One Nation Under Blackmail, by Whitney Webb

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INDEX

A
Abbell, Mike 404, 405, 429
Abdullah Taha Bakhsh 371, 372
Abedi, Agha Hasan 269-272, 275-277, 279, 329, 395
Abrams, Creighton 164
Accompura, Tullius 164
Adams, Sherman 151
Adham, Kamal 78, 219, 274, 281
Adkinson, Mike 326, 338
Adonis, Joey 27, 72
Afonin, A 408
Aharon, Ben 82
Ahmad, Sani 234, 271
Air America 19, 154, 163, 210, 287, 408
Air Asia 399, 427
Aiton, Gordon 343
Ajax Oil Company 137
Albarelli, Hank 14, 38, 147, 265
Albritton, Joe L. 217
al-Fayed, Mohamed 243
Allen, Charles 140, 141, 441
Allen, Herbert 385, 410
Allen & Co. 140, 385, 410, 441
Allende, Salvador 165
Allen, Gary 170
Allen, George 151
Allen, Richard 66, 159
Allen, Robert H. 216, 261
Allied Bancshare 2, 13, 173, 185, 215, 216, 381
al-Shahati, Ahmad 234
Altman, Robert 275, 276, 282, 319, 396
American Bankers Life Assurance 21, 157
American Bank & Trust 83, 95
American Conservative 117, 145, 425
American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations
(AFL-CIO) 158, 195, 202, 224
American Financial Corporation 244
American-Indonesian Corporation 139
American Institute of Free Labor Development (AIFLD) 444, 460
American International Group (AIG) 365-368, 377, 378
American National Insurance Company (ANICO) 137, 157, 239, 240, 342, 368
AmeriCares 320, 441, 443-445, 447
Amoss, Ulius 136
An Affair of State 132
Anastasia, Albert 72
Anastasi, Paul 409
Andersen, Harold 160, 190, 448
Anderson, Jack 133, 167, 171-173, 191, 196, 241, 259, 277, 340, 373, 462
Anderson, Randy 277
Anderson, Robert B. 80, 353, 355
Anderson, Robert O. 218, 219, 261
Anderson Security 176
Andropov, Yuri 278
Angleton, James J. 60, 118, 175
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 12
Anslinger, Harry J. 15, 16, 103
API Distributors 205, 206, 212
Arazi, Yehuda 70-73, 82
Arbusto Energy 371
Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA) 361-363, 365-367, 376
Arkansas Housing Development Authority 361
Armstrong, David 331-334, 370, 372, 373, 378, 379
Arnon, Joel 295
Aroundworld Shipping & Charting 166, 189, 206
Artime, Manuel 212
Arum, Robert 121
Arundel, Arthur 172
Arzu, Alejos 445
Ashley, Chester 358
Aspinall, John 130
Aspin, Michael and Leslie 308, 309
Assia, Yehuda 83, 95
Astor, Vincent 8, 132
Atlas Corporation 28, 29, 75-77, 90, 175
ATLAS dossier 310-313, 336, 416, 431
Attie, James 78
Aubin, George 351, 375
Avery, Jake 24, 25, 32
Aviation Industries Association (AIA) 152
Avirgan, Tony 348, 373
Ayres, Gene 32, 40, 429
Azima, Farhad 210, 211, 267, 408
B
Bailey, Norman 395
Bailley, Phillip 183, 184, 186-188
Baird, David G. 25, 140, 141, 454, 462
Baird Foundation 140, 454, 462
Baker, Bernard 174
Baker, Bobby 172, 183, 184
Baker, Howard 403
Baker, Russ 217, 218, 260, 278, 330, 370, 371
Balach, Paul R. 452
Baldwin, Alfred 182
Ball, Ed 236, 237
Ballesteros, Juan Matta 290, 341, 400
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) 92, 308, 317-321, 337
Banco Ambrosiano 92, 308, 317
Bandar bin Sultan 217
Banerjee, Ben 308, 309
Bank for Commerce and Credit International 241
Bank Leumi 86, 90, 441
Bank of America 77, 272, 275, 277, 280, 356
Bank of Commerce and Credit International 235, 269
Bank of Credit and Commercial International 220
Bank of New York (BNY) 353
Bank of New York (BONY) 419-423, 432
Bank of Perrine 34, 236
Bank of the Southwest 189, 215
Bank of World Commerce (BWC) 34, 75, 76, 185
Bank van Embden 230, 231
Banque de Commerce et de Placements (BCP) 372
Banque Privée 231
Banque Worms 308, 317
Barak, Ehud 83, 95
Barcella, Lawrence 208
Barnes, Ben 184, 260, 357
Baron Rothschild 231
Barr, William 207, 349, 350, 406, 433, 451, 462
Barry, E.P. 34, 85, 213, 228, 253, 333, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 347, 349, 352, 373,
428, 436
Baskes, Roger S. 33
Bass family 355
Bassile, Darryl 442
Bath, James R 277, 278, 291, 371
Batista, Fulgencio 75
Battisti y Lora, Amleto 15
BCCI ( Bank of Credit and Commerce International) 78, 79, 86, 92, 95, 150-152,
217, 220, 221, 224, 225, 235, 261, 269-282, 286, 298, 300, 301, 304-306, 309,
312, 313, 315, 317, 318, 321, 322, 329, 330, 333-338, 349, 353, 356, 368, 371,
372, 379, 394-397, 404, 407, 409, 410, 419, 427, 433, 447
Bear Stearns 216, 245, 441, 443, 456
Beaty, Jonathan 95, 269-271, 278, 329, 330
Bechtel Corporation 314-317, 320, 336, 337, 357, 401, 443
Beck, Dave 342
Beckerman, Edith 26, 438
Beckley, Gilbert Lee 185
Beebe, Herman 184, 212, 213, 215, 260, 338, 352, 363, 375, 376
Beidas, Yousef 77, 78
Bellini, Fulvio 92
Benelie, David 124, 312
Benex International Co. 418, 419, 422
Ben-Gurion, David 70, 83
Ben-Menashe, Ari 295, 318, 332, 333, 337, 351, 384, 390, 428
Bennett, Robert 175, 179
Bentrovato, Anthony 248
Bentsen, Lan 278
Bentsen, Lloyd 214, 278
Berezovsky, Boris 418, 423
Berezovsky, Igor and Oleg 418
Bergt, Phil 218
Berlin, Peter 419
Berlin, Richard 135, 161, 381
Bernstein, Carl 179
Bernstein, Nahum 71
Bernstein, Raphael 216
Berrellez, Hector 290
Bevan, David 455, 456, 463
Beverly Enterprises 362, 366
Bichler, Shimshon 83, 95
Biedenkopf, Kurt 449
Biegun, Dov 89, 97
Biner, Maureen (Dean) 183, 188
bin Mahfouz, Khalid 277, 278, 371, 394
Bird, William H. 18, 20
Bird, Willis 18, 20
Black, Eli 444
Black, Eric 457, 463
Black, Fred Jr. 184
Black, Leon 444
Blakemore, William III 213
Blandón, José 209, 283, 284
Blick, Roy 175, 177, 186
Blinken, Anthony 409
Block, Alan 33, 40, 77, 80, 81, 84, 94, 96, 147, 198, 230, 231, 237, 249, 262, 263,
266, 297, 315, 316, 329, 330, 332, 333, 336, 356, 375, 376, 378, 379, 421, 422,
431, 432
Bloomfeld, Bernard 90
Bloomfeld, Louis Mortimer 86-90, 97, 140, 148
B'nai B'rith International 79, 229, 261, 439, 440, 459
Boas, Roger 312, 313
Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover
That Transformed America 61, 67, 68
Bobolas, George 408, 409
Bode, William 324, 348
Boesky, Ivan 246, 265, 447
Boeynants, Paul Vanden 312, 313
Bofors-Nobel 307, 318, 321
Bohlen, Charles 116
Bolan, Tom 120, 436, 441, 444, 458
Bonacci, Paul 448, 453
Bon Ami company 137-140, 147
Bower, Tom 415, 430
Boyer, Eli 121, 122, 138
Breaking the Banks 343, 373
Brennan, Earl 5, 285
Brenneke, Richard 214, 296, 325, 351
Brenner, Marie 435, 458
Brewer, C. Madison “Brick” 384
Brewer, James W. 239, 240, 241
Brewton, Pete 130, 198, 211-214, 254, 259, 260, 264, 265, 267, 305, 326, 330,
331, 334, 335, 337, 338, 353, 375, 376, 377, 446, 461
Brezhnev, Leonid 278
Brian, Earl 363, 384, 385, 387, 390, 391, 404-406, 410, 411, 428
Brill, Joseph 38, 123
British Security Coordination (BSC) 6, 7, 8
Broady, John G. “Steve” 136, 137, 147
Broderick, Joseph 109
Broman, Harry 42
Bronfman, Abe 44
Bronfman, Charles 25, 70
Bronfman Dynasty: The Rothschilds of the New World 44, 66, 69, 87, 94, 333, 337
Bronfman, Edgar 41, 79, 250, 266, 440
Bronfman family 13, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 87, 140, 333
Bronfman, Harry 44, 45
Bronfman, Mindel and Yechiel 41
Bronfmans 13, 41-51, 66, 67, 87, 369, 402
Bronfman, Samuel 42, 43, 46-52, 54, 55, 66, 69, 94, 319
Brooklyn Eagle 13, 194
Brooks, Jack 406
Brotherhood of Eternal Love 33
Brown, Anthony Cave 222, 262
Brown, L.D. 29, 95, 131, 222, 262, 329, 330, 333, 335, 336, 337, 347, 374, 377,
462
Brown, Pat 29
Bruce, David K. E. 129, 132, 226, 227, 250
Brull, Sergio 326, 327, 377
Bruno, Angelo 129
Bryant, Nick 374, 445, 446, 452, 453, 461, 462
Brzezinski, Zbigniew 444, 448
Bua, Nicholas 406, 429, 433
Bua report 406, 433
Buccieri, Fiore “Fif” 31
Buccieri, Frank 31
Buchalter, Louis “Lepke” 103, 104
Buckley, William 298
Buckley, William F. 136, 156, 228, 435, 436
Buhler, Alfred 351
Buhl, Henry III 231
Bull, Gerald 318, 319, 337
Burmah Oil 12, 237, 238
Bursten, Leonard 83
Bush, Barbara 445
Bush, George H.W. 88, 97, 131, 153, 160, 205, 207, 213, 215, 216, 218, 254, 261,
276, 277, 282, 283, 319, 324-326, 331, 334, 339, 344, 349, 370, 371, 376, 382,
398, 406, 411, 433, 443, 444, 445, 447, 451, 460
Bush, George W. 218, 260, 277, 344, 368, 371
Bush, Jeb 325, 344
Bush, Neil 331, 376, 447
Bush, Prescott 131
Bush, Prescott Jr. 444
Butler, George A. 216, 232
Byrne, Terry 318, 331, 373
C
Cabazon Indian Reservation 338, 363, 364, 390, 391, 393, 402
Cabrera, Pepe 323
Caccia, Harold 135
Caddy, Douglas 136, 147, 156
Calero, Mario 285, 323, 325, 444
Calhoun, Ricky-Dale 71, 94
Calia, Vincenzo 92
Califano, Joseph Jr. 177-179, 191, 193, 197, 199, 249, 266
Calvi, Roberto 317
Camarena, Enrique “Kiki” 290
Cameron, David 13
Capaldi, Leonard 240
Capell, Frank 170
Capone, Al 4, 24, 26, 53
Cardoen, Carlos 318, 337
Carey, Edward 237, 303, 354
Carey Energy 237, 238, 239, 251
Carey, Hugh 237, 303, 441
Carey, Martin 237, 303
Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co 266, 356
Carlson, Roy 275, 277
Carmen, David 447
Carolla, Silvestro “Silver Dollar Sam” 9, 10, 20
Carriles, Luis Posada 324, 337, 338
Carter, Billy 234, 235, 238, 239, 241, 242, 244, 263, 264
Carter, Jimmy 4, 5, 37, 77, 97, 104, 136, 205, 213, 218, 224, 225, 234, 235, 238,
239, 240, 241, 242, 244, 251, 263, 264, 272, 273, 276, 292, 357, 376, 377, 400,
410, 434, 444
Casey, William J. 34, 80, 129, 150, 151, 160, 202, 225-230, 232, 233, 244-255,
257, 262-264, 267, 280-284, 293, 294, 296, 313, 315, 322, 323, 325, 350, 354-
356, 367, 375, 388, 426, 437, 439, 444, 447, 450-453, 455
Casolaro, Danny 338, 363, 364, 376, 377, 393, 397, 403-406, 410, 411, 426, 427,
429
Castellano, Paul 221, 303, 438
Castillo, José Blandón 209, 330
Castle Bank and Trust 25, 30, 32-36, 77, 273, 323, 366, 367
Castle, Jerome 25
Castro, Fidel 9, 27, 36, 161, 162, 163, 164, 174, 176, 178, 179, 181, 185, 189, 197,
212, 213, 223, 262
CBS Evening News 190
Cecchi, Micucci 92
Celler, Emmanuel 141
Cellini, Dino 185, 223
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 4, 5, 9, 14, 15-21, 24, 25, 27, 31, 34, 36-40, 60,
68, 74, 78, 80, 83, 87, 88, 91, 93, 96, 108, 114, 117-119, 122, 129, 130, 136,
137, 139-141, 144, 145, 147, 148, 150, 152-168, 171-179, 183, 184, 186, 189,
191, 194-198, 201-210, 212-215, 218, 219, 223-229, 233, 235, 242-245, 251-
259, 261-266, 270, 275, 277, 278, 280-285, 287-294, 296, 297, 300, 312, 313,
316, 322-326, 329-338, 340, 341, 344-352, 354, 356, 361, 363, 367, 371, 373-
378, 381, 382, 384, 385, 388-394, 396-402, 404, 406, 408, 425-427, 429, 432,
433, 437, 439, 442-447, 450-454, 457, 461, 462
Centro Mondiale Commerciale (CMC) 87-92, 96, 98
Cermak, Anton 24
Chagra, Jimmy 347, 374
Chambers, Ernie 448
Chanes, Frank 233
Chang, Suzy 134, 135
Channell, Carl “Spitz” 288, 289, 293, 331, 352
Charlton, Warwick 131
Charter Company 236-239, 244, 251, 261, 263, 264
Chase Manhattan Bank 76, 77, 443, 462
Chavez, Ricardo 162, 206
Chelsea National Bank 279
Chemical Bank 216, 217, 354, 364, 377
Ch'en Ch'i-mei 10
Cheng Yu-tung 360
Chennault, Anna 153, 154, 158, 159, 171, 172, 194, 196, 212, 457
Chennault, Claire 18, 19, 20, 153, 154,
Cherne, Leo 226
Chernenko, Konstantin 278
Chesler, Lou 76, 77, 140, 265, 440
Chiang Kai-Shek 10, 11, 19, 147, 153, 154, 194
Chicago Tribune 39, 119, 263
Chiliad 130
China Lobby 16, 19, 38, 153-156, 159, 164, 167, 168, 170-172, 180, 201, 202,
212, 343
Chinoy, Nazir 271
Christian Science Monitor 234, 263
Chung Il Kwon 149
Chung, Margaret 20
Church Committee 406, 451
Churchill, Winston 37, 47, 53, 66, 129
Cicogna, Gianfranco 84
Citigroup 23, 366
Civella crime family 211
Civil Air Transport (CAT) 18-20, 154
Civilian Materiel Assistance (CMA) 291, 292, 332
Clarke, Jack 31
Clarridge, Duane 210, 283, 344
Clayton, David 155, 194
Clermont Club 130-132, 219, 231, 242, 301, 357
Clifford, Clark 76, 151, 152, 184, 224, 275, 276, 282, 319, 396
Cline, Ray 201, 202, 352
Clines, Thomas 162, 163, 165, 166, 192, 202, 204-210, 212, 224, 235, 254, 255,
258, 259, 281, 284, 285, 307, 324
Clinton, Bill 330, 346, 347, 348, 361, 366, 395
Clinton, Hillary 30, 359, 374, 376, 396, 459
Clinton, Raymond 236, 238, 244, 346, 347, 393
Clinton, Roger 347, 350
Clinton, Stanford 32
Clore, Alan 217, 261
Cobb, Richard S. 224
Cocaine Politics 259, 263, 265, 330, 331, 332, 334, 337, 344, 373, 427
Cockburn, Alexander 347, 362, 364, 365, 374, 376, 377, 417, 431
Cockrell, Ernest Jr. 189
COG (Continuity of government) program 391, 392
Cohen, Avner 83, 95
Cohen, William 256, 257
Cohn, Albert 100, 101, 102, 106, 107, 108, 110, 111, 142, 143, 439, 440
Cohn, Roy 25, 54, 56-59, 62-65, 67, 68, 72, 99-103, 105-108, 110-116, 118-130,
133, 135-139, 142-147, 156, 157, 160, 192, 195, 228, 241, 293, 294, 303, 311,
332, 434-442, 444, 446, 450, 458, 459
COINTELPRO 180
Collins, Paul David 59
Colodny, Len 169, 180-183, 185-187, 196, 197, 198
Colombo family 221
Colony Sports Club 129
Columbus Dispatch 457, 463
Commercial Credit Corporation 210, 408
Committee for the Reelection of the President (CRP 173, 176, 188
Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) 27, 28, 202, 258
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 279, 316, 317, 408, 429
Compagnie de Services Fiduciaire (CSF) 286, 287, 299
Compagnie Financiere 89
Compromised 207, 258, 363, 366, 374, 376, 377
Conein, Lucien 165
Connally, John 277, 356, 357, 358
Control Data Corporation (CDC) 210, 406-411
Cook, Bradford 233
Cook, O. Jackson 251
Cooney, John 117
Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) 164, 324
Coppola, Frank 9, 416
Coral Reinsurance Company 365-367, 377
Corbally, Thomas 128-136, 442
Corcoran, Thomas 19
CORDS (Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support) 164
Cornfeld, Bernie 229, 230, 232, 265, 287, 331
Corona, Ray 266, 303, 334
Corson, Robert 213, 214, 260, 325, 326, 331, 375
Corson, William 257, 285
Costa, Antonio Maria 22
Costello, Frank 2-4, 9, 12, 20, 25, 27, 54, 60, 102, 104, 105, 114, 115, 144, 346
Cotroni, Vincenzo 72, 333
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) 30, 170, 201, 218, 261
Coutin, Jose 344, 373
Covenant House 245, 320, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 460
Cowen, Joshua Lionel 111, 112, 144
Cowett, Edward 287
Cox, Edwin L. 217, 261
Craig, Larry 193
Crater, Mike 457, 463
Credit and Commerce American Holdings 275, 276, 277
Credit Suisse 286, 298, 316, 389, 394
Crimes of the Patriots 258, 369, 378
Critchfeld, Jim 206, 225, 281
Crittenden, Robert 358
Crosby, James 5, 136
Crosby, Peter 5, 136, 137
Cross-fire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation 347
Crossing the Rubicon 22, 39, 427
Crowley, Robert 152, 153
Crown, Henry 24-28, 30, 47, 116, 140, 146
Crown, Lester 116
Cuellar, Joseph 405
Cummings, John 207, 258, 330, 340, 363, 366, 373, 374
Cummings, Nathan 140, 258, 294, 330, 332, 340, 363, 366, 373-377
Cummings, Samuel 294, 332
Cuomo, Mario 441, 442
Curtis, Adam 130, 146
Curtis, Tony 32
D
Dafne, Reuven 72
Daily Mirror 295, 296, 383
Dalitz, Moe 25, 26, 32, 47, 89, 90, 112, 121, 122, 138, 140, 184, 402, 438
d'Amelio, Carlo 140, 148
Damme, Willy van 124, 145, 311, 336
Dardi, Virgil 138, 139, 140, 147
Dark Victory 28, 40
Daub, Hal 446
Davidson, Irving 83, 95, 184
Davies, Nicholas 295, 296, 333
Davis, John 9
Davis, L.J. 358, 359, 376
Day, James C. 239
Deak & Co. 245, 264, 265
Deak, Nicholas 245, 246, 264, 265
Dean, John 183, 187, 188, 197
DeBartolo, Edward 420
DeCamp, John 59, 67, 160, 190, 195, 445, 450, 461, 462
de Costa, Sergio 321
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK 14, 38, 40, 94, 133, 146, 194, 462
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) 165, 202
Degem 386, 387
Delamico, Mario 296, 323, 334
Del E. Webb Development Company 342
Dellal, Jack 130, 242, 264
DeLoach, Deke 126
De Morgen 313, 336
Dempsey, Jack 49
Denker, Henry 29
Denton, Sally 37, 103, 142, 143, 157, 195, 336, 347, 348, 373, 374
Derks, Hans 12, 38
