to Joe Bonanno, who would proceed to architect a cross-fam Mafia syndicate’s cornering of the specialty cheese market via Grande Cheese, Saputo, etc later in mid-century, once again using Wisconsin dairy farms (including in Fond du Lac) to generate massive agro-mafia profits, which we will discuss in further detail later in this thread and likely a subsequent pod episode—Pt. II coming soon.

12/ Pynchon presses us to examine the oft-ignored history of anticommunist & counter-subversive Mafia labor racketeering within a curd-lonial context, as the book’s Depression era setting saw unprecedented dairy industry shake up between the mergers of Kraft + Nat’l Dairy Products Co.…

13/…(both of which had been rolling up dairy farms in pursuit of a monopoly) and margarine-producing consumer goods megacorp Unilever (born of Brit + Dutch concerns) and the secret commodity histories contained within this industry consolidation. He asks us to contemplate how Kraft’s growth was predicated upon 6 million lbs of processed cheese…

14/…sold to the Army circa WWI and how the Nat’l Dairy subsidiary saw even more astronomical profits when a Global Celebration of Markets again broke out, leading to a rise in popularity for its Kraft Mac bc of a favorable OPA deal allotting two dinners per ration stamp…

15/…AND massive military contracts again that amounted to a grand total of 50 million mac n cheese boxes sold over the war. Dairy producers also benefited big, mirroring the hazy outline of an int’l fromage colonization conspiracy in ST to flood Asia in a fondue-zical deluge…

16/…as the US Army occupation of Japan saw milk and cheese’s mandated inclusion in food aid distribution and their move into Japanese mass production and consumption for the very first time, which cont’d as “Westernization” ensued, concluding with massive spikes in cheese & milk consumption in the early ‘60s before eventual leveling off.

(I’m going to take a brief intermission here, but back with further ST musings later)

17/ Further evidence Pynchon is using multivalent keywords to map the Int’l Cheese Syndicate, meaning packaged food conglomerates AND the Bonanno cime fam specialty cheese monopoly:

“LINO ‘the Dumptruck’ Trapanese” is a reference to LINO Saputo, one of Canada’s top 10 wealthiest billionaires (his fortune estimated variously at $7 bil circa 2020). Lino Saputo’s fortunes changed when, in the early ‘60s, he appears to have sold a 20% stake in his Montreal-based mozzarella biz to Joseph “Joey Bananas” Bonanno, Five Families kingpin, and that this relationship would cont even into the Don’s supposed retirement in the ‘70s, with Saputo and his biz associate Borsellino providing for a “liquido” (liquid cash) revenue stream for Bonanno, then snowbirding in Arizona albeit, according to the Feds, perhaps one if not the most powerful mobsters in the country at the time with a financial empire stretching from NY to Montreal to Arizona to Cali and even Latin America.

18/ This is a linkage I have to flesh out further that may stretch to CBS Records’ “Drugola” scandal, which I covered in the Diddy piece with Whitney, as it involved a Genovese-linked takeout spot in NYC used to smuggle heroin from Montreal, BUT—

April RANDAZZO -> the 🍕 Connection!

19/ One of the accused and convicted members at the Giuliani-helmed & Donnie Brasco testified “Pizza Connection Trial” that busted up a $1.6 billion heroin trafficking ring stretching from Sicily to NYC and using the aforementioned specialty cheese biz and pizza shops as fronts and conduits for the smuggling of the Turkish dope, was named Vincenzo RANDAZZO, evoking Hicks’ Italian jazz chanteuse love interest.

20/ Also, one of the primary players in the Pizza Connection was none other than Sal “the Baker” Catalano, a Bonanno Crime Family caporegime, which goes to show the connection b/w Joey Bananas’ specialty cheese monopoly and the Pizza Connection drug pushing… And Pynchon’s mapping of these interlocks is born out by the aforementioned “Don Peppino” character (a Bonanno nickname and a pizza sauce company), two pointed references to BANANA splits, and Lino the Dumptruck pointing at Lino Saputo. With Pynchon when in doubt, trust that nearly every word and half-name allusion is intentional and rife with encoded significance, because it generally is.

21/ Alrighty, that concludes this initial segment of the PPM “Punching Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket” historical subtext and communoided analysis master thread. Thanks for proverbially tuning your HAM radios to this particular Megahertz signal, turkeys, and keep an eye peeled for any wayward pineapples or Infernal Machines of Presumed Italian Origin aka whizzbangs.

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The Klonny has Returned from his podcast-sabbatical as a motorcycle diarist in Latin America to guide you through a decryption of Pynchon’s likely swan song Shadow Ticket, sifting through the subtext to surface the loaded deep political index-names that will help us construct the text-within-the-text (or perhaps ParaPower Map, better yet). In this episode, we synopsize the Milwaukee and Chicago sequences that make up the first half of the novel, zeroing in on the Prohibition era para-parastatal underworld of speakeasies, bootlegger tunnels, and subterranean dynamiter labs and the adjacent rhizome of socialist saloons, Galleanisti anarcho-clubhouses, and union locals in Cream City. We examine how Pynchon’s Reformed Detective Shadowing Cheese Heiress mystery is partly a cipher for the ways in which Capone’s Chicago Outfit and their Milwaukee Mob affiliates sought to complete “transformismo” and earn assimilation into the white color criminal realm of the ruling elite during the Depression’s socioeconomic crisis and contraction, gaining favor through the loyal rendering of anticommunist strikebreaking and labor racketeering services. This tacit deal between the ChiTown upper and underworlds is a minor skeleton key to much of 20th century deep politics by way of the Outfit’s Joe Kennedy ties, the JFK assassination, Sam Giancana’s involvement in the Fidel Assassination Prank Show, GLADIO, and beyond. We start to coalesce theories for why Pynchon is pointing us in this direction including the blatant 1930s - 2020s encroaching fascism parallels; the less-traveled counterinsurgent history of the Pinkertons, J. Edgar Hoover’s early proving of mettle circa Palmer Raids, and the First Red Scare and the way in which there are telling deep event continuities to be traced from the early 1900s to McCarthyism and Cointelpro, early experiments in the strategy of tension playbook; the Bureaus of Investigation and Prohibition and their Wars on Alcohol, Crime, and the Left (including the anti-immigrant and anti-communist targeting of proletarian taverns) and how the Interwar Period gave rise to the modern surveillance and carceral apparatuses; and the secret colonial histories and conflict economies buried inside mundane commodities like cheese and milk.

