{"id":199349,"date":"2019-12-17T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199349"},"modified":"2019-12-19T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T06:59:00","slug":"former-spy-details-israels-main-motive-behind-epsteins-sexual-blackmail-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199349","title":{"rendered":"Former Spy Details Israel\u2019s Main Motive Behind Epstein\u2019s Sexual Blackmail Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whitney Webb \u2013 via Information Clearing House Dec 15, 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n

December 15, 2019 “Information Clearing House<\/a><\/strong><\/span>” –\u00a0 <\/em>MONTREAL \u2014 In recent weeks, renewed attention has been brought to the allegations that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s sex trafficking and sexual blackmail operation was run on behalf of Israeli military intelligence. Those claims revolve around statements made by a former Israeli military intelligence official turned public relations consultant Ari Ben-Menashe, whose allegations regarding the Epstein scandal were reported by MintPress<\/em> this past October.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben-Menashe\u2019s claims related to Epstein first surfaced in an interview between Ben-Menashe and Zev Shalev of the independent news outlet, Narativ<\/em>. As detailed in a MintPress<\/span><\/strong><\/em> summary and commentary<\/span><\/strong><\/a> of that interview, Ben-Menashe claimed to have seen Jeffrey Epstein in the office of Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s father, several times in the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ariel Sharon (right) meets with Robert Maxwell in Jerusalem on Feb. 20, 1990. Photo | AP. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

At the time, Ben-Menashe was in close contact with Robert Maxwell regarding their work mutual work with Israeli military intelligence. Maxwell, in addition to heading a media empire and being a one-time member of U.K. parliament, was a longtime operative for Israeli intelligence, so much so that his 1991 funeral was attended by no less than six<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence as well as several high-ranking Israeli politicians and prime ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maxwell is alleged to have recruited Jeffrey Epstein for Israeli intelligence and later introduced Epstein to Ben-Menashe and another operative, Nicholas Davies. Epstein was introduced to Ben-Menashe as having been pre-approved by leading figures in Israel\u2019s military intelligence directorate, known as Aman.<\/span><\/p>\n

MintPress<\/em> recently conducted its own interview with Mr. Ben-Menashe as part of an ongoing investigation<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on the life and connections of the now-infamous Jeffrey Epstein.<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of that interview is provided below with relevant commentary, particularly regarding claims related to the relationship between Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Epstein\u2019s trip to Tel Aviv immediately prior to his first arrest, and the reasons for Israeli military intelligence\u2019s interest in orchestrating and financing a major sexual blackmail operation targeting top U.S. politicians.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael Requested that Epstein Target Clinton\u201d<\/h2>\n

MintPress News <\/em>first asked Ben-Menashe about Robert Maxwell, a known asset and operative for Israeli intelligence, having recruited Jeffrey Epstein. Ben-Menashe = confirmed this to MintPress<\/em> and also noted that, after their initial meeting, Epstein was frequently present in Maxwell\u2019s office in London.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the 1980s, as MintPress<\/em> previously reported<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Epstein claimed to have been an intelligence operative and so-called \u201cbounty hunter\u201d in the world of shadow finance. During this time, he was known to have developed close relationships with several British arms dealers, particularly Sir Douglas Leese. Thus, Epstein appeared to frequently be traveling between the Middle East and London, which is also supported by Epstein\u2019s now-infamous Austrian passport which he was believed to have carried during this period of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben-Menashe told MintPress<\/em> that he had not only met Epstein after Epstein had been recently recruited by Israeli military intelligence, but had seen him on several occasions thereafter as Epstein \u201cused to be in [Robert Maxwell\u2019s] office [in London] quite often\u201d and would arrive there between trips to and from Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, Ben-Menashe revealed his understanding of why Epstein was eventually shepherded into acting as a professional sexual blackmailer on behalf of Israeli military intelligence. Per Ben-Menashe, there were concerns among Israeli intelligence figures that, following the Reagan Era, a new president would push for Israel to make peace with the Palestinians, something those officials sought to avoid by any means necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n

ABM | <\/strong>Here\u2019s the thing\u2026 Mr. Carter\u2026 as in President Carter\u2026 the Israelis feared that Mr. Clinton, when he was campaigning for President, will be a repeat of Mr. Carter. He wanted to press them for peace with the Palestinians and all that stuff. They feared\u2026 Clinton wasn\u2019t that\u2026 but they feared he was that\u2026 And I think Mr. Epstein was sent early on to catch up with President Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n

MintPress News (MPN) | <\/strong>Well, that\u2019s interesting because the first year Clinton was in office, Epstein was already attending donor dinners at the White House and making White House visits as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