de Rothschild, Edmond 79, 81, 89, 90, 231, 298, 301, 310, 416, 422, 423, 440
Dershowitz, Alan 435, 436, 458
Desert Inn 25, 122, 138, 140
Desperate Deception 7, 37, 38
Detachment 101 17, 18
Deuss, John 206, 207, 255, 258, 280, 312, 330
Devil's Chessboard, The 117, 145, 425
Devine, Donald 447
Devlin, Larry 356
DeVoe, Jack 323, 326, 456, 457, 463
Dewey, Thomas E. 2,-4, 6, 8, 56, 77, 103, 104, 107, 108, 114, 120, 143, 177
DeWitt, William Jr. 371
Dibben, Horace 134
Dill, Nicholas Bayard 287
Dillon, Matt 94, 257, 260, 267, 276, 386, 425, 426, 430, 431
Dintino, Justin 249
Distillers Company Limited 47
Distillers Corporation Limited 46, 47
Dixon, John W. 399
Djerassi, Dale 387, 389
Doan, Harry 339, 340, 341
Doinov, Ognian 412
Dole, Elizabeth 452
Dolin, Nate 89, 90
Donaldson, Sam 66, 191
d'Onofrio, Ramon 351
Donovan, William J. 6-9, 13, 16, 29, 37, 60, 97, 135, 222, 226, 227, 250, 262, 367
Dorfman, Allen 32, 263
Dorril, Stephen 129, 132, 146
Dossier 194, 237, 263, 329, 336, 431
Downey, Joyce 357
Doyle, John 241, 250, 266, 336
Drake, Michael 362
Dreher, Rod 117, 145
Drexel Burnham Lambert 246, 352, 353, 368, 441, 443, 447, 456
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) 233, 290, 300, 311, 332, 343, 344, 399
Dubini, Nicola 307
du Cann, Edward 242, 243, 244, 264, 400
Duleimi, Ahmed 219
Dulles, Allen 4, 6, 108, 118, 145, 250, 381, 425
Dulles, John Foster 4, 37, 108
Duncan, John H. Sr. 215, 349, 377
Dunes Hotel and Casino 79, 211
Dunlop, Robert 243
Dunne, Dominick 424, 425, 432
DuPonts 6, 235, 236, 263, 278, 291, 326, 332, 341
du Pont, Richard C. Jr 291
Dupres, Devon 190
Dutcher, Charles K 452
DWG Corporation 246, 247
Dwyer, John 103-105, 114, 136, 405, 429
E
Eagleburger, Lawrence 319, 320, 321
Eagleton, Thomas 128
Earl, Robert 325
Eccles, George 157, 368
Economist, The 41, 246, 265
Edwards, David 372
Edwards, Lucy 419
Egyptian-American Air Transport and Services Corporation (EATSCO) 207,
208, 210, 280, 284, 408
Ehrenfeld, Rachel 311, 333, 336
Eifler, Carl F 17
Eisele, Albert 411
Eisenberg, Shaul 73, 94, 142, 295, 382
Eisenhower, Dwight D 4, 20, 21, 80, 116, 120, 150, 151, 155, 355, 356, 440
Eisenson, Michael 370
Eitan, Raf 384, 385, 387, 390
Eitel, Gary 401, 428
Elias, Christopher 101
Eliot, George Fieling 8
Encyclopedia of Public Relations 152, 194
Engineering Research Associates (ERA) 407
Enron 371, 378, 408
Epes, Wooten 362
Epstein, Edward Jay 152, 237, 263, 329
Epstein, Jeffrey 13, 20, 30, 79, 83, 84, 130, 160, 217, 231, 237, 245, 297, 300, 320,
330, 334, 352, 366, 398, 406, 407, 435, 439, 441, 445, 449, 452, 457, 462
Erskine, Graves B. 154, 155
Escobar, Pablo 282
Esquire 52, 55, 66, 145
E-Systems 345, 398, 399, 400, 401, 404, 405, 427
Euromoney magazine 307, 335
European, The 37, 119, 220, 222, 227, 250, 301, 306-308, 310, 356-358, 369, 375,
381, 383, 419, 420, 424, 449
Evergreen International Aviation 19, 399, 400, 401, 405
Evil Money 311, 333, 336
Exchange and Investment Bank 21, 76, 157
Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) 453, 454, 455, 456, 457
F
FABCO 360, 376
Fabian, S. H. 141
Fair, Harry 364
Faith, Nicholas 42, 45, 51, 52, 54-56, 66, 67, 264, 460
False Profits 280, 329, 330, 333, 335, 379, 427
Family of Secrets 260, 261, 278, 330, 378
Farer, Tom 34, 400
Farina, Roland 287
Farrara, James 35
Fassoulis, Satiris “Sonny” 137, 139
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 5, 7, 8, 15, 17, 28, 38, 57-62, 64, 67, 68, 75,
95, 99, 103, 116-118, 123, 126-128, 132, 134, 174, 180-182, 184-187, 191,
194, 196, 198, 205-207, 228, 239-241, 249, 250, 252, 258, 261, 266, 289, 291,
299, 305, 317, 326, 327, 332, 333, 338, 339, 344, 346, 374, 387-389, 392, 403,
405, 413, 422, 423, 425-427, 436, 468, 471-490
Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) 5, 13-16, 37, 72, 73, 78, 79, 90, 94, 97, 103 5,
13, 38, 72, 78, 90, 94, 103
Feess, Gary 35
Feightner, E.L. “Whitey” 401
Feinberg, Abraham 83
Felt, Mark 180
Ferdmann, Sylvain 76
Ferrari, A. 317
Ferraro, Geraldine 128
Filardo, Louis 80
Filner, Joseph 409
Financial General Bankshares (FGB 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 395, 396, 409
Findlay, Walter 46
Finkel, Robert 190, 191
Firing Line 435
Firpo, Luis 49
First American Bankshares 152, 276, 317, 353
First Arkansas Bankstock Corporation (FABCO) 360
First Intercontinental Development Corporation (FIDCO) 364, 402
First International Bancshares 217, 398
First National Bancshares Ltd 217
First National Bank of Boston 140
First National City Bank 86, 96, 429
Fisher, Max 70, 74, 79, 140, 244, 245, 246, 264, 265, 385, 410, 439, 440, 444, 447,
457, 461
Fitts, Catherine Austin 22, 23, 24, 39, 276
Fitzpatrick, Francis 179, 180
Fitzpatrick, Paul 104, 105
Flamingo Hotel 79, 342
Fleiss, Heidi 135
F. L. Jacobs (company) 138, 139
Florio, A. 318
Flying Tiger Line 19, 20, 211, 341, 457
Flying Tiger Lines 154, 291
Flying Tigers 18, 19, 20, 153
Flynn, Ed 101, 103, 104, 105, 108, 142, 288
Foley, Pat 291, 341
Forbes 395, 397, 398, 461
Ford, Gerald 205, 352, 446
Ford, John 401, 428
Foreign Intelligence Digest 155, 170
Forgan, David R. 227
Forgan, James B. 227
Forgan, J. Russell 227-229, 233, 250, 455
Forgber, Guenther 418
Forrester, Vaughn 348
Foster, Vince 4, 37, 108, 145, 359, 394, 395, 397, 398
Fox Broadcasting Corporation 294
Fox, Matthew 139, 140
Francisci, Marcel 79
Francis, Johnny 129
Frankenstein, Samuel I. 106, 107
Franklin Cover-Up, The 160, 195, 445, 461, 462
Franklin Scandal 445, 448, 452, 457, 461, 462
Freeh, Louis 436, 458
Freeman, Jack 189, 323, 326
French Connection 10, 72, 78, 431
Fricker, Mary 213, 259, 261, 334, 375, 376, 425, 426
Friedman, Stanley 90, 95, 425, 431, 432, 435, 440
Frigorifcos de Puntarenas 233, 234, 289, 290, 295, 344
Furmark, Roy 251, 252, 266, 267
Fusco, Joe 53, 54
G
G-2 8
Gaddafadam, Ahmed 243, 244
Gaddaf, Muammar 204, 234, 237, 243
Gaess, Anthony 248, 249
Galante, Carmine 72, 73, 434
Gallagher, Neil 112, 121, 125, 126, 127, 128, 146, 261, 435
Gallardo, Felix 290, 400
Gallinaro, William 58
Galvin, John R. 322, 337
Gambino family 213, 221, 249, 303, 350, 403, 438
Garfeld, Sam 122, 123, 138
Garrison, Jim 87, 96, 198
Garwood, Ellen 289, 348, 349
Gavin, James 319
Gaynor, Paul 174, 175
General Dynamics 24, 25, 27, 28
Genis, Sam 27, 29
Genovese crime family 72, 185, 192, 248, 249, 250, 434
Geoffrey's Bank 123, 124, 311
GeoMiliTech Consultants Corporation (GMT) 294-297, 332, 352
George Town Club 136, 147, 153-159, 164, 189, 194, 202, 214
Gettlin, Robert 181, 196-198
Ghorbanifar, Manucher 256, 257, 285, 286, 394
Giancana, Sam 54, 133
Gianquinto, Eugene 402, 403, 438
Giroday, Jean de la 296
Giroir, C. Joseph 358, 359, 361
Gittinger, John 16
Glatt, Ernest Werner 294
Glen Alden 64, 65, 141
Glenn, John 449, 462
Glennon, Edward 100
Glick, Gene 342, 343
Global Competition After the Cold War: A Reassessment of Trilateralism 449
Global International Airways 210, 211, 267, 408
Glore Forgan 229, 233, 455
Godfather, The (book) 114
Gokal, Abbas 279, 280
Gokal, Murtaza 279, 280
Gokal, Mustafa 279
Goldman Sachs 74, 109, 319, 365, 366, 457
Goldsmith, James 130, 231, 357, 359
Goldwyn, Samuel 28
Gonzales, Virgilio 174
Gonzalez, Henry B. 319
Goodfellow, Preston 13
Gooding, Anthony James Tullis 34
Gorbachev, Mikhail 411, 415, 419, 430
Gorman, Paul F 343, 344
Gottlieb, Sidney 15, 38
Gouletas 320, 366, 385, 407, 443
Grabbe, J. Orlin 398, 407
Grace, Peter 443, 444
Graham, Daniel 296
Gray, Robert Keith 143, 149-154, 158-160, 164, 166, 171, 180, 189, 190-192, 194,
199, 202, 209, 212, 253, 255, 267, 277, 288, 331, 377, 378, 403, 438-440, 448,
457, 459
Great Gatsby, The 449
Greenberg, Alan 245, 367, 378, 441
Greene, Arthur 31
Green Gang 10, 11, 12, 20
Greenspun, Hank 118
Gregg, Donald 177, 252, 255, 283, 284, 324, 325, 334, 337, 451
Gregg, Sam 177
Greycas 341, 342, 343
Gross, Harry 104
GRU 131
Guarantee Trust Company 83
Guerin, James 318
Guevara, Che 162
Guilmartin, James 21
Guinness family 246
Gurfein, Murray 5
Gurfunkel, Natasha 419, 420, 421
Gurwin, Larry 280, 329, 330, 333, 335, 379, 427, 431
Guterma, Alexander 137, 138, 139, 140, 147
Gwynne, S. C. 95, 269-271, 278, 329, 330, 431
H
Haaretz 95, 144, 389, 426
Haas, Joseph 291
Haddad, William 172, 173, 188
Hadron 385
Haffendon, C. Radcliff 2, 37
Haganah 69-74, 79, 81-83, 94, 209
Haig, Alexander 167, 169, 170, 178, 179, 180, 190, 202, 285, 446
Hakim, Albert 204, 284, 285, 286, 287, 298, 307, 345
Halper, Stefan 352
Hamilton, Bill 383, 384, 392, 397, 404, 406, 410, 413, 430
Hamilton, Nancy 383, 391, 446, 459
Hammer, Armand 142, 194, 236, 237, 238, 263, 273, 274, 277, 316, 329, 409, 429,
447
Hammond, Leonard 309
Hammoud, Mohammed 306, 372
Hand, Michael 203
Hanna, Richard T. 91, 149
Harari, Michael 209, 210, 283, 288, 351
Harel, Ron 294, 297
Harken Energy 368, 370-372, 378
Harrelson, Charles 347
Harriman, W. Averell 131, 146, 227
Hartford Courant 265, 444, 460
Hartmann, Alfred 280, 312, 317, 357, 372
Harvey, William 161, 175
Hasenfus, Eugene 327, 339
Hashemi, Cyrus 251-253, 255-257
Hashemi, Jamshid 252, 253, 256
Hastings Tribune 150
Hatch, L. Boyd 29
Hatch, Orrin 241, 277, 305, 306, 372
Hatta, Mohammed 139
Haynes, Charles F. 211, 212, 349, 378
Hazell, Clare 246
Hefner, Hugh 32
Heikal, Mohammed 220, 261
Helliwell, Paul 17-21, 30, 33, 34, 36, 71, 77, 83-85, 155, 157, 161, 163, 201, 236,
273, 292, 323, 366-368, 420
Helms, Richard 61, 165, 177, 179, 197, 229, 270, 275, 329
Henderson, Helen 182
Hendricks, Chuck 345
Hendrix, John 360
Henry Kissinger: Soviet Agent 170
Herlands, William B. 1
Hersh, Burton 58, 61, 63, 67, 68, 254, 255, 267, 328, 333, 461
Herzog, Arthur 231, 237, 262, 263
Hicks, Calvin 206
Hill, John 152
Hill & Knowlton (H & K) 152, 154, 159, 171, 192, 277, 288, 293
Hill, Virginia 20, 39
Hines, Gerald D. 215, 216, 260, 373
History of the Opium Problem: The Assault on the East, 1600-1950 12, 38
Hitchcock, William Mellon 33, 129, 131, 132, 134, 227
Hitchock, William Mellon 137
Hoch, Jan Ludvick (Maxwell) 381
Hodara, David 85
Hodge, Charles 455
Hoffa, Jimmy 9, 29, 32, 121, 125, 126, 157, 211, 248, 342
Hoffman, Bryce 62, 63, 68, 100, 112, 113, 115, 119, 122, 125, 128, 142-146, 195,
365, 435, 458
Hogan, Frank 2, 61
Holden, William 221, 222
Hondu Carib 290, 341
Honey, Martha 348, 373
Hoover, J. Edgar 7, 16, 17, 37, 57-64, 67, 68, 99, 103, 115-118, 122, 123, 125-128,
133, 135, 142, 171, 181, 241, 342, 373, 442
Hopsicker, Daniel 341-344, 373
Hosenball, Mark 306
Ho, Stanley 360
Hostler, Charles 372
Hot Money and the Politics of Debt 21, 39, 76, 95, 196, 262
Hougan, Jim 75, 79, 94, 95, 159, 167, 170, 173, 174, 181-183, 188, 195-198, 229-
231, 262, 263, 265
Hourani, Mounzer 305, 306, 335
Houston Post 446
Ho Yin 360
Hoy, Patrick 25, 27, 39
Hubbell, Webster 359, 362, 394, 396
Hudson's Bay Company 13, 45-47, 66
Hugel, Max 80, 447
Hull, John 288, 289, 292, 327, 344, 373
Humphrey, Gordon J. 444
Hundley, William 342, 461
Hunt, E. Howard 17, 174, 176, 177, 179, 181, 184, 201, 292
Hunt, H. L. 155
Huntley, Clarence 165
Hunt, Nelson Bunker 289, 348, 351
Hurwitz, Charles 351, 352, 353, 375
Hussein, Saddam 314
Hyatt Development Corp 30-32,
I
Icthyan Associates 139
Information on Demand 387-389
Inman, Bobby Ray 202-204, 253, 254
Inslaw 210, 257, 338, 362-364, 383-385, 387, 388, 392, 396-398, 404-406, 410,
413, 429, 430, 438
Institute for Democracy, Education, and Assistance (IDEA) 288, 289
Inter Maritime Bank (IMB) 34, 84-86, 231, 280, 292, 312, 315, 317, 353, 419-421
Intermountain Aviation 291, 399
International Computerized Land Research (ICLR) 34, 35
International Controls Corporation (ICC) 231, 232
International Credit Bank (ICB) 75, 76, 86, 89, 92
International Fund for Mergers and Acquisitions (IFMA) 351
International Maritime Services 84
International Research and Trade (IRT) 205, 206
International Youth Federation for Freedom 156
Intra Bank 77, 78, 79
Investors Overseas Services (IOS) 29, 85, 229-233, 237, 238, 242, 244, 261, 265,
286, 287, 296, 400
Iorizzo, Lawrence 221, 303, 334
Iran-Contra affair 17, 73, 78, 79, 124, 130, 150, 160, 162, 163, 204-206, 208, 212-
214, 216, 219, 225, 243, 255, 258, 260, 267, 281, 287, 288, 293, 294, 298, 299,
301, 304, 305, 311, 314, 315, 322, 324, 332, 333, 335-338, 341, 344, 345, 348,
349, 351, 352, 386, 393, 394, 401, 404, 406, 422, 427, 433, 439, 440, 447, 451
Iran: The Untold Story 220, 261
Irving Trust 353
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) 73, 297
Israel and the Bomb 83, 95
Israel Defense Force (IDF) 69, 81, 83
Italo-American Hotel Corporation (IAHC) 92
Ivanov, Eugene 131, 132, 135
Iver Johnson's Arms 363
Ives, Kevin 351
Ives, Linda 351, 375
J
Jackson, Andrew 106
Jameson, Donald 206, 225, 281
Janchev, Ivo 415
Janklow, Mort 436
Jardine, Francis 206
Jardine-Matheson 12, 13
Jaworski, Leon 189, 190, 198
Jenkins, Carl 212, 348, 349, 374
Jensen, D. Lowell 410
Jewish Telegraph Agency 90
JM/WAVE 161-163, 206, 210, 224, 349
John Birch Society 170, 293
John Paul II (Pope) 443
Johnson, Arthur 343, 373
Johnson, Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” 355
Johnson, Lyndon 114, 121, 165, 355, 398
Johnson, Robert (Barr) 350, 406
Jones, Clifford 76, 184
Jordan, Hamilton 240, 241, 434
Jordan, Phil 290
Joseph E. Seagram's and Sons Limited 47
Joseph J. Cappucci Associates 208, 209, 210
Journal-American 133, 135
Jung, George 234
K
Kaftel, Frank 90
Kagalovsky, Konstantin 419
Kalish, Steven 282
Kaminsky, Sherman 61, 128
Kane, Patrick 101
Kanter, Burton 31-35, 85, 122, 352, 366, 367, 420
Karlweiss, George 231
Kattan, Isaac 246, 248
Katzenberg, Jacob 12
Kaufman, Susan 54, 56-59, 72
Kay, Sam 74, 75, 446
KCIA 149, 158, 182, 202
Keating, Charles 130, 357, 358, 375, 428
Keeler, Christine 131-133, 135
Kefauver Committee 48, 51, 60, 105, 108
Kelly, James P. 53
Kelso, Joe 233
Kemp, Jack 441, 446
Kendrick, Phil Jr. 368
Kennedy, Caroline 132
Kennedy family 56, 173
Kennedy, Joe 54
Kennedy, John F. 38, 56, 87, 121, 133, 134, 137, 152, 171, 194, 228
Kennedy, Robert F. 61, 67, 68, 115, 120, 121, 122, 125, 126 133, 173, 196, 402,
428
Kentucky Post 137
Kerry Commission 281, 290, 291, 340
Kessler, Murray 213, 262
Keswick, John Henry 13
Keswick, William Johnston “Tony” 13
Ketcham, Christopher 392
Keyser Ullman 242
KGB 300, 409, 412, 414, 415, 417, 420, 422
Khalifa bin-Salman al-Khalifa 372
Khan, A.Q. 270
Khan, Yahya 167
Khashoggi, Adnan 78, 79, 130, 150, 160, 221-223, 240, 241, 243, 257, 262, 276,
281, 286, 301-306, 308, 313, 335, 352, 372, 376, 394, 404, 406, 411, 439, 440,
443
Khoury, Sami 78, 79
Kim, Charles 172
Kimche, David 257, 285, 286
Kim Hyong-uk 149
King, Edward 26
King Energy 417, 431
King, John M. 287
King, Lawrence “Larry” 160, 190, 289, 445, 448, 453, 457
King, Martin Luther Jr. 126
Kinsey, Alfred C. 117
Kissinger Associates 319, 320, 321, 322, 443
Kissinger, Henry 89, 166-171, 177, 180, 196, 201, 229, 285, 319-322, 337, 382,
387, 402, 443
Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State 170
Klehr, Harvey 156, 194, 378
Klein, Bob 421
Kleinman, Morris 32
Klein, Theodore 323, 326
Klotz, John 58
Knightley, Phillip 132
Knowlton, Donald 152, 194, 277, 459
Koelsch, William 106
Kohlberg, Alfred 156
Kohn, Howard 283, 322, 325, 330, 331, 337, 338, 432
Kollek, Paul 82
Kollek, Teddy 82, 95
Komisar, Lucy 367, 377, 378
Konanykhine, Alexander 420
Koreagate scandal 149, 150, 154, 156, 158
Korshak, Sidney 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 39, 438, 459
Kray, Ronnie and Reggie 129-131, 146
Kroll and Associates 136
Kroll, Jules 136, 442, 443, 460
Krown, Kevin 241
Kryuchkov, Vladimir 412, 414, 415, 417
Kuhn, Loeb and Company 91
Kulukundis family 84, 96, 237, 238, 354
Kulukundis, Michael 84, 96, 237, 238, 354
Kuomintang (KMT) 10-12, 14, 16-21, 23, 38, 153, 155, 167, 168, 170, 171, 172
Kwitny, Jonathan 258, 369, 378