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Shadow Ticket characters index: Hicks McTaggart (rural time / metaphysician JME McTaggart who argued reality is atemporal); Skeet Wheeler (pinmonkey street urchin, Cuno of the story, Zoyd relation?); Boynt Crosstown (man about town pun, U-Ops Private Investigations boss); Free Society of Teutonia (German American Bund predecessor IRL, active in Wisconsin), ‘Ndrangheta mobster Don Peppino (an index-name for Joseph Bonanno); Milwaukee Mobster Lino “the Dumptruck” Trapanese (riffing on the Guardalabene Milwaukee Mob’s actual garbage men racket); proto-MK doctor Swampscott Vobe (evoking Scarsdale Vibe, the Voze dynasty from Amsterdam, and Biz Plotters like Singer Sewing heir Robert Singer Clark); cheese heiress Daphne Airmont (childhood in a sanitarium riffing on colonial crimes like the institutionalization of Anishinaabe Dawn Society visionaries); BOI special agent T.P. O’Grizbee (Touchez pas au grisbi aka Don’t Touch the Loot! Italian-French mob noir reference); Curly Bill Spin gun trick and Curly Capstock (braided references to Murray “the Camel” Humphreys aka Curly Humphreys, the Outfit’s chief union boss kidnapper and labor racket innovator, an Okie); the International Cheese Syndicate (the Pynchon trope of a faceless cabal of transnational capitalists who exploit global Celebrations of Markets and a nifty FinCap pun to boot with Cheese = $); and, of primary focus, Bruno Airmont—the Al Capone of Cheese—and Pynchon’s double feint by way of actual Capone cameos that obscures how Bruno is, in part, a surrogate for Scarfarce Al + Bottles Ralph. A doppelgänger misdirection that leads us back to the Chicago Outfit’s involvement in the Milk Wars and labor and “trade association” rackets.

Themes and motifs filed under: the Business Plot; Wall St. Putsch; American Legion; secret Interior Department treaties; rez blacksites like Cabazon; hypnotherapy; Radium Girls; Prohis, dry agents; curd and whey as a kind of lactic bacteriological capital; curd-lonialism; actual dairy farmer schemes to colonize the vastness of Asia with milk and cheese?; Kraft’s 16 million pounds of pasteurized processed tin cheese sold to the US Army circa WWI; dairies and consumer good megacorps profiting bigtime with powdered milk for the WWII troops and lactic food aid during the occupation of Japan; Kraft; National Dairy Products Co.; Pabst; Brit-Dutch dairy giant Unilever and their vetoing of a Ben & Jerry’s “Free Palestine” watermelon sorbet; U-13 pre-fascist spacetime smuggling sub; Against the Day; Chicago Outfit; Public Enemy #1; Ralph “Bottles” Capone; Frank Nitti; Paul Ricca; Milwaukee’s Vito and Pete Guardalabene and Joseph Vallone; Capones’ lobbying for expiry dates on milk bottles; Volstead Act; 18th Amendment; The War on Alcohol as front in the War on the Left; Milwaukee’s socialist saloons like John Doerfler’s; Sewer Socialism in Cream City; Victor Berger, 1 of 2 socialist congressmen; Socialist Party of Wisconsin (SPWI); Socialist Party USA; CPUSA branch in Wisconsin; communist union victories in Allis-Chalmers; the CPUSA’s People’s Bookshop and Fred and Mary Blair’s Bookshop; commie rags Wisconsin Voice of Labor & Wisconsin People’s Voice; socialist mayors of Milwaukee Emil Seidel, Daniel Hoan, and Frank Zeidler; these pragmatic electoral successes and Milwaukee’s early 20th century hotbed of Communism and anarchism attracting the attention of the feds and psyoperators; collaborationist Social Dem into Republican turncoat DA Winfred Zabel; the Italian Galleanisti Francesco Ferrer social club in the Third Ward (more on this and propaganda of the deed false flags next time); the Free State of Fiume as a parallel to the plan for a tokenized corpo charter city in Gaza with Tony Blair as viceroy; Cream City as microcosm of pre-COINTEL; Chicago Outfit’s labor racket innovations as Trojan Horse for anticommunist infiltration; the Capone Bros’ Milk Moves; Meadowmoor Dairy; mob lawyer William Parrillo; the Milk Wars; National Dairy Products Co. rollup scheme (backed by Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros) and their Kraft merger; Bruno’s Exile as analogy for the Capone Bros. getting sent to federal pens in Georgia and Alcatraz?; Wisconsin Milk Strikes of 1933; price fixing and the two-tiered milk system (bottled and processed); Outfit getting into dairy to chase white-collar aspirations; Joseph Bonanno’s specialty cheese vicegrip and Fond du Lac, WI presence neighboring Capone; labor racketeer mastermind Curly Humphreys; a momentary theoretical detour exploring Marxist and Neo-Marxist and sociological explanations of the interplay between organized crime and the ruling elite; Gramsci; Adorno; Brecht; Horkheimer; Marx; and a whole lot more.

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Gus Russo - The Outfit: The Role of Chicago’s Underworld in The Shaping of Modern America

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Tim Weiner - Enemies: A History of the FBI

Lisa McGirr - The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

Robert Tanzilo - The Milwaukee Police Station Bomb of 1917

Gavin Schmitt - The Milwaukee Mafia: Mobsters in the Heartland

Nathan Ward - The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

Bryan Burroughs - Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34

Alfried Schulte-Bockholt - A Neo-Marxist Explanation of Organized Crime

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James is someone whose videos I’ve garnered enjoyment and edification from for a few years now and I’d been planning to ask him to come on the show for a minute once I became aware we had a mutual appreciation on Twitter, but the combo of the acquisition, Press Secretary Leavitt’s comments the other day, and a previous interaction we had re world’s sometimes wealthiest man Larry Ellison hastened my decision to hit him up and congealed the idea of attacking these topics together in my mind, and I can think of no one better to do so with.

(This is an updated version of our nearly 4 hr dialogue that has had a new intro and brief clip from James appended to account for the recent Zio·nist TikTok influencer summit that Bibi attended in NYC and his close personal friendship with billionaire Larry Ellison, the new Head Honcho of Tok Security in the States)

This is also a bit of an impromptu AmerIsraeli Years of Lead and PAWG aka Palantir Apartheid w/ White Gov session spurred forward by said Zio·nist consortium’s imminent takeover at Trump and the Israel lobby’s behest. The logic behind this episode tying into our ongoing paying of heed to the AmerIsraeli Years of Lead is due to the fact that the Trump admin seems to be using the recent Charlie Kirk assassination / deep event as a pretext for retraining TikTok’s algorithm to further suppress leftist content on the platform as illustrated by Leavitt. She also fielded questions during said presser regarding Trump’s decision to have the Bigfoot-esque, cryptid “insurgent movement” called “antifa” designated a domestic terrorist organization—which is, in its present iteration, mostly a fiction or else a mask donned by Gladioperators.

