What a day to have you in here, buddy. Kid in
a candy shop. We hacked the government. We hacked
the government's files evidently. I mean, this
is we have three and a half million files that
it feels like we should not have. It would have
been great to have had. Seven years ago in 2019
when this is being litigated, but it's an incredible
moment of transparency for how the world works
How governments interact with the private sector
and funds and it's just really cool to be a part
of it What was the holdup? What was the because
it seemed like there was a lot of people that
did not want these files released Yeah, I thought
about this a lot What we have access to now are
internal documents from the Justice Department
and the FBI That are normally Even though they're
not classified. They are part of a criminal investigation.
And so they're not normally disclosable to the
public It could be the case that it kind of required
a congressional bill to force this out like when
you if there's a internal investigation and it's
not a part of a court document that's entered
into evidence. You can't just FOIA the Justice
Department to get dirt on your political enemies
because you think that they might be involved
in something. Now I don't know if it could have
been done through an executive order around Epstein
transparency around the time of the first binders.
Certainly it looked like there was friction between
the president and Thomas Massey over this issue.
But I don't. I don't know the details of what
went down there, but the fact is the bill passed
427 to one in the house. Who's the one? My recollection
is that it was Randy Fine, but I might be wrong
on that, so I don't want to smear. There was
one person who didn't want it released because
they thought it would compromise the victims,
right? At one point in time, at least. Yeah,
I. I don't know what the rationale is, and because
I don't recall offhand who the one is, I don't
wanna lean on that too much, but the fact is,
is nobody wanted to be on the other side of this.
I can't think of anything that both Republicans
and Democrats voted on 427 to one and, oh, I'm
sorry, Clay Higgins, sorry, apologies to Randy
Fine. Yeah, so, There was the I Mean there was
obviously friction because this implicates everybody
Republicans and Democrats Americans and a dozen
different foreign countries Heads of major hedge
funds and multinational corporations donors to
all political parties major university and science
institutions I mean almost every major player
in world affairs was in some way either involved
in or adjacent to this network or the network
tried to reach out to them because they were
influential. And so, you know, there was kind
of a mutually assured destruction around the
Epstein hot potato for a decade now, which is
that out of power, The Republicans said, oh,
the Democrats are don't want to disclose this
because of the Clintons. And then the Trump administration
gets into power and there's a very slow reaction
to the kind of disclosures that culminated in
what happened this week. And so you had the Democrats
saying, oh, they're not disclosing it because
of, you know, Trump world and his associates.
Meanwhile, they controlled the Justice Department
and the FBI for four years and didn't release
any so you know it took in a moment like this
and what's what's really interesting about it
is this bill only compelled the disclosure this
law that passed in congress only compelled the
disclosure of justice department originated files
justice department by extension fbi is the investigative
arm of the justice department it does not compel
cia originated files and One of the coolest moments
of transparency we had last year in 2025 was
when Tulsi Gabbard as the you know, ODNI is the
head of director of sent of national intelligence
in charge of the whole intelligence community
spearheaded the JFK files release and we got
basically fully unredacted Documents now. I know
there's a contest over how complete they are.
But the fact is is it was hundreds of thousands
of files that had never been seen before, or
unredacted versions of documents that had been
fully or partially redacted for decades. The
only reason that we have JFK files at all is
because in 1992, Congress passed a bill to force
the CIA to start turning over documents. The
law, I believe, was called the JFK Records Collection
Act, and it forced by law the CIA to establish
this independent presidential assassination review
board that would review documents for declassification
and compel you know on the basis of that independent
body given all of the intelligence intrigue around
Epstein and the fact that it is in my view physically
impossible over Epstein's 40 year career in intelligence
adjacent work that there was that there's not
Epstein files that are CIA originated and we
actually You know, I saw this in the files that
were just released Jeffrey Epstein himself twice
FOIA. That's the Freedom of Information Act Which
which is a law that I think came around in 1966
which allows any US citizen to ask any government
agency for all public records that has about
anything. There are certain things that get blocked
in that. There were a lot of FOIA fights about
COVID. You know, Fauci, famously, there's this
exchange where, you know, one of the folks in
Fauci world says that they learned cool tricks
from the FOIA lady about how to get around requests.
But the fact is you can FOIA the CIA for records
because That FOIA forces the CIA to give you
declassified or unclassified records. And if
it's classified, it'll issue a glomar. We cannot
confirm or deny the existence or nonexistence
of classified information. Before we get any
further, the JFK stuff, I never heard anything
about it. I mean, I know the files came out,
but there was no big revelations. There was no...
Was there anything that came out of that that
was significant? I thought it was huge. I learned,
I guess people are looking at the JFK files,
most people are looking at it for clues as to
who killed JFK. And I know that there are many
researchers who specialize in the JFK assassination
that have sharpened their theories, I suppose,
on the basis of it in a useful way. for whatever
it's worth. For me, I was never expecting to
see a CIA document saying, I, James Jesus Angleton,
authorized the assassination of the president
of the United States. But the fact is is what
it revealed were all of these tangential and
ancillary documents that showed the structure
of intelligence work. at a very fine and detailed
level, the kind of revelations that really only
come around once in a generation. There's a video
online by Michael Parenti, who was a CIA whistleblower
around the time of the Iran -Contra hearings
in the 1980s. And he says, pay attention to these
hearings. This may be the last time for another
20, 30, 40 years that you ever get an inside
look at the detailed like minutia of a covert
operation because all this was being blasted
on a congressional jumbotron with hearings and
formal congressional investigations and public
testimony and There's I sort of look at the JFK
files released like that. We got a very detailed
look at everything that was happening around
effectively operation mongoose it because Do
you refresh my memory? What was mongoose again?
Yeah, so so we had so There was operation mongoose
and operation condor which were which were related
to the Nominally what you'll read is that they
were related to the attempts by the CIA to for
mongoose for example to Destabilize the government
of Cuba in order to induce a regime change But
because those efforts proved unsuccessful they
regionalized the conflict to do counter communism
work effectively throughout all of Latin America,
the Caribbean, South America. And Operation Condor
was effectively a kind of counter insurgency
strategy to stop the rise of left -wing Marxist
groups who were trying to throw off the yoke
of American imperialism, so to speak, as they
put it. And so you had a massive CIA operation
to try to tilt the internal politics of basically
every country south of the border. And we got
incredibly just detailed. I'll give you an example
of one declassified document that's really wild.
There's one document that is a CIA file with
instructions to delete all physical copies of
the document at the end that describes how the
agency had internally authorized an attempt to
assassinate You know Castro by working through
the Meyer Lansky syndicate and hiring two hitmen
That were in Miami and then had but had contacts
with the Cuban exile community liaisons within
Cuba and so this was a this was a Formal agency
file that described how a CIA case officer made
contact with people from the mob organized crime
with offers of pay payoffs with very detailed
logistics you can find this I did a whole video
on it on my the like X subscriber thing I'll
you know put it on the top of my social media,
but the but It also describes a really interesting
Jeffrey Epstein -like figure. Robert Mayhew was
a CIA asset. The JFK files, they describe how
they got, they sponsored a movie to simulate,
I believe it was the President of Indonesia.
having an affair with a blonde woman, they filmed
a, basically like a porno that would, and to
create a tape, and they had very, they describe
how they set up the room to make it look like
it was, I think, in the presidential palace or
some hotel room that would have been in that
country, in order to create what's effectively
a sexual blackmail tape, that could then be leaked
to the press in order to discredit the president.
And you look at these informal agency files,
and on the one hand, you go, okay, that was the
1960s. That was the early 1960s. That was before
there was any oversight on the CIA at all. It
wasn't until the Church Committee hearings in
1975, 1976 that we even had congressional oversight
of the CIA. There was no Senate Intelligence
Committee. There was no House Intelligence Committee
at the time. And at that point, assassinations
had not been outlawed. I mean, the CIA was allowed
to assassinate people. There's since been a ban
on that. So you go, okay, that's 60 years ago.
But the fact is they did it. The fact is that
is within the array of options that folks in
covert operations Saw as on the table working
with the mob working with the mob now, but that
goes back a long time I I found it totally unsurprising.
It's one of these things is just kind of the
general theme. It's shocked but not surprised,
you know, it's like Holy crap. They they put
this in writing What are we doing here guys?
And then but you're like well, I'm not surprised
they did it because I know they were doing all
these other things the fact is is The CIA was
working with the mob Before there was CIA Before
it was done by the CIA Work with for example
the the Italian mob was was done through the
Department of War in the night really starting
in the 1930s and then especially in the 1940s
because they were the Central Intelligence Agency
what the time it was the OSS in the 1940s, but
it would become the CIA They're one of their
main logistical points of contact and allies
for the resistance against Mussolini in Italy.
Mussolini was cracking down both on the Vatican
church and on the Italian mafia. And so the Restrange
Bedfellas, there's a great book on this by Paul
Williams. I think it was published in 2017. It's
called Operation Gladio, the CIA, the Vatican,
and the Mob. And I recommend this book to everyone
because it's a really really detailed academic
deep dive on this nexus between a religious institution,
an intelligence agency, an illegal organized
crime syndicate that does all manner of black
ops, and it especially focuses on the funding
relationship. In fact, this just came out and
this sort of gets to the utility of these documents.
There's an incredible document that just was
released this week where Larry Summers who was
the head of the US Treasury so not only was he
the head of Harvard University and the and the
head of the American money system But he he says
To he's trying to explain to Jeffrey Epstein
kind of the the politics of what's happening
in the Vatican And what he says to him is that
what's what's actually most important going on
right now is what's happening with the Vatican
Bank, which is kind of the the deep politics
of the Vatican and you know, I saw this email
and I just You know laughed and did a little
you know twirly thing in my in my chair because
it's it's totally unsurprising if you read You
know that book Operation Gladio that I that I
mentioned it It traces 80 years of this because
the Vatican Bank was the first offshore bank
before offshore banking even existed. There was
an alliance with the Vatican Bank during World
War II itself with our Department of War and
with organized crime outfits, at least according
to the evidence that I find persuasive in this
book and that appears to be validated by Italian
court documents in the 1990s when all of this
was litigated. Incidentally, that was when the
mob was really prosecuted for the first time.
But effectively, what happened was, is you had
strange bedfellows. You had the United States
who wanted to get rid of Mussolini. You had the
Vatican who wanted to get rid of Mussolini. And
you had organized crime who wanted to get rid
of Mussolini. And because organized crime is
very deep in the logistics and unions, they control
the ports, they control the streets, they control
safe houses. And if they have allies in a bank,
they are able to launder money effectively in
order to do black market type trade. And if you
have, for example, the support of the US government
to facilitate that, and there's protection offered
to those organized crime groups, what you end
up having is effectively state -sponsored a state
-sponsored mafia with an untouchable bank. And
at the time, because Larry Summers explains this
to Jeffrey Epstein in very simple terms, which
is, yeah, here you go. The most important change
in the Vatican may not be Pope Benedict's son
retirement, but change in leadership of the Institute
for Works of Religion, the Vatican's bank. Because
of the Vatican's status as a sovereign country,
it's exempt from transparency rules of not only
Italy, but of the European Union. This status
allows its elite clients to evade any scrutiny
in their money transfers. Last May, Vatican Bank
president was fired after Italian authorities
opened an investigation into a far flung bribery
scheme. And he goes through this. But what's
what's important here is the British. When we
think of offshore banking now, it's usually associated
with. Cayman Islands, Jersey, Man, Panama. Panama's
sort of a different story, but it's usually associated
with these kind of small island countries that
are formerly kind of their own territory, their
own sort of sovereign territory. You also see
this within the United States in Native American
reservations with these kind of autonomous zones
that can be shielded from certain kinds of You
know public disclosures that and a typical finance
institution that's going on with Native American
banks Well, yeah, this this was actually part
of is that connected to the casinos because they
have a lot of money from the casinos Yeah Super
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audio. Limited time offer. Yeah. Yeah. In fact,
if you watch the octopus murders, which I think
was HBO or Netflix or one of those great. I haven't
seen it, but it's awesome. It's fantastic. And,
you know, it goes through how this was used effectively
by the NSA during the promise software scandal
and the Iran Contra scandal of the 1980s, where
you had basically the NSA and then the U .S.
government. running money laundering effectively
through casinos on Native American sovereign
territory. But the fact is, in the 1940s, the
Vatican Bank was really the only game in town.
