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orangecrush

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Thu Feb 19, 2026, 06:23 PM Yesterday

The history of Epstein as an international intelligence asset [View all]

Mind blowing.

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We follow the documented world Jeffrey Epstein entered in the 1980s, a nexus of Cold War arms trafficking, offshore finance, and intelligence-linked dealmakers operating between London, Geneva, Washington, and the Gulf. Working alongside British defense intermediary Douglas Leese and Saudi billionaire arms broker Adnan Khashoggi, Epstein moved inside networks connected to the Al-Yamamah oil-for-weapons agreement and the broader shadow economy of deniable weapons transfers. These systems relied on shell corporations, Swiss banking secrecy, and layered intermediaries to move billions in commissions tied to fighter jets, missiles, and covert supply chains linked to Iran-Contra–era operations.

This episode traces how intelligence agencies and allied governments used private financiers and brokers as cut-outs to maintain plausible deniability while sustaining geopolitical arms flows during the late Cold War. We examine Epstein’s early financial activities, his role restructuring and shielding assets for powerful clients, and the emergence of a transnational arms-finance ecosystem that blurred the line between state policy and private profit. The result is a true-crime geopolitical investigation into how Epstein rose within the clandestine world of global arms dealing, intelligence relationships, and covert money networks that shaped his later empire.

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Where are the CIA's files on Epstein? leftstreet Yesterday #1
... orangecrush Yesterday #4
I'd say it's likely Epstein worked for Poppy Bush and Bill Barr. blm Yesterday #2
Very likely orangecrush Yesterday #3
Post removed Post removed Yesterday #5
The CIA exists to serve the elite. Of course the CIA worked with Epstein. DJ Synikus Makisimus Yesterday #6
All that is mentioned in the video and documented orangecrush Yesterday #7
Then, with all due respect, please consider this a public service DJ Synikus Makisimus Yesterday #8
I feel ya orangecrush Yesterday #9
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