Besides more “radical left furry transtifa Hamas” canards and the announcement of the Autism Action Plan (lol), Press Sec Leavitt also spoke to the TikTok acquisition, stating that, if the deal as presently outlined goes through, the app’s US operations would be taken over by a majority American owned consortium helmed by vampiric, Bryan Johnson-financing multibillionaire Larry Ellison and populated by a number of Zio·nist national and cybersecurity experts. She stated that Ellison’s company Oracle will serve as TikTok’s “trusted security provider”, that the servers would all be physically located in the States “without access from China”, and that the algorithm would ultimately be retrained, naturally leading to even more oppressive censorship of leftist and anti-Zionist dissent on the platform.

Our convo takes a three-pronged approach (in reverse order):

• We expend some time and energy ParaPower Mapping the acquisition consortium together and situating it within a larger geo-and-deep political context, laying out the ways in which Ellison, Oracle, Michael Dell, the Murdochs, Fox, Andreessen-Horowitz, Silver Lake, and Sequoia and indirect industry and congressional backers of the Ban-Tok Bill like Alex Karp, Anthony Goldbloom, and Rep. Gallagher are marked by deeply entrenched Zio·nist ideology and are inextricably entangled with the gen·ocidal, apartheid Entity

• We discuss our TikTok prognoses and what the deal may mean for online anti-hasbara action

• And I also pick James’s brain re his experience as a leftist content creator; how he’s harnessed video-making to promulgate postcolonial, anti-Zionist, and Marxist ideology; his writing process and the development of his distinctive, whimsically DIY, Hardboiled Nerf Gun style; and any advice he’s willing to give to fellow traveling creators

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We explore the ensuing propaganda fracas; the identity of the most recent suspect Tyler Robinson and his possible military uncle and alleged Discord-to-Kill, America First indoctrination; the AmerIsraeli Years of Lead and Eddington parallels; the Epstein Bday Album and Bibi's suspiciously timed "get ahead of Isntreali-triggered deep event" conservative media tour; posing the Q of who stands to benefit?; Mormon Central, Utah, USA and the Latter Day Saints in the CIA; backroom Trumpworld power struggles; Peter Thiel, Musk, and Palantir; AI psychosis and the DARPA-machine of Tension; Groyper Wars; some of the positively deranged TikTokslop that has issued forth, like the Polynesian Mormon Eldertiktok character who soyfaced on live immediately after the shooting and expropriated blood-soaked Kirk merch; the prescience of Pynchon's Bleeding Edge and Inherent Vice; and a whole lot more. I may yet update the liner notes later, but this is all you're getting for now because I stayed up until like 4 AM to get this thing off the ground and airborne.

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Author’s Note: I’m probably filled with equal parts excitement and trepidation to finally have the Cork Board Cadre read this research piece that I’ve been toiling over in recent weeks. “Excitement” because I’m personally quite gratified with how it’s turned out and feel like this is some of my strongest material in recent memory (at least I hope so considering the plethoric amount of labor I’ve sunk into this thing); “trepidation” because I am wary of the emotional toll that this harrowing subject matter may have on you, dear reader. To this point, I ought to go ahead and preemptively fire off the requisite TRIGGER WARNINGS and DISCLAIMERS, even if in an overabundance of caution. Be advised, there is a surfeit of child abuse and sexual violence in the historical and contemporary events we cover herein, so if you are someone who could be retraumatized by reading this, I’d counsel you to proceed with caution. And even for those Communoids not burdened by childhoods haunted by such bugbears and monstrosities, I’d still recommend pacing yourselves and as always, practice self-care and be attentive to your own mental wellbeing needs.

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Without further ado, gird your loins and grab your yarn as we leap through the looking glass and down the phantasmagoric “pedostate” rabbit hole to deal critique-al damage to the predatory eropolitics of the Zio•nist Entity.

—Klonny

CONTENTS

Pt. I - Pedostate Primer

Pt. II - Fleeing Las Vegas: An Israeli Cybersecurity Bureaucrat, A Pedo Sting, A Dual National Sleeper Cell, and the Makings of the Alexandrovich Affair

Pt. III - Zio•nism as Colonial Sexual Revolution? Nah: Ideological Origins of the Pedostate’s Predatory Eropolitics and Cult of Youth in the Kibbutz Fringe

Pt. IV - Penal Colonies, Pedo Colonies, and Peripheral Sexual Violence

Pt. V - Antinomian Vestiges and a Ritual Child Abuse Ring Terrorizing the Settlements

Pt. VI - The Nakba, Conquest of Labor, De-Development, and the Raping of Palestine

Pt. VII - Peripheral Bind: Stalag-mania, Nazi Dominatrixes, and the Grotesquing of Isntreal’s Eropolitics

Pt. I - Pedostate Primer

There is a meme—many of you know it—that shows a sea of red dots pooled across a map of occupied Palestine, otherwise known as Isntreal, the nomenclature we’ll generally use in reference to Israel in accordance with Maoist Standard English. Beneath the map, there is a Reddit post that reads, “A map of registered sex offenders living in Israel: r/WTF””.

Now, ADL fact-checkers and liberal Zionist deboonkers will say: this map is actually a counterfeit, it is a disingenuously labeled or even doctored visualization of missile strike alerts going off in response to one of Hamas’s humble barrages sometime after 10/7…

But I support its continued usage as memetic shorthand for the pedostate for a few reasons:

1. The meme is spiritually true, which we will demonstrate. My unpretentious pseud effort to construct a postcolonial and Marxist argument for “pedostate theory” will endeavor to back up the legitimacy of said meme. For an opening salvo, we can turn to a second “pedostate” meme that circulates with some frequency in anti-Zio•nist circles online that does a solid job of visually and anecdotally undergirding this argument.

One half of this iteration of the meme—of which there have been a few—was actually cobbled together by yours truly. I am going to rattle off a slew of these headlines. Let them flow over you as if you’ve been strapped into a diving bell and we’re plunging beneath the waves, lowered with a winch down descending strata of perversion, the depraved “pedostate” barometric pressure increasing with the depths.

“Hollywood director latest sexual predator to find refuge in Israel”

“How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel”

“Emmanuel, the town in Israel where pedophiles find safe haven”

“Israel is trying to legalize pedophilia - Avi Moaz”

“Israel is a safe haven for pedophiles, and every other week a daycare worker is accused of abuse…”

“Israel, the Promised Land for pedophiles”

“Israeli soldiers accused of raping 11 year old”

And it goes on. That’s only a sampling of the headlines stapled to this cautionary cork board of a meme, which itself is infinitesimal and far from comprehensive in comparison to the proverbial Library of Babel out there that can be readily accessed regarding pedophiles and predators in Isntreal. In fact, The Times of Israel even has a designated online newspaper section with the heading “Pedophiles” because related stories break with such frequency that they warrant their own category (plus a bitter editorial acknowledgement that these are abiding issues in Isntreali society).

