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maandag 9 december 2019

Epstein was een agent van de Mossad en werd gebruikt om politici te chanteren

Jeffrey Epstein, de 'gesuïcideerde' leider van een seksnetwerk met minderjarige meisjes (en incidenteel jongens) zou volgens ex-Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe zijn gerekruteerd door de Mossad...... Epstein's seksnetwerk met minderjarigen die gedwongen werden tot het hebben van seks, werd gebruikt door de Mossad om beroemdheden, maar vooral vooraanstaande politici te chanteren.....

Tot de politici en beroemdheden behoren figuren als Bill Clinton [ex-] president van de VS en 'beroemdheid' prins Andrew van het Britse koningshuis, voorts worden o.a. de namen genoemd van Donald Trump en Tony Blair...... De laatste is een tot het katholicisme bekeerde schoft en oorlogsmisdadiger, die als Labour leider en premier van GB, de Labour Partij hervormde tot een pooier van het neoliberalisme.......

Epstein werd na introductie door Robert Maxwell als agent van de Mossad aangesteld, overigens een weinig succesvolle, vandaar dat men besloot met de hulp van Epstein politici en ander bekende figuren te chanteren met foto's en video's, gemaakt tijdens seksfeesten waar zoals gezegd de 'vip's' seks hadden met minderjarigen.......

De schrijver van het onderstaande artikel Paul Joseph Watson noemt het niet, maar het kan bijna niet anders dan de CIA en wellicht nog een andere geheime dienst van de meer dan 25 geheime diensten die de VS 'rijk' is, moet medeplichtig zijn aan deze zaak...... De Israëlische ex-spion die alles in de openbaarheid gooide is Ari Ben-Menashe.

Niet vreemd dus dat Epstein is vermoord en ook dat kan wel eens zijn gedaan middels een samenwerkingsverband van geheime diensten, inclusief de Mossad...... Voorts moet niet vergeten worden dat een aantal van de genoemde figuren nog steeds een zekere macht hebben en geld voldoende hebben om iemand te laten vermoorden in de gevangenis...... Neem Donald Trump, als zou uitkomen dat hij zonder enige twijfel een minderjarige heeft verkracht, kon het wel eens over en uit zijn voor hem....... Trouwens de Britse pedo-prins Andrew die zichzelf helemaal in de nesten heeft gewerkt met zijn zogenaamde verdediging, kon ook wel eens zijn geholpen door MI6....

Wellicht denk je dat het allemaal onzin is, echter vergeleken met waartoe geheime diensten als de Mossad en de CIA in staat zijn, zijn voornoemde zaken het best te vergelijken met een theekransje....... Zo is het wel zeker dat de Mossad de dienst is die achter de beschuldiging zit dat Jeremy Corbyn antisemiet is, alleen daar deze een paar jaar geleden aankondigde een heel andere koers te gaan varen als het om de (fascistische apartheidsstaat, Ap) Israël gaat, ook zou Corbyn als premier het verdrukte Palestijnse volk steunen, zo beloofde hij.... Alsof opkomen tegen de verdrukking van een volk antisemitisch is... Gezien wat nazi-Duitsland o.a. tegen de Joden flikte tijdens WOII, is dit te zot voor woorden!!

Het volgende artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd op Summit News en werd door mij overgenomen van Zero Hedge:

Epstein Was A Mossad Agent Used To Blackmail American Politicians, Former Israeli Spy Claims



Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad asset who was used by Israeli intelligence to blackmail American politicians, according to a former Israeli spy.

Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli spy and alleged “handler” of Robert Maxwell, told the authors of a new book, Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales, that Epstein ran a “complex intelligence operation” at the behest of Mossad.

Believing that Epstein planned to marry his daughter, Maxwell introduced him and Ghislaine Maxwell to Ben-Menashe’s Mossad circle.
Maxwell sort of started liking him, and my theory is that Maxwell felt that this guy is going for his daughter,” Ben-Menashe said.
He felt that he could bless him with some work and help him out in like a paternal [way].”

Israeli intelligence bosses gave the green light and Epstein then became a Mossad asset.
They were agents of the Israeli Intelligence Services,” said Ben-Menashe.

When it became clear that Epstein wasn’t very competent at doing much else, his primary role became “blackmailing American and other political figures.”
Mr. Epstein was the simple idiot who was going around providing girls to all kinds of politicians in the United States,” said Ben-Menashe.
See, fucking around is not a crime. It could be embarrassing, but it’s not a crime. But fucking a fourteen-year-old girl is a crime. And he was taking photos of politicians fucking fourteen-year-old girls — if you want to get it straight. They would just blackmail people, they would just blackmail people like that.”

There’s also a Mossad connection to a different kind of sex offender; Harvey Weinstein.

