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Two American billionaires and their shady deals with Israeli intelligence
Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and mercenary Erik Prince enjoy strong ties to the Israeli intelligence industry, while cutting sensitive business deals with Russia, China and the US
Deep Ties
Epstein worked closely with Israel, at the forefront of a private initiative to bring cutting edge Israeli military intelligence technology to the private sector, available to the highest bidder.
This single company, Carbyne, brought together a who’s who of power brokers and intelligence figures from multiple regions including Russia, China and the Trump administration itself, with Epstein at its heart.
Officially, Carbyne provided high-tech solutions for emergency centres. In reality, it existed in a grey area giving it unprecedented access to private information, with significant potential for privacy abuse.
Carbyne provides a service for police emergency centres, providing complete access to the caller’s camera and GPS, providing the dispatcher with a live video feed.
But Carbyne’s shareholders have drawn skepticism, leading many to question Epstein’s ties to questionable figures.
Operating beyond any nation’s complete oversight, Carbyne had no restrictions to transfer technology to autocratic leaders that regularly violate human rights.
The Chinese Connection
Carbyne’s technology is speculated to have been transferred to China through co-founder Lital Leshem, who is a shareholder at Carbyne.
She also works with Erik Prince at Frontier Resources Group (FRG), based in the United Arab Emirates, and a subsidiary of the Chinese-majority owned Frontier Services Group (FSG).
Prince, the founder of Frontier Services Group, previously known as Blackwater, helped the United Arab Emirates train a South American mercenary army to fight for the Saudi-UAE coalition war in Yemen for $529 million.
But how did China benefit from Prince’s ties to Carbyne?
In 2013, Prince sold a majority share of FSG to the Chinese. His new overseer, billionaire Chang Xhenming, is particularly close to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Not long after, FSG was involved in China’s crackdown on Muslim communities, helping build facilities to detain one million people and putting 13 million under surveillance. In particular, FSG was slated to help build the notorious ‘re-training camps’ to hold ethnic Uyghurs and Muslims.
Human Rights Watch revealed that Chinese authorities began to use an application much like Carbyne to surveil Uyghurs. Carbyne’s first 911 surveillance contract was installed in Fayette County in the US state of Georgia in 2018, the same time China’s nearly identical mass surveillance was launched.
Unlike the limited use Carbyne’s 911 application saw in the US to report emergencies, China’s ‘Integrated Joint Operations Platform’ was a highly similar app for mass surveillance.
The Chinese surveillance app monitors every aspect of a user’s life, including personal conversations, power usage, activating the camera and microphone, and even tracking a user’s movement.
According to Human Rights Watch, which reverse engineered the app, suspicion could fall on someone for “saying something religious”, or even exiting their house by the back door, which is seen as more suspicious.
If Carbyne’s technology was transferred through its shareholder and Erik Prince employee Litai Lesham, it would hardly mark the first time China benefited from third-party technology companies in implementing mass surveillance technology.
Who’s behind Carbyne?
Epstein’s alleged connection to Israeli intelligence is given substance by the deep ties he held with the Israeli military and intelligence communities.
Chief among the co-founders of Carbyne is former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, who has ties connecting him to Epstein for nearly 17 years.
In 2014, Epstein invested $1.5 million in a joint venture with Barak, which would later fund Carbyne.
Barak, as former Israeli leader, also has deep ties to Israeli intelligence. The former general faced charges of war crimes, but escaped arrest due diplomatic immunity. But even Barak is only the tip of the iceberg.
Amir Elichai, another Israeli shareholder, was a distinguished member of Israel’s elite military intelligence group.
Pinchas Berkus, a former Brigadier General of the elite 8200 unit, was part of the Israeli Intelligence Corps responsible for signals intelligence and decryption, until he came to serve in Carbyne as a company director.
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/two-american-billionaires-and-their-shady-deals-with-israeli-intelligence-28819