2. Adjusting for the dispersal of population centers, the Isntreali sex offenders map meme is likely a fairly accurate representation of the distribution of pedophiles throughout Israel, of which there is a preponderance. The Matzof Association, an advocacy group that tracks and centralizes reports of pedophilia cases in Israeli media, estimates that tens of thousands of pedophiles operate in the country annually, amounting to approximately 100,000 victims per year. In this The Jerusalem Post article from 2020, Eliran Malki, head of Matzof, laments how Israeli law enforcement and the judiciary fail utterly at deterrence, even citing a recent ruling in which a pedophile whose laptop contained thousands of pedophilic digital ephemera, all of which was introduced as evidence in discovery, was let off by a judge because it was deemed conviction would harm his career. So although the meme communicates the basal truth that pedophiles are so commonplace in Isntreal that they’re likely to be found in every town and settlement, the problem is there’s no easy way to confirm the map’s accuracy at the spatial statistical level. While Isntreal numbers among the 19 countries with a national sex offender registry, unlike the United States, it isn’t public and can only be accessed by police and prison services, so although we can make educated guesses as to the rate of occurrence of CSA in the pedostate, it would require laborious legwork to model its spread.

3. All is fair in PsyWar and Genocide and seeing as there is no bar too low for the hasbarists, no level of propagandistic self-debasement they are unwilling to descend to, I feel that it is more than reasonable for the enemies of the Zio•nist Entity to embrace this meme’s usage for indoctrinating the online masses into pedostate theory.

We’ve discussed the concept of the “pedostate” in some detail on the podcast previously, most notably in the episode “Six Pointed Pedostate & the International Sex Traffick: The Devil of Taganga” with Fergal Shmudlach, in which we unpacked how pedophilia and sexual violence are endemic to Zio•nist society in minor detail. We also used the specific case study of ex-IDF drug plus child prostitute kingpin Assi Ben-Moosh and his “Little Israel” hostel compound in Colombia to illustrate how the Isntreali military studiously looks the other way and/or even helps facilitate child trafficking syndicates and sex tourism so that their stormtroopers can blow off steam.

To gloss the basics, in my conception, “Pedostate” theory is predicated upon the mounting incontrovertible evidence of startling levels of pedophilia in Isntreal, the Epstein and Maxwell sex trafficking cases, and the history of Isntreal’s covert deployment of honeypots and leverage of sexual kompromat, which we will eventually juxtapose with Imperial Japan’s weaponization of “comfort women” as spies as depicted in the Mark Driscoll study Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque and the lesser-known Shōhei Imamura film Zegen.

“Pedostate theory” tags onto the understanding that sexual blackmail and honeypotting have buttressed the Zionist entity’s political prospects, and in the Epstein case, frequently involved teenage or pubescent girls (case in point Virginia Giuffre or the Jane Doe lawsuit that alleged Trump and Epstein bickered over who got to deflower a 13 year old), the weaponization of clandestine sex consolidating the Zio•nist Entity’s symbiotic relationship with the imperial core and entwining the two countries’ capitalist and political power elite.

To foreshadow the Isntreal - Imperial Japan comparison, as seen in one auction scene midway through Zegen—Imamura’s adaptation of real life procurer of girls and imperialist Iheiji Muraoka’s exaggerated but likely still partly factual memoir—it was not uncommon for teenage girls or younger to be trafficked and sold into sex slavery as “comfort women” during Imperial Japan’s conquests abroad. The other reason that we’ll alight upon Imperial (primarily late Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa era) Japan as an analogue for the Zio•nist pedostate is due to their shared fascistic tendencies, their expansionism, and my contention that Isntreal contains cultural and psychosexual developments that are comparable to the erotic-grotesque. Ero guro—a Japanese phrase composed of English loanwords—was an art movement and aesthetic attitude of the ‘20s and ‘30s in metropolitan Japan that was compulsively drawn towards the erotically perverse and the malformed or bizarre, as perhaps most infamously exemplified by the 1936 Abe Sada Incident when a former geisha asphyxiated her lover, genitally mutilated him, and then carried her trophies about in her kimono or else Edogawa Ranpo’s sadomasochistic gothic The Capetillar, a short story about a deaf and mute quadriplegic war hero and his sex slave.

“Pedostate” theory as critically applied to Isntreal is also underpinned by “Predator Aliyah” and the Right of Return, an admitted laxness towards pedophilia in Talmudic law (to be clear this is a reality that is not exclusive to Jewish religious doctrine), and the all-too-common silence policy when it comes to rabbinical perverts in Orthodox communities both in Israel and the US. By Predator or Pedophile Aliyah, I am referring to the loophole whereby the Law of the Right of Return has been taken advantage of by wanted or accused Jewish sex criminals overseas who then flee to Israel to escape the long arm of the law and the informal policy by the Zio•nist government over recent decades to shield offenders hiding out in apartheid Isntreal, as evidenced by the Malka Leifer affair and ultra-Zionist Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman’s efforts to prevent the former headmistress’s deportation to face child sex abuse charges in Australia.

In some respects, “pedostate” is insufficient jargon, as it fails to encompass the totality of the sexual violence endemic to the ethnosupremacist colonial society of Isntreal, the depravity of which often positively correlates with the militarized cordon or settlement periphery. Think the “right to rape” protests during which Isntreali civilians rioted and stormed two IDF facilities in “solidarity” with 9 reservists who had been detained for questioning over their involvement in the torturous rape of a Palestinian prisoner (more on that later).

Or think how Zviki Strook, the son of current Israeli Minister of Settlements Orit Strook, abducted and abused a 15 year old boy in the Shilo settlement in 2007 who’d suffered such grave wounds that he needed to be hospitalized. The attack was clearly premeditated, as Zviki had tormented the Palestinian boy on a previous occasion when he encountered him on a road on the outskirts of Kusra, threatened him to vacate the area as he was “trespassing”, slapped him, and then killed a goat in front of him with sharp kicks to the skull (can I just say that Isntreali settlers are the lowest of the low, the most despicable cretins, possibly on this Earth?).

Mind you, Zvi Strook was 28 years old at the time and a prominent far-right activist among settlers in the Hebron area, going to show how this is par for the course. Sometime after the initial incident (for which he was also convicted), Zviki kidnapped the same 15 year old and tortured him—the boy was discovered wounded and naked in a field and quickly rushed to a hospital.

I’m unsure if Strook ultimately avoided a sentence on appeal, but if you know anything about these court cases between Isntrealis and the captive population on the colonial periphery, you know that it’s practically a miracle that Zviki was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the first place, as the vast majority of the time settlers get off on charges stemming from their depredations of their neighbors (probably both legally and psychosexually). Some of my primary arguments regarding the predatory eropolitics of the pedostate and the repercussive dynamic between the sexual violence on the periphery and the Tel Aviv / Jerusalem metropole will be buttressed by the Strook family even further with a True Detective tinged story later on.