Weinstein reportedly hired ex-Mossad agents to suppress allegations against him. Working for an Israeli firm called Black Cube, these agents pressured witnesses and tried to intimidate journalist Ronan Farrow in order to “bury the truth” about Weinstein’s activity.
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* Zo vraag ik me nog steeds af of 'Lady Di' (Diana) niet in een georchestreerd ongeluk is omgekomen........

Zie ook:
'Epsteins pedoseksuele netwerk was al lang bekend, onder andere ABC hield de berichtgeving tegen'

'Jeffrey Epstein: bewakers die fraudeerden weigerden een 'plea deal''

'Prince Andrew: het voorbeeld dat koningshuizen eindelijk moeten worden opgedoekt'

'Epstein vermoord volgens patholoog-anatoom'

'Jeffrey Epstein en Ghislaine Maxwell werkten mede voor de militaire geheime dienst van Israël'


'Kindermisbruikers beschermd door overheden' (met links naar een groot aantal video's)


'Donald Trump - Jeffey Epstein: you've got to grab them by the pussy'


'WHAT THE EPSTEIN CASE REVEALS, “PEOPLE ARE OVERLOOKING THE CHILDREN…” (video van Brasscheck TV):

´Russiagate, 'couppoging tegen Trump' en kindermisbruik netwerk Epstein zijn gekoppeld´

'Prince Andrew ontkent kennis kindermisbruiknetwerk Epstein, maar........'


'Jeffrey Epstein waarschijnlijk op 'loonlijst' Mossad, de Israëlische geheime dienst'


'Jeffrey Epstein (exploitant kindermisbruik netwerk) 'overleden aan suïcide''


'Jeffrey Epstein, beheerder van een kindermisbruiknetwerk 'is gesuïcideerd' ofwel vermoord'

'Jeffrey Epstein: seksueel wangedrag van welgestelden veelal onder de pet gehouden'

'Jeffrey Epsteins kleine zwarte pedo-boek met namen als Bill Clinton, David Koch, Courtney Love, prins Andrew en Tony Blair'

vrijdag 8 november 2019

Irak gevangen door VS agressie richting Iran en daarnaast een opstand in eigen land

Het volgende schreef ik op 18 mei dit jaar, n.a.v. een artikel over Iran en Irak en de relatie van deze landen met de VS..... Het bericht is aan m'n aandacht ontsnapt maar kwam weer 'bovendrijven' door de opstand die gaande is in Irak. Opvallend deze grote opstand, waarbij al honderden mensen zijn omgekomen (veelal vermoord door veiligheidstroepen van politie en leger), waar een sjiitische regering het land regeert, 'toevallig' staan de sjiieten er al decennia slecht op bij de VS, zie de genocide in Jemen...... Een genocide uitgevoerd op het sjiitische deel van het volk, waarbij de VS en GB hand- en spandiensten verlenen..... Verder is een opstand gaande in Libanon, waar de CIA op zeker de hand in heeft, daar men van Hezbollah af wil, een sjiitische politieke en hulporganisatie..... Gegarandeerd ook dat de Mossad de CIA meehelpt de stabiliteit van dat land te ondermijnen......

Vergeet verder niet alle smerige acties van de VS tegen Iran, zoals de illegale sancties tegen dat land......

Hier het stuk dat ik een aantal maanden geleden schreef:

Alex MacDonald schreef een artikel op Middle East Eye (MEE) over de verschillende signalen uit het Witte Huis t.a.v. Iran en Irak, terwijl de laatste 2 landen voor een behoorlijk deel op elkaar zijn aangewezen, zo komt een groot deel van het gas dat in Irak wordt gebruikt, uit Iran.

Pompeo heeft Irak opgedragen de Iraanse milities in de hand te houden daar de VS anders zonder Bagdad acties zal ondernemen tegen deze milities......

Het hieronder opgenomen artikel voegt nog meer onzekerheid toe aan wat er staat te gebeuren in het Midden-Oosten, mocht de VS besluiten een volgende illegale oorlog te beginnen, die tegen Iran.....

De aanvallen tegen tankers vorige week werden al gezien als de volgende false flag operatie van de VS om Iran te demoniseren en daarmee een reden te hebben Iran aan te vallen, iets dat nog steeds zou kunnen gebeuren, als de VS een onderzoek doet, waarbij de uitkomst van te voren is vastgesteld: Iran is de schuldige..... (het zou bepaald de eerste keer niet zijn dat de VS met dit bijltje hakt...)

