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Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to the CIA and FBI, and the DOJ’s Ongoing Lies

Jeffrey Epstein was connected to the CIA and US intelligence community in the 80s, the FBI received reports about his trafficking operation dating to 1996 or prior, Epstein was an FBI informant in 2008, the FBI and DOJ allowed the trafficking ring to continue for at minimum 21 years, and the DOJ continues to lie about the facts to this day.

1. Main Points on Epstein’s Connections with the CIA and FBI:

There is enough evidence to reasonably conclude that Jefferey Epstein was a CIA operative in the 80’s. He worked with Adnan Khashoggi, Sir Douglass Leese, and Robert Maxwell, doing the money laundering in the Iran Contra Affair. Both he, and later US Attorney Alex Acosta, stated that he worked for US Intelligence.

Adnan Khashoggi was a Middle Eastern intelligence operative who purchased arms from the CIA, for Iran, in the Iran Contra Affair. Jefferey Epstein laundered money for Khashoggi during this time.

Sir Douglass Leese was a British arms dealer and intelligence asset, who provided arms to Khashoggi. Jefferey Epstein and Leese became good friends, while Epstein was spending a lot of time in the Middle East in the 80s, and Leese and Epstein spent much time together, according to an on-record interview with Sir Douglass Leese’s son, Julian Leese.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210718050227/https://www.defiance.news/podcast/ghislaine-part-4-epsteins-mentor

Robert Maxwell — Ghislaine Maxwell’s father — was a nearly lifelong spy for Britain (he was a boots-on-the-ground spy for Britain in World War II, then went into media processing and politics). He also worked directly for the United States DOJ distributing the infamous and scandalous PROMIS software (which was surrounded by corruption and documented assassinations), which had a backdoor to allow the Israeli government to conduct mass surveillance, which is also part of the Iran Contra Affair. The Israeli president, Chaim Herzog, read his Eulogy at his funeral, and at least six high ranking Mossad agents also attended his funeral. Robert Maxwell was also intricately involved in numerous different aspects of the Iran Contra Affair, besides just the PROMIS software. He directly brokered intelligence, and directly facilitated the brokering, and shipment, of arms from the CIA to various governments, including Iran, in the Iran Contra Affair, for example, amongst direct involvement in various other aspects of the ‘Affair.

Ghislaine Maxwell moved to New York to be with Epstein in 1991, less than a month after her father’s death, in November.

The FBI’s first known complaint about the Jefferey Epstein trafficking operation was in 1996, by victim, Maria Farmer.

It is important to note that the FBI rarely actually take complaints from civilians, or put complaints received on record, much less investigate. We have other reports that the FBI staff at their National Call Center has repeatedly sabotaged the complaint intake process, hangs up on anyone complaining about crimes committed by government, and fails to log complaints received. We have also confirmed that the FBI National Call Center intake system was broken as of about September 2024 (and still was when we checked, as of about October 2025), making it impractical to file a complaint with them by phone. The DOJ’s Civil Right’s Division appears to be unstaffed, for all intents and purposes — it appears to be impossible to get a hold of anyone on the phone, they do not apparently return voicemails, and we have records showing that they do not respond to written complaints, except with unsigned rejection templates that do not acknowledge any of the contents of the complaints — even complaints that ask for acknowledgment that they were read by a human are responded to with standard rejection templates which are unsigned. We have records showing that the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General also return unsigned rejection templates, with no acknowledgment of any part of the complaints, in response to complaints they receive, and ignore further complaints.

In 2008, the FBI released, internally, an official memo (which has since been leaked or released publicly) stating that Jefferey Epstein was an official FBI informant. There is no reasonable dispute that the FBI knew what was going on, and allowed it to continue.

In addition, it is well known that, in 2008, when the Justice Department first acknowledged Epstein’s child-trafficking operation, US Federal Attorney of the State of Florida Alex Acosta agreed to not prosecute federally, and gave him work release, requiring Epstein to do only 1 day a week in jail. His 6 known co-conspirators were given complete immunity for no apparent reason, and he was allowed conjugal visits, in jail, from one of his co-conspirators, while doing his 1 day a week in jail, from a very young woman who he started having a sexual relationship with while she was underage, who was likely trafficked from Slovakia, named Nadia Marcinko. Marcinko is now / has been missing since January 2024.

Acosta later stated: “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to ‘leave it alone’”, and that Epstein was “above [his] pay grade.” Acosta seems to have never been asked or disclosed publicly who told him that, in any of the senate meetings where he was questioned or anywhere else.