Aside: If you want to watch a heartbreaking, instructive feature drama that contends with the brutalization and systemic mistreatment of Palestinians by settlers in the West Bank and occupied territories moreover, check out the 2023 film The Teacher, directed by Farah Nabulsi and starring Saleh Bakri and Imogen Poots, which premiered at the Toronto Film Fest.

Part of why “pedostate” has found purchase in anti-Zio•nist nomenclature is by virtue of slant rhyming and its wordplay. I can’t recall if I first heard “pedostate” or whether the phrasing sprouted in my mind organically, but I think it’s ingenious because it’s a play on “petrostate” and the “petrodollar” (we need to work “pedodollar” into circulation).

A petrostate is a polity whose economy is practically entirely reliant on the extraction and export of oil and/or natural gas and so it goes to reason that similar logic would apply to Isntreal as a pedostate. Seeing that there isn’t a single economy on the planet that is predominantly dependent upon child trafficking and that’s an impossibly high bar to clear, we’ll obviously have to refine these “pedostate” presuppositions, which we’ll do in a moment. To this point and roughly speaking, Israel’s GDP and economic output is dominated by tertiary services at 70% (including high-tech, R&D, fintech, finance, tourism, etc), followed by industry at 17% (manufacturing, etc), and then Agriculture at approximately 1.3% per Lloyd’s Bank.

Speaking of pedodollars, Isntreal actually follows the Nordic Model when it comes the prohibition of prostitution and its enforcement, with legislation passed in the Knesset in 2018 that criminalized the buying of sex, the johns shouldering the fines—prior to this, prostitution had been legal and permitted in Israel going all the way back to the pedostate’s inception with the Prostitution and Abomination Act of 1949. From where I’m standing, this appears to have been a half-assed attempt to satiate their client US State Department, who for the previous two decades had ranked Isntreal as one of the worst countries in prostitution and human trafficking in the world, the result being that a robust, illicit prostitution system operated by Isntreali organized crime has been permitted to continue operating with relative impunity.

The Health Ministry has previously estimated that there are 14,000 sex workers in Isntreal (more than half of which are in Tel Aviv with 62% of brothels located there) and as of 2016, the sex trade was bringing in approximately $500 million per year. I’d hazard a guess both of these numbers are much higher in actuality, considering who is doing the measuring. A local NGO called the Task Force Against Human Trafficking previously reported by way of a Haaretz story in 2009 that Isntreali men visit brothels up to a million times a month, in which case it seems the sexual black market should be valued at much more than $500 million annually.

To quickly rehash a few statistics and datapoints I’ve trotted out previously when constructing my “pedostate theory” arguments: A single NGO reported 3k trafficked children in Israel in 2020. Similarly, per an Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (EPCAT) report, 4k child brides are married off in the pedostate annually, the vast majority allegedly within ultra-Orthodox or Arabic communities in Isntreal. On the same note, a 2016 articlefrom The Jerusalem Post alleged that Israeli authorities had turned a blind eye to illegal underage marriages, which had seen a drastic increase in the previous few years.

The average Israeli prostitute enters the coercive “trade” between the ages of 12-14, which renders the earlier datapoint about a million brothel visits per month in much darker hues. As recently as 2021, the US State Dept downgraded Israel’s human trafficking status for failing to “meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking”, which clearly says a lot considering the US was upbraiding their own client state, basically imploring them to get their house in order and clamp down on sex trafficking so as to save geopolitical face. It can likely be inferred that the reality is much worse than the State Department’s findings considering Israel’s strategic importance to American hegemony in the region.

Running with these petrostate - pedostate analogies and prefiguring the Imperial Japan - Isntreal parallels we’ll explore later on, we can point to Driscoll’s quotation of Japanese ship captain Katō Hisakatsu in Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque, a man who plied the shipping lanes between Japan, China, and Southeast Asia for three decades prior to World War I, and who maintains that in that fin de siècle period, “women” or “packets of whores” were one of Japan’s top exports. Enterprising listeners might also be able to find a pirated version of Zegen online that contains audio commentary by a Japanese New Wave cinephile who even mentions in passing how some Japanese considered women destined for flesh-markets the #1 national export in the early industrial period (IIRC). In juxtaposing the two, we will attempt to formulate an argument akin to Driscoll’s that will illustrate how the sexual violence meted out on the Isntreali periphery helps drive the expansion upon which the Zio•nist Entity is predicated and also further resource and capitalist extraction, contending in turn that these colonial depredations in the fringe ripple out into the metropoles, augmenting the endemic sexual violence in Isntreali society. 

But as I was previously alluding, seeing as the Isntreali economy would be hard pressed to mostly subsist off of such an illicit commerce as the trafficking of underage victims, we clearly have to finetune our conceptual framework as petrostate - pedostate isn’t quite 1:1, even though past PPM research has evinced Israel’s involvement in international sex & human trafficking and it is undeniable that millions of dollars are flowing back to Israel from sex work industries, even if sometimes circuitously or indirectly—for example, OnlyFans owner Leonard Radvinsky and his wife’s generous $11 million donation to AIPAC last year.

I think we can hone in on proper “pedostate theory” by dilating our pigeonhole and opening our category up to other forms of capital besides the monetary and resourceful. I’m saying that for “pedostate” theory to truly cohere and for the conceptual level to reflect the conditions on the ground, we need to incorporate the accumulation of covert, eropolitical, and sociopsychological forms of capital, as well. By that I mean that we have to account for Isntreal’s clandestine use of honeypots to acquire kompromat (which, let’s be real, is a form of political capital) and the development of domestic & international sex trafficking, motivated by greed and indulged for the purposes of soothing and satiating the sexual appetites of the mandated brownshirts who sacrifice their humanity in Gaza or Lebanon’s killing fields so as to sustain apartheid.

The intersecting sex trade and sundry traffics operated by Isntreali Mafia-style families—criminal sectors that include extortion, protection, drug dealing, gambling, investment fraud, arms trafficking, illegal quarrying and loan sharing—also surely serve additional slush fund and dark money purposes on behalf of Isntreali intelligence, who frequently work in tandem with such international criminal networks. For one recent example evincing these tried and true intel and underworld overlaps, see the story regarding Shalom Avitan, who was arrested in Kuala Lumpur last March on trafficking and illegal possession of weapons charges, and when the story broke, Isntreali newspapers first connected him to Mossad, but then it was revealed he’d entered the country to target and assassinate a rival Isntreali mob boss.

Furthermore, I contend that the preponderance of predators and rapists in Isntreal is also a natural extension of the dehumanization that is part and parcel of a colonial society such as that found in the occupied territories of Palestine. This might seem like the pot calling the kettle black, as I am an American after all and Treatler society is equally depraved, but I suspect that there has to be some psychosexual connective tissue between Isntreali perversion and the way the IDF Bibijugend spend their teenage years abducting Palestinians from their homes in the dead of the night or else sniping children throwing pebbles at tanks.