Voorts heeft de VS laten weten dat wanneer haar troepen in Irak worden aangevallen, het zelf actie zal ondernemen, zonder de Iraakse regering daar in te kennen..... Niet vreemd dus dat verzetsgroepen die o.a. tegen IS vochten, groepen die wel en niet door Iran worden gesteund, eisen dat de VS zich volledig terugtrekt uit Irak, echter daar lijkt het nog steeds niet op (zelfs niet een aantal maanden later, dus op 8 november 2019)

Eén ding is zeker, de Trump administratie is verdeeld over wat te doen inzake Iran, hoewel oorlogsmisdadiger en topterrorist Bolton, een ploert die grote invloed heeft op het psychopathische beest Trump, er geen twijfel over laat bestaan: de VS moet Iran aanvallen en moet alleen daarvoor al in Irak blijven...... (gelukkig is de psychopathische oorlogsmisdadiger Bolton intussen afgeserveerd)

Het volgende artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd op Middle East Eye (MEE) en werd zoals gezegd geschreven door Alex MacDonald:

'Nobody really knows what's going on': Iraq caught between US and Iran again

'This White House does not have a clear policy on how to deal with Iraq - they see Iraq through a lens of anti-Iran rhetoric,' Iraqi MP tells MEE
PMU fighters ride in a tank near the Iraqi-Syrian border in al-Qaim, Iraq (Reuters)
Published date: 17 May 2019 15:50 UTC | 
With tensions once again ratcheting up between the US and Iran, Iraq is, as usual, stuck in the middle.
On Wednesday, the US announced it was withdrawing all non-essential staff from the capital Baghdad and the Kurdish capital Erbil following an unspecified threat from Iran-linked forces.
Iraq has long been a battlefield for a proxy clash between US and Iranian interests. Thousands of US troops are still based in the country, while Iran provides financial and ideological support to a number of armed groups and political parties.
Just as many Iraqis were hopeful their country was pulling itself out of a long period of bloodshed and instability, it looks like the drums of war could be beating again.
There is chaos in the White House over how to handle Iraq
- Sarkawt Shams, MP

Despite the threats from armed groups, many in Iraq viewed with incredulity claims by the US that the threat from Iran-backed groups was enough to warrant pulling staff from the country.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Tuesday told reporters that Iraq side had not observed “movements that constitute a threat to any side. We clarified that to the Americans - the government is doing its duty to protect all parties.”
The US has had personnel in Iraq in a wide array of capacities since it invaded the country in 2003. Threats against them have been frequent and numerous since then, particularly at the height of the anti-occupation insurgency in the middle of the first decade of the century. And yet, there was no pullout of staff during that period of time.
One Iraqi government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to speak with the media, said that the excuses given by the US were "not at all" being taken seriously by Iraq.
"There is an increase in diplomacy, an increased number of visits by foreign affairs ministers or phone calls with them, visits by ambassadors," he said.
However, apart from somewhat greater attention being paid to the news, there was little planning going on for a possible future conflict.

"Nobody really knows what's going on," the official said
"That lack of clarity is what is driving some concerns," he explained.

Iran-Iraq ties

Any conflict between Iran and the US would inevitably have a huge impact on Iraq. 
According to the Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce, of $44bn Iranian non-oil exports, around $9bn worth of goods were exported to Iraq in the year to March, a 36 percent year on year increase, while as much as 40 percent of Iraqi electricity is thought to come from Iranian gas plants.
Despite renewing sanctions on Iran in November, the US has been repeatedly forced to issue waivers to Iraq, knowing full well how reliant the country is on the Islamic Republic.
Sarkawt Shams, an MP with the New Generation party, told MEE that the US decision was "immature" and based on an "inaccurate" assessment of the threats.
"There is chaos in the White House over how to handle Iraq," he said. "This White House does not have a clear policy on how to deal with Iraq - they see Iraq through a lens of anti-Iran rhetoric."
Shams said that he was concerned that the US move would end up harming relations between the two countries, which he hoped would have been strengthened in a post-Islamic State (IS) era.
"We were hoping that after the defeat of IS that we could shift relations between our two countries from military to economic and trade cooperation - that we could have the US invest in Iraq's economy, not just military capability," he explained.
A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency on April 6, 2019 shows Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi in the Iranian capital Tehran (AFP)
A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency on 6 April shows Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi in Tehran (AFP)
All this is likely to prove a headache for Abdul Mahdi, who concluded a visit to Turkey on Thursday.
Iraq still does not have a defence or interior minister, more than a year after parliamentary elections.
Reuters quoted two Iraqi military sources as saying that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had told Iraqi officials during a surprise trip earlier this month that they would have to keep Iran-backed armed groups in check.
They said if the US were attacked on Iraqi soil, it would take action to defend itself without coordinating with Baghdad," the source said.
Iran-backed groups such as Asaib Ahl al-Haq, the Badr Organisation and Kataib Hezbollah have repeatedly called for US troops to leave the country - as have other non-Iran-backed groups.
During a trip by Donald Trump to Iraq in December - a trip which stoked further controversy as the president chose not to meet with Iraqi officials - the former reality TV star broke with the official US policy line that troop deployment was purely aimed at targeting IS and said that it would also be monitoring Iran, comments which enraged many Iraqis.
Husham al-Hashimi, a security analyst based in Baghdad, said the controversy had "embarrased" Abdul Mahdi, who he said was attempting to tread "calmly and cautiously with the increased tension between Washington and Tehran".
"As an Iraqi citizen from outside the government and the parties, I am very anxious about the deterioration of the Iraqi economy," Hashimi told MEE. "Investors are worried because they are scared about the collapse of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar."
He added that, unless US embassy officials were able to convince their bosses in Washington otherwise, "there is a real fear no one can stop this." 

