Epstein

Through Gritted Teeth

Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. It won’t go away.

I haven’t written about it because, with one or two exceptions, doing so immediately puts you in the company of creeps, weirdos, and antisemites. But the situation has now burst its seams, so here’s my take.

This was an intelligence operation. Hidden surveillance infrastructure in his homes, a labyrinthine network of shell companies and protected legal deals all scream: “classic intel asset.” Epstein was enabled, sheltered, and insulated. The scale and precision of the operation point squarely toward intelligence involvement. Too systematic, too protected, and connected to be the work of some freelance predator.

Every online “independent journalist” is pointing a finger at—you guessed it—the Mossad. And indeed, there are Mossad fingerprints here. But anyone who has read about the MKULTRA program puts nothing past the CIA. With this in mind, “Epstein” becomes a synecdoche: a part that symbolizes the whole. Epstein was not just one guy. It was an ecosystem.

Let’s get factual.

Epstein’s ties to Adnan Khashoggi, one of the CIA’s top arms brokers, date back to 1981 when he was running an asset firm out of his apartment. That relationship placed Epstein inside the covert financial architecture used to fund Iran-Contra. He laundered money and facilitated transactions on behalf of American intelligence interests. An expired Austrian passport listing Saudi Arabia as his residence, stamped with numerous visas, was recovered from his safe.

A rogue operator, my ass. This has “Langley” stamped all over it.

But what about the Mossad fingerprints? Yep, that too, all over the place. Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, died under mysterious circumstances after decades of rumored Israeli intelligence work. Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Mossad officer, claims Epstein was brought in as part of a shared honeytrap operation. Israeli officials, including Ehud Barak, maintained suspicious proximity to Epstein. Surveillance tech firms backed by Mossad veterans benefited from Epstein’s investments. Whether Mossad ran him, co-ran him, or exploited him after he was already embedded, Epstein’s interests were clearly entangled with that of the Mossad—

But again, who was running Epstein? You don’t just resign from the CIA. Employment there doesn’t expire like a visa.

The notion that the poor widdle CIA allowed a massive rogue Mossad op to function both in the U.S. and internationally without its knowledge is laughable.

The CIA is protected on both wings: it must maintain opacity and it can afford to lie until the sun flames out. I’m not sure which is more opaque and more impregnable: the CIA or the Vatican.

They didn’t just fail to stop Epstein. They managed him, used him, and buried the evidence when the operation became too toxic to sanitize. If you do not buy this, please school yourself on MKULTRA. Burying the truth is the CIA’s specialty. They trade in silence, and when silence isn't enough, they invent noise. The fact that America still knows so little about MKULTRA isn't an oversight—it’s the game. We had some Senate hearings—then the record was expunged by who else? Richard Helms.

And why is this stuff crackling through MAGA like an electric current right now? My own personal belief is that the Carlson wing wants to cut Israel loose, and this is the perfect way to do it. Isn’t it a perfect stick to beat Israel with—when one side has everything to gain and can stay mum about its own complicity in something seedy, and the other side has everything to lose and is at the mercy of the stronger side’s goodwill?

Israel’s global legitimacy rests entirely on U.S. support. If it were to come clean about Epstein, it risks:

• Mortifying and alienating American Jews;

• Fracturing bipartisan backing in Congress, especially as skepticism of foreign entanglements grows;

• Worst of all, exposing CIA complicity, which would trigger a defensive clampdown rather than shared accountability.

If Israel were to crack that wall, it would not just lose American support. It would rupture the entire apparatus of allied intelligence cooperation.

I think this is what we call “being over a barrel,” and doesn’t the Carlson wing of MAGA love that?

Remember what I said: the CIA’s stock-in-trade is opacity, and it can afford to cover up the truth to the end of time. Israel, not so much. Every time the Israeli government has been caught in a lie, there’s Max Blumenthal to point it out—gleefully—and Israel pays with credibility and loss of support.

This is not to excuse any government’s lying; I’m simply saying that the weaker party always gets caught and always pays a price. Nor am I bemoaning this, any more than I’m bemoaning hurricanes or other natural disasters. Getting away with stuff is a prerogative of superpower status.

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Here’s a final reason why I haven’t written about this: spy v. spy v. spy bores me. I just don’t care about spies who come in from the cold, the sauna, or the orgy.

But I am disgusted by the rank, appalling, utter immorality of it. This was human exploitation of the weakest among us: underage girls from broken families.

The men at the top of this ring don’t deserve public shaming. They deserve hanging. They’ll get neither.

Epstein is a mirror of the UK Muslim rape gang scandal. In both cases, the perps will get away with it—and they aren’t just Muslim taxi drivers and sleazy Mossad operatives. They are multilingual experts in the CIA with Ivy League pedigrees.

Something tells me Tucker won’t report on that.