Now that I have supplied you with some preliminary evidence substantiating “pedostate theory”, a quick prospectus of what to expect over the remainder of this first volume. From here, we will use the ongoing Alexandrovich Affair and the controversy surrounding preferential treatment of accused Isntreali sex criminals by the federal government and judiciary in the States as a launchpad. We will target the pedostate from afar, honing in our critical postcolonial and Marxist analysis and drawing the pedostate into our crosshairs from Tel Aviv’s sister city of Las Vegas, with the controversy serving as a microcosm of the Zio•nist Entity’s pedopolitics and the deployment of covert sex for Pedo Occupied Government purposes. After we examine the Fifth Column of Zio•nist law enforcement, prosecutors, and judicial officials who populate the Alexandrovich Affair, we will then turn our attention to the origins of the pedostate in the ideologies and ethos of the equal parts sexually liberated and fettered colonial kibbutzim periphery of the Second and Third Aliyot, eventually working our way towards the modern pedostate by way of the grotesquing of Zio•nist culture after the formation of Isntreal and the entrenchment of its depravities through peripheral sexual violence.

Pt. II - Fleeing Las Vegas

An Isntreali Cybersecurity Bureaucrat, A Pedo Sting, A Dual National Sleeper Cell, and the Makings of the Alexandrovich Affair

I’ve decided to issue an impromptu emergency report and return to this terrain momentarily due to a recent, viral scandal involving an Isntreali pedophile that seems almost too illustrative. As announced by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on August 15th, over the two weeks prior, eight individuals were arrested in Henderson, NV as part of a multi-agency operation jointly led by the Nevada Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (LVMPD) and FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force with the assistance of the Henderson and North Las Vegas PDs, the Nevada Attorney General’s office, and Homeland Security Investigations. The eight men were all charged with felony counts of Luring a Child with Computer for Sex Acts and were booked into the Henderson Detention Center.

Among the arrestees was an Israeli national named Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, the Executive Director of Defense with Israel’s National Cyber Directorate and the architect of Israel’s Cyber Dome program, “a national initiative to protect civilian cyberspace.” Quoting from one of his bios, “His contributions also include co-founding Israel’s National Aviation Cybersecurity Program and earning the Israel Defense Prize…” His flagship “Cyber Dome” program as INCD Executive Director of Defense involved trackingapproximately 3k companies that supply critical mission services to the I•D•F, mapping their assets, & providing them with an AI & big data analysis cyber-umbrella to prevent CNA attacks. Driving home the degree to which he is an Isntreali cybersecurity bigwig, Alexandrovich posted on his LinkedIn two months prior to his Vegas child sex snafu that he had just presented to Bibi Netanyahu on Isntreal’s “cuttting-edge data driven defense strategy, including our ground breaking Cyber Dome project… #ProactiveDefense: We’re harnessing the power of AI to predict potential attacks, analyze adversary behavior…”. And he goes on. As we will see, Alexandrovich has enjoyed head-scratching preferential treatment hinting at a somewhat bumbling attempt at a coverup affected by Zio•nist powerbrokers in NV and DC and underlining the Isntreali capture of law enforcement and the legal system.

As is well-known, Nevada is the only state in the US with legalized prostitution. Although the Vegas suburb of Henderson is technically one of the municipalities in Nevada where prostitution is still forbidden, this doesn’t mean much, as 90% of the sex work at the local level is illegal and the illicit Nevadan prostitution market is valued at $5 billion per annum. Furthermore, Henderson appears to be a child prostitution hotspot, as a previous bust that ensnared a Nevadan prosecutor indicates.

In one sense, Las Vegas is arguably kind of like Tel Aviv’s child trafficking sister city. Demographically, despite NV having a fairly diminutive population of only 3.26 million, placing it 32nd in size, it holds a rapidly growing Jewish population of somewhere between 80-100k, at least an estimated 1k - few thousand of whom were born in Isntreal based on the 2000 census (incorporate the reams of Jewish Americans who are dual citizens splitting their time between imperial core & the Zio•nist fringe and this number surely balloons). From an urban planning perspective, Las Vegas and Tel Aviv are markedly similar in that they are both a couple of whelps, juvenile cities spun off of colonies founded only 4 years apart.

Las Vegas was formally incorporated in 1905 to serve as a railroad junction settlement along the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Line in the inhospitable Mojave, with the Eastern portion of the city the property of the railroad’s majority owner Montana Senator William A. Clark in the early days; Tel Aviv, meanwhile, was christenedwith a monochromatic group photo of a number of Zio•nist families taken on a beach dune in 1909, families who’d decided to move out of the predominantly Arab Jaffa and establish their own settlement financed by the Jewish National Fund. They would name it Tel Aviv meaning “Hill of Spring” in Hebrew and styled after Theodor Herzl’s Altneuland the following year. Couple the Jewish Mob’s prominent role in expanding Vegas out from the Flamingo or the fact that Tel Aviv, akin to Vegas, is one of Isntreal’s liveliest nightlife cities and plays host to the largest number of tourist hotels (111) and you can see why I think of these as somewhat comparable oases, even if one sits on the sea.

This Las Vegas - Tel Aviv sister city parallel is further borne out by the rampant child prostitution in the gambling oasis, which was originally expanded by Jewish mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. The latter helped to run guns for the Haganah / IDF, calling upon his Murder, Inc. colleagues Joe Adonis and Albert Anastasi, who controlled the Port of NY by way of the longshoreman’s union, to help smuggle armaments onto ships bound for Isntreal despite the US’s official arms embargo. We’ll detail the endemic child prostitution in Tel Aviv later on, but I would also contend that Vegas’s child prostitution is protected and enabled by the LVMPD for capitalist accumulation reasons evocative of prostitution in Isntreal and perhaps, if you squint, even Imperial Japan’s diplomatically sanctioned “comfort women” system (chief distinctions lying between the imperial core & colonial periphery).

Case in point re my conjecture the LVMPD shield prostitution in Vegas in an off-the-books capacity, see:

• LV numbers among the 14 cities with the highest rates of child prostitution in the US

• LV ranks in the top 17 human trafficking destinations in the country (per the DOJ)

• the LVMPD arrest approximately 400 child sex workers per year, but inscrutably—via a Washington Post article courtesy of Boltzmann Booty—they apparently still charge them as criminals in defiance of federal classifications dubbing such kids as victims (or at least were as recently as 2021), which to me seems to imply face-saving churn and that these kids lives are made that much more precarious by their legal issues, which in turn trap them in their exploitation, perpetuating the system.