This traces back at the CIA level to a lawyer
named Paul Helliwell, who was kind of the architect
of money laundering for the CIA. And it didn't
even start, it really started with the... The
attempt to try to stop Mao in the 1930s and 1940s
There was there were the opium wars in the 1830s
where effectively the British Empire and You
know the East India Trading Company were making
ungodly amounts of money by Selling opium to
China. They would grow the opium on the Golden
Crescent India and then they would sell it to
China with the a huge customer base which would
bring in huge amounts of revenues to the British
crown And then there were two opium wars that
were fought in the 1830s and 50s I believe around
then or and the opium wars were China's attempt
to stop The import of opium into China because
it had a huge by that point Opium addiction problem
opium dens in China were a massive issue within
the country. They tried to ban it. And the British
Crown pried open the narcotics market through
a military conquest of parts of China. That's
how Britain got control of Hong Kong, which remains
a major marco narco trafficking site connected
to Jeffrey Epstein in very weird ways. I'll just
sidebar that. But Mao rose to power to, you know,
in the name of. His public campaign was about
rejecting the century of humiliation between
the 1830s and the 1930s to support Shanghai Shek
and the Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalists
against the Chinese communists. The War Department
couldn't get enough congressional allocations,
taxpayer money to support that. So they had to
find some way to finance the forces that are
now effectively Taiwan, because when they ultimately
lost, they fled to the island of Formosa, which
is now Taiwan. But they they financed that initially,
the War Department, the Chinese nationalists
through the narcotics trade, through the basically
the narcotics cultivated in the Golden Triangle.
And these operations continued in Cambodia and
Laos and were a big part of the JFK expansion
of covert operations. To this day in Fort Bragg,
the you know, the Special Operations Training
Center is called the JFK. This was a massive
expansion of small wars, covert action instead
of big military action. So it was mostly spearheaded
by CIA rather than DOD or Department of War.
But what happened was, is Paul Halliwell, in
order to be able to traffic illegal narcotics,
created a bunch of these CIA banking structures.
One's called Castle Bank and Trust in the Cayman
Islands. Another one is Nugent Hand in Australia.
And when you have that, you know, friendly bank
that's protected, then you can move drugs. This
is this overworld, underworld alliance between
intelligence and organized crime, because basically
every intelligence operation is a, I don't want
to say every, but at the operational level, it's
a crime. It's an act of sabotage. It's an act
of subversion. It's an act of obstruction. It's
an act of illegal surveillance. So in order to
do a illegal crime, you don't want to do it yourself
because then your fingerprints are on the gun.
But if you know people who do illegal crimes
for a living in an organized way and have experience
in doing it, that allows you to be a very useful
extension. And it gets justified in the name
of national security. The illegal narcotics trade
set up by Paul Halliwell, who would go on to
be the main lawyer for Disney and set up Disney
World in Orlando. You can look all this up. You
can pull up Paul Halliwell's Wikipedia or you
can look at the history of Disney or you can
pull up Castle Bank and Trust. You can put any
one of these up on screen. This is all fully
declassified. And so they then took that model
to South America and Latin America and the Caribbean
during Operation Condor, Operation Mongoose,
and this is part of what gave rise to the Iran
Contra that spawned Jeffrey Epstein, which was
the CIA got busted running the same thing it
did in 1940s China, which was a drugs for cash
for guns operation. You can't get enough money
in USAID. In the 1940s, USAID didn't even exist.
You you can't get enough money from us taxpayer
dollars You can't get enough money from private
donors who will draft off of the regime change
for their own profit So how do you get how do
you get your resistance rebels enough money?
It's that usually comes down to black market
trade whether that's diamonds in Africa whether
that's illegal mining activities in South America
or whether that's narcotics and It's the best
things to use for this kind of covert financing
are small fungible physical Materials that can
be converted into large sums of cash You know,
for example like a truck full of cocaine can
fund an army you know a truck full of copper
can't and So you had this state -sanctioned drug
trade this state -sanctioned illegal Weapons
logistics apparatus and the state -sanctioned
money laundering apparatus that started in the
1940s and was utilized throughout the entirety
of the Cold War the on the mafia side in the
night Operation gladia was this stay -behind
network is what they what they said basically
these were right -wing groups many or some of
which were kind of Nazi adjacent who hated communism.
And so even though we fought against the Nazis
in Mussolini and Hitler in World War II, there
was a utility to preserving a certain homegrown
domestic network that really hated communism
to assist us on the ground in the war against
communism. And what you saw was in Operation
Gladio, this was a NATO wide covert network alliance
of networks, a network of networks that in basically
every one of the NATO countries, there was a
cell or a number of cluster cells that were set
up in order to covertly influence the domestic
politics of the country. And if you look at the
members of these cluster cells, there's some
of them. Like Silvio Berlusconi was a part of
the so -called P2 Lounge that came up in the
Operation Gladiophiles when the Italian government
basically put all this on trial in the 1990s.
And that structure is still used by intelligence
today. If you go to my X feed and you look up,
for example, Ann Applebaum and the thread that
I did on the Integrity Initiative, if you just
put... Integrity initiative and I can I can show
you what these cluster cells look like And it's
it's a it's fascinating to look at the organizational
structure of it but I guess what I'm what I'm
getting to here is with With the mob and the
Vatican at the at that time That was the only
game in town for offshore banking if you wanted
to have a bank that had no oversight whatsoever
when the British lost the Suez Canal in 1957
and basically had to give up their empire, this
is during decolonialization, the British Empire
transitioned from a physical empire to a financial
empire and moved heavily into offshore banking.
That's how you got these kind of, you know, BVI,
British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, you know,
Jersey, man, all these kind of British offshore
banking hubs. And with London as the capital
of international finance, The British Empire
was effectively able to maintain a comparable
level of imperial vassal state control without
having physical troops or physical territorial
control. And so the Vatican Bank has lost a lot
of its rank, I would say, in the international
finance system since the 1940s because the market's
so saturated now with offshore banking hubs.
But that explains what's happening in this Larry
Summers. Jeffrey Epstein exchange One of the
weirder things about these files is there's some
stuff in there that you go, okay One thing that
we know happens is when something is true a bunch
of stuff gets attached to it that's both not
true and also preposterous that allows you to
sort of Dismiss all of it together. There's a
lot of people thought about that with pizza gate
and there's some stuff that I saw online that
was like George W. Bush was like involved in
ritual sacrifice or things along those lines,
like killing babies and eating people and wild
shit. What do you think that stuff is? Do you
think it really occurs? What I'll say is this
is a bad week to be a total pizza gate denialist.
You would feel a lot more comfortable about it
a week ago than you would this week. I don't
particularly focus or I don't wanna say care.
My knowledge set on it is a lot more limited
on it because I don't think it's a central crux
of political influence. I don't know if it's
kind of almost a inside joke in a certain way.
Jeffrey Epstein himself in these emails is unbelievably
trolly. He'll say things that are the kind of
shitposts you say to a buddy or your brother
or something that you don't mean. You're talking
around cheek. But if you were a cynical out to
get you person who somehow obtained that text
message. You'd say, oh, look, he said it. And
so so there's a lot of that going on. But the
fact is, is I have seen some I've seen a lot
of images shared around the time period of when
Pizzagate was popping off in 2016 that all I'll
say is it doesn't it doesn't look good or easily
explainable at the same time. A lot of those
screenshots I have not, for most of these, for
the things I've posted about or that I'm talking
about here, I've gone to the Justice Department
file, I've looked at the file number, I've confirmed
whether or not the screenshot is actually what
it is. For those I have not yet, but I would
not, I wouldn't feel totally confident saying
there's no there there. But that's about as far
as I can go on that. When you say images, what
are you talking about? Well, there's a lot of,
you know, if you look up pizza, for example,
it's just as a keyword search, you'll see or
cheese or something. It looks like in the DOJ
database for these new files, you'll see a lot
of things of people talking about pizza in a
way that. It seems like a code. Kind of. impossible
to do to a pizza. It's about, you know what I
mean? But I don't, to me there's so much real
world provable things in there and also so many
kind of more real world implications of allegations
that are made in the files that kind of, you
know, should be explained. Like a common mistake
that I see going around social media this week
is people it kind of gets the reason that the
FBI and The president was arguing that these
files shouldn't be released in the first place
which is that people would take things out of
context and Wildly, you know and think things
are true that are not because they're baseless
allegations made by you know Some anonymous tipster
and but but because it's in an FBI file People
will think it's true. Now. I don't think that's
a reason not to release these I'm extremely glad
these were released What I'm saying is is I've
seen that phenomenon, you know run away and and
some of this I know is kind of baseless in terms
of the factual evidence because some of the people
One of the confidential human sources for example
that is cited. You know the first day of the
drop there was this kind of bombshell claim in
the, I think this was probably the most viral
post the first day of the DOJ release, which
was a confidential human source, CHS, it means
FBI informant, who the FBI internal memo describes
how this confidential human source reported that
Alan Dershowitz was a Mossad agent and after
every meeting he, goes back and tells his FB,
his Mossad handlers, you know, what what they
talked about. And you go, oh, my God, it's an
FBI confidential human source. The FBI wouldn't,
you know, pay an informant unless they found
them credible for this sort of thing. On the
very next page of the files, it says President
Trump. I'm paraphrasing. You can pull this up
if you if you want. President Trump is controlled
by the government of Israel and they have. I
forget if he says they have blackmail or something
to this effect. Now, I don't know whether either
of those things are true or not. I don't know
what, you know, any more than anybody else who's
done research on this. Certainly there's a lot
of overlap between Dershowitz and the Israeli
government and high level Israeli officials.
So in that sense, if that were to be reported,
I don't know that it would be the... who knows
about whether that's true or not, but it plays
into a kind of confirmation bias that a lot of
people have. And so when you see that in an FBI
file, the first thing your instinct is, if that's
your journalism beat, is to write all about it
and get millions of views. And same thing, there's
a MAGA civil war right now that's happening over
issues around Israel. You say, oh my God, it's
been proven, the FBI knows that, well, Ken Silva
who's a journalist shortly after that published
a Tweet containing a file that had much less
engagement where he said actually I actually
have a copy of this document and again, I'm paraphrasing
here Where it matches that document file number?
It's got the same text and it looks like the
that confidential human source is Chuck Johnson
now I saw that and I went Oh my God, because
one morning I woke up to a text from that very
person saying, this is about two years ago, I'd
never met him, never talked to him, don't have
his number. Somehow he got mine and messaged
me on signal to turn myself in because I'm going
to prison. He then proceeded to look up my ex
-wife. and make allegations that I was a Mossad
agent because she was a prostitute from a foreign
country and involved in all these, you know,
Mossad, black ops type things. Now he didn't
even get the name right. He found a different
person with a similar spelling that, you know,
was, I guess, busted for prostitution or something.
and then makes these giant claims on social media
that, you know, I had been like married to a
foreign spy prostitute or something. And then
he goes on to message someone he thinks is my
donor and threaten them to cut off funds because
if he doesn't, then I've made the intelligence
community very angry and they have deputized
him. to tell the person he thought was my donor
that the intelligence services of the United
States of America will crush the businesses of
someone he thought was my donor if he doesn't
cut off the funds he thought that person was
giving to me, okay? This is that confidential
human source, or at least according to the reporting
of Ken Silva. The level of things that are untrue
about that combined with the fact that this very
person is going around saying that he's not just
an FBI informant, but that he actually can direct
the intelligence agencies of the United States
to crush someone's private practice if they don't
change their discretionary donations to someone.
Like, that's the person you're saying That person's,
you know, comments to a FBI officer or, you know,
task force prove these claims about Dershowitz
and Trump. I mean, that's that's ridiculous.
I know firsthand that there's zero credibility
to those claims. Now, they may be true or not.
But the fact is, is. You know, there's there's
a lot of context. to all of these. What is just
because it's said in an FBI file does not make
it true. We learned that lesson in Russiagate.
We learned that lesson with the Steele dossier.
But I think that same sort of caution and prudence
should be applied with these. And I think ultimately
the truth wins out on these things. It just takes
longer than you might want to. tangled. You know,
the whole thing is just, I think everybody who
looks at it realizes this is a rabbit hole that
just goes to the center of the earth. And there's
so many people involved in that. Here's the big
question that people ask. If there was a Jeffrey
Epstein, and it seems like all these things he
was involved in, is there a Jeffrey Epstein right
now that we don't know about? There's a million
of them. A million of them. I mean, this is why
I I find this, this is not the core of what I
focus on, but I find it a really interesting
field of study because it helps understand so
many other U .S. government institutions and
the relationship between government and private
business. Jeffrey Epstein is part of a class
of what are effectively professional fixers.