A 'real' foreign policy

A wide array of countries have pushed for the US and Iran to tone down their rhetoric and prevent an escalation following an attack on oil tankers in the Gulf on Monday.
Even the normally hawkish prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was quoted by Israeli Channel 13 as telling top officials to “take steps to isolate Israel from any developments and ensure Israel is not dragged into this escalation".
Iraq has suffered decades of violence and unrest, including separate wars with both the US and Iran.
The hope for many now is that their country can both stabilise and begin to assert itself as an independent player in the region, and stop being the Middle East's battlefield.
"The point I discuss with officials and my colleagues in parliament is that we need to have a real Iraqi foreign policy, which we do not have," Shams explained.
"Iraq needs to be careful about its relationship with two countries, the US and Iran. Not to intervene in their conflict, but to convince both countries that Iraq is neutral and not taking sides and to bring business back to Iraq beyond the security industry and beyond military companies - so far we have failed to do that, and failed to normalise Iraq's role in the international community."
Also see:
'How is the Middle East reacting to increasing US-Iran tensions?' (artikel van 17 mei 2019)

'Get out: Iraqi MPs push laws calling for US troop withdrawal' (artikel van 19 maart 2019)
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Zie wat betreft Iran en Jemen:
'Na massamoord in Hawija: Nederlands fregat naar Golf van Hormuz'

'VS stuurt 3.000 militairen en rond de 36 straaljagers naar Saoedi-Arabië voor een aanval op Iran'

'Saoedische piloot schoot 3 matrozen dood >> de reden daarvoor ligt in de stationering van VS militairen in S-A(en zie de links in dat bericht voor meer artikelen over Jemen [en Iran])

'VS stuurt 3.000 militairen en rond de 36 straaljagers naar Saoedi-Arabië voor een aanval op Iran'

'Jemen: de laatste ziekenhuizen moeten sluiten >> alle brandstof is op.....' (en zie de links in dat bericht voor meer artikelen over Iran)

Zie voorts:
'Irak: zware corruptie en werkloosheid brandstof voor grote demonstraties, intussen 100 doden....'

'Irak gevangen door VS agressie richting Iran en daarnaast een opstand in eigen land'

''Iraq: A State of Mind', of hoe de BBC Britse handen probeert schoon te wassen in een meer van bloed'

'OPCW valt door de mand, klokkenluider: Douma gifgasaanval werd niet uitgevoerd door Syrische leger' (zie de links in dat bericht voor meer over de gifgasaanvallen die niet door Assad werden uitgevoerd)

'Al-Baghdadi (top ISIS) vermoord, nu nog zijn bazen berechten'

'Syrië en wat de reguliere media je niet vertellen'

'Turkije's illegale oorlog in Syrië: Rutte wil wel pleiten voor een strenger wapenembargo, al zal dat geen zin hebben......' (zie de links in dat bericht over Turkse agressie in Syrië)

'Misvormde kinderen in Irak door gebruik van verarmd uranium in VS munitie'

'9/11 voorkennis verzwegen in officiële rapporten' (deze link daar de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Afghanistan, in feite de voorloper is van die tegen Irak; zie ook de andere links in dat bericht naar 9/11)


'Mosul, 18 maanden na 'de bevrijding''

'The massacre of Mosul: 40,000 feared dead in battle to take back city from Isis as scale of civilian casualties revealed'

'Iraakse strijdmacht gaf grif toe dat tot hun orders voor West-Mosul ook het vermoorden van vrouwen en kinderen behoorde........'

'CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS.......' (zie ook de links in dat bericht over VS wapenleveranties en training van terreurgroepen >> je gelooft je ogen niet...)

'Kinderen in Irak vermoord middels VS terreur.......'

'Mosul: minstens 40.000 gedode burgers in 9 maanden tijd, ofwel VS terreur op grote schaal.....'

'Mosul, stad van lijken: vele honderden doden onder het puin'

'Mosul verwoest door VS.........'

'Mosul, het verschil in berichtgeving vergeleken met de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo...........'

'Raqqa, een strijd als om West-Mosul, echter met geheel andere media aandacht..........'