2. Epstein’s Death:

In 2017, Epstein was jailed again. The official story is that he wrapped orange prison clothing around his neck, and then got on his knees, and leaned forward until he lost consciousness, and then died.

Here is a picture of Epstein’s neck:

Here is a picture of his completely broken hyoid bone (two other bones in his neck were broken and fractured in addition to the hyoid):

Epstein had three fractured or broken bones in his neck, including a broken hyoid bone. Dr. Michael Baden, who was present during the autopsy, state: “I have never seen three fractures like this in a suicidal hanging[.] Going over a thousand jail hangings, suicides in the New York City state prisons over the past 40-50 years, no one had three fractures.”

The prison was outfitted with cameras everywhere. The camera system “malfunctioned” 10 days prior to Epstein’s death, but the cause of the malfunction was apparently never publicly stated or described. Tech staff attempted to fix the camera system the night of/before Epstein’s death, but prison staff obstructed them from doing so.

Not all the cameras went down. Some cameras still functioned. The DOJ released footage, and lied that it was “raw”, but it was discovered by the public, and reported extensively, that the footage, which the DOJ had lied was raw, had been edited multiple times, and had been spliced together from two different files, in the video editing program, Adobe Premier. Over 3 minutes was cut out, and it only captured an incomplete of single stairway leading to Epstein’s cell. Calling it “raw” was a lie.

https://www.wired.com/story/metadata-shows-the-dojs-raw-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-was-likely-modified

https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-had-nearly-3-minutes-cut-out

3. Additional Details on Epstein’s connection with the US Government:

Epstein was introduced to the CIA-connected intelligence crew who did the Iran Contra Affair by Nixon’s former US Attorney General: John Newton Mitchell, the only US Attorney General who did prison time, for his role in the Watergate scandal, in which he worked with several CIA officers.

Prior to that, Epstein worked under Donald Barr, at Dalton School, in Manhattan, in the 70’s. Epstein was a known predator then. Donald Barr, the headmaster, who did the hiring, was former OSS (Office of Strategic Services — the precursor to the CIA), and wrote a book called Space Relations, which was a sick sex fantasy novel about trafficking minors. Another headmaster of Dalton School (Gardner P. Dunnan) was later accused of sexual assault of a minor, in 1986.

Donald Barr’s son, William “Bill” Barr, who is only one year older than Epstein, also worked for the CIA, was the US Attorney General multiple times, was called the “Cover Up General” by the New York Times in 1992 for his cover up of the Iran Contra Affair — the same blatantly illegal CIA operation Epstein was involved in.

William Barr was the US Attorney General in charge of investigating Epstein’s death. After Epstein got off trafficking minors with work release in 2008, Barr subsequently went to work for the same law firm that had represented Epstein, and magically gotten Epstein off — Kirkland & Ellis.

Barr also covered up the Mueller report, and the “Iraqgate” scandal. Additionally, Barr’s consistently stated opinions about government power are at odds with the concept of Rule of Law.

4. Conclusion:

Epstein’s government connections go deeper than is being commonly reported. He didn’t just chat with Bill Clinton and hang out with Donald Trump at parties. He worked for the people who conducted the illegal CIA operation known as the Iran Contra Affair, who did the arms deals in the 80s, and was an FBI informant in 2008. These operations were not only secret, but were openly covered up by William Barr when he was US Attorney General for George “H.W.” Bush Sr.

His trafficking operation was allowed to continue from 1996, in 2008, and in 2017 it was downplayed and covered up again, which persists to this day.

Ghislaine is in a “camp” with no fence, where everyone there is, according to official written policy, allowed to leave. We intend to investigate whether Ghislaine is allowed to leave like everyone else or not.

The photos of the marks on Epstein’s neck after his death do not look like they were caused by a bed sheet, or clothing, by him leaning, or violently struggling to push himself forward with a noose around his neck with his knees on the ground. Neither of the nooses had blood on them despite his neck being clearly bloodied, and even smeared with blood in some places. Three broken or fractured bones in the neck is anomalous for a suicide by hanging — especially the type of “hanging” where someone has their knees on the ground.

The cameras going down with no explanation 10 days prior to his death, and the editing of and then lying about the footage, goes beyond being merely suspicious.

Why was someone called “The Coverup General”, who had multiple different connections to Epstein, appointed to be in charge of the investigation, when Epstein was going to be arrested in 2017?

Who was giving US Attorney Alex Acosta orders? Acosta said: “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to ‘leave it alone’”, and that Epstein was “above [his] pay grade.” Who told him that, and why are we not being told who gave him the order to let Epstein off in 2008?