This is a kind of class of professional who sits
not really within a particular government or
private sector institution, but in the kind of
sticky layer between them that connects them
all. And I would say that, for example, people
like Mark Rich, Bruce Rappaport, and I can go
through all these figures and who they are, Robert
Mayhew and these types, are Just good case studies
in how the intelligence world the business community
You know uses out look let's take an example
of Bruce Rappaport and this is a You can pull
up on screen if if you want. There's a great
article. I think it's called I Think it's from
1988 or 1991. It's called the intro intrigue
in high places oil pipeline, Iraq, and then just
Bruce Rappaport. It's R -A -P -P. Yeah, here
you go. A pipeline deal intrigue in high places.
And I'll describe what happens here in a second.
In fact, there's a great YouTube video on this
as well. If you look up just on YouTube, Bruce
Rappaport, 1988, there's a great kind of couple
minute summary of all this. But effectively what
happened was And let me start this by just, Jeffrey
Epstein got to Bear Stearns in 1966, I'm sorry,
1976, and then worked there until 1980. Sorry,
just because you have it on screen. Maybe I'll
go through this first and then I'll do the, because
the Jeffrey Epstein connections. So what happened
here was, you had the Iran -Iraq War from 1980
to 1988. And Henry Kissinger had a really great,
quote about this, because he asked, what is the
US government strategy on this? Because it's
very convoluted. And why are we giving weapons
to Iran when the Iranian revolution just happened
in 1979 that overthrew what was a US government
-friendly government that was partially installed
by the CIA in 1953? we've now declared an international
arms embargo on them. We're basically at war
with the Ayatollahs. Why are we giving them weapons
and helping them defeat Iraq? And the issue was
we were also in a kind of war over regional hegemony
and oil with Iraq. And so Henry Kissinger's quote
was, my only wish is that both sides would lose,
could lose. And so what happened was is because
we didn't want Iraq to take over Iran and become
effectively bigger than Saudi Arabia in the region,
we were we were funding the and giving weapons
to Iran to try to fend off the much bigger Iraqi
army. And then at a certain point in this, we
began to back Iraq. We went back and forth supporting
Iran, Iraq. And so Iraq, because of the embargoes
on it, wanted to build a pipeline to get its
oil out, and it was going to pass through Jordan,
and it was going to abut against the border of
Israel. And a major CIA contractor and CIA -connected
private business called Bechtel, highly, highly
influential company, There's been many, many,
many books written on Bechtel some of that. And
Bechtel is alive and well today. If there was
a saga, for example, around the Stanford Air
Net Observatory, if around the censorship industrial
complex, when I when I visited the Stanford Air
Net Observatory and I went to the courtyard courtyard
is sponsored by Bechtel. It's I think it's called
the Bechtel courtyard. But but what happened
was is the. Bechtel was. promised by Iraq a billion
dollar contract in 1980s money for constructing
this pipeline. And the Central Intelligence Agency
and the White House National Security Council,
both for geostrategic reasons, wanted this pipeline
built. The problem was they were afraid the Israeli
government was going to sabotage the pipeline
because Iraq was very hostile to Israel. And
there was a lot of tension between the Iraqi
government and the Israeli government. And they
were afraid that if Bechtel got this contract
and built this pipeline, that Israel would, these
pipelines are very fragile. And because it passes
close to it, it's very possible that that would
happen and it would destroy both the CIA's goal
and the private profiteer Bechtel's goal. So
how do you solve that problem? What the CIA did
is what the National Security Council, which
is the interagency that the CIA reports do, did
is they engaged a private fixer named Bruce Rappaport,
who was a Swiss billionaire with close ties to
the Israeli government, to backchannel with the
Israeli government some sort of secret agreement
that would guarantee that they would not sabotage
the pipeline. And because the attorney general
of the United States, again, think about this
as well. As I'm saying this, think about Jeffrey
Epstein and think about the character of Bill
Barr, for example, who started his career for
seven years at the CIA, was highly involved in
the CIA's Iran -Contra and then was attorney
general both in the 1990s during the Epstein
connected BCCI scandal and the when Jeffrey Epstein
killed himself or whatever happened to him. So
what happens is Bruce Rappaport does indeed use
his contacts with the Israeli government to strike
an agreement that then would allow the project
to be greenlit, but it triggers a special prosecutor's
investigation of the attorney general himself,
Ed Meese, because one of his friends was alleged
to be in on the deal. So they they argued that
effectively there were that they that through
Bruce Rappaport the Attorney General was striking
a secret agreement with Israel to profit himself
a massive conflict of interest and What what
ended up happening is Bruce Rappaport Rappaport
step forward and said no no no it wasn't to profit
the the terms weren't to profit the friend It
was the the terms we secretly reached with Israel's
that they were going to get like a 30 % cut on
the revenue of the pipeline and that's what secured
the buy -in but the fact is is Bruce Rappaport
was not This now the other part of this is that
the National Security Council Told the basically
the overseas development arm of the US government
formal US government agency to to put American
taxpayer funds to help subsidize the pipeline,
the Bechtel pipeline. And that government agency
did not want to put up something like $400 million
of taxpayer funds on it because they thought
Bruce Rappaport was a very shady Epstein -like
figure who had all sorts of sorted details about
his own past. So that government agency queried
the CIA for all records about Bruce Rappaport.
And the CIA gave them a limited hangout. They
said, oh, you know, we only have a few documents
that are responsive to it and no red flags. As
it turned out, what the special prosecutor compelled
from the CIA is that they had a whole dirty dossier
on Bruce Rappaport. And if they had given that
to the US government agency, There couldn't have
been support for the pipeline. Now, after all
the scandal, the pipeline ended up not being
built. But the point is, here you have the same
type of person as Jeffrey Epstein, the same regions
and countries that are involved in a significant
part of the Epstein saga. You have the same structure
of the intelligence community, private businesses,
and backchannel deals with government officials.
But because there was no 201 file on Bruce Rappaport,
he was not formerly a CIA asset. He was he was,
you know, what's called a liaison, a contact,
a facilitator, a friend of the station doesn't
work for the CIA. He's got his own hedge fund.
He's got his own, you know, basically finance.
You know, he'll invest in commodities or foreign
exchange or private portfolio companies. But
sometimes he'll work with the CIA. Sometimes
he won't. Depends on whether it's good for him.
And in this case, he thought it was good for
him to take this. Who knows what cut he himself
got on it. But the fact is is Here you have the
same type of opera. You have every layer of this
from the Justice Department to the CIA to the
private financiers to the private companies to
real world geopolitical action. And this appears
in my view of it to be exactly the model that
Jeffrey Epstein himself replicated and was on
parallel track with for his whole career. and
I can get into that, but does that make sense
in terms of like, this type of figure exists
basically in every country, in every industry,
and they're not all as prominent as Epstein,
but I would argue people like Mark Rich and at
the time Bruce Rappaport kind of were. They don't
all have these... Child sex trafficking and that's
the thing type things this the thing is like
what he was connected with It makes me wonder
like if he didn't have that Sick thing where
he liked underage girls like if he'd never gotten
arrested what which was what? 2008 or something,
but when did he initially get arrested? 2006
but 2006 but he was in the plea deal was 2008
so if that hadn't happened like if you just got
a guy who's getting of age prostitutes. We probably
never hear about this. Yeah. And this episode
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of a website or domain. That's crazy and you
can imagine very easily Why? Because Epstein
was involved in fraudulent financial activities
his entire career He was under SEC investigation
at Bear Stearns in 1980 when he was Involved
in a deal. I think was st. Joe's mineral company,
which is Owned by Seagram's which is you know
owned by the Brompton family He got in trouble
with the SEC at that time. As soon as he got
in trouble, he left Bear Stearns and went out
on his own, but then worked effectively at Bear
Stearns off the book for the next decade, according
to his own testimony. He had a continuous relationship
with Bear Stearns for, I think he said 31 years.
It was basically from the moment, from the 1970s,
1976 until 2007, 2008 when Bear Stearns collapsed.
while Jeffrey Epstein was in jail. But then Jeffrey
Epstein, it appears to me almost impossible that
Jeffrey Epstein was not working on BCCI pipeline
deals while he was at Bear Stearns. Bear Stearns
was one of the three biggest clearinghouses for
BCCI transactions. BCCI is the Bank of Credit
and Commerce International. Sometimes people
call it the Bank of Crooks and Criminals International.
It's an incredible saga of CIA banking gone wrong.
It's a bank that was started in Pakistan in 1972
and then grew to be the CIA's main way to covertly
back the Mujahideen against the Russians. during
the Cold War. So we backed Osama bin Laden, the
CIA. We backed the Islamic Mujahideen, the radicals
who became al -Qaeda and ISIS with billions of
dollars of CIA and MI6 and Israeli and Saudi
facilitated, you know, co -support and financial
funds in order to do a Cold War operation, just
like we talked about with strange bedfellows,
backing right -wing organized crime to stop left
-wing communism. We did the same thing in Afghanistan
through the Pakistan -Afghanistan border to covertly
run guns to the Mujahideen. In fact, there's
a great YouTube video that I always like to play
so that you can see it for yourself. It's really
short. If you can look up 1979, it's a big new
Brzezinski dropping out of a helicopter to tell
the Mujahideen that both God and the United States
government is on their side. And the reason this
clip I always think is so fun to play is because
this was the very moment in 1979 that Jeffrey
Epstein appears to have been involved in the
BCCI financing of this very operation. So if
you turn the volume up and you start at the beginning.
U .S. National Security Advisor Brzezinski flew
to Pakistan to set about rallying resistance.
He wanted to arm the Mujahideen without revealing
America's role. On the Afghan border near the
Khyber Pass, he urged the soldiers of God to
redouble their efforts. of their deep belief
in God and we are confident that their struggle
will succeed. That land over there is yours.
You'll go back to it one day because your fight
will prevail and you'll have your homes and your
mosques back again because your cause is right
and God is on your side. Now that is That is
the National Security Advisor of the United States
of America. The National Security Advisor is
the highest post in the cabinet. It is the person
the president talks to every day. All intelligence,
military, and statecraft goes through the National
Security Advisor. That is the numero uno. And
he personally, in 1979, this didn't come out
until years later, but we were covertly doing
this. So to do a covert operation, and this is
why I focus on the money side of Epstein from
the 1970s to present, because the money in any
covert operation is the most essential part.
It's the only thing that is irreplaceable and
that if you don't have it, everything goes away.
You lose one person, find another one. You know,
you lose one, you know, logistics hub can create
another one with money. You lose money. You lose
everything. You lose your ability to pay your
informants. You lose your ability to bribe government
officials. You lose your ability to win the support
of local institutions. We lost Vietnam. Not really
so much because we lost, you know, at the kinetic
war level, but because we lost the ability to
fund it because it got defunded. So we literally
couldn't do it anymore. And. There's another
great clip just to show how sophisticated CIA
money laundering was even by the 1960s. Sorry,
I'll stop doing this after, you know, running
around clip to clip after this or I'll chill
on it. But if you go to my X -Count, you can
also find this on YouTube. There's a great, I
believe it was CBS in the 1960s. It's called
In the Pay. I think it's called In the Pay of
the CIA. But if you type in CIA money laundering,
you'll see this great clip about how sophisticated
CIA money laundering was already by the 1950s
and 60s. Because everything the CIA does has
to be laundered. It's a spy agency. If it writes
a check, if it doesn't conceal the origins of
the money, gigs up so everything that is CIA
has to move through some sort of money laundering
mechanism well, you know the kind of I guess
Borrow a phrase from from the president somebody's
doing the money laundering You need a you need
outside contacts who do not work at the agency
or necessarily for the agency to facilitate that
money laundering. And that was done through,
for example, the Pakistanis with BCCI, as well
as contacts in London. That is what I believe
Jeffrey Epstein was doing his entire career after
that, from Towers Financial to his tenure with
Leslie Wexner to kind of the way I think that
he helped model the Clinton Foundation itself
with the Clintons in the early 2000s. And his
expertise in that, I think, is what made him
useful. I really don't know, well, it's more
the connections of, I guess, donors and billionaires
around him that made him the most useful. But
the fact is, he specialized. When he went out
on his own, formerly he leaves Bear Stearns in
1981 and starts a one -man group called Intercontinental
Assets Group out of his New York City apartment.