'Bombarderen was een probleem in Mosul, maar niet bij het nieuwe Iraakse/VS offensief.......'









vrijdag 4 oktober 2019

Jeffrey Epstein en Ghislaine Maxwell werkten mede voor de militaire geheime dienst van Israël

Een voormalige 'hoge' medewerker van de Israëlische militaire geheime dienst, Ari Ben-Menashe  liet onlangs in een interview weten dat Jeffrey Epstein en Ghislaine Maxwell werkten voor de Israëlische geheime dienst....... Volgens deze figuur werd het seksnetwerk van Epstein gebruikt om vooraanstaande personen, zoals machtige politici (o.a. Bill Clinton en Tony Blair), te chanteren. Deze geheime dienst heeft de chantage dienst opgezet en..... gebruikt!

Het was overigens al duidelijk dat het netwerk van Epstein werd gebruikt om vooraanstaande politici te chanteren daar zij kinderen seksueel misbruikten, kinderen die hare kwaadaardigheid Ghislaine Maxwell 'trash' noemde, ofwel vuilnis waar je mee kan doen wat je wilt........ Vreemd genoeg hebben de reguliere westerse massamedia vooral aandacht aan Epstein besteed, waar ze zijn zelfmoord als zeker bestempelden, terwijl het meer dan duidelijk is dat Epstein werd vermoord en dat moet een overheidsinstantie hebben gedaan, of deze instantie heeft een ander de opdracht gegeven, Epstein mocht de rechtszaal nooit bereiken, teveel belangrijke en machtige figuren zouden van hun voedstuk donderen, neem Trump, Clinton en ga nog maar een tijdje door.......

Ari Ben-Menashe heeft overigens wel meer te vertellen, bijvoorbeeld dat hij in de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw samen met Robert Maxwell betrokken was bij de Iran-Contra-Affaire........ Dezelfde Maxwell introduceerde Ben-Menashe bij Jeffrey Epstein in het midden van die jaren 80.

Maxwell had trouwens een heel netwerk in Israël en daar maakte ook Ariel Sharon deel van uit, Sharon de beestachtige oorlogsmisdadiger die verantwoordelijk was voor de massamoord in Sabra en Shatila, het Palestijnse vluchtelingenkamp en de aangrenzende wijk in Beiroet, Libanon......

Voorafgaand aan een interview met Robert Parry in 2012 over Iran Contra en andere smerige geheime acties in de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw, ging het huis van Ben-Menashe in Montreal in vlammen op, e.e.a. als gevolg van een aanval met een brandbom waarin een vloeistof die alleen door militairen wordt gebruikt, het is dan ook wel duidelijk dat Israël Ben-Menashe de mond wilde snoeren....... 

Eén ding is zeker, de continue westerse steun voor de (nu officieel) fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël, is bepaald niet alleen ingegeven door een schuldgevoel over de holocaust........

Lees het volgende artikel geschreven door Whitney Webb en dat eerder verscheen op MintPressNews en ook jij zal begrijpen dat Epstein zijn mond moest houden, ofwel hij werd vermoord:

Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israeli Intel

A recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has claimed that Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was an Israel intelligence operation run for the purpose of entrapping powerful individuals and politicians in the United States and abroad.


October 02nd, 2019

Since the apparent death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan prison, much has come to light about his depraved activities and methods used to sexually abuse underage girls and entrap the rich and powerful for the purposes of blackmail. Epstein’s ties to intelligence, described in-depth in a recent MintPress investigative series, have continued to receive minimal mainstream media coverage, which has essentially moved on from the Epstein scandal despite the fact that his many co-conspirators remain on the loose.

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For those who have examined Epstein’s ties to intelligence, there are clear links to both U.S. intelligence and Israeli intelligence, leaving it somewhat open to debate as to which country’s intelligence apparatus was closest to Epstein and most involved in his blackmail/sex-trafficking activities. A recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has claimed that Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was an Israel intelligence operation run for the purpose of entrapping powerful individuals and politicians in the United States and abroad.

In an interview with Zev Shalev, former CBS News executive producer and award-winning investigative journalist for Narativ, the former senior executive for Israel’s Directorate of Military Intelligence, Ari Ben-Menashe, claimed not only to have met Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, back in the 1980s, but that both Epstein and Maxwell were already working with Israeli intelligence during that time period. 

They found a niche”

In an interview last week with the independent outlet Narativ, Ben-Menashe, who himself was involved in Iran-Contra arms deals, told his interviewer Zev Shalev that he had been introduced to Jeffrey Epstein by Robert Maxwell in the mid-1980s while Maxwell’s and Ben-Menashe’s involvement with Iran-Contra was ongoing. Ben-Menashe did not specify the year he met Epstein.
Ben-Menashe told Shalev that “he [Maxwell] wanted us to accept him [Epstein] as part of our group …. I’m not denying that we were at the time a group that it was Nick Davies [Foreign Editor of the Maxwell-Owned Daily Mirror], it was Maxwell, it was myself and our team from Israel, we were doing what we were doing.” Past reporting by Seymour Hersh and others revealed that Maxwell, Davies and Ben-Menashe were involved in the transfer and sale of  military equipment and weapons from Israel to Iran on behalf of Israeli intelligence during this time period.
He then added that Maxwell had stated during the introduction that “your Israeli bosses have already approved” of Epstein. Shalev later noted that Maxwell “had an extensive network in Israel at the time, which included the then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, according to Ben-Menashe.”
Ben-Menashe went on to say that he had “met him [Epstein] a few times in Maxwell’s office, that was it.” He also said he was not aware of Epstein being involved in arms deals for anyone else he knew at the time, but that Maxwell wanted to involve Epstein in the arms transfer in which he, Davies and Ben-Menashe were engaged on Israel’s behalf.
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Ariel Sharon (right) meets with Robert Maxwell in Jerusalem on Feb. 20, 1990. Photo | AP

