>>9827385 (PB)

>Possible Epstein was a puppet [not the main person(s) of interest]?

Yes. This has been my suspicion for a while now. Based on the fact that Epstein ended up dead while in custody, while G. Maxwell initially disappeared from view, I would presume that the purported "Girlfriend" of Epstein played a much more important role in Epstein's operation than initially recognized.

Could it be that Epstein's purported fortune was really the fortune of the late R. Maxwell?

According to Maxwell's file "Captain Ian Maxwell" at the National Archives in Kew, London, the Information Research Department described Maxwell as "a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia". Correspondence between IRD members revealed that Czech-born Maxwell had been considered to be a suspicious figure directly after then Second World War." He was reported to have kept ties with Russian leaders until his death. This was reported by The Telegraph in November 2003. [1]

From this information, it can be reasonably asserted that R. Maxwell has links to both British intelligence and to high level players in Russia.

Furthermore, the NZ Herald reported in January 2020 that Epstein "boasted about selling Prince Andrew's secrets to Mossad spy":

Jeffrey Epstein's former "mentor" has revealed how the disgraced paedophile would boast to his friends about how he was going to sell Prince Andrew's secrets to Israel's intelligence agency Mossad. Steven Hoffenberg also revealed Epstein called the Duke of York his "Super Bowl trophy" and that the pair's friendship began years earlier than the royal claims.

Part 1/2, to be continued…

>>9829218

Continuation… Part 2/3…

According to a Wikipedia Entry on Steven Jude Hoffberg:

In 1987 Hoffenberg hired Jeffrey Epstein to help with the Towers Financial Corporation. Hoffenberg set Epstein up in offices in the Villard Houses. They unsuccessfully tried to take over Pan Am in a corporate raid with Towers Financial as their raiding vessel. Their bid failed, in part because of the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, which ultimately contributed to the airline's bankruptcy. A similar unsuccessful bid in 1988 was made to take over Emery Air Freight Corp. He rescued the New York Post from bankruptcy and briefly owned the paper. During this period, Hoffenberg and Epstein worked closely together and traveled everywhere on Hoffenberg's private jet. [3]

A link between S. Hoffenberg and R. Maxwell can in turn be established through Peter S. Kalikow, per a clip on newspapers.com:

After personal bankruptcy in 1991, Kalikow was looking for new cash sources for "The Post", which he acquired in 1988 from Rupert Murdoch for $37 Million. Kalikow found a buyer for the paper on Jan. 24 in 1993, when S. Hoffenberg, chairman of the "Towers Financial Corp" agreed to a purchase the Post. Towers Financial Corp however turned out to be a ponzi scheme and collapsed shortly after, on February 8. The SEC froze Hoffenberg's assets on February 17. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court nonetheless approved Hoffenberg's purchase of the Post on February 19. [4]

Meanwhile, Iranian-born former Israeli intelligence agent and arms dealer Ari Ben-Menashe -who also served as a senior executive for Israel's Directorate of Military Intelligence from 1977 to 1987- reportedly told interviewer Zev Shalev [5]:

Interviewer: You spoke about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as being a part of Israeli Military Intelligence. Do you know specifically which unit?

Ari Ben-Menashe: Because of Robert Maxwell, they worked directly with military intelligence. I don’t know who they answered to.

Interviewer: Would you say she was an agent as well?

Ari Ben-Menashe: Yes.

Interviewer: Military intelligence as well?

Ari Ben-Menashe: Yes, yes.

Ari Ben-Menashe: [Epstein and Ghislaine] were blackmailing American and other political figures.

Interviewer: For the Israelis?

Ari Ben-Menashe: Yeah

Interviewer: For most people it’s hard for them to think of Israel as… blackmailing their leaders in the United States, it’s a very …

Ari Ben-Menashe: You’re kidding? [laughs]… It was quite their M.O.

Ari Ben-Menashe: Sleeping around is not a crime, it may be embarrassing, but it’s not a crime, but sleeping with underage girls is a crime.

Ari Ben-Menashe: What happened was Maxwell introduced him to us, and he wanted us to accept him as part of our group. [He said] ‘and your Israeli bosses have already approved.’

TBC…

>>9829235

Continuation (Part 3/3)

Maxwell had an extensive network in Israel at the time, which included the then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, according to Ben-Menashe. Despite Maxwell’s introduction and endorsements from his superiors, Ben-Menashe claims Epstein didn’t appear competent and “wasn’t accepted” by him or Nick Davies, the Daily Mirror’s Foreign Editor, who was also a part of the arms operation.

Ari Ben-Menashe: [Epstein] wasn’t very competent. He didn’t seem to be a competent guy, he doesn’t seem to be. But he was a good looking guy. And Miss Maxwell …

Interviewer: Ghislaine, yeah.

Ari Ben-Menashe: … fell for him.

Interviewer: That early, the 1980’s?

Ari Ben-Menashe: That early. How old was she?

Ghislaine was 20, Epstein was 26 in 1980.

Interviewer: She was young.

Ari Ben-Menashe: Yeah.

Interviewer: But most of the reporting about her and him only started in 1991 when they got to the United States.

Ari Ben-Menashe: Yeah, I realize that. But they were already …

Interviewer: They were already dating.

Ari Ben-Menashe: Call it dating or whatever.

Interviewer: So he was part of the family business?

Ari Ben-Menashe: Yeah, and Maxwell sort of started liking him. And my theory is that Maxwell felt that this guy is going for his daughter.

While I did not explore the backgrounds of Steven Hoffenberg or Peter S. Kalikow any further, the above information leads me to believe that it was in fact R. Maxwell who recruited J. Epstein, to work with his daughter G. Maxwell! I would further speculate that G. Maxwell continued the work of her father, after his untimely death. It seems not unreasonable to conclude that G. Maxwell was really the lead operative in the alleged Blackmail scheme.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200702191000/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1445707/FO-suspected-Maxwell-was-a-Russian-agent-papers-reveal.html

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200702191526/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12303369

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20200702192244/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20200702192625/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34675319/mortimer-zuckerman-steven-hoffenberg/

[5] https://web.archive.org/web/20200702194129/https://narativ.org/2019/09/26/blackmailing-america/

>>9829240

The question remains: Who exactly in Russia financed R. Maxwell? As this went back to cold war days, could it be that Maxwell's operation was part of a Communist infiltration plot?

>>9829218

BAKER

Notable?

>>9829404

Thanks, Anon. I found this report from 01/09/1996 that seems to corroborate the information from your video link:

A British newspaper, The Guardian, reported yesterday that Maxwell had helped Bulgaria's Communist leaders launder money through joint ventures set up in the West with Bulgarian capital. The Guardian named Lukanov, former Communist Dictator Todor Zhivkov, and former Politburo member Ognyan Doynov.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200702203317/https://www.rferl.org/a/1079918.html

>>9829417

Pure speculation on my part:

Did R. Maxwell perhaps find out about J. Epsteins pedophilia? Did he not like it one bit (security risk) and wanted to get rid of J. Epstein, much to Ghislaine's chagrin?

Did G. Maxwell take initiative and deposed herself of her father, while building a new business model around Epstein's sexual preferences?

>>9829364

It's actually called LAED Act, isn't it?

It amounts to revoking the second amendment: Disarming the general public, while concentrating power(force) in the hands of a few multinational corporations.

>>9829545

Yes, that's kinda my point.