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La Costa Club 31, 32, 352, 376
La Direccion Federal de Seguridad (DFS) 290
Lady Ghislaine 299, 436
Laffite, Pierre 14, 15
La Nacion 310, 336
Lance, Bert 235, 272-275, 277, 280, 316, 353, 358, 375, 377, 395
Landon, Curt 21
Lanksy, Meyer 20, 48, 230
Lansburgh, Morris 75
Lansdale, Edward 155, 165, 172, 178
Lansing Foundation 140
Lansky, Meyer 2-5, 7, 9, 12, 15, 20, 21, 26, 27, 29, 31, 34, 47-49, 51, 53, 54, 58, 60,
62, 72, 75, 76, 79, 85, 89, 94, 102, 103, 107, 108, 118, 121, 129, 133, 140, 142,
157, 162, 184, 185, 223, 265, 333, 342, 346, 438, 440
Lanza, Joseph “Joe Socks” 2
LaPlaca, Peter 248
Larsen, Norman 155, 156
Lasater, Dan 347, 348, 350, 362, 374, 376, 377
Lassiter, Olbert “Dick” Fearing 454, 455, 456, 457
Las Vegas Sun 118
Lavi, Hushang 313
Lavoie, Leonard F. 342, 343, 373, 428
Lay, Kenneth 371
League of Nations 11
Le Cercle 224, 225, 252, 281, 312
Ledeen, Michael 208, 256, 285, 286
Lee, Duncan 367
Leflang, Astrid 187
Lehder, Carlos 234, 282, 323
Lehman Brothers 53, 91, 111, 342
Lehrman, Lewis 289
Le Monde Diplomatique 22
Lenn, John 173
Lenzlinger, Iso 418
Leveque, Jean-Maxime 308
Levinson, Ed 76, 172
Levy, Arthur 356, 375
Lewis, John 132
Lewis, “Snags” 186
Liberian Trade and Development Corp (TRADEVCO) 86
Libutti, Robert 350
Liddy, G. Gordon 174, 188, 197
Liedtke, Bill 216
Liedtke, J. Hugh 216
LIFE (magazine) 75, 76, 78, 127, 128, 145, 146
Lil Lori (Barbara Ralabate) 182
Lincoln Savings 357, 428
Lindner, Carl 215, 244, 456, 457, 463
Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) 217, 218, 261, 398, 399
Linsey, Joe 53
Lionel Corporation 111, 112, 121, 138, 144
Lippo Group 353, 360, 375
Livingstone, Neil 192, 209, 210, 259, 288
Lockwood, Paul 108, 143
Lodestar Inc 32
Lo Kham Thy 163
London & Overseas Freighters 84
Long, Huey 9
Lonrho P.L.C 219, 242, 243, 244, 302, 309, 335, 400, 402, 416
Lord Boothby 129, 130, 132, 146
Lorenzo, Frank 368
Los Angeles Times 35, 39, 40, 67, 146, 330, 336, 337, 357, 374-378, 425, 461
Loutchansky, Grigori 417, 418, 431
Lowers, Donald 209
LTV Electrosystems 398, 399
Luciano, Charles “Lucky” 2-5, 8-10, 12, 37, 47, 101, 102, 107, 142
Ludwig, Daniel K 219, 367
Lukas, Anthony 182, 197
Lundy, J.T. 350
Luo Menghong 10
Lvovsky, Anna 175, 196
M
MacArthur, Douglas 16, 136, 155, 156
Macauley, Robert 443, 444, 445
MacFarlane, Robert 284, 285
Macmillan, Harold 132, 134, 135, 194, 376
Madden, Owney 346
Mafa Kingfish 9, 38
Magruder, Jeb 188
Maher, Ted 424
Maheu, Robert 173, 402, 428
Mahl, Thomas 7, 8, 37, 38
“Main Core” 392, 393, 426
Mainland Savings 240, 301-304, 352
Major Realty 76, 77
Makkouk, Omar 78
Malnik, Alvin 185
Manafort, Paul 436
Manchester Guardian 415
Mandel, Georges 87
Mann, Stanley 35, 187, 401
Manor, LeRoy 369
Mantello, Georges 87, 89
Mao Zedong 153, 360
Marcello, Carlos 9, 38, 184, 213, 346
Marchetti, Victor 203
Marcos family 304, 366, 369, 403
Marcos, Ferdinand 369, 403, 428
Marcos, Imelda 304, 369, 443
Marcus, Bernard K 108-113
Marcus, Celia Cohen 111, 112
Marcus, Dora 100, 101, 106, 108, 110, 113
Marcus, Joseph 108
Marcus, Joseph S. 100, 106, 143
Marcus, Libby 113, 114
Marenches, Alexandre de 219, 225
Marina Reale 89
Marinelli, Albert 101, 102
Marissov, Andreas 418
Marrus, Michael 42, 44, 66
Marshall, Douglas 190, 191
Marshall, Jonathan 11, 32, 38, 39, 40, 76, 77, 78, 79, 94, 95, 96, 141, 148, 190, 191,
196, 198, 258, 259, 263, 265, 282, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 337, 344, 373, 427,
459
Martinez, Eugenio 174, 177, 181, 188
Martin, Ron 296, 322, 325, 326
Marwan, Ashraf 243, 244
Mary Carter Paint Company 4, 5, 37, 77, 104, 136
Maryland Maritime Co. 166
Mason, Raymond 236, 237, 238, 244
Masters of Deceit 64
Material Services Corporation 25
Mattei, Enrico 92
Mattes, John 349
Maurice L. Rothschild 140
Mavroleon, Basil “Bluey” 84
Mavroleon family 84
Mavroleon, Nicholas 84
Maxwell, Christine 130, 133, 242, 389, 426
Maxwell, Ghislaine 84, 130, 237, 299, 405, 436, 449, 458
Maxwell, Isabel 83, 387, 389
Maxwell, Kevin 413
Maxwell, Robert 79, 81, 83, 89, 94, 130, 136, 150, 156, 214, 231, 242, 243, 257,
260, 285, 294-296, 299, 308, 311, 313, 316, 333, 357, 381, 382, 386-390, 393,
394, 397, 403, 405, 407, 409-413, 424-426, 429, 431, 436, 442, 449, 456
Mayfair Set, The 130, 146
Mazur, Susan 258, 280, 330
McBundy, William 118
McCallum, David 410
McCarthy, Glenn 137
McCarthy, Joseph 56, 99, 115-120, 122, 124, 142, 156, 160, 392
McCarthy, William 137
McClintock, Michael 165, 196
McCollum, William 348
McCord, James 173, 174, 176, 177, 181, 182, 184, 188
McCoy, Alfred 4, 12, 18, 37, 38, 162, 163, 195, 322, 325, 327
McDonald, Larry 293
McDonald, Miles 104, 105
McElroy, James 204
McFarlane, Robert 256, 257, 267, 286, 331, 333
McGowan, James 35, 68
McGregor, Jack 238, 239, 244
McLaughlin, Edward 58
McLendon, Gordon 183, 184
McManus, Michael 336, 364
McSweeney, William 409
M.D. Anderson Foundation 189
Media Bypass 396, 427
Meese, Edwin 286, 316, 377, 383-385, 389-391, 402, 403, 410, 413
Mega Group 25, 70, 116
Mellon, Ailsa 226, 227
Mellon family 5, 33, 129
Mellon, Paul 227
Mena, Arkansas 340, 344, 345, 347-349, 351, 361, 373, 374, 377, 378, 401
Menzies, Stewart 6, 7
Mercantile Bank & Trust 273
MERRIMAC 176
Merthan, Lawrence 154
Metta, Michele 87, 91, 92, 96-98
Metzger, Eugene 274, 275, 395
Meyer, Cord 223, 224
MI5 82, 129, 132, 146
MI6 SIS [the Secret Intelligence Service 6, 131, 381, 382
Miami National Bank 21, 83, 157, 236
Miami News 71, 94
Middendorf Group 273, 274
Midwest Employers Casualty Company (MECC) 371
Milken, Michael 130, 246, 375, 443, 456
Millard, Mark 250, 266
Miller, Richard 289
Milliken, Roger 293
Mintz, John 399, 427
Mischer, Walter 213-216, 218, 219, 254, 260, 325
Mitchell, “Billy” 186
Mitchell, John 449
Mitterand 308
MK-ULTRA 15, 174
Mogilevich, Semion 80, 81, 95, 382, 383, 414-416, 418, 419
Moldea, Dan 28, 29, 40, 459
Molina, John 326
Mollenhoff, Clark 168, 196
Mondale, Walter 410, 411, 430
Money and the Power, The 37, 103, 142, 195, 373
Monks, Vicky 283, 322, 325, 330, 331, 337, 338
Monroe, James 358
Monroe, Marilyn 56, 133, 171
Monsieur, Jacques 311, 336
Moody family 137, 239, 240, 241, 342
Moody Jr, Shearn 137, 157, 239, 241
Moody, William Lewis Jr. 137, 157, 239, 240, 241, 342, 368
Moorer, Thomas H. 167, 169-171, 179, 180, 228, 293
Morabia, Elliot 298
Morabia, Nan 298, 299, 333
Moran, James 104, 105
Morgan, Jeff 32, 40
Morgans 6, 226
Morgenthau, Robert 121, 122, 124, 125, 261, 269, 435, 442
Moriarty, John “Jack” 191, 192, 193, 338
Morris, Roger 37, 103, 142, 157, 195, 345, 347, 373, 374
Mossad 31, 75, 83, 87, 88, 91, 95, 96, 124, 145, 206, 209, 230, 243, 257, 283, 295,
297, 305, 311-313, 336, 351, 383, 386, 387, 389, 397, 412-415, 422, 424, 425,
426, 439
Moss, Edward K. 222-224, 262, 290, 341, 343
Mosvold, Inge Gordon 367
Mountbatten, Lord Louis 13, 131
Mowrer, Edgar Ansel 8
Mulcahy, Kevin 204
Mullen, Robert R. 179
Mulligan, Henry L. 368
Multer, Abe 83
Multiponics 232, 233, 263, 455
Muolo, Paul 213, 259, 261, 334, 375, 376
Murchison, Clinton 83, 183, 184, 217, 261, 304, 342, 355, 359, 364, 402, 454, 462
Murchison, John 217, 261
Murdoch, Rupert 293, 294, 332, 435, 436, 440, 459
Murphy, Charles M. 102, 103
Murphy, Daniel 255, 393
Murphy, George 159
Music Corporation of America (MCA) 26, 28, 29, 31, 39, 40, 400-404, 409, 437,
438
N
Nahum, Sterling Henry 71, 131, 134
Nation, The 147, 364, 365, 377
National Bank of Georgia 272, 273, 274, 277, 353, 354
National Crime Syndicate 4, 48, 102, 103, 223
National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty 288, 289, 331, 352
National Enquirer 114, 144
National Review 136, 156, 228, 435
National Security Agency (NSA) 165, 166, 202, 253, 383, 388, 392, 393, 395,
396-398, 427, 462
National Security Council 27, 169, 170, 177, 178, 180, 228, 255, 284, 285, 316,
348, 364, 393, 395, 402, 411
National Strategy Information Center (NSIC) 228
Naylor, R.T. 21, 23, 39, 76, 95, 196, 230, 262, 308, 335, 378
NBC News 261, 306
Nelson, Rusty 453
Nesline, Joe 129, 184, 185, 186, 188, 198, 223
Newhouse, Si Jr. 113, 122, 135, 434, 435
Newman, Arno 124, 311
Newman, Peter 44, 49, 69, 87, 333
New Republic 142, 245, 264, 376, 416, 431
Newsweek 270, 325, 329, 439, 459
New West 26, 39, 438, 459
New York Daily News 142, 383, 435
New Yorker 113, 302, 435, 458
New York Herald Tribune 8, 435
New York Magazine 102, 142, 293, 332, 432, 435, 460
New York Post 293, 377, 437, 442, 460
New York Times 37, 40, 52, 53, 65, 67, 68, 69, 85, 94-97, 106, 107, 142-147, 193,
196, 198, 199, 208, 217-219, 248, 258-262, 264-266, 274, 283, 293, 317, 329,
330-334, 336, 337, 351, 372, 375-377, 379, 409, 425, 429, 430, 434, 435, 440-
443, 448-450, 455, 458-463
Nguyen Cao Ky 162, 163
Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office (NHAO) 289, 290, 291
Nichols, John Philip 363, 364
Nichols, Larry 362
Nichols, Louis B. 64
Nichols, Mary 58
Nichols, Richard Booth 402, 403
Nightline 191
Nightmare 182, 197
Nikitina, Galina 90, 91, 97
Nir, Amiram 286
Nitzan, Jonathan 83, 95
Nitze, Paul 165
Nixon, Richard 89, 94, 151, 152, 154, 166-169, 172, 173, 177, 180, 183, 188, 189,
194, 196, 197, 201, 216, 228, 229, 232, 244, 245, 250, 260, 273, 285, 293, 314,
319, 320, 352, 356, 382, 392, 443, 449
N.M. Rothschild 369
Nordex 417, 418, 419
Noriega, Manuel 209, 234, 259, 282, 283, 284, 323, 330, 350
Normandie 1
Norman, James 395, 397, 398, 427
North, Oliver 226, 228, 255, 256, 259, 284, 286, 306, 308, 311, 316, 327, 334,
338, 339, 344, 347, 348, 351, 391, 426, 447
Novaya Gazeta 423, 432
Novel, Gordon 60
Novotny, Mariella (Stella Marie Capes) 134
Nugan Hand Bank 203, 369
Nunez, Moises 233
Nye, Joseph S. Jr. 449, 461
O
Oakland Tribune 32, 40
Obama, Barack 30
Ober 176
O'Brien, Larry 172, 181, 188
Observer 198, 219, 261, 296, 333
Occidental Petroleum 236, 237, 273, 274, 409, 447
Ocean Hunter 289, 290, 295
Ochoa, Jorge 340
O'Connell, Frank 224, 261, 404
O'Connor, John 442
"October Surprise” 80, 214, 225, 251, 252, 253, 255, 257, 267, 281, 313, 336, 391,
404, 428
Odlum, Floyd 28, 29, 151
O'Dwyer, William 103, 104, 105, 114, 136
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 272, 273, 314
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI 1, 2, 5, 8, 165
Office of Policy Coordination (OPC 19
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) 5-9, 13, 14, 16-18, 20, 29, 34, 37, 39, 60, 61, 85,
88, 93, 118, 129, 132, 135, 136, 155, 163, 201, 221, 222, 226-229, 233, 245,
250, 257, 261, 262, 266, 292, 352, 367, 378
Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI) 6, 7
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover 60, 67, 68, 133, 373
Oil and Petroleum Year Book 90, 97
Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century, The 395, 427
Ojjeh, Akram 308, 313, 335
Olayan, Suliman 320
Oliver, R. Spencer 181, 186
Olmsted, George 86, 273
Omaha Sun 445, 446
Omaha World Herald 160, 190, 446, 447, 448, 461
O'Neill, John Patrick 413
Operation Black Eagle 281, 283, 284, 288, 296, 297, 322, 334
Operation BLUEBIRD 174
Operation CHAOS 175, 176, 347
Operation Condor 386, 399, 405
Operation Midnight Climax 15
Operation Mongoose 161, 178
Operation Moses 313
Operation Paper 18, 39, 155, 194
Operation Underworld 2, 3, 5, 8, 14, 107
Ora Group 295, 296
Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem 88, 265
Orovitz, Max 76, 77
O'Sullivan, Shane 176, 196, 197
Oswald, Lee Harvey 137, 183
Owen, Alisha 448
Owen, George 183, 184, 185
Owen, Robert 183, 184, 185, 288, 289, 290, 299, 327, 331, 349
P
Paese Sera 92, 98
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) 79, 209, 283, 386
Palmer, Allan George 32, 33, 291, 352
Palmeri, Ernest 248
Palmer, Michael B. 290
Palmer National Bank 352
Papa, Michele 235
Park, Max 400
Park-On-Meter, Inc (POM) 362-365
Park, Frank and Libbie 87
Park, Tongsun 136, 149, 150, 154, 156, 158, 159, 164, 172, 188, 194, 195
Parry, Robert 157, 293, 294, 332, 338, 437, 459
Parvin-Dohrmann 157
Pasternak, Irving 138
Pastora, Eden 363
Patman, J.W. Wright 456
Patriots and Profteers 308, 335
Patten, Joseph 216, 260
Pearson, Anthony 295
Pearson, Drew 118, 133
Pearson, Roger 292
Peck, David 120, 145
Peers, William R. 17
Pelullo, Leonard 247, 248, 265, 266, 303
Pemex 205, 206
Pender, George K. 364
Penn Central 215, 408, 429, 454-457, 462, 463
Pepper, Claude 236
Pepsi 154, 172, 218
Pereira, Jorge 273
Pereire, Francois 89, 90
Perelman, Ronald 368, 441
Peres, Shimon 69, 74, 82, 83, 87, 96, 286, 315, 316
Pergamon-Brassey 413, 414
Pergamon Press 381, 382, 387, 388, 413, 414, 426, 456
Permindex 87-92, 97, 140
Perpich, Rudy 409, 410, 411
Perry, Harry 101
Persico, Joseph 227, 229, 253, 254, 262, 264, 267
Persky, Gideon 82
Phao Siyanan 18, 83
Pharaon, Ghaith 274, 277, 278, 279, 318, 371
Philadelphia Enquirer 58
Philby, Kim 175
Phillips, David Atlee 176, 183
Phillips, Lazarus 87
Phillips, Maurice 89, 97
Phoenix Program 164, 341, 342, 384, 401
Picciotto, Edgar de 301
Picciotto, Michael de 300, 301, 334
Pickens, T. Boone 368, 447
Piderit, Fred 112, 144
Pike Committee 451
Pilgrim, Michael 192
Pinochet, Augusto 165, 292
Pires, Manuel J. 313
Pisar, Samuel 316, 409, 416
Pisello, Salvatore 438
Pitts, Henry Preston 154
Pizzo, Stephen 213, 259, 261, 334, 375, 376
Player, Sheldon 343
Plaza Hotel 56-60, 63, 117, 128, 182, 442
Poisoning for Profit 249, 266
Pola-Lite 139
Polstra, Klaus Uilke 85
Pope, Generoso (Gene) Jr. 114-116, 434
Pope, Generoso Sr. 114
Posey, Thomas 292, 344
Posner, Victor 246, 247, 265, 367
Power House, The 151, 194, 195, 199, 267, 331
Power Shift 23, 39
Powers, Richard 191-193
Pratt, Albert 71, 151
Presser, Jackie 192
Price, Robert 411
Prince Charles 131
Prince Philip 131, 146
Pritzker, J.B. 30
Pritzker, Nicholas and Thomas 30, 31, 32, 439
Pritzker, Penny 30
Profts of War 295, 332, 333, 337, 428
Profumo Affair 33, 128, 146, 171, 227, 277
Profumo, John 33, 128, 131-133, 135, 146, 171, 227, 277
Project ARTICHOKE 174
PROMIS scandal 210, 257, 285, 293, 363, 385, 389, 402, 405-407, 413
PROMIS software 210, 214, 243, 257, 285, 293, 338, 362-364, 376, 383,-395,
397, 402-407, 410-414, 425, 426, 433
Proskauer, Joseph S. 107, 108, 109, 111
Przedborski, Daniel 310
Przedborski, Felix 310-313, 335, 416, 422
Pugo, Boris 417
Pullman, John 76, 162
Purdy, Donald 191, 192
Purple Gang 47
Puzo, Mario 114
Pynchon, Thomas 230
Q
Quasha, Alan and Wayne 368, 369
Quasha, William 368-370
Quayle, Dan 288
Quintero, Rafael 162, 206, 212, 323
R
Rabb, Maxwell 440
Raborn, William 398, 399
Racz, Andrew 401, 402
Radar 392
Radford, Charles 167, 169-172, 179
Raichle, Frank 123
RAND Corporation 30
Ranieri, Lewis 352
Ransom, L.T. “Bill” 400, 401, 428
Raphael, Bruce 216, 417, 431
Rapid-American Corporation 65, 247, 456
Rappaport, Bruce 34, 80-86, 89, 95, 97, 230, 237, 280, 292, 310, 312, 315-317,
336, 353-356, 377, 416, 419-421, 424
Rathbone, Monroe J. 454
Rattikone, Ouane 162
Raymond, Walter 393
Reagan, Nancy 437
Reagan, Ronald 28, 29, 40, 74, 80, 159, 160, 170, 218, 221, 224, 225, 234, 241,
244, 247, 252-255, 257-259, 264, 284, 286, 288, 289, 294, 306, 314, 316, 317,
319, 320, 328, 331, 333, 336, 350, 352, 357, 363, 364, 367, 374, 382-384, 387,