However, as MintPress reported in Part IV of the investigative series “Inside the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,” Epstein was involved with several arms dealers during this period of time, some of whom were directly involved in Iran-Contra arms deals between Israel and Iran. For instance, after leaving Bear Stearns in 1981, Epstein began working in the realms of shadow finance as a self-described “financial bounty hunter,” where he would both hunt down and hide money for powerful people. One of these powerful individuals was Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi arms dealer with close ties to both Israeli and U.S. intelligence and one of the main brokers of Iran-Contra arms deals between Israel and Iran. Epstein would later forge a business relationship with a CIA front company involved in another aspect of Iran-Contra, the airline Southern Air Transport, on behalf of Leslie Wexner’s company, The Limited. 
During this period, it is also known that Epstein became well acquainted with the British arms dealer Sir Douglas Leese, who collaborated with Khashoggi on at least one British-Saudi arms deal in the 1980s. Leese would later introduce Epstein to Steven Hoffenberg, calling Epstein a “genius” and describing his lack of morals during that introduction. Thus, there are indications that Epstein was involved with Middle Eastern arms deals, including some related to Iran-Contra, during this period. In addition, Epstein would later claim (and then subsequently deny) having worked for the CIA during this period.
After having been introduced to Epstein, Ben-Menashe claimed that neither he nor Davies were impressed with Epstein and considered him “not very competent.” He added that Ghislaine Maxwell had “fallen for” Epstein and that he believed that the romantic relationship between his daughter and Epstein led Robert Maxwell to work to bring the latter into the “family business” — i.e., Maxwell’s dealings with Israeli intelligence. This information is very revealing, given that the narrative, until now at least, has been that Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein did not meet and begin their relationship until after Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991, after which Ghislaine moved to New York.
Ben-Menashe says that well after the introduction, though again he does not specify what year, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein began a sexual blackmail operation with the purpose of extorting U.S. political and public figures on behalf of Israeli military intelligence. He stated: 
In this case what really happened, my take on it, in the later thing, is that these guys were seen as agents. They weren’t really competent to do very much. And so they found a niche for themselves — blackmailing American and other political figures.” 
He then confirmed, when prompted, that they were blackmailing Americans on behalf of Israeli intelligence. 
In response to his statement, Zev Shalev replied, “But, you know, for most people it’s hard for them to think of Israel as being … blackmailing their leaders in the United States, it’s a very …” at which point, Ben-Menashe interrupted and the following exchange took place:
Ari Ben-Menashe:  You’re kidding? [laughs]…. It was quite their M.O. Sleeping around is not a crime, it may be embarrassing, but it’s not a crime, but sleeping with underage girls is a crime. 
Shalev:  It was a crime in 2000 as well, but they let him off that… 
Ben-Menashe:  And that it is [why] always so he [Epstein] made sure these girls were underage.
In addition, when Shalev asked Ben-Menashe about the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Ben-Menashe stated “After a while, you know, what Mr. Epstein was doing was collecting intelligence on people in the United States. And so if you want to go to the U.S. if you’re a high-profile politician you want to know information about people.” Ben-Menashe subsequently stated that Barak was obtaining compromising information (i.e., blackmail) that Epstein had acquired on powerful people in the United States. 