The FBI admit now they have complaints from or evidence of over 1000 victims on record (while simultaneously lying about the camera system in the same official public memo). It is unfathomable that one man, with no co-conspirators the DOJ has evidence of guilt of, could singlehandedly have over 1000 victims that the FBI (who doesn’t take complaints from the public) has record of. The reports we have reviewed do not claim they were one-time victims. They were victims repeatedly, sometimes three times a day, sometimes for years.

Most of Epstein’s expansive residences were outfitted with hidden cameras. The FBI allowed evidence to be taken before they got access, later stating it “went missing”. Thousands of DVDs were recovered. Those DVDs are hand labeled in marker: “[Name] A/V [Date]”, but Pam Bondi and Kash Patel have stated that those are all just “porn downloaded from the Internet” (in spite of how odd it would be to label porn downloaded from the Internet “[Name] A/V [Date]”), and, perhaps conveniently, won’t be released. In the same (unsigned) memo the FBI admitted there over a thousand victims, and openly lied that the jail footage they released was “raw” when it had in fact been heavily edited in Adobe Premier and spliced together from two separate files, and withholds a variety of information that pokes massive holes in their conclusion, they also claim that the videos had been reviewed by a variety of people, including “civil liberties experts”, but we aren’t even given a sworn declaration, notwithstanding the fact that both Pam Bondi and Kash Patel have openly lied under oath, repeatedly, at Senate meetings, and that the government frequently lies under oath in open court, and is routinely allowed to get away with it by the judiciary. Are these the same people at the DOJ Civil Rights Division who don’t staff their office and don’t respond to written complaints?

And as a sidenote, Virginia Giuffre posted a message on Instagram on March 30, 2025, stating she had been involved in a serious car crash with a school bus, and that she had been given only four days to live due to kidney failure. But it came out months later that the crash was a minor fender bender, which everyone walked away from with no more than negligible injuries, which was confirmed by law enforcement. It is has apparently been confirmed with family that it was untrue that she was in kidney failure. She had previously (in 2019) tweeted: “I am making it publicly known that in no way, shape, or form am I suicidal[.] Too many evil people want to see me quieteted [sic].”

Even in the best light, this is objectively much worse than Watergate. And after so much bad faith action on record, there is no reason for people to keep trying to look at this in the light most favorable to the wrongdoers. It is time to hold not only the child-traffickers to account, but also the people lying about the evidence, and destroying and concealing such evidence, who have facilitated the trafficking and allowed it to continue since 1996 or prior. The FBI and DOJ get around 44 billion dollars a year from the public, in exchange for a promise of public service. That’s around 1.276 trillion dollars in public funding since 1996. Even in the best light, lying under oath and criminally concealing evidence is not part of the purpose for which they are paid in public funds.

Sources and Additional Reading:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/14/jeffrey-epstein-investigation-women-487157

https://www.nationofchange.org/2019/03/26/cover-up-attorney-general-bill-barr-strikes-again

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/second-interview-w-steven-hoffenberg-ex-partner-mentor-of-jeffrey-epstein–57768589

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15106219/Jeffrey-Epsteins-British-mentor-15th-century-manor-began-journey-heart-establishment.html

https://www.inkshares.com/books/ghislaine-maxwell-privilege-power-perversion/book_segments/meeting-jeffrey

https://epsteinsblackbook.com/articles/defiance-ghislaine-review

https://spectrejournal.com/jeffrey-epstein

https://www.truehoop.com/p/adnan-khashoggi-and-richard-nixon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303

https://globemagazine.com/leaked-files-from-2008-reveal-disgraced-financier-jeffrey-epstein-was-an-fbi-informant-exclusive

https://people.com/jeffrey-epstein-provided-information-to-fbi-according-to-internal-memo-11817751

https://www.justsecurity.org/119137/timeline-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell/

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/who-was-robert-maxwell-ghislaine-maxwells-father-who-had-alleged-ties-with-kgb-and-mossad-101753349262783.html

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/jun/28/sir-robert-maxwells-fbi-PROMIS

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2011/04/promis-government-inslaw

https://www.jamesmarshlaw.com/epstein-accuser-sues-federal-government-for-allegedly-ignoring-sexual-abuse-claims

https://www.aol.com/everything-now-know-jeffrey-epstein-110000329.html

https://www.newsweek.com/missing-jeffrey-epstein-tapes-fbi-1857766

https://thetriallawyermagazine.com/2021/07/bill-barr-is-the-master-of-covering-up-political-scandals/

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