Deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein allegedly played a key role in one of the largest known sexual blackmail operations connected to Russian intelligence, according to Daily Mail.

Journalists calculated that newly released documents in the Epstein case contain 1,056 references to Russia and Vladimir Putin, and 9,629 references to Moscow.

Citing intelligence sources, the British outlet reported on February 1 that Epstein’s private social network and parties were instrumental in collecting compromising material on high-profile Western political and business figures.

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The materials obtained were allegedly funneled to Russian intelligence agencies. The report asserts that the operation involved Ghislaine Maxwell—currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking—who had ties to her father, Robert Maxwell, a businessman long suspected of cooperating with the KGB and Mossad in the 1970s.

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The report references declassified US Department of Justice files and emails from Epstein’s archive. One email, dated September 11, 2011, mentions coordination for a possible meeting between Epstein and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. A person identified only as “Igor” was reportedly helping schedule a trip to Russia in mid-September.

Another email, sent in 2014 by Japanese entrepreneur Joi Ito, discusses a potential joint meeting involving Epstein, Putin, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. However, according to a follow-up email, the plan was canceled after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 by Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine. Ito wrote: “Now, after the plane crash, it seems like a bad idea.”

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Messages from Epstein’s files suggest that he claimed he could provide valuable intelligence on then-President Donald Trump ahead of Trump’s 2018 summit with Putin in Helsinki. Daily Mail does not confirm whether such materials were ever delivered or used.

The investigation also highlights Epstein’s apparent long-standing ties to Russian organized crime, which may have facilitated his ability to transport large numbers of women from Russia. Intelligence officials interviewed by Daily Mail believe these relationships were central to his operational capabilities and possibly served as leverage over him.

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    TIL: USA is a Puppet state controlled by Russia and Israel. Change your fucking Anthem, it is not “Land of the free”, it’s “Land of the puppets”.

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      Who would have thought that having money as your sole and highest priority in your society would give rise to a bunch of traitors willing to sell out their own country?

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    He advised PUTIN how to handle trump, thats why Trump looked so disheveled around 2019-2020 after speaking with putin, especially right after he lost the election.

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    To me, obviously the big winner here is Putin, who now must have the biggest blackmail filing cabinet in history.

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      they likely had it since 2016, but when epstein started advising, he probably got more krompomat, especially on other GOP, and billionares.

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    So basically we can derive that the Lemmy devs and the tankie trinity is just a zionist Epstein op

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      I think the following is clear

      • Epstein was a pimp
      • he procured children and women to be used in awful, highly illegal acts
      • he recorded this acts, using the information to extort and blackmail the rich into various schemes and scams, not to mention for information
      • this explains how his net worth / wealth jumped several times, especially when he was young and somehow made millions with no clear explanation, at the time, as to where he got the money from.
      • we have a huge amount of information from the victims that he used girls as currency
      • considering the circles that Epstein, the people he was involved in, including heads of state, previous heads of state, politicians, factional powerbrokers, scientists, actors, celebrities and a multitude of oligarchs.

      These are the circles intelligence agencies walk in. But who he was involved with is probably gonna be harder to work out.

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        I mean, Mossad agents repeatedly stated at his apartment, and his main aide was the daughter of the most famous Israeli agent in history.

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        Agreed. Considering he was in contact with several high ranking officials of different states, it’s mostly speculation who exactly he was working for at this point.

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    Remember when Lindsey Graham was so against the orange felon/pedo then suddenly very nice to him? Blackmail will do that.

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      Nah, lack of a spine is enough. Smae as Vance, cruz, McConnell, Rubio and basically every republican except two or three (McCain and Romney come to mind, kind of).

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      Makes you wonder what all Russia has on the GQP. Remember, they never let loose what they found on the RNC servers in 2015 when they and the DNC were hacked.

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        Makes you wonder why they’re trying to deflect attention from Israel to Russia.

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      Also fun fact, apparently Chris Poole is mentioned in the files. Extra fun fact, apparently /pol on 4Chan was opened within days of the two meeting. Maybe no causation, but it’s a fascinating correlation. Was Epstein Q?

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        Apparently Ghislaine was a Reddit politics mod, so I’m guessing Epstein and her knew the influence a politics board could have.

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          It’s fucking insane to realize that the conspiracy theories of a shadowy pedofilic cabal attempting to guide the world towards them staying in power has some merit to it

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            I know we have known all of this for years but when you see with your own eyes it’s true, it’s worse that thought, it really kind of surprises one.

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            it was started by russia, so it is likely they had trump, lindsey gharam,and other world politicians and billionaires documented trafficking krompromat.

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        I wish that were true. But evil people get away with terrible stuff all the time and karma isn’t real.

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      I’m guessing rather worked WITH, than for, as in being employed and payed by…

      I imagine these orgs saw what Epstein was doing and found it to be a useful activity for their needs

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      I’d imagine that’s how all black market spies work these days. Sell product and buy protection while making everyone complicit. What is CIA to do - they could not work with him “ends justifies the means” and “our guy’s there need protection” basically means that everyone’s in it to some extent at least.

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      Probably just had contacts and offered/sold leverage.

      Everyone thinks ‘working for’ means that it’s some sort of commitment and only highly vetted people work in the international intelligence community. And this is true for the handlers, but most of the information comes from freelance contacts adhoc.

      I’m certain he sold to other intelligence groups too.

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        His ties to Mossad is greater than others so far. So I wouldnt be surprised if he started as one then people start sharing more info with him to look cool which he then leveraged to other countries/companies…

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    Daily Mail attributes its findings…

    The source is the notoriously untruthful Daily Mail so take this with a big pinch of salt.

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      Yeah, but sometimes those are the only kinds of publications that will print stories that the standard media won’t touch, even if they’re true. For all their pearl clutching over Epstein, the mainstream media focuses on the mildest scandals. They never touch the really salacious stuff that would blow people’s minds.

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      Isn’t there heaps of evidence for his Mossad connections. Feels like this article is from the classic blame-Russia-instead playbook.

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        Yes, it seems like it could be a deflection to take the attention off Israel and muddy the waters.

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    In that email about Trump blowing Bubba, the actual point was to ask whether Putin had the picture.

    And it was asked so casually that it seemed like it was the normal course of things to leak incriminating pictures to the Kremlin.

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    QAnon was RIGHT! There WAS A Global Cabal of Rich child Rapists! QAnon was Wrong =(

    -Republicans!

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          Yeah, I was looking for a better source. And I don’t blame you. Unfortunately there’s much bigger fish that most are talking about. So this isn’t getting the recognition and coverage it might deserve. But Finding out that Epstein has connections to Moot, 4chan, and possibly /pol or Q. It’s not inconsequential.

          It’s definitely on the more plausible conspiracy side.

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    Though I doubt there are no Russian connections, this article sounds like it’s trying to distance Epstein from Israel/Mossad. He had connections everywhere, in every country, from multiple angles, not just kid stuff.