He's not even 30 years old. Right away he gets
big -level clients like Adnan Khashoggi who is
the at the time was alleged to be the world's
richest man he was the Saudi arms dealer and
to give an impression of how significant this
figure was in the weapons trade he was he He
earned more in commissions from Lockheed Martin
Boeing And I think one of the other big military
contractors then every other commission's agent
in the entire world combined That's why you know
the rumors that he was the world's richest man
He in fact we actually had legislation passed
because of how influential he was. He was the
one who in 1983 Flew to the National Security
Council to the White House to Orchestrate the
Iran -Contra affair. He was the Saudi middleman
that was part of this operation where the United
States used the Saudi middleman Adnan Khashoggi
to run guns to Israeli contacts to smuggle into
Iran to fight off the Iraqis. I know it's a bit
of a long sequence, but effectively you can think
of it as the United States and Israel, Saudi
Arabia in the middle. Now, Adnan Khashoggi was
one of the major clients of the CIA's BCCI bank.
And he was the host of the CIA's offshore operation
that was created in 1976 called the Safari Club.
In 1975, 1976, when the CIA started getting handcuffs
put on it with the church committee hearings,
Jeffrey Epstein starts his career at Bear Stearns
in 1976. The very moment of the biggest shakeup
of the CIA and CIA history. At that moment, the
church committee hearings were ongoing and the
public was seeing, you know, Colby and Angleton
holding up a heart attack gun, you know, how
the CIA can kill someone and make it look like
they died organically of a heart attack. Operation
Chaos had just broke about the CIA funding student
groups on American college campuses. COINTEL
broke. MK ultra broke it was one house of horrors
after another on everybody's TV that only had
three news stations and So Democrats were completely
fired up about getting rid of the CIA or putting
massive handcuffs on it Which is which is what
they did. They created effectively. What's now
this Senate and House Intelligence Committee
so there's oversight of the CIA by the the people's
representatives the The first year Carter was
in office in 1977 went through the what was called
the Halloween massacre fired 30 % of all CIA
operations personnel they massively cut funding
and So in response to this you had a set of stakeholders
who wanted that CIA dirty work to still be doable
But they didn't have the legal authorization
to run it out of the CIA So what they did is
they took the same group of international partners
that they had been that the CIA had been working
with that includes Saudi Arabia Israel the UK
France at the time Iran because this was before
the 1979 Iranian Revolution they were all part
of this thing called the Safari Club which got
its name from the Mount Safari it was basically
a resort club in Kenya, which was the main hub
Just like Colombia, for example, is kind of the
main was the main US government hub for logistics
it was kind of a foothold for our ability to
do work in Venezuela or Guatemala or Nicaragua
or Brazil in Africa Kenya was our main stronghold
and so but I like a show you ran that this was
basically a seven eight country joint covert
operations intelligence network and it was informal,
it wasn't technically the CIA, and it was set
up, you can pull the Wikipedia for this actually,
just so you don't need to take my word for it,
like literally the sanitized Wikipedia will tell
you everything that I'm saying here, and it ended
up, that network ended up becoming one of the
main, yeah, so if you start at the top. You'll
see that there it is on the right this far club.
It was a covert alliance of intelligence services
formed in 1976 that ran clandestine operations
in Africa now what they're leaving out here is
that it was also Asia played a huge role in Pakistan
and Afghanistan and the like but these were all
these different countries Attempt to offset the
restrictions that the Democrats had put on the
CIA when Reagan gets back to power in 1981 You
still have these handcuffs on the on the CIA.
You still have the Democrats controlling the
House of Representatives the Democrats Did you
know so there was an international arms embargo?
First of all in 1979 the Iranian Revolution happens
and it's blamed on the CIA being cut back the
CIA helped install the Shah in 1953 They argued
that if Jimmy Carter hadn't destroyed the CIA
We would still have Iran as a friendly country
We could have stopped this. We could have nipped
it in the bud. We could have had people on the
ground. It's Jimmy Carter's fault that he cut
the CIA that we're in this disaster with the
world's third largest reserve of oil and gas
and this hugely geostrategic country now being
an enemy of America rather than a friend. So
an international arms embargo was put on Iran,
but then Iraq threatened to invade it. And we
didn't want Iraq to take it over. So we had to
get we had to do something illegal if we wanted
to help Iran. And it was against international
law to give them weapons. But if we didn't give
them weapons, it was perceived massive geostrategic
geopolitical earthquake that we'd lived with
for centuries. So you had to do one illegal action
with with the gun running. And then there was
a inner party dispute. The Democrats. At that
time, the majority did not want to do intervention
in Nicaragua. There was an imparty power called
the Sandinista government, and there was a rebel
faction called the Contras, and Republican donors
and stakeholders had interests in Nicaragua and
wanted to help the Contras overthrow the Sandinista
government. but there was a party dispute. Democrat
donors didn't profit from that and they, at the
time, had a fairly robust anti -imperialism kind
of mindset and were sick of CIA regime change
by the early 1980s after everything that was
disclosed in just the previous years. So Republicans
wanted to overthrow the Nicaraguan governments.
Democrats didn't. Democrats had a House majority
and they passed something called the Bowlin Amendment,
which forbade any U .S. government funds from
going to support the Contras. So this put the
Republicans in a pickle. By the way, this is
what's happening kind of today around Ukraine.
If you flip the parties, 100 % of Democrats vote
for Ukraine funding. The Republican Party is
split about it. This is the inverse of that was
happening in the early 1980s. 100 % of Republicans
wanted to fund the Contras against what they
called the Soviet aligned Sandinistas. And the
Democrats were split. But they successfully passed
this bowling amendment. So the CIA was in a pickle.
How do you run guns to Iran when it's against
international law? And how do you fund the Contras
when it's illegal to spend U .S. government money
to fund them? And so what they came up with is
effectively the structure. I think it's the most
useful structure for understanding. American
statecraft and intelligence activity to this
day What what they came up with is what they
called a structure called the enterprise which
the CIA director Bill Casey referred to as a
private self -sustained off -the -shelf Standalone
entity that did not exist within the US government,
but it's but was instead it comprised The money
came from outside fixers who would then effectively
channel donor money and black market trade to
fund the Contras So the money didn't come from
US taxpayers. It didn't come from USAID It didn't
come from an allocation from the US Department
of War or foreign assistance from the Department
of State As it turned out the money came from
you know cocaine and and a couple of other things
but You know that this was the you know, the
famous fruit of Ricky Ross. Yeah, Gary Webb,
you know John Kerry and The this was the soup
that Jeffrey Epstein was was coming up in and
you know funny story related to this is that
the the main airline used to transport the drugs
and guns in the drugs -for -cash -for -guns operation
was a CIA proprietary airline called Southern
Air Transport. Southern Air Transport was the
proprietary CIA airline, meaning it was owned
and operated exclusively by the Central Intelligence
Agency. And it was the airliner that all these
aircraft moved through. Iran Contra was basically
the early 1980s up until like the mid late 1980s
in 19 it was it was based in Miami in 1994 Southern
Air Transport the CIA proprietary airline which
in the intervening time was spun out to not be
owned by the CIA but rather to be owned by someone
who had worked for the CIA at the time it was
owned by the CIA so You know pretty thin layer
there, but it moved from Miami to Columbus, Ohio
Primarily to service the limited I have a video
on this Look over at Jamie because he's obsessed.
Yeah, and if I obsessed with Patel Yeah, probably
told you about this five years ago. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Well, there's a great article. I think
spook air and You know on this but How many roads
lead back to Ohio? Most. Most, if not all. What
is this connection with Ohio? Well, Ohio was,
you know, if you remember, kind of the origins
of organized crime in the United States really
goes back to the Prohibition era when you had
this Midwestern mafia syndicate. around Cincinnati
and then it moved into Dayton and Columbus and
adjacent to Chicago and this whole sort of hub
around prohibition and then prohibition was 1920
to 1933 when prohibition ended all these networks
went from black market alcohol to black market
drugs because it was no longer black market they
no longer had a business smuggling alcohol so
they they moved into the narcotics space Which
ones which which narcotics well it was Primarily
opium in the 1930s. This was part of opium Well,
yeah, if you because in the 1930s was when you
had This you know as we discussed the Department
of War's alliance with Chang Hsieh and the and
the Kuomintang the Chinese nationalists the the
supply for You know The supply for Heroin for
example or you know opium it comes from Asia
comes from the Golden Crescent the Golden Triangle
and the way this logistics chain moved was our
CIA War Department backed rebel groups in Asia
they sat territorially on the Golden Triangle
They would cultivate the opium they would Basically
fly it out on military aircraft. It went to Europe
for processing in You know France that was one
of the main Is this kind of French connection
saga which again Jeffrey Epstein is weirdly connected
to and I can Tell you about that if you're interested
and then it would go to the basically Italian
mafia folks For the trans shipment and you had
Italian mafia controlled docks and ports in the
United States and New York and New Jersey. And
you had, you know, CIA protected Italian mafia
groups in southern Italy, which at the time were
national security protected because they were
our allies against the communists. And so you
had this this drug trade to support foreign policy
imperatives. And you can do that. You can run
that exercise with pretty much every drug on
planet Earth at this point. And it makes it very
difficult to stop the drug trade because by stopping
the drug trade you are You're running up against
something that your own government considers
Perhaps unfortunate but necessary logistics hub.
Do you think that's happening right now with
Mexico? Yeah Whoa Well, I mean think about this
fast and furious Yeah, wasn't that long ago the
fast and furious story is fucking bananas Tell
it to people that don't know because just the
idea that they proposed this and Implemented
it is so fucking crazy. Yeah Well, so this was
a scandal during the Obama administration Eric
Holder was the attorney general the United States
He had to step down because he was held in contempt
of Congress for jumping on the grenade and not
turning over the fast and furious files Earth
to Congress, note to Congress, who wants to be
a hero, by the way? You can do the same thing
with the Epstein bill with the Fast and Furious
files. I think everybody in this war on drugs
that we're so gung -ho about, we just captured
the president of Venezuela over drugs, it would
be awfully nice if you compelled the Justice
Department and FBI to turn over the Justice Department
and FBI run Fast and Furious files. But what
happened was is and I believe this had inner
agency approval Meaning the the White House signed
off on it the Central Intelligence Agency signed
off on it the Department of Defense Signed off
on it the State Department signed off on it the
FBI and ATF signed off on it This was a gun running
operation to send guns to the Sinaloa cartel
to to have them be able to successfully win a
narco drug war against the Los Zetas cartel.
The Los Zetas cartel was pilfering oil pipelines.
Remember, Mexico, the oil wealth of the United
States is vastly disproportionately concentrated
in Texas. In West Texas and Southern Texas, where
it shares oil fields with Mexico, effectively,
those oil fields go into Mexico is replete with
oil. And there are many partnerships between
United States oil companies and the Mexican government.
Pemex and and all the different, you know kind
of private private lines and this is a big point
of geopolitical contention But the fact is is
one of the things that organized crime groups
do in order to get money for their own syndicate
Because they've got effectively military control
of a territory is if a pipeline Runs through
that territory. They can simply cut open the
pipeline and steal the oil This is for example
what you know was happening with our CIA backed
rebel groups in Syria. We're taking the oil.
I mean, we would literally, you know, our spunky
moderate rebels would, you know, literally cut
open Syrian pipelines and take the oil. And this
was one of the ways to support it. You know,
you can support it with drugs. You can support
it with black market oil. And by the way, while
I'm on the topic. If you if you pull up and I
have this on my my ex if you type in Institute
Institute for peace or just type in Institute
peace drugs The the the US government the US
Institute for peace Told the Taliban not to shut
down the drug trade after they took power in
2022 They said it would have a devastating you
know, negative impact on the, you know, the local
economy if they didn't keep growing. What was
then, you know, 90, 95 percent of the. Well,
yeah, if you well, I think click the next image.
Wait, next image. Yeah, here you go. So this
is this is a. You know we give the US Institute
of Peace at the time we gave them fifty five
million dollars a year the US Institute of Peace
was created by Act of Congress in 1984. This
headline is wild. The Taliban successful opium
ban is bad for Afghans and the world. Yes. Right.
Right. So now remember just about you know the
Taliban had just taken back power. That happened
in the you know in the early Biden administration
the Taliban if folks recall Cut so we the CIA
was help and and the US military as well as their
allies and with regional allies We're cultivating
the opium on the Golden Crescent For a noble
cause to win the Cold War against the evil Soviets
This was a big part of the funding for the Mujahideen.
