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<\/a><\/p>\nWhitney Webb \u2013 Mint Press Sept 6, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\nFollowing the arrest and subsequent death in prison of alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a little-known Israeli tech company began to receive increased publicity, but for all the wrong reasons. Not long after Epstein\u2019s arrest, and his relationships and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as Epstein\u2019s close associate and former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist and prominent Trump backer Peter Thiel.<\/span><\/p>\nCarbyne911, or simply Carbyne, develops call-handling and identification capabilities for emergency response services in countries around the world, including the United States, where it has already been implemented in several U.S. counties and has partnered with major U.S. tech companies like Google. It specifically markets its product as a way of mitigating mass shootings in the United States without having to change existing U.S. gun laws.<\/span><\/p>\nYet, Carbyne is no ordinary tech company, as it is deeply connected to the elite Israeli military intelligence division, Unit 8200, whose \u201calumni\u201d often go on to create tech companies \u2014 Carbyne among them \u2014 that frequently maintain their ties to Israeli intelligence and, according to Israeli media reports and former employees, often \u201cblur the line\u201d between their service to Israel\u2019s defense\/intelligence apparatus and their commercial activity. As this report will reveal, Carbyne is but one of several Israeli tech companies marketing themselves as a technological solution to mass shootings that has direct ties to Israeli intelligence agencies.<\/span><\/p>\nIn each case, these companies\u2019 products are built in such a way that they can easily be used to illegally surveil the governments, institutions and civilians that use them, a troubling fact given Unit 8200\u2019s documented prowess in surveillance as a means of obtaining blackmail and Israel\u2019s history of using tech companies to aggressively spy on the U.S. government. This is further compounded by the fact that Unit 8200-linked tech companies have previously received U.S. government contracts to place \u201cbackdoors\u201d into the U.S.\u2019 entire telecommunications system as well as into the popular products of major American tech companies including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, many of whose key managers and executives are now former Unit 8200 officers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it no secret that placing Unit 8200 members in top positions in multinational tech companies is a \u201cdeliberate policy\u201d meant to ensure Israel\u2019s role as the dominant global \u201ccyber power\u201d, while also combating non-violent boycott movements targeting Israel\u2019s violations of international law and stifling the United Nations\u2019 criticisms of Israeli government policy and military operations abroad.<\/span><\/p>\nAs Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s links to intelligence in both the United States and Israel \u2014 the subject of a recent four-part series<\/a><\/strong><\/span> exclusive to MintPress<\/em> \u2014 began to be revealed in full, his financing of Carbyne came under scrutiny, particularly for the company\u2019s deep ties to Israeli intelligence as well as to certain Americans with known connections to U.S. intelligence. Ehud Barak\u2019s own role as both financier and chairman of Carbyne has also added to that concern, given his long history of involvement in covert intelligence operations for Israel and his long-standing ties to Israeli military intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\nAnother funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from the Trump administration\u2019s proposed hi-tech solutions to mass shootings. Indeed, after the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, President Trump \u2014 who received political donations from and has been advised by Thiel following his election \u2014 asked tech companies<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to \u201cdetect mass shooters before they strike,\u201d a service already perfected by Thiel\u2019s company Palantir, which has developed \u201cpre-crime software\u201d already in use throughout the country. Palantir is also a contractor for the U.S. intelligence community and also has a branch based in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\nPerhaps most disturbing of all, whatever technological solution is adopted by the Trump administration, it is set to use a controversial database first developed as part of a secretive U.S. government program that involved notorious Iran-Contra figures like Oliver North as a means of tracking and flagging potential American dissidents for increased surveillance and detention in the event of a vaguely defined \u201cnational emergency.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAs this report will reveal, this database \u2014 often referred to as \u201cMain Core\u201d \u2014 was created with the involvement of Israeli intelligence and Israel remained involved years after it was developed, and potentially to the present. It was also used by at least one former CIA official on President Reagan\u2019s National Security Council to blackmail members of Congress, Congressional staffers and journalists, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n
Carbyne911, or simply Carbyne, develops call-handling and identification capabilities for emergency response services in countries around the world, including the United States, where it has already been implemented in several U.S. counties and has partnered with major U.S. tech companies like Google. It specifically markets its product as a way of mitigating mass shootings in the United States without having to change existing U.S. gun laws.<\/span><\/p>\n Yet, Carbyne is no ordinary tech company, as it is deeply connected to the elite Israeli military intelligence division, Unit 8200, whose \u201calumni\u201d often go on to create tech companies \u2014 Carbyne among them \u2014 that frequently maintain their ties to Israeli intelligence and, according to Israeli media reports and former employees, often \u201cblur the line\u201d between their service to Israel\u2019s defense\/intelligence apparatus and their commercial activity. As this report will reveal, Carbyne is but one of several Israeli tech companies marketing themselves as a technological solution to mass shootings that has direct ties to Israeli intelligence agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n In each case, these companies\u2019 products are built in such a way that they can easily be used to illegally surveil the governments, institutions and civilians that use them, a troubling fact given Unit 8200\u2019s documented prowess in surveillance as a means of obtaining blackmail and Israel\u2019s history of using tech companies to aggressively spy on the U.S. government. This is further compounded by the fact that Unit 8200-linked tech companies have previously received U.S. government contracts to place \u201cbackdoors\u201d into the U.S.\u2019 entire telecommunications system as well as into the popular products of major American tech companies including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, many of whose key managers and executives are now former Unit 8200 officers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it no secret that placing Unit 8200 members in top positions in multinational tech companies is a \u201cdeliberate policy\u201d meant to ensure Israel\u2019s role as the dominant global \u201ccyber power\u201d, while also combating non-violent boycott movements targeting Israel\u2019s violations of international law and stifling the United Nations\u2019 criticisms of Israeli government policy and military operations abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n As Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s links to intelligence in both the United States and Israel \u2014 the subject of a recent four-part series<\/a><\/strong><\/span> exclusive to MintPress<\/em> \u2014 began to be revealed in full, his financing of Carbyne came under scrutiny, particularly for the company\u2019s deep ties to Israeli intelligence as well as to certain Americans with known connections to U.S. intelligence. Ehud Barak\u2019s own role as both financier and chairman of Carbyne has also added to that concern, given his long history of involvement in covert intelligence operations for Israel and his long-standing ties to Israeli military intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n Another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from the Trump administration\u2019s proposed hi-tech solutions to mass shootings. Indeed, after the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, President Trump \u2014 who received political donations from and has been advised by Thiel following his election \u2014 asked tech companies<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to \u201cdetect mass shooters before they strike,\u201d a service already perfected by Thiel\u2019s company Palantir, which has developed \u201cpre-crime software\u201d already in use throughout the country. Palantir is also a contractor for the U.S. intelligence community and also has a branch based in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps most disturbing of all, whatever technological solution is adopted by the Trump administration, it is set to use a controversial database first developed as part of a secretive U.S. government program that involved notorious Iran-Contra figures like Oliver North as a means of tracking and flagging potential American dissidents for increased surveillance and detention in the event of a vaguely defined \u201cnational emergency.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n As this report will reveal, this database \u2014 often referred to as \u201cMain Core\u201d \u2014 was created with the involvement of Israeli intelligence and Israel remained involved years after it was developed, and potentially to the present. It was also used by at least one former CIA official on President Reagan\u2019s National Security Council to blackmail members of Congress, Congressional staffers and journalists, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n