ABM |<\/strong> Yeah, that\u2019s right. That\u2019s right. I believe his biggest client was Mr. Clinton catch, or catch, or whatever, and he had a few other congressmen and what not but Clinton was, was his biggest catch.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Thus, Ben-Menashe argues, when Bill Clinton\u2019s candidacy in the 1992 U.S. Presidential election became clear, efforts were made to target him via sexual blackmail and Jeffrey Epstein was chosen for that purpose. Bill Clinton was eventually blackmailed<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by the state of Israel and his administration was also targeted by Israeli espionage as part of the \u201cMega\u201d spy scandal<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Epstein\u2019s involvement in the Clinton administration and his visits to the White House date back to<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Clinton\u2019s first year in office. More information on the Epstein-Clinton relationship can be found in this MintPress<\/em> report<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, MintPress<\/em> also asked Ben-Menashe if he was aware of Ghislaine Maxwell being directly involved with her father\u2019s intelligence-related activities prior to his death in 1991. Ben-Menashe noted that Ghislaine accompanied her father so frequently, including on a now-infamous 1989 party on Maxwell\u2019s yach<\/strong><\/span>t<\/a> where Donald Trump and several key figures in the PROMIS software scandal<\/strong><\/span><\/a> were in attendance, that she was involved in his intelligence-related activities to some extent. However, he stopped short of saying how involved she was or what she has specifically been involved in prior to her father\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n

When did Epstein really meet Ehud Barak?<\/h2>\n
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Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the more controversial ties between Epstein and powerful politicians is that between Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Barak has claimed to have only met Epstein in 2002 and, from that point on, their relationship was very public, with Barak frequently visiting and even spending the night at residences owned by Epstein, including apartments where he housed the underage girls that he exploited. Barak also visited Epstein\u2019s now-infamous island and recruited him to help fund the Israeli intelligence-connected company, Carbyne911<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, there appear to be indications that Epstein and Barak may have met much earlier than Barak has since claimed. Given that Ben-Menashe claimed to have learned of Epstein\u2019s recruitment by Israeli military intelligence in the 1980s, MintPress<\/em> asked if one of the people involved in his recruitment was Ehud Barak. Barak served as head of Israel\u2019s military intelligence directorate, Aman, from April 1983 to January 1986.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben-Menashe could not recall the exact year when he first became aware of Epstein\u2019s recruitment by Israeli military intelligence but stated that it was \u201cmost likely\u201d during Ehud Barak\u2019s tenure as the head of Aman. Yet, even if Epstein\u2019s recruitment did not take place while Barak headed Aman, it is highly likely \u2014 per Ben-Menashe \u2014 that Epstein had met Barak during this time because \u201cRobert Maxwell became buddies with Ehud Barak\u2026and he [Robert Maxwell] probably introduced them, the young man [Epstein] to Mr. Barak\u201d if the two were not already acquainted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the Epstein scandal broke, Ehud Barak has insisted that he did not meet Epstein until the year 2002 and claimed that the two had been introduced by former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Ben-Menashe dismissed the possibility that this claim was true, emphatically stating that he was \u201csure they had met before\u201d and that he did not believe that their first meeting was in 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n

Epstein\u2019s 2008 Trip to Tel Aviv<\/h2>\n

Just a few months before he was sentenced to prison for the first time in June 2008, Jeffrey Epstein had made a sudden visit<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to the Israeli capital of Tel Aviv. In April of that year, the Palm Beach Daily News<\/em> reported that Epstein was staying at the Tel Aviv Hilton and quoted an Epstein spokesman as saying that he was \u201cspending Passover, meeting with Israeli research scientists, and taking a tour of military bases.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometime prior to Epstein\u2019s sentencing on June 30 of that year, Alexander Acosta \u2013then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida\u2013 signed off on a lenient sentence for Epstein who was charged with soliciting sex from a minor. That legal arrangement has since been nicknamed the \u201csweetheart deal.\u201d Acosta later told Trump transition officials prior to his nomination for Secretary of Labor that his decision to approve the \u201csweetheart deal\u201d came after he had been told to back off<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>in the Epstein case because Epstein \u201cbelonged to intelligence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Though Acosta did not specify from whom he had received this information, former CIA agent Phil Giraldi has made a convincing case<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that they originated from Epstein\u2019s then-lawyer Alan Dershowitz, a close associate of Epstein with ties to high-ranking Israeli politicians, and Barry Krischer, then-Florida State Attorney for Palm Beach who recently received an award<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for his \u201coutstanding contribution to the legal profession and to the community at large.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As detailed in a previous MintPress<\/em> report<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on Epstein\u2019s ties to Israel published this past August, the ADL\u2019s long-time top funders have close ties to Epstein and his sexual blackmail network, particularly the Bronfman family of Seagrams fame.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben-Menashe told MintPress <\/em>that Epstein\u2019s 2008 Tel Aviv visit was likely \u201cblowing smoke\u201d and involved Epstein \u201ctrying to make himself important maybe not to get arrested\u201d and \u201choping that the Israelis would help him.\u201d He then added that \u201cAt the time they probably did\u201d help Epstein, but added that \u201cthe second time around [i.e. 2019], well\u2026it would be a harder sell.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Whitney Webb<\/em><\/strong> is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

This article was originally posted on Mint Press News<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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