PROMIS, sex, and blackmail

If Robert Maxwell did recruit Epstein and bring him into the “family business” and the world of Israeli intelligence, as Ben-Menashe has claimed, it provides supporting evidence for information provided to MintPress by a former U.S. intelligence official, who chose to remain anonymous in light of the sensitivity of the claim.
This source, who has direct knowledge of the unauthorized use of PROMIS to support covert U.S. and Israeli intelligence projects, told MintPress that “some of the proceeds from the illicit sales of PROMIS were made available to Jeffrey Epstein for use in compromising targets of political blackmail.” As was noted in a Mintpress series on the Epstein scandal, much of Epstein’s funding also came from Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner, who has documented ties to both organized crime and U.S. and Israeli intelligence.
After the PROMIS software was stolen from its rightful owner and developer, Inslaw Inc., through the collusion of both U.S. and Israeli officials, it was marketed mainly by two men: Earl Brian, a close aide to Ronald Reagan, later U.S. envoy to Iran and close friend of Israeli spymaster Rafi Eitan; and Robert Maxwell. Brian sold the bugged software through his company, Hadron Inc., while Maxwell sold it through an Israeli company he acquired called Degem. Before and following Maxwell’s acquisition of Degem, the company was a known front for Mossad operations and Mossad operatives in Latin America often posed as Degem employees. 
With Maxwell — Epstein’s alleged recruiter and father of Epstein’s alleged madam — having been one of the main salespeople involved in selling PROMIS software on behalf of intelligence, he would have been in a key position to furnish Epstein’s nascent sexual blackmail operation with the proceeds from the sale of PROMIS. 
This link between Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation and the PROMIS software scandal is notable given that the illicit use of PROMIS by U.S. and Israeli intelligence has been for blackmail purposes on U.S. public figures and politicians, as was described in a recent MintPress report.

Can an ex-spy be trusted?

When dealing in the world of deception and intrigue that defines intelligence operations, it is often difficult to determine whether any individual linked to an intelligence agency is telling the truth. Indeed, in the United States, there are examples of elected intelligence officials committing perjury and lying to Congress on several occasions with no consequences, and of intelligence officials feeding politically motivated and untrue information to agency assets in the media. 
So, are Ari Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding Epstein and the Maxwells trustworthy? In addition to the aforementioned, corroborating information for his claims, a review of Ben-Menashe’s post-intelligence career suggests this is the case.

Ari Ben Menashe
Ari Ben Menashe arrives at Harare International Airport, in Zimbabwe, Feb. 22, 2002. Photo | AP
Prior to his arrest in November 1989, Ben-Menashe was a high-ranking officer in a special unit of Israeli military intelligence. He would later claim that his arrest for attempting to sell American-made weapons to Iran was politically motivated, as he had threatened to expose what the U.S. government had done with the stolen PROMIS software if the U.S. did not cease providing Saddam Hussein’s Iraq with chemical weapons. Ben-Menashe was later acquitted when a U.S. court determined that his involvement in the attempted sale of military equipment to Iran was done on behalf of the Israeli state.
After his arrest, Ben-Menashe was visited in prison by Robert Parry, the former Newsweek contributor and Associated Press reporter who would later found and run Consortium News until his recent passing last year. Parry remembered that, during that interview, “Ben-Menashe offered me startling new information about the Iran-Contra scandal, which I thought that I knew quite well.”
Israel’s government immediately began to attack Ben-Menashe’s credibility following his interview with Parry, and claimed that Ben-Menashe had never worked for Israeli intelligence. When Parry soon found evidence that Ben-Menashe had indeed served in Israeli military intelligence, Israel’s government was then forced to admit that he had worked for military intelligence, but only as a “low-level translator.” Yet, the documentation Parry had uncovered described Ben-Menashe as having served in “key positions” and performed “complex and sensitive assignments.”
A year later, Ben-Menashe would be interviewed by another journalist, Seymour Hersh. It would be Ben-Menashe who first revealed to Hersh secrets about Israel’s nuclear program and the fact that British media mogul Robert Maxwell was an Israeli spy, revelations that Hersh would not only independently corroborate but include in his book The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Hersh was then sued by Robert Maxwell and the Maxwell-owned Mirror Group for libel. The case was later settled in Hersh’s favor, as the claims Hersh had made were true and not libelous. As a result, the Mirror Group paid Hersh for damages, covered his legal costs, and issued him a formal apology.
After Ben-Menashe’s interviews by Hersh and Parry, Israel’s government was apparently concerned enough about what Ben-Menashe would tell congressional investigators that it attempted to kidnap him and bring him back to Israel to face state charges, much like Israeli intelligence had done to Israel’s nuclear-weapons whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu. The plan was foiled largely thanks to Parry.
Parry, who broke many key stories related to the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s and beyond, was tipped off by a U.S. intelligence source about a joint U.S.-Israel plan to have Ben-Menashe first be denied entry to the United States on his planned trip to give congressional testimony. Per the plan, Ben-Menashe would be denied entry to the U.S. in Los Angeles and then be deported to Israel, where he would have stood trial for “exposing state secrets.” Parry called Ben-Menashe and convinced him to delay his flight until he secured a guarantee for safe passage from the U.S. government. 
Ben-Menashe subsequently gave a sworn statement to the House Judiciary Committee that mostly focused on U.S.-Israel collusion regarding the theft and creation of a “backdoor” into the PROMIS software. Ben-Menashe offered to name names and provide corroborating evidence for several of his claims if he was offered immunity by the committee, which, for whatever reason. declined that request. 
Prior to the conclusion of the Hersh “libel” trial, which would later uphold Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding Robert Maxwell’s Mossad activities as true, there was a concerted effort in the U.S. press to downplay Ben-Menashe’s credibility. For instance, Newsweek — in an article on Ben-Menashe entitled “One Man, Many Tales” — claimed that “inconsistencies may undermine Ben-Menashe’s testimony in the British courtroom proceedings,” citing inconsistencies from sources in Israel’s government and Israeli intelligence as well as Ben-Menashe’s ex-wife and Israeli journalist Shmuel (or Samuel) Segev, a former IDF colonel. It goes without saying that such sources had much to gain from any effort to discredit Ben-Menashe’s claims.
According to Parry, this media campaign, which employed American journalists with close ties to Israel’s government and intelligence agencies, was very successful “in marginalizing Ben-Menashe by 1993, at least in the eyes of the Washington Establishment.” After a years-long media campaign to discredit Ben-Menashe, “the Israelis seemed to view him as a declining threat, best left alone. He was able to pick up the pieces of his life, creating a second act as an international political consultant and businessman arranging sales of grain.” The effort to marginalize Ben-Menashe has continued well into recent years, with mainstream news outlets still referring to him as a “self-described ex-Israeli spy” — despite the well-documented fact that Ben-Menashe worked for Israeli intelligence — as a means of downplaying his claims regarding his time in Israel’s intelligence service.
After the conclusion of the Hersh libel trial, Ben-Menashe became an international political consultant who “surrounded his far-flung business activities in secrecy and got involved with some controversial international figures, such as Zimbabwe’s leader Robert Mugabe,” and conducted his international consulting business … in a wide variety of global hotspots, including conflict zones,” according to Parry. In addition to Mugabe, Ben-Menashe has also recently come under fire for his consulting work on behalf of Sudan’s military junta and Venezuelan opposition politician Henri Falcón.
Ben-Menashe has also maintained ties to several different intelligence services and eventually became a controversial whistleblower whose information led to the arrest of the former head of Canada’s Security Intelligence Review Committee, Arthur Porter.
As far as his character is concerned, Parry noted that Ben-Menashe could often be “his own worst enemy” and that, even though Parry considered his information regarding Iran-Contra and PROMIS reliable and noted that much of it was later corroborated, he “often compound[ed] his media problem by treating journalists in a high-handed manner, either due to his suspicions of them or his arrogance.”
Bill Hamilton, the original developer of the PROMIS software and head of Inslaw Inc., also found Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding the illicit use of PROMIS by U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies to be credible, though he expressed doubts about Ben-Menashe’s character. 
Hamilton told MintPress the following about Ben-Menashe: 
Ari Ben Menashe was the first source to tell us reliable information about the role of Rafi Eitan and Israeli intelligence vis-a-vis PROMIS but, in the end, of course, he was a clandestine services-type guy whose official duties include the ability and willingness to lie, cheat, and steal.”