393, 395, 402, 428, 433-439, 441, 443, 446, 447, 450, 451, 452, 459, 462
Reeder, G. Wayne 363, 364, 376, 377
Reed, Terry 207, 258, 347, 350, 363, 366, 374
Regan, Edward 441, 459
Reinfeld, Joseph 50, 51, 52, 53
Reinhardt, Dietrich 345, 374
Renda, Mario 221, 302, 303, 304, 352, 376
Renyi, Thomas 419, 421
Republic National Bank (RNB) 95, 298, 299, 300, 310, 416, 422, 425
Research Institute of America 226
Research on Demand 389
Resorts International 4, 77, 104, 136, 137, 229
Revell, Oliver “Buck” 327
Reynolds, Mercer III 371
Reynolds, William Bradford 393
R.G. LeTourneau Inc 215, 260
Riady, James T. 353
Riady, Mochtar 353-355, 358, 359, 360, 361, 375, 376
Ricciardi, J.H. 456
Rice, Condoleezza 216, 411
Richards, Guy 135
Richards, Jack 401
Richardson, Sid 355, 396, 397, 427, 462
Richemont Group 368, 370
Richler, Mordecai 44, 49
Rich, Marc 124, 206, 312, 317, 318, 417, 418, 431, 439
Riconosciuto, Michael 338, 364, 365, 377, 390, 391, 402, 404
Riddle, John 331, 351, 375, 429
Riggs Bank 217, 261
Rikan, Erika “Heidi” (Cathy Dieter ) 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188
Riklis, Meshulam 65, 140, 141, 247, 265, 456
Rimrock International 77
Ritter, Bruce 441-445, 460
Roberts, John 304
Robertson, Terence 48, 49, 55
Rocka, Ludwig 369
Rockefeller Commission 174, 196
Rockefeller, David 6, 37, 228, 448
Rockefeller family 86, 96, 170, 218, 227, 356, 454
Rockefeller Foundation 11, 38
Rockefeller, Godfrey A. 370, 378
Rockefeller, Laurance 370
Rockefeller, Nelson 6, 228, 348, 351, 370
Rodriguez, Cesar 282
Rodriguez, Felix 162, 210, 323-325, 327, 339,
Rodriguez, Gilberto 404
Rodriguez, Luis 234, 289
Rodriguez, Paul 453, 462
Roe, Kenneth 364, 377
Roen, Allard 32, 122, 138
Rogers, David 287, 331
Rogers & Wells 244-247, 249, 251, 354
Rogers, William D. 322
Rogers, William P. 244
Rolling Stone 283, 322, 330
Roosevelt, Eleanor 104
Roosevelt, James 29, 31
Roosevelt, John 29
Roosevelt, Franklin (FDR) 6-8, 19, 24, 25, 66, 101, 102, 103, 104, 109, 114, 142,
154, 157, 222, 381
Rose, Charlie 406
Rose Law 358, 359, 361, 362, 364, 394, 395
Roselle, Crescent “Chris” J. 248, 249
Roselli, Johnny 26, 27, 184, 223
Rosenbaum, Tibor 75, 76, 85, 86, 89, 90, 92, 97, 230, 231, 263
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel 115, 463
Rosenstiel, Lewis 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 65, 67,
68, 72, 108, 116, 127, 128, 140, 141, 247, 442, 456
Rosenthal, Abe 147, 324, 435
Rossotti, Barbara 207
Ross, Vaughn R. “Bobby” 211, 221, 259
Rothkopf, Lou 32
Rothschild, Edmund L. 332, 338, 369, 382
Rothschild Inc 357
Rothstein, Arnold 12, 59, 101
Rothstein, James 59
Rowland, Roland Walter (Tiny) 130, 219, 242-244, 301, 302, 305, 309, 400, 402,
416
Ruark, Robert 221, 261
Rubin, Robert 365, 366
Ruby, Jack ( Jacob Rubenstein ) 137, 183, 184
Rudy, John 187
Rugge, Sue 387, 388
Rumsfeld, Donald 314, 315, 317, 336
Rupert, Antony 368, 370
Ruppert, Michael 22, 24, 39, 395, 427
Russell, Louis James 146, 172, 173, 178, 182, 183, 197, 227-229, 233, 250, 333,
349
Russo, Anthony 211
Russo, Gus 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 39, 40, 178, 197, 198, 459
Rutkin, James 51
Ryan, Clendenin 136, 142, 147
Ryan, Frank T. 29, 221
Ryan, Ray 261
S
Sadat, Anwar 210
Safari Club 219-225, 252, 262, 274
Safre, William 434, 435, 436, 441, 450
Safra, Edmond 79, 81, 95, 298-301, 310, 311, 382, 416, 422, 423, 424, 440
Sahara Hotel 342
Sale, Kirkpatrick 23, 24, 39
Salem, Hussein K. 207
Salerno, Ralph 62, 112, 185, 192, 434
Salik, Pierre 311
Salon 67, 260, 392, 426, 461
Samos, Steven Sandor 303, 304, 334
Samuels, David 104, 142
Sanders, Chris 22, 39
Sanders, Jerry 201, 258
Santulli, Richard 457, 463
Sapio, Carmine de 115, 121
Sassoon family 12, 13, 38
Sassoon, James 13
SAVAK 205, 210, 219, 255, 408
Saypol, Irving 115
Scarfo, Nicodemo 247
SCA Services 248, 249
Schenley Distillers Company 52-54, 56, 64, 65, 67, 72, 108, 141
Schifferli, Pierre 292, 310
Schindler, Irving 73
Schine, David 116, 119
Schine, Renee 116, 144
Schlein, Dov 422
Schmidt, Robert D. 409
Schneider, Stephen 51, 66, 363, 376, 429
Schoenfeld, Gerald 440
Schreiber, Taft 28
Schwartz, Irwin “Steve” 73
Schwimmer, Adolf 73, 82, 286, 297, 298, 302-304
Scott, John 49
Scott, Peter Dale 14, 16, 38, 39, 40, 94, 133, 135, 146, 147, 153, 155, 156, 194,
195, 197, 198, 223, 258, 259, 262, 263, 265, 282, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 337,
338, 344, 373, 426, 427, 454, 462, 463
Scowcroft, Brent 319, 320
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) 28
Sculley, John 411
Seabury, Samuel 102, 103
Seagram's Seagram Company Limited 47, 49, 50, 51, 53, 66, 319
Seal, Barry (Adler Barriman) 213, 341, 342-344, 347, 349, 352, 428
SEA Supply 18, 20, 21, 155, 157, 307, 308
Seaton, Fred 150, 151
Secord, Richard 163, 165, 195, 204, 206, 208, 226, 254, 255, 284, 285, 287, 298,
299, 307, 316, 322-324, 326, 327, 333
Secret Agenda 159, 183, 195-198
Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward, The 132, 146
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 229, 232, 233, 245, 246, 247, 275,
301, 378, 396
Semenenko, Serge 140, 141
Seng Heng Bank 360, 376
Sennott, Charles M. 442, 443, 460
Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre-Espionnage (External
Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service or SDECE) 219
SETCO Aviation 290
Sevareid, Eric 449
Seymour, Cheri 338, 364, 376, 391, 397, 403, 404, 426
Seymour, Christine 437
Shackley, Theodore “Ted” 161-166, 178, 192, 202-208, 210, 212, 213, 219, 224,
225, 228, 235, 242, 244, 252-258, 267, 280, 281, 284, 285, 288, 292, 309, 312,
323-325, 349, 369, 374, 400, 401, 408
Shaheen, John 80, 250-252, 257, 281, 330
Shakarchi, Mahmoud 300
Shakarchi, Mohammed 300, 311
Shamir, Nachum 386
Shamir, Yitzhak 383, 386, 425
Shawano Corporation 137, 138
Shaw, Clay 87, 96-98
Sheehan, Daniel 348
Shenker, Morris 32, 157, 211
Sherwood, John 164
Sherwood, Robert 7
Shiina, Motoo 448, 449
Shiliro, Lewis 422
Shimon, Joseph 173, 198
Shimon, Toni 173
Shoffler, Carl 177, 182, 191-193
Shogan, Robert 101, 103, 142
Shorrock, Tim 392, 393, 426
Shultz, George P. 314-316, 320, 336, 337, 356
Sick, Gary 313, 336
Sicre, Ricardo 221, 222, 261
Siegelbaum, Benjamin 76
Siegel, Benjamin “Bugsy” 3, 4, 20, 72, 226, 342, 462
Silent Coup 183, 196, 197, 198
Simons, Howard 177, 179
Simon, William 68, 196, 197, 245, 320
Singer, Saul 106, 109, 110, 144
Singlaub, John 17, 163, 201, 291-294, 296, 327, 344, 352, 357
Siragusa, Charles 14
Skuratov, Yury 423, 432
Smallwood, Joey 250
Smith, Al 101, 102, 107, 108
Smith, Gerald 215, 216
Smith, James H. 454
Smith, Randall Jr. 456
Smith, Richard Harris 5, 6, 37, 250, 266, 378
Snider, Steven 129, 131, 132, 135, 146, 147, 222, 262
Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS) 82
Sofgest 85
Soghanalian, Sarkis 325
Sokolsky, George 63, 435
Somoza, Anastasio 74, 94, 445
Sonneborn, Rudolf 70, 71, 94
Soong, T. V. 19, 153, 154
Sorge, Santo 77
Soros, George 301, 370, 372
Soros, Paul 301
Soros, Peter 301
Soustelle, Jacques 92, 97
Southern Air Transport 20, 154, 218, 287, 297, 299, 304, 339, 350, 365, 408, 444,
457
Southern Cross Aviation Inc 344, 345
Sovereign Military Order of Malta (better known as the Knights of Malta) 88,
226, 245, 313, 416, 444, 445
Special Interrogation Group (SIG) 81
Special Operations Executive (SOE) 6, 13
Specter, Arlen 441
Spellman, Cardinal 56, 57, 116, 117, 122, 442
Spence, Craig 37, 445, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 462
Spiegel 309, 335
Spire, Robert 448
Spooks 94, 95, 229, 262, 263, 265, 330
Sporkin, Stanley 232, 247, 265
Stacher, Doc 27
Stajer, Sidney 12
Standorf, Alan 393, 405, 429
Stanford, Phil 183, 184, 187, 197
Stanford Technology Trading Group International (STTGI) 285
Starnes, E. Trine 289, 331
Starr, Cornelius Vander 367
Starr, Ken 396
Stavin, Richard 403, 404
St. Clair, Jeffrey 347, 374
STDM (company) 360
Steinberg, Saul 368, 382, 456, 463
Steinbrenner, George 440
Stein, Julius Caesar 26, 29, 31, 438
Stephens, Inc 273
Stephens, Jackson 273, 353, 358, 361, 362, 366, 368, 371, 394, 395, 396
Stephens, Louis 252
Stephenson, William 6, 7, 14, 37, 88
Sterling, Claire 131, 134, 416, 430, 431
Stettinius, Edward Jr. 222
Stewart, Jimmy 454
Stewart, John 172
Stewart, Robert H. III 218
Stillman, James 96, 227
Stirling, David 130
St. Joe Paper Company 236, 237, 326
Stobaugh, James 362
Stoga, Alan 321
Stone, Robert G. 370
Stone, Roger 436, 458
Strong, Morgan 210, 259
Studio 54 241, 434, 458
Studley, Barbara 294, 296
Sturgis, Frank 174, 177
Summers, Anthony 54, 58, 60, 62, 67, 68, 129, 132, 133, 135, 146, 342, 373
Summit Aviation 291, 341
Sunday Times 75, 244
Sundlun, Bruce 454-457
Supermob 22, 24, 26, 27, 30, 39, 40, 116, 140, 141, 148, 459
Swig, James 29
Swiss-Israel Trade Bank 82, 88
Swords, Shawn 438
Symington, Stuart 275
Systematics Inc. 274, 275, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398
System Services International (SSI) 205, 206, 207, 208
T
Tafoya, Eugene 204, 208
Talbot, David 117-119, 145, 425
Tamraz, Roger 251
Task Force 157 (TF-157) 165, 166, 167, 170, 171, 180, 189, 196, 202, 203, 204,
253
Taubman, A. Alfred 74, 258, 259, 385, 410, 444
Taylor, Rufus 165
Teacher, David 225, 262
Tempelsman, Maurice 356
Terpil, Frank 159, 204, 374
Terrell, Jack (“Colonel Flaco”) 326, 327, 338, 344
Terrorist Incident Working Group (TIWG) 327
Terry, Howard L. 215
Tessler, Allan 385
Tetra Tech 225, 281, 330
Texas Monthly 189, 198, 215, 260, 261
Thatcher, Margaret 130, 242, 264, 318, 337, 382
Thatcher, Mark 318, 337
Thayer, Charles 116
The Limited 20, 385, 445, 457
Thieves World 416, 430
Thomas, Clarence 446
Thomas, E. Parry 157
Thomas, Gordon 94, 214, 257, 260, 299, 333, 386, 389, 390, 412, 414, 417, 425
Thommasson, Bob 344
Thompson, Arthur 338
Thompson, Clark W. 156, 157
Thompson, Douglas 129, 146
Thunderbird Hotel 342
Thurmond, Strom 441
Tibbets, Paul 454, 455, 457, 462, 463
Tieri, Frank 249
TIME (magazine) 40, 49, 66, 68, 107, 119, 185, 269, 271, 329, 375, 431
Todd, Troy 190
Tolson, Clyde 60, 67, 118
Torrente, Vivian 424
Tourine, Charles 72, 185, 223
Tower, John 156, 194, 214, 216, 218, 285, 286, 294, 318, 332, 387, 403, 405, 413,
414, 429, 430
Towers, Harry Alan 134
Townsend, Jerry 316, 356
Tracey, Harold 131
Trafficante, Santo 54, 75, 162, 163, 185, 213, 223
Trento, Joseph 158, 161, 210, 219, 235, 254, 255, 258, 261, 285, 324
Trento, Susan 151, 154, 159, 192, 253, 267, 459
Trilateral Commission 201, 444, 448, 449, 461
Tripp, C. A. 117
Trippe, Juan 222
Trohan, Walter 119
Trotter, Jack T. 215, 216
Truell, Peter 280, 329, 330, 333, 335, 379, 427
Truman, Harry 39, 73, 74, 94, 104, 105, 114, 152, 459
Trump, Donald 39, 94, 99, 144-146, 207, 247, 262, 265, 332, 334, 383, 426, 434,
435, 436, 439, 440, 458, 459
Tucker, Sam 32
Turki bin Faisal al Saud 219
Turner, Stansfeld 205
U
Uffner, George 12
Ugazzi, Mario 92, 98
Ulloa, Herrera 310
Unification Church 172, 202, 292, 293, 296, 343, 444
Union Bancaire Privee 300, 301
Union Bank of Switzerland 296, 369, 370, 371, 372, 420
United Brands 74, 444, 457
United Dye 122, 123, 136-140, 438
United Fruit Company 28, 74, 444, 460
Ustinov, Peter 449
V
V 230
Valentine, Douglas 13, 38, 39, 94, 95
Vance, Cyrus 178
vanden Huevel, Frederich 381
Vanderwerker, John 363
Vang Pao 163, 349
Vanity Fair 113, 424, 432, 434, 435, 458, 459
Van Tuyl, George C. Jr. 107
Varona, Tony 223
Vaveris, George 414
Vesco, Robert 36, 40, 179, 229-234, 237-242, 244, 246, 261-265, 282, 287, 289,
296, 400, 401
Videnieks, Peter 405
Viguerie, Richard 202, 207
Village Voice, The 425, 442
Vineberg, Stanley 87, 89
Vinson, Henry 452, 453, 462
Viola, Thomas 249
Vogue 113, 435
von Hoffman, Nicholas 62, 68, 100, 112, 113, 115, 119, 122, 125, 128, 142-146,
195, 435, 458
Voyatzis, Jean 14
W
Wackenhut (G4S Security) 338, 363, 364, 390, 398, 402, 427
WACL 357
Wade, Rick 348, 349
Wadman, Robert 448
Walker, George Herbert 131
Walker, Jimmy 102
Wallace, George 346
Wallach, Robert 316
Wall Street Journal 97, 217, 259, 261, 287, 331, 349, 374, 375, 377, 429
Walsh, Frank 127, 249, 250, 322, 324, 325
Walsh, Neil 127
Walters, Barbara 434-436, 458
Walters, Vernon 256
Wanta, Leo 416, 430, 431
Warburg, Felix 108
Warburg, Paul 108, 110, 143
Ward, Seth Jr. 362, 363
Ward, Stephen 131-135, 146, 171
Warner, Marvin 28, 141, 248, 331, 373, 420, 431
Warton, Henry A. 345
Washington Post 37, 40, 64, 68, 96, 147, 154, 161, 177, 179, 194, 195, 199, 209,
241, 259, 264, 275, 330, 331, 333, 335-337, 340, 359, 363, 368, 373, 375, 376,
378, 399, 411, 427-430, 462
Washington Star 40, 67, 187, 188, 195, 260, 373, 427, 446
Washington Times 293, 343, 450-453, 462
Wasserman, Lew 26, 27, 28, 29, 40, 402, 409, 437, 438, 459
Watson, Samuel 339, 409
Webb, Del 342, 343
Webb, Gary 137, 147, 263, 363, 376
Weinberger, Caspar 314, 315
Weisel, Edwin 113, 114
Weisman, Leonard 71
Weitz, John 60
Welander, Robert O. 169-171, 179, 180
Welch, Russell 344, 349
Weld, William F. 393, 394
Wells, Alfred 132
Wells, John A. 244
Wells, Maxine 68, 181, 195, 335
Wenger, Beth S. 107, 143, 144
WerBell, Mitchell III 229
Weschler, Harry 397, 398
West 57th 327
Western Goals 293
Wexner, Leslie 20, 25, 70, 74, 140, 216, 244, 246, 249, 250, 385, 410, 420, 439,
440, 444, 445, 447, 450, 457
WFC Corporation 326, 334
Wheaton, Gene 212, 348, 349, 374
Where's My Roy Cohn? 100, 142
White, Bill 277, 278
White, George 5, 14, 16, 38
White, John C. 240, 241
Whitlam, Gough 203
Wick, Chad 293, 294, 434
Wien, Lawrence 24, 140
Wigg, George 132
Willauer, Whiting 19
Williams, E. Bennett 175
Williams, Garland 13-17
Williams, Leroy 190, 193, 199
Williams, Leroy Jr. 190
Willoughby, Charles 16, 136, 155, 156, 170
Wilson, Edwin P. 84, 150, 153, 158-161, 163-166, 170, 171, 180, 188-192, 202-
206, 208-212, 219, 223, 224, 238, 243, 244, 255, 285, 309, 324, 325, 369, 374,
400, 408
Wilson, J. Steven 238
Wingate, Orde Charles 70
Winkler, Leslie 303
Winter, Allen 342, 430
Wired 385, 392, 425
Wisner, Frank 19
Wohlenhaus, James 240, 241
Wood, John H. Jr. 347
Woodward, Bob 179, 180, 181
Woolston-Smith, A. J. 173, 178
Work, Charles 405, 429
World Anti-Communist League 288, 292, 293, 310, 312, 332
World Bank 222, 279, 404, 406, 407, 410, 411
World Commerce Corporation (WCC) 29, 155, 222, 262
World Jewish Congress 88
World Marine Inc. 166, 203
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) 370
World Zionist Congress 75
World Zionist Organization (WZO) 70
Worthen Bank 360, 361, 362, 372, 376, 379
Wynne, Bedford 183-185, 463
Y
Yakuza 403, 413
Yassin, Hassan 281
Yavlinski, Grigori 415
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) 136
Yuesheng, Du 10
Z
Zagri, Sid 125, 126
Zapata Petroleum 153, 215, 216
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan 270
Zeckendorf, William 140
Zell, Samuel 366, 367
Zemurray, Samuel 74
Zhou Enlai 169, 360
Zicarelli, Joseph “Bayonne Joe” 72, 73, 74, 90, 94, 95, 97, 127
Ziffren, Paul 27, 29, 31, 409
Zim Shipping 88
Z Magazine 370, 378
Zokosky, Peter 402
Zoppi, Rolando 85
ZR/MAJOR 223, 224
ZR/RIFLE 161
Zucker, Willard 286, 287, 298, 299
Zwillman, Longy 27, 47, 50, 51