And this was one of the big scandals that ended
up enveloping BCCI, the CIA's bank, because it
was the way, because it was non -compliant with
any banking regulations, it all moved offshore.
The drug money, the drug logistics chain that
the CIA built for the Mujahideen then moved through
the. Drugs money laundering chain at the CIA
bank and this apparatus had scaled for 20 years
by the by the late 1990s when the Taliban like
the Chinese wanted to shut it down when the Taliban
took power in the 1990s and They did that they
cut the OPM down to effectively zero in 1999
and this is all open source into and then you
know, we invade Afghanistan and you know, 2001,
2003, it becomes a U .S. military occupied zone
and it goes from 0 % of the world's heroin to
95 % of the world's heroin, all under U .S. military
occupation. In fact, we installed their dictator,
you know, whose brother was the main drug kingpin
of the whole country. And some of this move through
Some of this move through the Cold War CIA backed
Turkish Grey Wolves outfit and there's a funny
quote I think in the Michael Hastings article
on Stanley McChrystal where Stanley McChrystal's
team refers to Hamid Karzai's funny little hat
that he wore. Hamid Karzai was the CIA installed
strongman. after we took over Afghanistan. He
referred to his hat as the gray wolf's vagina.
I mean, basically saying like this is the drug
logistics orifice. But leaving that aside, what
I'm getting to is you have this banking network.
You have all these logistics chains. Jeffrey
Epstein, his come up is made through this whole
network. It turns out that Bear Stearns opened
a trading desk to clear BCCI transactions in
1978. Jeffrey Epstein's mentor, the person who
actually recruited him to apply to Bear Stearns,
was a guy named Ace Greenberg. Ace Greenberg
then was a senior executive at the time, and
then I think in 1978 or... 79 he becomes CEO
so the head of Bear Stearns so Jeff and he sets
Jeffrey Epstein up With his daughter so Jeffrey
Epstein is a is a young kid people wonder how
did Jeffrey Epstein make partner at Bear Stearns
so fast Well, there's a couple explanations.
You know one is the guy who brought him into
the firm quickly became CEO thereafter and Jeffrey
Epstein was dating his daughter the New York
Times actually reported this about a month and
a half ago by getting the insider testimony of
a dozen people who worked at Bear Stearns at
the time. And so, you know, he's dating the boss's
daughter, but also Ace Greenberg is the CEO,
would have to approve all of these transactions.
And it looks like was involved in, you know,
these clearinghouse activities. What happened
was is Bear Stearns cleared about $13 billion
worth of BCCI transactions and it looks like
these transactions were involved in the very
same Adnan Khashoggi society and Doug lease who
was a British arms dealer that Jeffrey Epstein
was flying to London to meet with and working
with all those years. And they and be and Bear
Stearns was doing it through this entity called
Capcom which was what the the Senate. report
on the BCCI scandal referred to as the bank within
the bank of BCCI so kind of the inner sanctum
of now that Capcom was was owned by Kamal autumn
who was the head of He was the chief spy for
Saudi Arabia. So he was so Bear Stearns The New
York Times reports based on a dozen of these,
you know insider You know testimonies they got
like three of Epstein's bosses on the record
to talk about you know, what he was doing there
Amazingly, the New York Times does not mention
a single deal name in the entire 20 ,000 word
report. Why do you think that is? It might not
be news fit to print also they just I'll I can
be charitable and say they Might they just might
not know they might think that you know I don't
think that the New York Times has a pinky of
the specialization in Jeffrey Epstein Cinematic
universe knowledge that your random anonymous
egg account on X has so they might not know about
Bear Stearns Doing BCCI transactions. They might
not know what you know If you don't know the
material, you don't necessarily know what to
ask. That's me being charitable. Also, you know,
some of the witnesses may have said that they
don't want to talk about specific deal names
because that would tarnish, you know, the folks
involved in that deal for association with Jeffrey
Epstein. There could be a lot of reasons I'm
trying to be charitable here. But but the fact
is is. They all said Jeffrey Epstein moved up
so fast because he was dating the boss's daughter
and he was put on the biggest and most lucrative
deals very quickly within the firm and Given
the the incredible volume that Bear Stearns was
appears to have been moving through BCCI and
BCCI being you know, the hottest ticket in town
then in the late 1970s It was literally the main
vehicle for the US government to covertly launder
funds. Capcom, according to the Senate Intelligence
Report and the Justice Department investigations,
was the main vehicle for funding the Mujahideen.
50 % of those trades, and they laundered it illegally,
which requires a brokerage, you know, a clearinghouse
to prove it. You know, the way this is set up
is you have a bank, You've got a money launderer
and you've got a clearing house. The bank was
the CIA bank, BCCI. The money launderer was the
CIA's literal direct partner in this, the Saudis.
Capcom was run by the chief Saudi spymaster.
And then in 1982, Jeffrey Epstein obtained a
fake Saudi passport. Sorry, it was a fake Austrian
passport because that was a big... Loophole passport
during the Cold War for spies, but said his residence
was Saudi Arabia We didn't find this out until
2019 when his safe was raided but that exact
time Jeffrey Epstein has this fake Saudi passport
and It's it's being done to support the CIA backed
rebel group the Mujahideen in Afghanistan But
that requires a clearinghouse to clear those
Money laundering trades that were using these
mirrored commodities trades, which is this, you
know technique of basically, you know selling
to yourself to to make money look clean so that
it looks like You know profit and you know, it
looks like you You know won or lost it in a market
trade rather than through drug money And then
they were then sending that on you know to But
the fact is, is at the same time that that was
happening, Anand Khashoggi, who would become
Jeffrey Epstein's client in the 1980s when he
went on his own, was the one facilitating the
weapons, you have this drugs for cash for guns,
the person, so the bank that's moving the, that's
turning the drugs into clean cash that the head
of the, you know, The Saudi spy master is running
that part of the banking side. And then you've
got the Saudi Saudi arms dealer who is moving
it illegally into Iran, working hand in glove
with the CIA and the National Security Council
the whole time. You have a. You have a illegal
financial enterprise protected at the highest
level by the United States government, the US
intelligence services. And by proxy, the Justice
Department itself. Can you imagine the Justice
Department prosecuting it while that operation
was ongoing? Any defendant. You know, you asked
what are the great reveals in the JFK files.
And I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up the case
of Rolando Masfer. There's an incredible document
in the JFK files that Tulsi Gabbard released
last year. which is a CIA document that describes,
I think the quote is, massive damage if the Justice
Department pursues a criminal case against a
guy named Rolando Masfer. If you just type in
Rolando Masfer, JFK files 2025 release, or like
massive damage or something like that, you'll
see this. It's an unbelievably incredible document.
What it documents is that, There was a dispute
between the CIA and the State Department the
State Department sets foreign policy. The CIA
is not is supposed to serve covertly The the
State Department this the CIA is the junior seat
at the table. Nobody ever goes from being you
know Head of the State Department head of the
CIA. That's a that's a demotion the CIA is supposed
to be kind of the yeah, I use like the You know
sopranos reference you know, Silvio comes in
and shakes down the hairdresser shop or whatever
for the money it owes the family. If you are
that hairdresser, it's easy to think that Silvio
runs the mafia because he's the one who shows
up at your house, breaks your windows, breaks
your knuckles and takes your money. But Silvio
is not doing that because he runs it. He's doing
it because the person setting the policy of the
enterprise Tony is the boss of it. The way it's
supposed to work is the State Department sets
policy and the CIA does or organizes the plausibly
deniable dirty work to achieve it if that is
necessary to achieve that foreign policy. This
is why there was a lot of debate in 1948 about
whether the CIA should even take on this role.
This is this great 1948 George Kennan memo that
says maybe we should do have a office within
the State Department called the you know, Bureau
of Organized Political Warfare. And then two
months later, they decided the CIA would, you
know, would take that. But the fact is, is it's
basically a State Department function, but CIA
is supposed to defer to state. But what happened
was, is there was a factional dispute between
state and CIA over Cuba policy. The State Department
wanted, thought that the CIA -backed rebel groups
in Miami were being too aggressive. and too provocative,
too hot -headed, doing acts of terrorism and
sorts of things that look bad to the international
community. JFK was trying to rein them in. But
the CIA, the careers and folks there, wanted
to take a more aggressive posture. And so one
of the CIA's key assets and ringleaders had a
logistics hub with a massive CIA -backed Cuban
exile community network. at that time in the
early 1960s in Miami, thought that JFK was being
too impatient, too cautious. They wanted to invade
basically a section of Haiti departing from Miami
to use that as a base to then do kinetic attacks
against Cuba. The State Department learned that
this CIA -backed network led by Orlando Masfer
was going to do this. Stopped it where they had
a customs and border agent basically who was
like manning the docks and caught them as like
300 of them were you know departing to try to
take over a part of of Haiti to do this and Then
the State Department directed the Justice Department
to pursue criminal charges against Rolando Masford
in steps the CIA and You know if you if you can
find this memo You know, it's mas You know for
I think it's F -E -R -R -U -R, Rondo Mass Fer.
It's a... If you, the title of it is like massive
damage that would accrue. You can probably also
just find, yeah, massive damage. There you go
estimate of damage which could accrue to CI Miami
through prosecution of the Orlando mass for Haitian
invasion group again We just learned the existence
of this document last year. This is from 19 the
1960s now It says the decision by the Justice
Department to seek a grand jury indictment against
Orlando mass for uncertain of his associates
is a potentially Explosive matter which could
result in extensive damage to CI activities in
Miami Recent adverse publicity on the national
scene and in the Miami area have added substantially
to the already sizable embarrassment potential.
Can you imagine what these memos look like for
Jeffrey Epstein? Some of the main sectors of
danger to CIA equities are described below. Basic
national publicity regarding student and foundation
topics have already attracted... attention of
the local press to the CIA in general. Usually
any reference to CIA covert activities leads
press to check files for references of any such
activities locally. However, before this action
can be taken, the story regarding, and then he
goes over the Pan Am Foundation, the University
of Miami, which was what hosted Jam Wave. The
University of Miami then, the CIA's largest station
house in the world, it was called Jam Wave, was
hosted in a facility off of the University of
Miami campus. again, the biggest CIA stationhouse
in the entire world. The CIA. So it goes on to
say that, OK, there have been all these. The
top paragraph is saying we're under a lot of
pressure, Justice Department. The public is already
losing support for the CIA because of all these
other disclosures, and it will be disastrous
if you if if you pursue the prosecution of him,
because Orlando Mastro is going to squeal. So
I think if you go down to the next page, he says.
as has been the case for the past six years.
And he says, basically, the CIA has been working
with the head of the president and treasurer
of the University of Miami. They're extending
the cooperation and all of this. So basically,
all these touch points that Orlando Masters Network
connects to will be exposed. And they go over
all these what were previously redacted CIA cutouts
in the area. And then he goes on the memo says,
even if the above circumstances do not exist,
We would remain concerned regarding the possible
effects of the prosecution of the mass for a
group Although no station agents or persons with
whom the Miami station has contractual arrangements
are among the persons arrested or those who will
be prosecuted It will be very easy for the defense
to drag CIA Miami into the case The defense has
only to obtain testimony true or perjured They
can see be true from one of the defendants or
summon as defense witnesses one or more disaffected
former agents of the CIA station in order to
begin a chain reaction, surfacing such detail
and rumor concerning CIA operations against the
Cuban target. Given the sizable reduction of
infiltration and a general feeling of frustration
and lack of support for Cuban freedom attributed
to passive U .S. policy, basically saying it
would undermine our entire operation against
Cuba and the American people support for it if
the Justice Department indicts these people who
just committed this crime because they can very
the whole network is CIA and they can just call
to the stand that their friends and associates
had been talking with the CIA about this well
before they had done it and that would be a massive
scandal. Now that's just one example here and
what goes on to happen is there's a negotiation
between the State Department CIA About whether
to bring the case how to bring the case how to
shape There's a follow -up memo on this which
is totally incredible at that I think is more
the logistics on this the agreement they reach
is That the State Department wins nominally they
do bring the prosecution But they bring it in
a highly limited and tepid way and they agree
to the CIA's demands to limit lines of inquiry
to to file motions against entering anything
into discovery that might Basically reveal the
CIA networks in this and they agree to have CIA
general counsel person on the prosecution team
in order to personally make sure that the Justice
Department Stays in line and if something looks
like if if the judge grants discovery for something
that might reveal the CIA's role in it You know
drop that line of prosecution so that it can't
be entered into evidence and this this is This
is what you see time and again is the Is how
these networks get protected whether it's drug
cases whether it's you know Foreign policy scandal
cases whether it's money laundering cases. I
believe in the mark rich case part of I think
his lawyer Cited at one point or maybe it was
a in his pardon application, the work that he
had done for US intelligence services is part
of the reason that he should be granted leniency.