A threat revived

While Ben-Menashe may have been viewed as a “declining threat” after the early 1990s, his plans to meet with Robert Parry of Consortium News years later in 2012 to discuss Iran-Contra and other covert dealings of the 1980s appeared to change that. Right before he planned to travel from Canada to the United States to meet with Parry and “finally prove” the truthfulness of his past claims, a fire-bomb was thrown into his Montreal home, destroying it.
Air Ben-Menashe Home
Air Ben-Menashe surveys the damage to his home after it was mysteriously firebombed. Photos | Robert Parry

Though Canadian media referred to the incendiary device as a “molotov cocktail,” Consortium News reported that “the arson squad’s initial assessment is said to be that the flammable agent was beyond the sort of accelerant used by common criminals,” leading to speculation that the accelerant was military-grade.
Had it not been for the bomb, the origins of which Canadian police failed to determine, Ben-Menashe would have traveled to the U.S. alongside a “senior Israeli intelligence figure” to be interviewed by Parry. The other intelligence-linked individual, according to Parry, “concluded that the attack was meant as a message from Israeli authorities to stay silent about the historical events that he was expected to discuss.”
Though neither Ben-Menashe nor Parry directly blamed Israel’s government for the destruction of Ben-Menashe’s home, Parry noted that the bombing did succeed in “intimidating Ben-Menashe, shutting down possible new disclosures of Israeli misconduct from the other intelligence veteran, and destroying records that would have helped Ben-Menashe prove whatever statements he might make.”
While Ben-Menashe’s post-intelligence associations with controversial governments and individuals have given plenty of fodder to the still thriving media campaign to discredit his claims about covert U.S.-Israel operations in the 1980s, there remain troubling indications that the Israeli government sees his information on decades-old events as a threat. 
Now, with the major efforts by powerful Americans and Israelis to distance themselves from Jeffrey Epstein and other figures associated with his depraved sex trafficking operation, Ben-Menashe may soon again find his reputation — and perhaps more — under fire.
Feature photo | Graphic by Claudio Cabrera
Whitney Webb 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.
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