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ACUSR – American Committee on US-Soviet Relations
ADFA – Arkansas Development Finance Authority
AFL-CIO – American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial
Organizations
AIA – Aviation Industries Association
AIFLD – American Institute of Free Labor Development
AIG – American International Group
ANICO – American National Insurance Company
AREB – All-Russian Exchange Bank
BCCI – Bank of Credit and Commerce International
BCP – Banque de Commerce et de Placements
BNL – Banca Nazionale del Lavoro
BONY – Eastern European Division of Bank of New York
BONY-IMB – Bank of New York-Inter Maritime Bank
BSC – British Security Coordination
BWC – Bank of World Commerce
CAT – Civil Air Transport
CCC – Commercial Credit Corporation
CDC – Control Data Corporation
CIA – Central Intelligence Agency
CMA – Civilian Materiel Assistance
CMC – Centro Mondale Commerciale
COG – Continuity of Government
COI – Office of the Coordinator of Information
COP – Chiefs of Police National Drug Task Force
CORDS – Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support
CORU – Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations
CPD – Committee on the Present Danger
CRP – Committee for the Reelection of the President
DEA – US Drug Enforcement Administration
DFS – La Dirección Federal de Seguridad
DIA – Defense Intelligence Agency
DNC – Democratic National Committee
DOD – Department of Defense
DOJ – Department of Justice
EATSCO – Egyptian-American Air Transport and Services Corporation
EJA – Executive Jet Aviation
ERA – Engineering Research Associates
EUB – European Union Bank
FABCO – First Arkansas Bankstock Corporation
FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBN – Federal Bureau of Narcotics
FGB – Financial General Bankshares (aka First American Bankshares)
FIDCO – First Intercontinental Development Corporation
GMT – GeoMili Tech Consultants Corporation
HUMINT – Nitze’s program for a naval human intelligence
IAHC – Italo-American Hotel Corporation
IAI – Israel Aerospace Industries
IAI – Israel Aircraft Industries
ICB – International Credit Bank
ICLR – International Computerized Land Research
IDEA – Institute for Democracy, Education, and Assistance
IDF – Israel Defense Force
IFMA – International Fund for Mergers and Acquisitions
IMB – Inter Maritime Bank
IOS – Investors Overseas Services
IRS – Internal Revenue Service
IRT – International Research and Trade
KMT – Nationalist Chinese the Kuomintang
LTV – Ling-Temco-Vought
MCA – Music Corporation of America
MECC – Midwest Employers Casualty Company
NAR – North American Resources
NHAQ – Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office
NSA – National Security Agency
NSC – National Security Council
NSIC – National Strategy Information Center
NVA – North Vietnamese Army
OMB – Office of Management and Budget
ONI – Office of Naval Intelligence
OPC – Office of Policy Coordination
OSG – Operations Sub-Group
OSS – Office of Strategic Services
PEC – Palestine Economic Corporation
PIIC – Pergamon International Information Corporation
PLO – Palestine Liberation Organization
RNB – Republic National Bank
SAG – Screen Actors Guild
SAT – Southern Air Transport
SDECE – France’s External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service
SDNY – Southern District of New York
SEC – Securities and Exchange Commission
SGS – Société Générale de Surveillance
SIG – Special Interrogation Group
SOE – Special Operations Executive
SSI – System Services International
STTG – Stanford Technology Trading Group International
TF–157 – Task Force 157
TIWG – Terrorist Incident Working Group
TRADEVCO – Liberian Trade and Development Corp
UFG – United Financial Group
WCC – World Commerce Corporation
WWF – World Wildlife Fund
YAF – Young Americans for Freedom

