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Those whispers must be pretty quiet. Do you have any sources for this?

This Observer article from 2019 covers most of it: https://observer.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-spy-intelligenc...

It's on wikipedia. It's circumstantial not a smoking gun, but it seems very clear Gislane Maxwell's dad was connected to Mossad.

My personal view is that Epstein was essentially a blackmailer, that was occasionally useful in passing information to intelligence agencies as a result of his activities.

Alex Acosta told the Trump transition team that interviewed him that Epstein was 'intelligence' see: https://observer.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-spy-intelligenc... and many other sources besides.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr's father was involved in the Dalton School. (Edit: he was headmaster of Dalton School from 1964 to 1974).

Barr's father previously got Epstein a job teaching at the Dalton School.

Barr's father also wrote a creepy novel called Space Relations that involves a subplot of an enslaved teenager used to breed more slaves; there are other odd sexually charged subplots involving underaged girls as well.

Epstein discussed with others the idea of breeding many women... the coincidences sure seem odd, at the least.

"The U.S. Intelligence Community is lenient about the private habits of high-value agents or informants, but they won’t countenance running sex trafficking rings for minors on American soil, for years. While it’s plausible that Epstein was sharing some information with the FBI—many criminals do so to buy themselves some insurance—it’s implausible that he was mainly working for the Americans."

OK. So what I'm getting is that he wasn't working "mainly" for the Americans and even if he was, they wouldn't countenance running sex trafficking rings for minors on American soil, for years.

Given that, it doesn't make sense for "someone" to tell him Epstein "'belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone”.

When Epstein was convicted the first time, in 2008, the prosecutor got told to let him go because he was a CIA asset. He got a deal that included only a few months in jail.

These whispers have been around for decades in certain circles, even before the weird Florida non-prosecution. The singularly most public, appropriately caveated, responsible discussion of this comes through Eric Weinstein, here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/25-the-construct-jeffr...

How could this not be an Intel opp? He ran in plain site for decades with token prosecution.

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