The Jeffrey Epstein list of associates unsealed by a US judge has reignited suspicions the pedophile financier was an asset for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.
Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Barak was identified in the bombshell dossiers Wednesday night. He served as PM from 1991 to 2001 after serving in the IDF for 35 years, rising to Chief of the General Staff.
While he is mentioned only fleetingly in the new files – an Epstein victim asked whether she’d ever given Barak a massage – there has long been speculation surrounding his relationship with the financier.
Barak met with Epstein some 36 times and was pictured entering his Manhattan townhouse with a scarf around his face in 2016. Young women were seen coming in and out of the residence that same day.
Former Israeli spies have gone on record stating that Epstein’s international sex trafficking was a honeypot entrapment operation – gaining valuable ‘kompromat’ material to blackmail political and business elites.
Prince Andrew, also named in the new list, was Epstein’s ‘useful idiot’, according to an ex-intelligence agent, and described by the financier as his ‘Super Bowl trophy’ for his powerful connections.
During the pair’s friendship, Andrew invited Ghislaine Maxwell and the financier to high society events in London – even allowing them to stay at the Queen’s Balmoral estate. At the time, Andrew served as the UK’s international trade envoy, helping the government to promote business abroad.
Maxwell – who acted as Epstein’s madam – is also closely intertwined in the alleged honeytrap operation. Her father Robert Maxwell, a British newspaper magnate, is alleged to have been a Mossad agent and may have provided the link between Epstein and Jerusalem’s intelligence agency.
Like Epstein’s alleged hanging while awaiting trial, Maxwell’s death on his yacht – The Lady Ghislaine – off the coast of Spain in 1991 has attracted suspicions of assassination.
Ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s appearance on the bombshell list of names linked to Jeffrey Epstein which were unsealed on Wednesday has reignited speculation the pedophile could have been an Israeli spy
Former spies and those in Epstein’s circle have previously claimed that Epstein used his relationship with high profile individuals such as Prince Andrew (pictured) to sell on information to Mossad
Ehud’s name was released as part of a tranche of documents unsealed in a defamation case against Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving 20 years in jail for her role procuring young girls for the sex trafficking operation
‘Prince Andrew wasn’t being blackmailed, he was being used as a useful idiot,’ former Mossad operative Ari Ben-Menashe told RT International. ‘He was being used to bring in some of the celebrities.’
Ben Menashe worked for Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate from 1977 to 1987.
His allegations were backed up by Epstein’s former ‘mentor’ Steven Hoffenberg, who claimed that Epstein had referred to his relationship with the prince as his ‘Super Bowl trophy’.
The late financier also met with current head of the CIA, William J Burns, on numerous occasions in 2014.
Epstein claimed to have information that would rule both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump out of the 2016 general election, according to his brother.
Mark Epstein told The New York Post on Wednesday: ‘Here’s a direct quote: “If I said what I know about both candidates, they’d have to cancel the election.” That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016.’
Prince Andrew vehemently denies any allegations against him and last year settled a $16m civil suit with Epstein victim Virginia Roberts, formerly Giuffre, who accused the royal of rape.
Although the agreement contained no formal admission of liability or an apology, it said he accepted Roberts was a ‘victim of abuse’ and that he regretted his friendship with Epstein.
Epstein was introduced to the spy game by Ghislaine’s father Robert, according to Mossad agent Ben-Menashe who claims to have been the British media tycoon’s ‘handler.’
A friend of the Maxwells, Laura Goldman, further stated she believed not only that Robert Maxwell was a Mossad spy, but that Ghislaine carried on his work.
Journalist Julie K Brown, who broke the Epstein case for the Miami Herald, pointed out the eerie similarities between the deaths of both Epstein and Maxwell.
Epstein, 66, was found dead in his prison cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, in 2019 after an apparent suicide while awaiting trial for his crimes. But rumors continue to swirl around exactly what happened.
Former Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe claimed Epstein was a spy for his employers and was brought into the game by Ghislaine’s father Robert Maxwell, who was also working for the government agency
A friend of the Maxwells supported claims Robert Maxwell was a spy and even suggested that Ghislaine helped him with his work prior to his mysterious death. Pictured: Ghislaine left with dad and mother Elisabeth Maxwell
A source previously revealed to DailyMail.com that Epstein had alerted guards that someone was trying to kill him weeks before he died.
The pedophile took his own life just 15 feet from where prison guards supposed to be watching him were sleeping and browsing the internet. The two narrowly escaped jail after it emerged they had falsified records to suggest they had carried out necessary checks on him prior to his death.
Meanwhile, Maxwell was said to have drowned while aboard his luxury yacht The Lady Ghislaine in Spain’s Canary Islands in 1991.
At the time, the tycoon was facing major financial woes having raided $623 million from his media company Mirror Group’s pension funds to try and cover his massive debts.
Despite the scandal, he was given a hero’s funeral on Israel’s Mount of Olives, attended by former intelligence chiefs, the Israeli Prime Minister and Israeli President.
While police ruled out foul play in his death, theories which of suicide or even a potential assassination by Mossad still persist.
In their book, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul authors Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon suggest a conflict between Maxwell’s public interests and his role as a ‘spy’ are what led to his mysterious death.
They believe Maxwell was helping himself to Mossad money in a bid to recoup his losses, with deadly consequences.
‘It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Epstein had connections to the [Israeli intelligence community],’ Julie K. Brown, told The Times of Israel during an interview on her book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story.
‘Robert Maxwell certainly had those kinds of connections, and Epstein had a close relationship with Robert Maxwell.’
At the time of his suicide, Epstein’s fortune was around $636 million although it has been difficult to pinpoint the exact sources of his massive wealth, inciting further conjecture that it may have come from shadowy sources.
Following his death, the FBI raided his $51 million Manhattan townhouse and found a cache of evidence from a safe including loose diamonds and large amounts of US currency.
They did not have a warrant to remove the items at the time but when they went back to retrieve them, they had gone missing The Telegraph reports.
But even beyond Mossad, Epstein’s links to intelligence agencies on home soil have been questioned.
Mossad Agent Ari Ben-Menashe claimed to have been Robert Maxwell’s handler
Journalist Julie K Brown also stated that it was ‘not beyond the realm of possibility that Epstein had connections’ to Israeli intelligence services
A report by the Wall Street Journal uncovered meetings between the sex trafficker and current head of the CIA William J Burns, even after his first conviction for felony prostitution charges in 2008.
The same report identified meetings with a former White House lawyer, a college president and a member of an global banking dynasty.
The documents revealed multiple meetings with each, even after he had served jail time and been registered as a sex offender for the crime involving a teenage girl.
Ehud’s name cropped up in the latest cache of documents just once, during a deposition by Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg who responds only to confirm she had never met the former Israeli leader.
DailyMail.com previously cast doubt onto Ehud’s claims he never met with Epstein around women after obtaining photos showing him entering the financier’s New York townhouse on the same day as a bevvy of glamorous women.
The married politician hid his face with a camo neck gaiter as he entered the building, later blaming his bizarre attire on being cold.
The townhouse pictured was given to Epstein by Victoria’s Secret tycoon Leslie Wexner who reportedly gifted it to him for just $1 casting further aspersions over Epstein’s wealth.
Wexner was among several high profile names who appear on the new associate list, which also includes Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.