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First and foremost, I’d like to extend my deepest and sincerest thanks to Ed Berger, without whom this book would not have been possible. Ed contributed amazing, in-depth and original research to several key parts of this book and his contributions were and are invaluable. If you enjoy historical deep dives about the intersection of organized crime networks, corporate power and intelligence agencies, please consider listening to and supporting his podcast: The Pseudodoxology Podcast Network at https://www.patreon.com/wydna

I also want to thank my amazing assistant Star Parsons for helping keep my website afloat while I worked on this book and for painstakingly formatting all the many, many citations within this book. I also owe much to my publisher Kris Millegan for his infinite patience and understanding, as this book was delayed several times, and for his support of my work. Also, an important thank you to Johnny Vedmore who made some important contributions to this book and whose original past reporting on the Epstein case was key to developing important parts of this book.

In addition, this work, and my journalistic career in general, would not have been possible if not for Mnar Muhawesh and the team at MintPress News. Mnar and the MintPress team first gave me the space and platform necessary to develop my journalistic work and provided me with the support I needed to publish my original, four-part series on which this book is based. Thank you so much for believing in me and for supporting my work from the very beginning – I owe you all so much.

I also would like to thank my amazing babysitters, Fresia Retamal and Patricia Guzmán, for taking great care of my little ones so that I could put in the time to write this book.