But the point I'm getting to here is given Jeffrey
Epstein's involvement in the BCCI network, given
Jeffrey's involvement in the 1990s with all the
foreign policy activities happening in the Middle
East at that time, given Jeffrey Epstein's involvement
through You know the the early 2000s Clinton
era and everything given his involvement in everything
from Israeli to Saudi to British to French high
-level government officials can you Jeffrey Epstein
was investigated by the the SEC in the 1980s.
He was what he was one of the two people Who
part who ran the biggest Ponzi scheme in history
at the time in the United States the towers financial
collapse Epstein's business partner goes to jail
for like 30 years or 20 years or whatever But
Epstein skates completely free. Epstein gets
involved in this huge fraud in the U .S. Virgin
Islands with this, you know, like billion dollar
fraud case in the U .S. Virgin Islands. Never
prosecuted for any of it. Why is that? Well,
one is, you know, he may have caught we know
in the U .S. Virgin Islands case, he was sponsoring
the campaigns, basically the politicians there,
the prosecutors answered to the politicians.
Could be that. But it I would be shocked if they're
in 40 years of this Where's Waldo Forrest Gump?
He's always in the room in 40 years of American
foreign policy and intelligence activity, you
know money sourcing for that For all the crimes
that Epstein committed the concern was the same
one they had with Rolando Masfer Don't bring
the case and if you do bring it in a highly limited
way and that's exactly what happened in 2006
the first time he was indicted. Everybody was
up in arms that it was a sweetheart plea deal.
It limited. It gave protection to all co -conspirators,
known and unknown. And it was swooped in quickly
before there was a trial in full so that lines
of evidence couldn't be opened about the network.
It's just crazy that statutory rape is what took
it all down, right? Because it's underaged hand
jobs, right? That's what took it all down. Yeah,
I mean, it seems to be what took Jeffrey Epstein
down. Kind of crazy. Even that has a really interesting
geopolitical history. There was a similar scandal
in the early 2000s with a private military contractor
called DynCorp, which again runs through this...
Adnan Khashoggi kind of Middle Eastern Network
Dying Corp got in trouble For trafficking facilitating
that the traffic is a you know major US military
and CIA contractor for logistics and the institutional
support and military assistance On the ground
for the US military all over the world. They
got in trouble Moving basically trafficking underage
kids to Middle Eastern shakes and I believe the
in the early 2000s and I believe the reason That
was alleged by Congress That they did that was
to juice the deals with them that basically,
you know these these people who were critical
It's you know, if you're operating on the ground
in Kuwait or you know Pick your Middle Eastern,
you know country in order to Serve your purpose
for the US government to be this outside plausibly
deniable, but extensively infrastructure professional
support outfit on the ground You need the support
of the local government need the support of the
local high -level officials. They need to be
happy And there's several currencies for that.
There's financial payoffs, and there's other
things they might like, like parties and young
women, especially in places where being with
a very young female is not illegal. And so what
Dying Corp, I believe, got busted doing, and
you can look up the Dying Corp scandal here,
was doing this. And I believe their argument
was, well, you wanted us to do this thing on
the ground. You wanted us to help the US military
and you know kind of covert support nodes that
were that were happening here We had to do it
somehow. You know, this is part of what helped
us do that. I Would not be surprised if the Epstein
trafficking Apparatus started With similar motivations
not you know that it's not for necessarily for
blackmail but because it makes clients or customers
or VIP people happy. It makes them owe you something.
It makes them want to get involved in a deal
you do, even if the deal is not one they would
ordinarily do because they just want to stay
close to you because you're their supplier of
their vice, of the thing that they want but can't
get. If you're a 70 -year -old Billionaire you
can't walk into a bar and leave aside the underage
thing you can't walk into a bar You know in you
know meet an 18 year old who's you know? I'm
presumed you know these things are facilitated
that at private parties and It needs to you know
for a lot of these guys that has to be discreet.
You know they've got wives. They've got reputations
and You know that there's an aspect of this that
plays out at every institution I worked at a
New York law firm, and there's ways that you
can make partner. At least this was kind of the
vibe that I felt. Some people make partner because
they're really good technically at what they
do. They're just amazing. They're just technical
whizzes on the minutia of how to structure a
merger or acquisition. They're just really great
at structuring an offshore banking transaction,
or they just know absolutely everything about
tax law. There's some people who move up because
of nepotism. They're the brother and the son
-in -law of a major partner. There's some people
who make partner because they know one, they
brought in one client who's just a really big
main rainmaker. And there's some people who move
up because they open doors to partners while
they're associates. They introduce them to someone,
they host events, they've got tickets to exclusive
things. And the partners just like being around
that person because they get access to that person
in a currency that they can't get on their own.
And that includes hosting cool, exotic parties,
having attractive women. I've never been convinced
that the central role of the Epstein young girl,
in my view, sidebar of the Epstein money laundering
story is that it was for blackmail. Part of this
is because the moment Jeffrey Epstein formally,
officially threatens somebody with blackmail,
and that person tells his wife, and that wife
tells her friends, and that gets out to somebody
else that knows Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's
access goes away. Overnight that's the sort of
thing that even a rumor of that spreading and
Nobody else is gonna want to do business with
them So you think people just assume it's blackmail?
Because that is how you would blackmail someone
especially underage girls. I think it is very
possible that there could have been indirect
blackmail meaning Epstein passes it on to an
intelligence service to a corporate espionage
client or something, and they use that for their
own purposes. But even then, I mean, imagine,
for example, on the Bill Gates thing, Bill Gates
gets an email, I have a video of you sleeping
with this person. or somebody much lower level,
the moment they send that to the press, if, you
know, in order to, they figure they have nothing
to lose. I mean, there's not been anybody in
the seven years that's transpired who said, I've
been, I was personally blackmailed by Jeffrey
Epstein. I think, cause the moment you do that,
nobody comes to your parties anymore. Nobody,
you lose all the access, you lose all the deal
flow. You lose all the goodwill that you've generated
because this rumor, People are very risk -averse,
especially at that level right but just to have
it over their head and never use it though Right.
Well, I think I think that what you could have
is Because he does his own nefarious stuff He
could compile it so that if they ever go out
if they ever threaten him with something he's
now got something on them and I've seen some
correspondence that you know in the files that
that that looks like that might not be an impossible
scenario. Do you think that's how Jeffrey Epstein
got in that position in the first place that
they knew he had this kink? No, not at all. I
mean Adnan Khashoggi had the same thing. Adnan
Khashoggi was running around with dozens of young
and apparently underage girls the whole time.
I think that Jeffrey Epstein probably learned
how powerful that can be through that network,
seeing that that's what powerful people do That
gives them something that Gets them a lot of
local influence and gets wins them a lot of favor.
That's a very specific illicit desire To want
underage people. Well, I'm very how do you even
find out that someone's into that? Well, I don't
think that the Majority or anything close to
it of the women were Technically, I think it
was largely young very young You know barely
legal so to speak but and I know that there were
cases of underage, but I you know, I think Most
of it was just most of it was just very very
young but not Not like like 20 year old not like
13 year old thing and then yeah remember because
this is an international enterprise and many
of the clients are like You know in countries
that don't necessarily have the same norms about
that that we do you can very easily see someone
getting involved in that just because girls juice
deals. And so I don't think that Epstein, I've
not seen evidence and in my view, you don't need
any of that to understand the core part of the
Epstein story that is relevant to your life today
in terms of your own government and the workings
of power and corporate finance and the like.
But I... I do think that Girls Juice Deals and
the fact that he had the coolest parties on a
private island with the hottest girls is something
that makes... Also brought in a lot of intellectuals,
stimulating conversations, scientists, all these
very interesting people. So that was part of
the thing, right? That was the draw. Try hosting
a cool party as a guy with a bad ratio. So to
speak. Sausage party. With a sausage party. And
when you develop a reputation for having attractive
women at the parties you host, you become an
important person to know in the network. Because
basically every male has a desire for attractive
women, not saying underage, obviously. But that
is like a universal, biological desire for men.
to want to be around attractive women. And what
did they do for gay guys? I have no idea. Is
that a part of the file or the the lore? I've
not seen evidence of it. Or if I have, I can't
recall it offhand. But the whole point is he's
throwing these very attractive, cool parties
to get all these people together. But that's
what juices deals. Right. If you Take this scenario
Epstein's running a fund a A donor a colleague
someone that he'd like to do a favor for or an
intelligence service says hey We're trying to
get a pipeline built in the Middle East We we
need a you know a facilitator to help arrange
private outside funding for it. So this thing
can be constructed. And it doesn't look like
it's coming from the U .S. government, but the
U .S. government will provide some sort of loan
guarantee or something on it, but we can't raise
enough money to do this. It needs to come from
the outside, but it would really help American
national security. And there's probably something
in it for you if you can get this done. Epstein
then goes out and says to then puts out basically
Tries to make contact with people in his network
who might be interested in that deal and then
goes on and See goes out to five people two of
them are You know in the space locally the the
deal terms look good. They want to do it 100
% no hesitation And then two people say, well,
listen, it's a good idea and concept, but I don't
know, the risk profile on it looks a little high.
This normally would not be something that my
team would clear. It's interesting, but it's
a little rich for my blood in terms of the risk
profile. But Jeffrey Epstein asked them to do
it. And Jeffrey Epstein, for the past three years
of their lives has been the best weekend they've
ever had has, you know, has made them feel alive
again in their mid fifties or sixties has, you
know, has opened all sorts of other deals for
them. And this deal might work out. So if I'm
afraid that if I say no to Jeffrey Epstein on
this deal, I'm not going to get an invite to
the next party. I'm not going to be able to get
laid again with like, you know. a girl with women
I find attractive or that yada yada and Epstein
hooks those up. I will do, I'll get in on this
deal just because I wanna be in the good graces
of Jeffrey Epstein, not because the deal is a
standalone thing, it's because it's juiced by
the girls, the parties, the lifestyle that Epstein.
Allows you to have access to but in the public
eye the narrative is underage girls And this
is the thing that makes it so disgusting when
people talk about it everyone says fuck kids
on the island this is the this is the The the
big conspiracy about it, and this is the reason
why people are so outraged about it My concern
with the runaway train on that is that It's a
massive manhunt for something that it may be
true to me. It's a it's an it's a Needle in the
haystack. It might be true. Good luck looking
for it and When when I think about it logically
with the role that Epstein played between BCCI
Iran Contra Latin American politics African politics
Asian politics major world foundations, you don't
need. It would seem. Ludicrous to me that Epstein
doesn't mean it's impossible, but logistically,
if Epstein ever directly threatened someone proactively,
that is, if the person tries to blackmail Epstein,
Epstein could reactively. Say, well, I've got
I've got shit on you, too. But proactively and
really, really do someone in like that. And word
gets around that that happens. Everything, everything
he built goes at the whole Rolodex finds out.
And then even if the rumors not even if that
rumor isn't even if he didn't, if that rumor
existed, people aren't going to want to go to
the parties because now that's not like. an unfettered
good time, that is like, oh, he did this to this
guy I know. And so, and the fact that these sorts
of things, they have a value way beyond blackmail.
They have a value in terms of bringing people
in network and keeping clients and customers
happy and providing access. And I think, Think
that the the focus on that listen if there were
if there were any sort of receipts whatsoever
on that after all these years If there was like
something really good to chew on on that on that
thread. I'm I'm very I'm open -minded about it,
but my concern is the fixation on this You think
about the sort of pie chart of what? the Epstein
Cinematic Universe can tell you about the world.