Quick reminder to situate the catch and release of Isntreali cyber-bureaucrat Tom Alexandrovich—not to mention his attempt to sleep with a 15 year old while in Vegas—within these larger historic, socioeconomic, and demographic contexts. Las Vegas as Tel Aviv’s trafficking sister city and an expat pedostate hub is further underlined by the bilateral ties between the LVMPD and the IDF. Evidence includes the ADL bringing at least two LVMPD Captains to Isntreal for “counterterrorism exchange training” in 2016 and the fact at least one dual national Las Vegas police officer named Ariel Salley was recalled to join Isntreal’s genocidal campaign post-10/7 as a reservist.

The most suggestive and consequential proof, though, would be that the department’s assistant sheriff Dori Koren was born in Isntreal. Koren is also a Brother alumnus of Alpha Epsilon Pi, the Zio•nist fraternity which consists of a transatlantic membership bridging the US and Isntreal. Furthermore, Koren is a criminal justice graduate from UNLV who then attended the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey specializing in Homeland Security. Quoting from his AEPi bio:

“I always wanted to work in counterterrorism for some reason when I was young. It could be the Israeli roots; it could be just the times I grew up in. I was in high school when 9-11 happened and so I always wanted to work counterterrorism.”

“I ended up being quite involved with building a lot of the counter terrorism programs here and then 9-11 happened and police agencies were relatively new at combatting terrorism. Quite frankly, even the federal agencies were relatively new in truly combating terrorism. And, so, there was a lot of opportunity if you were hungry enough.”

And piling on a double dollop of susness, Koren leads the LVMPD Homeland Security and Investigative Services Group, encompassing 3 investigative divisions with over 1.2k personnel and an annual budget of approximately $320 million. His purview includes the team that took point on the pedo bust. He’s also the youngest deputy chief in the country and his meteoric rise built off the back of his role in helping to develop and implement the LVMPD’s high tech real-time crime center outfitted with facial recognition, automated license plate readers, gunshot detection sensors, etc, which seems foreboding considering his close ties to Isntreal. Koren is a police fellow in D.C., a contributor to the Presidential Policy Directive 8 National Prevention Framework, and has ties at the Department of Homeland Security by way of his presentations to the Congressional Homeland Security Committee coupled with the fact that he oversees the branch of the LVMPD that would interface most with HSI investigators by virtue of their mutual focus. Put a pin in this, but you’ll shortly learn that the first two investigators to interview Alexandrovich were Homeland Security and Bureau.

To top it all off, I managed to find a flow chart of the updated LVMPD hierarchy following Koren’s appointment to assistant sheriff and it turns out that, as head of the Homeland Security and Investigations Group, Koren’s leadership jurisdiction includes the Nevada Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce (ICAC), which spearheaded the bust, as mentioned. Considering the LVMPD’s prominent role in the pedo sting, while it’s speculative, I’m increasingly confident Dori Koren threw his weight around and tried futilely to tidy it up on behalf of his Isntreal compatriots. Speculation being he may have been involved in the internal politicking that led to Alexandrovich’s release and/or served as a conduit for the Trump admin’s alleged request at Isntreal’s behest. Throw in that he was formerly a captain in the Sex Crimes Bureau and that he still directs said unit as well, and we have a very sus brew indeed as far as Alexandrovich and the kinds of questionable ways he may be implicated in the local sex tourism industry are concerned. Either way, though, Koren goes to show the Zio•nist capture of NV’s law enforcement.

Speaking of which… Take this with a grain of salt as he has been accused of fraudulent practices by former employees and isn’t necessarily a paragon of journalistic integrity, but activist writer Shaun King claimed in a Substack post that he confirmed through an anonymous source at the Henderson Police Department that the Trump administration interceded on Alexandrovich’s direct behalf, helping him to bail out and flee the country before he could be tried, an assertion that a State Department Twitter account has since denied… But I’d personally put some money down that political pressure was applied, that’s how confident I am in the notion.

In order to convince you that the political pressure odds are good, I ought mention that the “acting US Attorney” in NV implicated in the kidgloves treatment of the Zio•nist cyberwarfare head and his absconding to the pedostate is also an Isntreali national named Sigal Chattah. And in another synchronous case emblematic of our Zio•nist and Pedo Occupied Government, Trump just installed her in an unprecedented move approximately a month ago. So head scratching was this move that 116 retired federal and state judges objected to her anomalous appointment. As soon as it was discovered that the pedo sting case falls under her broad jurisdiction and the joint operation involved her office, Sigal Chattah deactivated her personal Twitter as people started to scour her tweets, discovering that she has publicly called Palestinians “animals” and proposed carpet bombing the entire Strip to oblivion in the past.

Further inviting scrutiny, Israeli media reported 4 years ago that Chattah then chaired the Israeli American Civil Action Network, the lobbying arm of the Israeli American Council (IAC), which is financed by Isntreali-Americans such as anti-BDS czar / convicted tax evader Adam Milstein and “Las Vegas Sands” resort tycoon Miriam Adelson. Chattah pathetically tried to disavow any role in Alexandrovich being permitted to dip out of the country before standing trial, clumsily scapegoating a “liberal District Attorney and state court Judge”—the irony being that Clark Co. DA Steve Wolfson is her ideological comrade as a fellow Zio•nist.

To ratchet up said irony to an absurd degree and dousing the whole affair in the stench of corruption, apparently the perpetrator’s attorneys have contributed handsomely to the prosecuting DA Wolfson, donating a cumulative $35k to his 2021 reelection campaign between the law partners and their wives, painting a picture of incentivized favoritism. Equally compromised acting AG Chattah claims DA Wolfson declined to confiscate Alexandrovich’s passport, thereby allowing him to leave as he remained in possession of his papers. Speaking of which, whose legal defense services did the Isntreali pedo retain? Tom Alexandrovich hired powerhouse attorney David Chesnoff, who Trump just appointed to the Homeland Security Council, by the way.

Past clients of Chesnoff’s include:

• Epstein associate David Copperfield (the Vegas illusionist fixture whose “magic museum” located in an inauspicious warehouse a couple blocks from Mandalay Bay was raided by the Feds in connection with his rape accusations)

• FBI informant Suge Knight

• dual citizen ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov (who supposedly “fabricated” the story about Biden and Hunter’s Burisma bribery in an effort to influence the election)

• assorted Hells Angels

• and multi-millionaire real estate murderer Robert Durst

There are a few remaining stray details pertaining to the Alexandrovich Affair that I would be remiss if I failed to communicate: Firstly, it must be noted that Alexandrovich was in the States to attend the annual Black Hat USA Conference, which was held in—where else—Mandalay Bay of all places from Aug. 2nd through the 7th. 

Founded in 1997, Black Hat is an internationally recognized cybersecurity event series providing the most technical and relevant information security research. Grown from a single annual conference to the most respected information security event series internationally, these multi-day events provide the security community with the latest cutting-edge research, developments, and trends.