Last but not least, I would like to extend my deepest, heartfelt thanks to all of my supporters, specifically the thousands of readers who financially support my work, allowing me to be 100% independent. Without your support, this book would not have happened and I cannot thank you enough for your help in financing this book as well as in supporting and sharing my other work, both online and in print.

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One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
Volume Two.
by Whitney Webb
Copyright © 2022 Whitney Webb. All Rights Reserved.

CONTENTS

Introduction
11) The Rise of Jeffrey Epstein
12) The Property Developer
13) The World of Leslie Wexner
14) The Darkside of Wexner’s "Philanthropy"
15) Ghislaine Maxwell: Heiress to an Espionage Empire
16) Crooked Campaigns
17) Epstein’s Enterprise?
18) Predators
19) The Prince and the President
20) Epstein, Edge, and Big Tech
21) From PROMIS to Palantir: The Future of Blackmail
Documents
Index

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PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD

For although the act condemn the doer, the end may justify him… – Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses: I, 9, 1531

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I’m afraid to say things like that. – Henry Kissinger, Memorandum of Conversation, March 10, 1975

We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do. – [S]enior adviser to Bush, Ron Suskind, New York Times, 2004

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy. – Jerrold Nadler, The Huffington Post, October 7, 2013

Lord have mercy – and as God knows – we could use some!

After running around this blue ball for nigh on seventy-three years and moving in some strange circles, I reckoned I had seen, heard and read about most everything.

But the depth and breadth of Whitney Webb’s opus, A Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, exceeded my expectations. Matter-of-fact, Whitney delivered two books, over 900 fact-filled pages of exposé, exploring a netherworld nexus of criminals, scammers, drug-dealers, bagmen, intelligence agents, government operatives and political fixers.

How did this corruption happen? How did it seep so far into our body politic? What can we the people do?

TrineDay has been striving for years to bring these shameful actions more exposure, because we believe that by informing folks of the atrociousness of our current situation, we the people can overcome the perfidy we find ourselves enmeshed in.

We have published Nick Bryant’s Franklin Scandal: A Story of Power-brokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal, Henry Vinson’s Confessions of a DC Madam The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail, Dr. Lori Handrahan’s Epidemic America’s Trade in Child Rape, and others. We tried to get these books mainstream press coverage, hired PR folks, sent out numerous press releases – to no avail. Even the fringe outlets wouldn’t cover, we were told directly that Coast-to-Coast AM wouldn’t cover these subjects, and were never able to get these authors on. Jesse Ventura informed us that he was instructed that his show Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura could not cover pedophilia scandals. Why? And by keeping honest information away from folk, it has allowed for the spurious politicization of very real events into crazy conspiracy theories and meme warfare that devalues, deflects and derides the actuality of the abuse.

Our forefathers and subsequent generations have given much so that we can live in this grand experiment of people running their own affairs, not ruled by Royals or Popes, but by our own wit and gumption. We can survive this corruption, and be better by it’s exposure.

Whitney Webb is one of the lonely voices of truth in the wilderness of today’s media landscape. She has been delivering solid information through various websites and podcasts. TrineDay is proud to publish her two volume exposition, A Nation Under Blackmail, a deep, deep dive into corruption that effects all of our lives and futures. Not salacious reportage but one that asks the basic questions: who, what, where, how and why.

Looking at this history, Whitney sorts out the different players, agendas and scandals giving us a honest view of our past – warts and all. And gives us a surprising glimpse of forthcoming technological advances in blackmail techniques. Thank-you, Whitney!

Whither goest our ship of state?

Onwards to the Utmost of Futures!
Peace,
R.A. "Kris" Millegan
Publisher
TrineDay
August 22, 2022

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INTRODUCTION, VOLUME 2

The July 2019 arrest of Jeffrey Epstein and his subsequent death that August brought national as well as international attention to a sex ring where certain members of the power elite sexually abused and exploited female minors and young women. Epstein’s death, officially ruled a suicide, has been treated skeptically by many, for a variety of reasons. Regardless of the real circumstances of his death, it has led to scores of Americans embracing the view that his death was both intentional and necessary to protect his powerful co-conspirators and the full extent of his covert and illegal activities.

Even if one chooses not to entertain such disconcerting possibilities, it is quite apparent that most of those who aided or enabled Epstein will never see the inside of a prison cell. Though Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving a 20 year sentence, others known to have been intimately involved in his illegal activities continue to enjoy protection from the so-called "sweetheart deal", or plea deal that followed Epstein’s first run-in with the law for his sex trafficking activities in the mid-2000s. In addition, Ghislaine Maxwell’s recent trial saw information involving third parties redacted, leading many to believe that the public will never know the names of the "johns" or clients, who benefitted from the sex trafficking activities of Epstein and Maxwell and who were potentially blackmailed by them.

Yet, for both Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, there is much more to the story. This became apparent when it emerged that Alex Acosta, then-serving as Secretary of Labor in the Trump administration, had disclosed to the Trump transition team that he had previously signed off on Epstein’s "sweet-heart deal" because Epstein "had belonged to intelligence." Acosta, then serving as US attorney for Southern Florida, had also been told by unspecified figures at the time that he needed to give Epstein a lenient sentence because of his links to "intelligence." When Acosta was later asked if Epstein was indeed an intelligence asset in 2019, Acosta chose to neither confirm or deny the claim.

Other hints of a connection between Epstein and intelligence subsequently emerged, with reporting from a variety of sources that Epstein was affiliated with the CIA, Israeli intelligence, or both. Despite the implications and significance of these connection(s) to intelligence, most of mainstream media declined to dig deeper into these claims, instead largely focusing on the salacious aspects of the Epstein case. The narrative soon became that Epstein was an anomaly, the sole mastermind of an industrial sex trafficking enterprise and a talented con artist. Even his closest associates and benefactors, like retail billionaire Leslie Wexner, have been taken at their word that they knew nothing of Epstein’s crimes, even when there is considerable evidence to the contrary.

Indeed, it was later stated by Cindy McCain, wife of former Senator John McCain, that "we all knew what he [Epstein] was doing" at an event in January 2020, where she also claimed that authorities were "afraid" to properly apprehend him. If he was such an anomaly and a stand-alone con artist – how was he singlehandedly able to intimidate the law enforcement apparatus of an entire nation for decades? The claim that Epstein did not have powerful backers and benefactors stands on incredibly shaky ground.

Oddly enough, mainstream reporting on Epstein was once relatively open about his alleged intelligence ties, with British media reporting as early as 1992 and throughout the early 2000s that Epstein had ties to both US and Israeli intelligence. In addition, also in the early 1990s, Epstein’s name was mysteriously dropped from a major investigation into one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history even though he was labeled the mastermind of that swindle in grand jury testimony. Around the same time, subsequently released White House visitor logs show that Epstein visited the Clinton White House 17 times, accompanied on most of these visits by a different, attractive young woman. Reporting on those visitor logs was largely done by a single media outlet, Britain’s The Daily Mail, with hardly any American mainstream media outlets bothering to investigate these revelations about Epstein and a former US president.

Why was Epstein so heavily protected from justice for decades – in connection to both his sex trafficking crimes and his financial crimes? Why have the once commonly reported intelligence connections of Jeffrey Epstein now been relegated to "conspiracy theory" despite evidence to the contrary? If powerful Senators knew what Epstein was doing to young women and girls – who else knew and why wasn’t something done?

This two-volume book endeavors to show why Jeffrey Epstein was able to engage in a series of mind-boggling crimes for decades without incident. Far from being an anomaly, Epstein was one of several men who, over the past century, have engaged in sexual blackmail activities designed to obtain damaging information (i.e. "intelligence) on powerful individuals with the goal of controlling their activities and securing their compliance. Most of these individuals, including Epstein himself, have their roots in the covert world where organized crime and intelligence have intermingled and often cooperated for the better part of the last 90 years, if not longer. Perhaps most shockingly, these men are all interconnected to various degrees and those connections, networks and associations were the subject of Volume 1 of this book.

In Volume 2, we are introduced to Jeffrey Epstein. Detailed here are the key players in his rise and early career, many of whom have not been properly scrutinized by the media, and the existing evidence of Epstein’s connections to intelligence agencies and the networks detailed at length in Volume 1. We then turn to Epstein’s connections to retail mogul Leslie Wexner, with a focus on Wexner’s own rise, his particular brand of philanthropy and the many roles that Epstein went on to play in his business empire, including some with apparent links to espionage activity. Also examined in detail is the history behind Ghislaine Maxwell and her relationship with Epstein in the wake of her father’s death in 1991.

While the sex trafficking activities of Epstein and Maxwell are discussed at length and examined in depth, this book gives particular attention to the dramatically under-reported relationship that Jeffrey Epstein had with the Clinton White House from 1993 through 1995 and the significance of his 17 known White House meetings. Epstein brought many attractive, young women with him to these meetings and many of his meetings were with a man named Mark Middleton. Middleton, who died under suspicious circumstances in May 2022, was embroiled in foreign espionage activities at the time he was meeting with Epstein. Those activities were later investigated by Congress in relation to illegal fundraising efforts for Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign. Epstein’s activities at the Clinton White House, and in other parts of the country during this same period in time, point toward a major scandal of the Clinton era that has yet to be properly investigated.

Volume 2 of One Nation Under Blackmail concludes by examining the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein/The Maxwells and Big Tech, particularly Microsoft executives such as Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold, among others. The book closes out tracing how at least two of Ghislaine Maxwell’s siblings appear to have major intelligence connections as well as great influence in Big Tech while also tracing their ties to the apparent successors to the stolen PROMIS software. The theft of that software, as noted in Volume 1, had been intimately related to the activities of Robert Maxwell.

In closing, it becomes evident that the nature of blackmail evolved with society’s increasing dependence on technology. Now, technology-derived blackmail is harvested through systems of mass surveillance and sex blackmailers, such as those discussed in Volume 1 as well as Jeffrey Epstein, became increasingly irrelevant and expendable. It is perhaps for this reason, as noted in this book, that Epstein and the Maxwells began efforts to influence and even blackmail top figures in Silicon Valley soon after Epstein’s first arrest for sex trafficking in the mid-2000s. Epstein also began making major investments in data harvesting firms and those involved in mass surveillance.

The end result of is that the long-time reliance on the control of information, including information used for blackmail, by the power structures discussed throughout both volumes of this book has led them to create a society that gives them access to more information than ever before. Enabled by remarkable advances in technology, today the United States and much of the world have their digital secrets in the hands of people who will do absolutely anything to maintain their wealth, power and control. Essentially, the US – rather than one nation under God – has become one nation under blackmail.

Whitney Webb, 8/23/22


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Part 1 of 2

CHAPTER 11. THE RISE OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN

UNUSUAL BEGINNINGS

Jeffrey Epstein was born on January 20, 1953 to Paula (nee Stolofsky) and Seymour Epstein in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was a homemaker while his father was a groundskeeper for the New York Parks Department. His parents valued education, hoping that sending their sons – Jeffrey and Mark – to the right schools could be a "way out," or rather, a way up into a higher strata of New York society.1

Epstein was raised in the Lafayette neighborhood around Coney Island and attended Lafayette High School. In 1967, at age 14, he also attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts. He reportedly received a scholarship to Interlochen for his aptitude at playing the bassoon.2 As an adult, Epstein would later donate heavily to Interlochen, from 1990 to 2003, and used his connection to the school to recruit unwitting female teens with musical talents into his sex trafficking and sex blackmail enterprise. Epstein was even allowed to construct his own lodge at Interlochen, the Jeffrey Epstein Scholarship Lodge (now the Green Lake Lodge), before the school cut ties with him after his first conviction in 2007.3 Given his own early attendance and his subsequent return for nefarious purposes, some have suggested that Epstein himself may have been groomed at Interlochen.4

In 1969, two years after he attended Interlochen, Epstein graduated from Lafayette high school at age 16 after skipping two grades. Epstein then studied at Cooper Union, from the fall of 1969 through the spring semester of 1971. He attended New York University (NYU) from September 1971 to 1974, but never graduated. Per a 2002 profile in New York Magazine, Epstein had studied at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.5

During this period, Epstein claims to have backpacked across Europe with friends in 1971 and, while visiting London, met British cellist Jacqueline du Pré, whose patron was Queen Elizabeth II. Epstein would later claim to have played the piano for a du Pré performance during this visit and that, through her, he gained access to the British royals, ultimately leading to his close relationship with Prince Andrew, Duke of York.6 It’s unclear when du Pré would have made such an introduction, but it would have had to have occurred before her 1987 death. What does seem certain is that Epstein, during this trip, did befriend some British aristocrats as, a few short years later, he was seen at the New York mansion of British tycoon and corporate raider James Goldsmith.

It’s unclear how Epstein, while ostensibly backpacking, had come to make du Pré’s acquaintance, though du Pré did have ties to the Israeli and New York Jewish communities through her 1967 conversion to Judaism and subsequent marriage that same year to Daniel Barenboim, as well as her friendships with musicians Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman, and Pinchas Zukerman. It’s possible that Epstein met du Pré through some mutual connection in these circles. Years later, Epstein would claim to have once been a concert pianist, with media reports from the early 1990s onwards referencing such claims.7 However, some who knew Epstein early in life, including his brother Mark, give little weight to Epstein’s claim to have been an accomplished pianist.8

In the latter half of 1974, Epstein began working at the elite Dalton School, teaching mathematics and physics. He would remain with the school until 1976. There has been much disagreement in the mainstream press over who at Dalton was responsible for hiring Jeffrey Epstein. At the time Epstein began working at Dalton, the headmaster was Peter Branch. Branch, when contacted in 2019 by professor and author Thomas Volscho, did not recall hiring Epstein and was "relatively certain" that the previous headmaster, Donald Barr, or perhaps the head of the Math Department, had hired Epstein because "hiring decisions were typically made in the Spring."

Branch also noted that Barr "liked to hire unconventional teachers to enhance the educational experience for students at Dalton."9 Epstein certainly fell in the unconventional category, as he lacked the academic credentials to even teach at a public school in New York City. Vanity Fair later reported that Barr had hired other "gifted college dropouts," which would make his hire of Epstein not as much of an anomaly as some outlets have implied.10

Donald Barr was the son of an economist and psychologist who had joined the OSS during World War II. He is alleged to have been a member of an OSS "target team" in Germany and to have worked at a prisoner of war camp.11 His son, William Barr, would subsequently follow his father into the world of intelligence and served in the CIA from 1971 to 1977, which overlaps with the last few years his father was headmaster at the Dalton School – including the year Donald Barr is alleged to have hired Jeffrey Epstein. William Barr, whose alleged role in Iran-Contra was mentioned in Chapter 8, would go on to serve as Attorney General under George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump, and served in that capacity when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and found dead in a New York prison in 2019.