Even if it's true, it's a very, very, very small
fraction of that. And this gets back to in 1999,
I mentioned. Jeffrey Epstein. FOIA to the Central
Intelligence Agency in 1999 for all records about
himself. And then he did it again in 2011. Now,
Jeffrey Epstein was not a public figure at all
in 1999. He didn't come into public awareness,
public attention until 2001, 2002, when he flew
Bill Clinton around, post presidency Bill Clinton
around, on his Africa tour around the time of
the start of the Clinton Foundation. And everyone
was wondering, whoa, who's this eccentric billionaire
who is personally flying around on his private
jet? the President of the United States for the
past eight years. And that's when the Jeffrey
Epstein celebrity story started. But he was a
private figure in 1999 when he FOIAed the Central
Intelligence Agency for records. And we just
learned this in the files this week. The response,
we don't actually have the underlying, what's
in the files is a 2011 FOIA response. to Jeffrey
Epstein's lawyer. Jeffrey Epstein did this through
his lawyer using the Privacy Act. This is a way
to basically kind of anonymously FOIA the CIA
to basically keep communications between the
CIA and your lawyer for information you're entitled
to under the Privacy Act about yourself. And
we don't have the underlying letter in the files,
tragically and for whatever reason. But we but
what we do have, because I would expect that
to be an enclosure to the CIA response. But the
fact is, is anybody who wants to be a hero right
now, and I have it up on my on my ex account,
I have in the thread that I did on this the reference,
the file reference numbers. These are not classified
documents. FOIA responses are not classified.
So. anybody right now can FOIA the Central Intelligence
Agency for all records and communications related
to the CIA's. Written communications with Jeffrey
Epstein via his lawyer, both in 1999, 2011, but
the 2011 what it says is we have received your
request for your client, Jeffrey Epstein's records
search under the Freedom of Information Act.
We've granted the request to search for all open
and acknowledged agency affiliations between
Jeffrey Epstein and the CIA. We have run that
search and the answer is no documents are responsive
to the request. And then it says in the next
paragraph, with respect to your request that
touches on classified. classified documents,
we can neither confirm nor deny the existence
or nonexistence of any such documents. So you
can consider this a partial denial of your FOIA
request. Now, what's so interesting about that
is you may think if you read that that Jeffrey
Epstein, you know, just requested any public
facing links between him and the CIA or, you
know, what just a general, you know, What do
you have on me that the public can search just
to see? First of all, the fact they did that
alone twice in 1999, 2011 says something. But
the you might think, OK, well, he just wants
to know if other people might think that he's
CIA. You know, he's he's moving up in the world
in 1999. He's about to be a massive public figure.
He wants to know if other people FOIA, the CIA
for records on him, what they will see. And.
But that it turns out that. Response to a FOIA
partial granting of the FOIA to look for open
and acknowledged agency links and partial Glomar
can neither confirm nor deny existence, nonexistence
is a stock CIA FOIA response whenever you FOIA
the CIA for someone's personnel files. Which.
Leads to the question, because. The fact that
the CIA says we consider this a denial of your
request for classified, for things that touch
on classified matters, means that he didn't just
ask for all open and acknowledged links between
the CIA and himself. He asked for something.
And whatever that thing was, it touched on something
classified. There would have been no Glomar.
There would have been nothing to deny about the
request. if it had only been limited to open
and acknowledged links. To me, this is a bombshell
and should prompt Ro Khanna and Thomas Massey
and the 427 members of the House of Representatives
and 100 % of the US Senate to pass the same bill
that the United States Congress did in 1992 for
the JFK Records Collection Act when the CIA was
forced by law to stand up an independent auditing
body to review all classified records relating
to the JFK assassination for the first time ever
and then declassify them over months and years
through the work of that independent board. The
existence of this correspondence we just learned
about this week alone should prompt a 427 to
1 and 100 % Senate to do the same thing they
just did with the OJ files for CIA originated
files. That's Actionable immediately who's gonna
want to be on the other side of that in Congress?
No, the CIA's records about Jeffrey Epstein prolific
child sex trap. Well, however, you want, you
know whatever you see in the Rorschach inkblot
test of the Epstein universe I think it'd be
very hard to be if that bill gets introduced
for a sitting member of Congress to be on the
other side of it. I think it would pass. And
it would legally compel the CIA to turn over
what I think are quite possibly, arguably very
likely, 40 years of CIA documents referencing
Epstein. The CIA would not be doing its job if
it didn't have records about Jeffrey Epstein.
Jeffrey Epstein was a counterintelligence threat
with all the foreign countries that he was dealing
with. If he had been... a double agent sort of
thing. The CIA would not be doing its job if
it was not keeping tabs. Epstein's network was
a key financial logistics hubs in highly geopolitical
sensitive areas of operation of the CIA. The
economics division of the CIA, let alone the
operations division, is going to have to keep
analysts informed about money flows in those
countries. And then you add in the fact that
he represented Anand Khashoggi's money, who was
the C .I.'s main point person, for ten years,
the literal central linchpin in his money is
being handled, there's no way. And you now have
a legal mechanism to enforce C .I. declassification
if Congress forces it. Now, the other part of
it is, okay, why hasn't the C .I. turned this
over before? You could argue it's a Rolando Masford
case, it would embarrass the agency, it would
mean In Congress, their funding is going to get
decimated because they're toxic. You can argue
it's foreign governments that don't want that.
But part of it is the CIA is not allowed to do
this unless the Congress forces them. These are
classified documents. I mean, it could, you know,
charitably volunteer to ODNI by conducting, you
know, an internal task force that voluntarily,
you know, asks Tulsi Gabbard to declassify these.
I wouldn't hold your breath on that. But this
is immediately actionable and it would solve
the mystery. All we need is one brave member
of Congress to get the ball rolling and stand
up that bill. And you can just copy paste the
1992 JFK Records Collection Act and just substitute
JFK for Jeffrey Epstein. What's your take on
the circumstances around his death? I don't know.
I it's weird that they took a guy who is one
of those high -profile defendants ever and You
put him in jail with a mass murder. Yeah Yeah,
kind of crazy. You put him in jail with a cop
who had killed drug dealers a juiced up gigantic
cop Yeah, who was obviously a psychopath and
then 18 days before he died. He complained that
that guy tried to kill him Yeah I mean, it doesn't
look good. It's just crazy that this guy wasn't
in protective custody. It's crazy that the cameras
go down. It's crazy that the footage that they've
released is weird because it's missing time.
And it's crazy that it happened under the watch
of an attorney general who himself was so deeply
embedded in the Epstein network his whole life.
I mean, from the weird kind of coincidence of
Bill Barr's father, Donald Barr, and Jeffrey
Epstein's Dalton School to the fact that Bill
Barr started his career in the CIA during the
Iran -Contra operation that Jeffrey Epstein appears
to have been doing the covert money laundering
for. Bill Barr was like seven years. He went
to Knight Law School, trained to be a lawyer
while he was at the CIA, and then his main job
was being the CIA's blocker and tackler to obstruct
He was the he was the CIA's point of contact
to Congress during the Iran -Contra scandal that
Jeffrey Epstein was so deeply involved in and
was blamed in the press at the time for being
the person at CIA blocking Congress from seeing
the CIA scant documents that were so central
to the scandal Then he becomes the Attorney General
of the United States and he writes the pardons
of the BCCI officials Who was co -leading that
investigation Robert Mueller? at the time, this
is in the early 1990s, the first time, Bill Barr.
So you have the BCCI Bear Stearns multi -billion
dollar operation that appears to me that Jeffrey
Epstein was working on and then took the clients
from that deal as his own personal clients when
he went private on his own. And Bill Barr is
who lets the people from the crooked CIA bank
off the hook. And then he becomes attorney general
again And in 2019, he's the one in charge of
the FBI. The FBI answers to the Justice Department.
The FBI is the same relationship with justice
that the CIA has with state. They're the investigative
arm of the Justice Department. So I think it's
hard to trust anyone on this. And I don't know
what kind of file set the Trump FBI inherited
after all this time. It's hard to make heads
or tails of it to me. I think getting answers
on the things that are immediately actionable
Getting the CIA's direct correspondence with
Jeffrey Epstein, you know that I mentioned a
congressional bill that forces that because if
it comes out that there are effectively in it
an entire avalanche of classified Epstein files
Dating back 40 years Then you've got the CIA
attorney job. It puts these things in a very
different light depending on whether The thing
that is generated so much smoke this whole time
the allegation of protection by US government
intelligence and however many others To know
that physical paper like we know that the CIA
interfered in the Rolando mass for a trial like
we know that the CIA contracted out to mafia
hitman an attempt to kill a foreign president
like we know that MK ultra actually was real
we I mean these things you can't scale you know
I think of things like a like a Jenga tower if
if if a foundational piece is not solid you can
scale a whole architecture of BS on top of it
and if that assumption falls away this majestic
looking you know tapestry of just years and years
of effort collapses because the thing you assume
to be true because it looked like there was so
much smoke to to know it to be true that that
is a solid piece that you can put the next piece
on top of you know it's um There's that quote
99 % is a bitch 100 % is a breeze What does that
mean? It means when you're only 99 % sure of
something you you always have to agonize well
what if it's not true and it and I Think it is
and I build all this stuff on top of it the 1
% chance that that's not true means it would
be a real bitch for me to spend years of effort
on this thing, for me to spend millions of dollars
on this thing, when it's based on assumption
that it was only 99 % likely to be true, but
1%, it may have been structured some way different.
There might be something I missed in this. Whereas
100 % is a breeze. Okay, it's automatic. And
things like, this is why document drops like
this are so vital. Not even necessarily because
they have some single smoking gun that tells
you who killed JFK or you know What client Jeffrey
Epstein trafficked women to but because it allows
you To put down real Jenga pieces about what
actually happened and that process itself Allows
you to ask the questions that might get you to
those answers Makes a lot of sense Is there anything
else you want to add to this I? Mean we could
kind of go on for days. Yeah. Yeah, I mean you
spend so much time on this stuff How do you have
that kind of an attention span? It's kind of
nuts. I mean I follow some of your live streams.
I'm like First of all your recall is insane You
know, I heard something once which I think is
really helpful. I don't think I'm special in
any way like this I think literally anyone can
do this if you just kind of apply this kind of
trick I heard this once it which is that if you
read a history book Don't just read it Agnostically
have a theory in mind about what you think This
is and how it worked Even if you are wrong about
that theory what you will find is that names
dates locations Your brain will remember them
forever because they're not You know if if I'm
thinking about something that happened in You
know, I don't know like November 11th 1983 okay,
if if I see like that date on a driver's license
card or something. And I have no theory of mind
when I see that. I'm not gonna remember that
five minutes from then. It's gonna be like trying
to remember an 11 -string number or like someone's
cell phone or something when you don't really
know the person or you haven't dialed it a million
times. But if you have a theory of mind that
you are indexing those things in relation to,
what you find is that your brain... keeps those
in that index. So I've joked, because we've talked
about this Iran -Contra affair, which was really
the creation of this apparatus that we live under
today, where because the CIA got handcuffs put
on it, everything had to become CIA to get around
those handcuffs. The universities had to be,
the foundations, the private philanthropic donors.
And this is what happened in the censorship industrial
complex. It was all wrapped around this. But
what you find is those dates mean something to
you because they're placed in relation to something
else that happens. I joke that I index things
by Iran Contra often. For example, when I was...
you know, studying about BCCI. And I learned,
OK, this happened in 1984. I don't just think
about 1984 as an abstract thing. I think, OK,
well, that means it happened after the meeting
between Robert McFarland and Anand Khashoggi,
but before the, you know, the oil pipeline scandal
of Ed Meese. And then so I remember that this
thing happened on this date because I place it
in the index and anyone. I think it's a. I think
it's something that anyone, I think people organically
do it when they're really passionate about something.
And this is an easy thing to be passionate about
because it gets to the heart of networks that
are the determining power structures of your
life. When you look up and then you look up at
the thing that you're looking up at and you look
up at the thing above that. This this is the
network you see whether it's an intelligence
military statecraft high finance private philanthropies
universities labor unions scientific research
Doesn't mean it's you know the Epstein network
so to speak, but it's it's this this layer of
interconnected human networks and I think it's
an important history for the American people
to have access to so that they can make informed
decisions about how they want to change that
world. They can make informed decisions about
what to vote for. They can make informed decisions
about what kind of industries that they're participating
in that they might want to see reformed. And
so it makes it easy to be passionate about, because
if we can get a win here, it'll really change
the world. Well, I think you do a great service
and I think your abilities are exceptional. I
think you're selling yourself short a little
bit. You're being a little self -deprecating
because it's very unusual what you're able to
do. And I think just the sheer amount of time
that you've invested in this stuff is kind of
mind -boggling. Well, what would you like to
see in this? Like if you had a wish list, what
are the things that are open threads or? Well,
The real concern with me is that it's unfixable
and that this is just a standard way that our
government has operated since the 1950s or whenever
and it can't be fixed and that they'll just gloss
over it. A new person will get into office and
promise that they're gonna implement some reform
and it never happens and that we just accept
that over and over and over again. That's the
real fear. The real fear is that there's a slow
capture of our democracy to the point where it's
just a mere illusion. That's the real fear. And
I think a lot of people think that we've already
passed the point of no return on that. That's
what scares the shit out of a lot of people.