Said conference was sponsored by cybersecurity, AI, & tech companies such as Armis, Cisco, and Crowdstrike, not to mention one of Israel’s proudest cloud security concerns Wiz. While in attendance at Black Hat and prior to Alexandrovich coming to the attention of law enforcement (seemingly), he allegedly had multiple meetingswith two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, who he described as a tall bald white guy and a black guy, and NSA officers. In fact, during his interview with his arresting officers, he claimed that he was slated to meet with the NSA again the following day. On the topic of his interrogations… Sagaar Enjeti reported that, after Alexandrovich attempted to solicit sex from a “15 year old” on Swiss adult hookup messaging app Pure, proposing to meetup with the undercover officer at Cirque du Soleil condoms in hand at which point he was detained, the first officers to question the Isntreali were Homeland Security Investigations and Bureau agents and they immediately permitted him to contact the Isntreali Embassy, calling into question PM Netanyahu’s office’s adamantly unfactual claim that he was never charged.

Furthermore, don’t necessarily take this at face value as I haven’t double checked their work, but various commentators including Enjeti maintained in the days immediately following his arrest and escape that Alexandrovich hadn’t yet had a criminal complaint filed, the sole individual among the 8 arrestees to enjoy such clerical lag, perhaps as if someone like Dori Koren or Chattah was pulling strings to satisfy Isntreal’s desire to keep the story quiet. The flagrant hypocrisy of the Alexandrovich Affair was thrown in stark relief when literally a day or two after the arrests and the story broke, the Trump State Department prohibited medical visas for residents from Gaza at the behest of plasticine sleep paralysis succubus Laura Loomer after she had a tantrum over a video of a couple Palestinian kids receiving care in the US.

Lastly, and this is an aside as chances are it’s coincidental, but I can’t help myself and must mention that seemingly concurrent with the Black Hat conference and Alexandrovich’s sex tourism vacay gone sideways, another Israeli national in Vegas was allegedly robbed and murdered, his cadaver discovered in his car about 15 minutes from the city center, as reported by the local Chabad-Lubavitch-Mossadist emissary. And while it’s surely unrelated, in the days since the bust, a startling discovery was made in the Mojave outside Vegas, as a hiker happened upon 70 piles of human cremains—I mention this because of the sex / human trafficking backdrop to the Alexandrovich Affair and the reality that Vegas is a verifiable flesh market.

To this point, Boltzmann Booty has a thread on Twitter that begins by citing a Daily Mail article from early 2023 announcing that a former Justice of the Peace named Melanie Andress-Tobiasson committed suicide after watching her life unravel over her attempts to shield her daughter from an underage trafficking ring. It’s a dour, tragic case. The Judge was pressured to resign two years prior while facing an ethics investigation stemming from the way in which she allegedly self-involved herself in a vice probe. Thing is… She claimed that, despite her repeated entreaties, the LVMPD had ignored her requests that they tackle this prostitution ring being run out of a front that seconded as a clothing boutique, and so she took matters into her own hands, attempting to work with the feds. In the process, the operator of this alleged ring may have begun to target the daughters of various judicial and law enforcement officials in an effort to inoculate himself from prosecution. Boltzmann’s profile is locked, but I encourage following him so that you can peruse said thread, as he also unpacks a Vegas-based child sex cult run by the actor who played Smiles A Lot in Dances with Wolves and muses about Zio•nist comedy filmmaker Sacha Baron Cohen’s eerie claim in a Deadline interview that a Who is America? segment that ended up left on the cutting room floor consisted of Cohen in character asking a concierge at a fancy hotel in Las Vegas whether he could procure him a “boy between the ages of 8 and Bar Mitzvah age”, possibly inadvertently exposing a sex trafficking ring connected to said establishment. I can’t help but wonder about whether said hotel or resort’s proprietors include, say, Miriam Adelson…

But returning to the Alexandrovich Affair, there have been further hypocrisies encapsulating Israel’s reputation as a pedophile safe haven, as Alexandrovich already skipped his arraignment hearing last Wednesday. The ongoing scandal is a stark example of yet another Israeli sex criminal receiving indefensdible preferential treatment from our co-opted US government, so you can see why it partly spurred my decision to compose this “Pedostate Primer”—the title of the previous part playing off of Phillip Fairbanks’ book Pedogate Primer: The Politics of Pedophilia and harkening back to his Programmed to Chill episode of the same name. Additionally, one can only speculate about whether there is an Epstein-esque covert aspect to Alexandrovich’s pursuit of underage victims or whether his ephebophilic perversion is simply an extension of Isntreal’s predatory eropolitics.

To contextualize the Alexandrovich Affair and the federal government’s fathomless decision to allow him to escape to the pedo-stronghold of Isntreal prior to standing trial within an overarching pattern of favoritism, one need only look at Epstein’s sweetheart deal or second generation Mossad superspy / brothel Madame Ghislaine Maxwell’s recent favorable treatment and transfer to FPC Bryan following her suspect proffer session surely designed to falsely shield Trump from legal scrutiny over his Epstein ties to find comparable incidents. FPC Bryan is the federal minimum security prison camp in Texas where Maxwell now cohabitates with Theranos founder cum huckster Elizabeth Holmes.

Speaking of which, the other impetus for this intro to pedostate theory is that, as myself and others have oft-predicted, the self-serving Ghislaine Maxwell proffer session with deputy AG Todd Blanche has already been revealed as a limhang coverup and Trump optics rescue mission. Whereas it took years for other Epstein case related court documents to reach the public, disclosure including mp3s of this particular interview arrived spooky fast for some inscrutablereason. And surprise surprise, as most prognosticators with an iota of familiarity with the case anticipated, sifted comments thus far have been an exonerating nothingburger, with Maxwell claiming that she never witnessed Trump (much less any other man) treat women inappropriately in the presence of Epstein, not to mention denying the existence of a “list” (what has always been a red herring, as any incriminating evidence was surely piecemeal and spread across the black books, kompromat photos and footage, etc). Maxwell also kindly drew blanks regarding Trump’s alleged Birthday message / pedophile cryptograms. All too conveniently, she craftily demurred when asked about any contact that she’s had with Mossad, saying she’s never met “deliberately” with any Isntreali intel officers, and also stating for the record that to her knowledge, Epstein was never paid by any intelligence agencies and that she doubts he was. All in all, hedging her answers enough to stave off future perjury while still sowing enough doubt to satisfy her higher ups.

Pt. III - Zionism as a Colonial Sexual Revolution? Nah.

Ideological Origins of the Pedostate’s Predatory Eropolitics and Cult of Youth in the Kibbutz Fringe

In working towards a “pedostate” theory, I think we also need to contend with Zionist conceptions and perceptions of the eropolitics and erotic mores of Isntreal, which in turn will furnish us with more grist for the mill. I want to turn our attention to historian of Judaism and Gershom Scholem biographer David Biale’s book Eros and the Jews, specifically Ch. 8, which posits that Zionism was an “erotic revolution” of a kind, which we’ll both strip for ammo and refute.