Was Jeffrey Epstein a spy? The Epstein-is-a-spy parlor game has been going on for years. There are plenty of reasons to believe that he could have been an intelligence asset, but the House Oversight Committee report reaches no such conclusions.
There are legitimate questions about how this guy could move through the world with such impunity without government cover. The Committee plumbed ideas about how Epstein got acceptance and cover from legitimate business and elite society big shots, and did, in fact, ask if his advantages came from intelligence ties.
The Oversight Committee, looking into the government’s treatment of the pervert’s activities, found suspicious, though inconclusive, insights into this question. Spoiler alert: The Oversight Committee Report found massive problems with the government investigations into Epstein, as I reported in Epstein Report: Victim NDAs Blocked Justice, While Dems Just Wanted to Get Trump.
But what of the espionage ties?
Who else could possess passports with aliases for different countries — including Saudi Arabia — in his possession? That sounds like spycraft, doesn’t it?
Who has a girlfriend/accomplice whose dad was a suspected Mossad agent? Was Ghislaine Maxwell an intelligence asset?
Who was besties with the former head of Israeli intelligence and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak? Epstein.
Some of the suspicions about Epstein’s ties to intelligence came directly from reporting about Alexander Acosta, the former head of the Department of Justice’s South Florida U.S. Attorneys’ Office. Acosta allegedly said that Epstein “’belonged to intelligence’ — though Acosta denied ever making this statement during his transcribed interview with the Committee.”
These are tantalizing issues which are not conclusively answered in the House Oversight Committee majority report (there’s no minority report yet) about the government’s handling of the Epstein case. But they do offer some details from recycled media reports found in the footnotes.