And then when you see things that are happening
in other countries, like particularly England,
which is just rampant crackdown on free speech
and what the the arrests from people that are
posting things on social media sites and the
implementations of there's a new thing that they
tried to do, or I think they are doing, this
concept of having a limited amount of time so
you can drive outside of a zone, and after that
you have to pay for it. That's a new thing, right?
Yeah. Smart cities type concept. I can send this
to you, Jamie, because I just sent it to Constantine,
because it's... It appears to be real, and it's
terrifying. Your carbon budget. Yeah, that's
nuts. Well, look at what California's doing right
now. What California is doing is they are taking,
or they're moving forward with this, the idea
that you have a tax on the amount of miles that
you drive now. Instead of just taxing gas like
they've always done now They're taxing you on
the amount of miles that you drive We're already
getting tax on that if you're driving more miles,
you're spending more money on gas So you're getting
you're spending more money on tax, but now they're
taxing on top of that, which is essentially they're
stealing money Yeah Why can't I find it? Forward
here Jamie you're on you're on signal, right?
It is really interesting how that whole thing.
I said I'm single but but it's crazy that The
California thing is bananas. It just says wow
That's it. Oh, it doesn't have the link link.
Okay, hold on Huh, oh, maybe this is it, okay
I think there's a really interesting underdeveloped
history around the origins of the. Climate. 2006,
2005, 2006, 2007 really. Global warming climate
kind of policy push from the US government. That
became a runaway train as investor money rushed
in. It's my it's my opinion. and I'm open -minded
about it, but it appears to be the case, in my
view, after a study of this, that the U .S. government,
together with foreign allies, pursued this kind
of demonization of carbon at a real policy level,
or hydrocarbon -based fuels, as a kind of geopolitical
battering ram. against newly resurgent Russia
in the mid 2000s as as Putin was getting power
back over a bunch of post post Soviet Eastern
satellite countries through basically pipeline
exploiting his leverage around pipelines and
the fact that This is like the John McCain type
quote, right? That Russia is a gas station with
the military, right? You hear that a lot. You
know, Gazprom, the state -sponsored oil company
was, like, effectively the biggest oil company
in... Well, Gazprom was for gas, but Rosnafton.
Russia had, at one point, the largest oil exports
in the world. It was the motor engine of their
economy, oil and gas, and... the relationship
between Russian oligarchs and businessmen and
Eastern European Russian oligarchs and businessmen
allowed that hydrocarbon based dependency and
financial opportunity to let Putin reassert Russian
control over Central and Eastern European countries
that NATO was trying to turn into Western vassal
states essentially. So you have this In the 1990s,
this wasn't an issue because Boris Yeltsin was
the president and he was effectively an adjunct
of the U .S. government, incidentally through
Larry Summers and the Jeffrey Epstein Harvard
Network. But so there became this push after
Russia's interventions in Georgia and the like
and a big attack on a lot of, you know, high
level Republican. Basically, I think this push
to try to create a shift in the types of energy
the world uses was a way to kneecap Russia's
main source of revenue to ensure that the Eurasia
That the plan to seize political or vassal state
control over Eurasia would continue against Putin's
new nationalist and global resurgence and This
includes a bunch of crap that in 2003 2004 but
effectively then you start to see the US government
champion these Hydrocarbon policies and you started
to see all of these international forums journals
regulators openly talking in this mid -aughts
period as Russia was starting to reclaim political
influence that these climate policies would be
a way to stop Russian power and influence because
it would cripple them economically. There'd be
no business between oligarchs in the different
countries for them to even leverage. It would
effectively allow us to continue the golden age
of the uniparty 1990s moment. And then you saw
all these government subsidies to it, tax benefits,
free money basically. And then it became a runaway.
As the market saw that this was a highly protected
incentivized space by the US government, they
all flooded in. Now they've got a sunk cost.
If those policies change, you've got trillions
of dollars in climate finance globally. And then
these started becoming part of IMF loan requirements.
But now it's like, even if the science is completely
wrong, what started arguably is a kind of national
security -based way to force energy diversification.
This is what we put Europe through, the United
States, with the sanctions against Russia. We
forced them to divest of oil and gas and invest
in a basket of you know, alternative energy cleaner
energy supplies. But now it's and they and that
could be justified at the national security level
with the science of this actually being the case.
So you could sell it to the whole world. Even
if even if you prove that false at this point,
there's there's so much infrastructure built
up that, you know, you have this network, you
have the hedge funds. Bill Gates has a climate
fund. Al Gore is a billionaire from this one.
Tom Steyer, one of the biggest investors in DNC,
the climate impact fund. Michael Bills, who funded
the CIA governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanbergler.
And then the momentum of the, it's sort of an
unstoppable social narrative now. Right, well,
and the thing that's terrifying about it is that
it has conjoined the diplomatic muscle of of
the American government and whatever allies abroad
with private finance. Like, for example, like
we overthrew the government of Bangladesh in
2024, the Biden administration did. They ran
this whole coup. They did it through the National
Down for Democracy. CIA cut out and a million
other orgs on the ground. It was a color revolution
street protest. You know, I think we may have
talked about this last time where literally the
CIA sock puppet national down for democracy sponsored
like rap music videos and you know produced them
and put them on YouTube and and then worked with
the unions, you know set up like transgender
dance festivals to try to get the you know, the
LGBT community, you know on board against the
government and then you know giant rise they
install, you know, it's effectively a but part
of the the thing that they they leaned on in
the post -transition government is to You know
agree to these You know basic basically like
climate finance reforms and you can Just like
the CIA in the oil industry became completely
inseparable completely inseparable I mean George
Bush for example Zapata energy offshore in the
whole Texas oil thing and You know to then becoming
the Central Intelligence Agency direct I mean
Trump's first Secretary of State was Rex Tillerson
Rex Tillerson never worked in government the
Secretary of State oversees the CIA He's got
the whole CIA portfolio As you know, well, he
was the chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil. You
can't, the CIA and the U .S. military creates
the market for oil companies. You can't get access
to the oil unless you either overthrow a government
or support against an insurgency political movement,
one that will guarantee you favorable terms,
you know, access, yada yada, the whole market.
And then the CIA and DOD people will rotate into
board seats on those oil companies. So it becomes
inseparable and my fear about this is that over
the past ten years the same thing has started
to happen with the client the sort of you know
clean energy side of the You know of big energy
companies like in big oil and see big oil and
CIA for a century now you have like Big climate
and CIA because there's so much money. It's energies
the master resource And so now you've got, you
know, what appears to me, CIA intervention in
part, like some of these things you have to wonder,
why did the Biden CIA try to overthrow the Bolsonaro
government in Brazil? This was a pro -U .S. political
party. It was a the the person Lula was tied
at the hip with China, divested from all these
U .S. contracts, you know, massively reduced
the you know, the footprint of US aligned policies
in the second biggest country country in our
hemisphere. And well, you know, Brazil just announced
like this one point three trillion dollar climate
finance initiative. And, you know, all of these
people are all these New York hedge funds and
London banks who've skated towards this are in
on that. You have I mean, this is a crazy case.
You know, one of the biggest beneficiaries of
the post coup, Lula's government in Brazil, were
all of the clean ethanol, George Soros' longest
standing equity investment, at that point it
was a company called Atacoagra, which did clean
ethanol fuel alternatives. The problem is, it's
part of its business, part of it is it's not
competitive on price with diesel based fuels.
so the only way to you know compete and win that
market and make millions of dollars is if the
government imposes a Mandate a quota that forces
people to buy your product. Well, George Soros
co -sponsored those CIA adjacent national down
for democracy operations all over Brazil Well,
he's you know holding an equity interest in the
thing that day one There's an imposed mandate
to use those those climate products. It's the
same thing in Africa you have like CIA regime
change to force clean energy companies so that
the people who sponsor the the the donors who
sponsor the politicians who pick the staff of
the CIA Enacts policies that makes money for
those hedge funds invested in in climate finance
So fucked up. I think that's what's happening
in California Without the regime change element.
I think it the kind of you know, I Think you
have investors who profit And the only way those
investments can be profitable is if government
imposes mandates, quotas, and bans on alternatives
to that product. I mean, that's kind of the way
the vaccine market works. Do you have that link?
Yeah. Should we play it? Yeah, just play it.
They just set up their little 15 -minute city,
and they are now charging people for leaving
the city. You get 100 free days. They call it
a free day. You get a free pass to leave the
15 -minute city. And if you exceed your 100 free
days, you have to pay the US dollar equivalent
of $93 per day. And if you live outside of the
15 -minute city and you want to travel into the
15 -minute city, you get 25 free passes. Free
movement. Oh, the government's giving you free
movement capability. You get 25 free passes.
And if you exceed those 25 days, it's $93 a day.
And how are they tracking all this? Oh, there's
not a man at the gate. They're not writing up
tickets or having police officers set up. Oh,
no, they are monitoring you with digital AI surveillance
and cameras. And then they're automatically finding
you. This is why we have to be against the flock
cameras. in the United States. They're not just
speed trap cameras. This is why we have to be
against the Palantir whole of government database.
This is why we have to stand up and raise awareness
and bring attention to these matters instead
of arguing with each other. And NPCs on the internet
over left versus right issues are my side, your
side. They are keeping us artificially divided
because they are setting up this infrastructure
in the United States right now. Divide and conquer.
We are in the division part of the divide and
conquer agenda. Conquer is next. You think it's
bad now, wait till you have to pay $100 a day
to leave your 15 minute city. Right. So only
rich people are going to be able to afford that.
It's just like the meat thing, right? It's like,
you know, the irony of, you know, Australia being
a prison colony. And now you've got now it's
like the homeland in the UK. But I mean, look,
the UK just got rid of like jury trials for a
lot of cases. And yeah. You know, as 12 ,000
speech arrests a year and some people arrested
for what seems like even holding up their own
country's flag at an opportune moment or silently
praying. And, you know, we need to liberate the
British people. I mean, it's unbelievable that,
I mean, they call it perfidious albion, right?
British statecraft has been so pernicious to
the American people in the past decade. It was
Russiagate. The entire three year special prosecutor
saga was because of a British spy, Christopher
Steele, and an Iran -Contra veteran, Stefan Halper,
residing abroad at Cambridge to kick that off.
And then the British government conspired with
the Biden administration. to create, to conjoin
the US -UK censorship industrial complex. America
First Legal, Stephen Miller and Gene Hamilton's
non -profit law firm they started, obtained these
incredible documents that showed a planning meeting
between the British government and the Biden
administration attended by the CIA, the National
Security Council, USAID, hosted the White House,
and it was the British, the UK Digital Commission,
they brought a huge slide deck of all of the
ways that their new censorship law, what's today
called the Online Safety Act, the OSA, would
effectively help throttle misinformation in the
United States. Basically, it was like, you scratch
your back, our back, we'll scratch yours, and
it was this... U .S. Democrat Party, U .K. Labor
Party alliance. Meanwhile, the Biden government
was paying British censors. The Global Disinformation
Index, which, you know, killed, like, the ad
revenue for, like, they went after Daily Wire,
Federalist, a million conservative news sites
and social media accounts, you know, went after
the social media platforms in the United States.
They're British black ops by their own language.
Well, CCDH. They were funded by our government
to censor our voices, but laundered out to the
UK. And I think we need to fundamentally restructure
that special relationship. We've had that relationship
for a long time, totally unquestioned. We can't
farm that out. And if that's not addressed and
we don't fix that relationship, I think you can't
really fix our own. unless we, you know, cut
out some of the poison that we inject from the
outside. Well, Mike, we gave people a lot to
go over. Almost too much. But you, if anybody
wants more, your ex -account is amazing. You're
tireless. I don't know how you do it, but thank
you for doing it. I really appreciate you, and
I appreciate you coming on here. Oh, thanks so
much for having me. Nothing but fun from here.
I mean look it's fun I mean guys or the world
is opening up and we are seeing behind a looking
glass where there has been a veil of secrecy
For 60 years about some of these things for 10
years about some of these things. So don't get
too black -pilled. This is Something has happened
that has never happened before and you are alive
to experience it. So, you know trying to enjoy
the ride