After exiting from US intelligence, Barr briefly worked as a literary editor and then went into academia. He taught English at Columbia for ten years while pursuing graduate studies. There, he started a series of conferences in 1955 focused on "the identification, guidance, and instruction of the gifted." Barr joined the School of Engineering the following year and these conferences then grew into the Science Honors program, which offered Saturday classes to gifted high schoolers.12 At the same time he was running this high school-focused program, Barr was also directing the Talent Preservation Project, "a massive research and therapy program for high school under-achievers." It is possible that there may have been an early Epstein-Barr connection if Epstein had attended one of these programs for gifted high school students.

Donald Barr would become headmaster of the Dalton School in 1964 and, a decade later, in 1974, Donald Barr would leave the school under a cloud of controversy, amid claims that he had meddled in the college admission prospects of prominent students, including the son of writer Betty Friedan. The Dalton parent who is credited with orchestrating Barr’s ouster was Richard Ravitch, a real estate magnate who served in several government-appointed positions related to housing during his career. Ravitch claimed that, by the end of his stint as headmaster, Barr was reviled by many Dalton teachers as well as parents.13

Soon after leaving his post as headmaster, Donald Barr published Space Relations, a bizarre science fiction novel that deals with power, drugs, and sex slavery, which has fueled speculation about Barr’s apparent decision to hire someone like Epstein and what the fantasy book implies about Barr’s own "extracurricular" interests.

During his time at Dalton, Jeffrey Epstein taught mostly seniors, ages 17 and 18. He also coached the math team, which competed locally and had a few notable victories under Epstein’s leadership. The school’s newspaper, The Daltonian, reported on March 5, 1976 that Epstein wanted to start a "math-track team" due to his "unique philosophy of integrating physical exercise with spiritual and mathematical stimulation." An earlier issue of the school paper refers to Epstein as "the ivory show man on the piano," again raising the running theme of Epstein’s alleged musical talents.14

Several Dalton alumni later told various media outlets in 2019 how Epstein attended student parties during his time as a Dalton teacher. One former student who graduated from Dalton in 1976, Scott Spizer, told the New York Times that Epstein was well known among students for the "persistent attention" he directed at teenage girls in the hallways and recalled that Epstein had attended a party where Dalton students were drinking. "I can remember thinking at the time 'This is wrong,’" Spizer later stated. A 1978 graduate of Dalton, Paul Grossman, also recalled Epstein attending student parties, stating that "it was weird" and that "everyone talked about it." A woman who attended Dalton during this period, but asked to remain anonymous, claimed that Epstein had "made multiple attempts to spend time with her away from school" and she also specifically recalled "reporting Epstein’s advances toward another female student to the school’s headmaster."15

The headmaster at that time, Peter Branch, did not mention such reports when he was interviewed in 2019 regarding Epstein’s time at the school. This may relate to the fact that several Dalton alumni who attended during this period asserted that student-teacher relationships at the school "were not unheard of," suggesting that Epstein’s alleged behavior was part of a larger problem, as opposed to an aberration.16 Branch has asserted that Epstein left the school following concerns from his colleagues in the math and science departments that his teaching skills had failed to improve over the previous year.17 "He was a young teacher who didn’t come up to snuff. So, ultimately, he was asked to leave," Branch was quoted as saying in late 2019.18

BEAR STEARNS AND THE BRONFMANS

After Epstein left the Dalton School in 1976, he went to work on Wall Street for Bear Stearns. There are two conflicting accounts of how he landed his first job there – as a junior assistant to a floor trader at the American Stock Exchange. Both accounts intimately involve Alan "Ace" Greenberg, then a partner at Bear Stearns and who would become the bank’s CEO in roughly two years’ time, in 1978.

One account appears to have first been circulated in a 2002 profile on Epstein published by New York Magazine. Per that account, while still at the Dalton School, "So impressed was one Wall Street father of a student that he said to Epstein point-blank: 'What are you doing teaching math at Dalton? You should be working on Wall Street – why don’t you give my friend Ace Greenberg a call.’"19 However, a year later, in the 2003 Vanity Fair profile penned by Vicky Ward, it is claimed that the connection with Greenberg was more direct, with Epstein tutoring Greenberg’s son who attended Dalton and also being "friendly" with one of his daughters.20 Both claims have been repeated by numerous mainstream and independent outlets over the years, though Greenberg’s daughter, Lynne Koeppel (nee Greenberg), has publicly backed the version of events as published in 2002 by New York Magazine.21 Yet, other sources cite Koeppel as having recommended Epstein to her father.22 Regardless of which account is closer to reality, it is agreed that Greenberg was ultimately the person who brought Epstein into Bear Stearns.

Once installed at the bank, Epstein’s ascent was rapid and he was mentored by both Greenberg and James Cayne, who had also been hired by Greenberg years prior. While he started off as a floor trader, he soon "began working with wealthy clients on bigger projects that sought an edge in esoteric markets."23 According to a former senior Bear Stearns executive interviewed by Fox Business, "Epstein’s accumulated knowledge of the U.S. tax codes – and how rich people can avoid taxes through various investments – made him one of Bear’s prized assets in its small, but specialized brokerage department." "He never went to college, but he knew everything about taxes. In fact, he could figure out just about anything if he studied it. The guy was a genius," the former executive was quoted as saying.24 Thanks to these talents, Epstein became a limited partner in relatively short order, by 1980. While working at the bank, he met his former girlfriend Paula Heil Fisher, now an opera producer.

Epstein abruptly left Bear Stearns in 1981. In the years before he became notorious, he claimed to have left because he wished "to run his own business." However, within the company, claims abounded that Epstein had been involved in a "technical infringement," with Epstein’s later associate, Steven Hoffenberg, claiming that Epstein had left the bank after he was caught performing "illegal operations." The former Bear Stearns executive interviewed by Fox Business claimed that Epstein had been asked to leave over "very serious stuff," which he insisted was related to "a significant expense account violation concerning an airline ticket that upper management was misled about."25 These claims were denied by Cayne and Epstein, while Greenberg said he was unable to recall the circumstances. In 2003, Cayne supported Epstein’s version of events, stating that he had left the bank of "his own volition" because he wanted to strike out on his own.

However, as noted by Vanity Fair, the SEC’s records of Epstein in 1981 tell a different story. Per those records, Epstein was interviewed, along with other Bear Stearns employees as part of an investigation into insider trading at the bank. The insider trading case revolved around a tender offer placed on March 11, 1981 for St. Joe Minerals Corp by the Bronfman-owned company Seagram Company Ltd. A handful of investors were ultimately found guilty of insider trading, including Giuseppe Tome, former head of overseas operations of Bache & Company and E.F. Hutton.

In Tome’s case, he was ordered to "disgorge," or hand over, $3.5 million in illegal profits related to the 1981 failed takeover attempt by Seagram in mid-1986. However, Tome left the US shortly after the SEC began its investigation and did not return to the country after the court’s decision, complicating the enforcement of the ruling against him.

The court claimed that Tome had "insinuated himself into the confidence of Seagram Co. Chairman Edgar M. Bronfman." However, a spokesperson for Bronfman declined to discuss his relationship with Tome and, in court testimony, Bronfman had admitted to discussing "Seagram’s secrets" with Tome because Tome counted with "20 years in this business … he ought to know the rules. I assume he does know the rules."

The Los Angeles Times described the Tome-Bronfman relationship in greater detail:

According to testimony in the case, Tome and Bronfman met in July, 1980. Bronfman was impressed with Tome’s financial acumen and within weeks had made him an unofficial adviser to Seagram, a major producer and marketer of spirits and wine, on foreign currency matters.

The two men also struck up a close personal friendship, and Bronfman opened a commodities account at Tome’s Geneva brokerage. The pair invested together in "Sophisticated Ladies," the Broadway show, and at one point Bronfman even covered a bounced check that Tome had issued to the show’s producers. The families vacationed together in Switzerland and the hunt country of Virginia.

Throughout this time, Bronfman was telling Tome of Seagram’s secret plans for major corporate acquisitions. Pollack’s order indicated that Tome used inside information to trade in stock and options of Texaco and Santa Fe, two tentative Seagram targets. (Those trades were not cited in the SEC lawsuit, however.) In some cases, testimony showed, Tome learned from Bronfman of Seagram’s plans even before its board of directors.

On March 9, 1981, Bronfman declined a dinner invitation from Tome, saying he had to visit Montreal for a board meeting. Tome concluded that a Seagram offer was imminent for St. Joe, which he knew as Bronfman’s next target."26

There is also the fact that Bronfman had considerable connections to Tome’s former employer Bache & Company, a company with ties to the OSS-organized crime networks previously discussed in chapter 1. For instance, the Loeb banking dynasty had intermarried into the family of Jules Bache of Bache & Company as well as into the Bronfmans, with Edgar Bronfman’s wife Ann being the daughter of John Loeb. Not only did the Bronfmans, Loebs, and Baches mingle through marriage, but the multi-million dollar holdings of all three families combined "to make up the largest single holding of stock in New York’s Empire Trust Company" – Edgar Bronfman had joined that company’s board in 1963.27

Notably, the Empire Trust Company, with Bronfman still intimately involved, announced a merger with the Bank of New York (BoNY) in 1968.28 Bronfman was placed on the board of the Bank of New York after the merger and remained there at least through 1975, if not later.29 As previously mentioned in chapter 9, BoNY essentially merged with the banking network of Bruce Rappaport by the 1980s and, by 1992, executives at the bank were found to be closely associated with Russian mobster and Robert Maxwell business associate Semion Mogilevich.

When the SEC investigation took place, Bronfman subsequently claimed to have no knowledge of insider trading by Tome and claimed that Tome, conveniently outside of the country and tried in absentia, lied to him about having been involved in illegal trades related to the attempted takeover of St. Joe’s. As the 1986 court case against Tome makes clear, Bronfman’s ties to Tome were considerable and he had a history of voluntarily supplying the man with Seagram’s "secret plans" before the company’s board even knew, as the Los Angeles Times had noted. It appears, from Tome’s case, that Bronfman seemed to have thought nothing of sharing "secret plans" with those outside the company and within his inner circle. Also of note is that Tome, and presumably others, made insider trades on Texaco and Santa Fe, two tentative Seagram targets, and profited off those as well. However, the trades involving those companies were, for reasons still unclear, excluded from the SEC investigation.

Another figure sued in connection with insider trading as part of the failed Seagram takeover attempt was Dennis B. Levine, "a prominent mergers specialist with the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment banking firm" who allegedly made $12.6 million in illegal profits from the deal.30 Drexel Burnham Lambert and many of its more infamous employees are mentioned throughout this book, as – at this time – Drexel was "corralling the majority of American [corporate] raiders."31

Dennis Levine was directly involved with many of these "raiders", specifically Ron Perelman, who dined with Epstein at Epstein’s home throughout the 2000s and whose political fundraiser for Bill Clinton’s re-election campaign was attended by Epstein in the mid-90s (see Chapter 16). Levine worked regularly with Perelman, serving as the "lead banker" for Perelman’s 1985 takeover of Revlon, which Levine called "the high point" of his career.32

In addition, Levine also played a key role in the hostile takeover of Crown Zellerbach by Sir James Goldsmith, a member of the Clermont Club mentioned in Chapter 4. Levine was intimately involved in Goldsmith’s 1984-1985 takeover of Crown Zellerbach. That takeover was actually the brainchild of Rothschild Inc. and its then-President Robert S. Pirie.33 Goldsmith was a longtime business associate of the Rothschilds and a distant cousin of the family.34

As will be mentioned again in chapter 15, Pirie and Rothschild Inc. were later the architects of Robert Maxwell’s takeover of Macmillan in 1989. By 1989, Maxwell and Goldsmith were closely associated, and Goldsmith would also later have his own ties to Jeffrey Epstein.35 Goldsmith apparently knew Epstein long before Epstein had started at Bear Stearns. According to a former friend of Epstein’s, art collector Stuart Pivar, he had first met Epstein at "Jimmy Goldsmith’s mansion" in the early 1970s. "There," Pivar later told Mother Jones, "there was somebody playing the piano with great virtuosity. And it was Jeffrey Epstein."36 Epstein’s ties to Goldsmith may have come through his daughter, Isabel Goldsmith, who has numerous telephone numbers and two addresses in Epstein’s "little black book" of contacts.37

In the context of this 1981 takeover attempt by Seagram, it is worth noting that Pirie’s soon-to-be "second in command," Gerald Goldsmith, was previously the executive vice president of E.F. Hutton, where Giuseppe Tome had also served in a top executive position. Goldsmith left to join the Rothschild bank in 1982.38 (There is no familial relationship between Gerald Goldsmith and James Goldsmith).

These networks that surrounded this SEC investigation would, after the fact, clearly intersect with Epstein’s own network within a few years’ time. This raises the possibility that this 1981 insider trading affair may have marked Epstein’s entry into these circles or may indicate that he had already developed connections there, as he was alleged to have been directly involved in such trades.

On March 12, 1981, a day after Seagram made the tender offer at the heart of this insider trading case, Epstein resigned from Bear Stearns. At some point in their investigation, the SEC was tipped off that Epstein knew something about relevant insider trades that had been made at Bear Stearns, and the SEC interviewed him on April 1st.

During that testimony, per SEC records, Epstein complained about how he had been disciplined for a possible "Reg D" violation where he was said to have lent money to a friend, who he later identified as Warren Eisenstein. Epstein had been questioned about the loan, per his recollection, on March 4th and, five days later, had been fined $2,500 by the bank. However, the SEC was mainly interested in the timing of Epstein’s exit from Bear Stearns and the Bronfman/Seagram-related insider trading. Epstein denied any connection and was never charged, but Vanity Fair noted that the SEC interviewers were skeptical of Epstein’s denials. Vanity Fair also noted that "if [Epstein] was such a big producer at Bear Stearns, [why would he] have given it up over a mere $2,500 fine."

It seems evident that the timing of Epstein’s "abrupt" departure and the Bronfman-related insider trades go a bit beyond mere coincidence. It certainly does seem unlikely that Epstein would abandon Bear Stearns over a relatively small fine (by the bank’s standards), unless he had received another offer of employment or if there was a risk that he would soon face greater, more costly problems at Bear Stearns.

Furthermore, given that Edgar Bronfman had been somewhat open about the plan for a Seagram takeover of St. Joe Mineral Corp., it is not outside the realm of possibility that those "rumors" would have made their way to Epstein. Epstein had become installed at Bear Stearns, and likely risen in its ranks so quickly, due to the patronage of Alan Greenberg, who was intimately involved in several of the same organizations as the Bronfmans, like the United Jewish Appeal and the Jerusalem Foundation (the latter was notably created by Teddy Kollek, see chapter 3). Like Greenberg, the Bronfmans also donated heavily to those same groups in addition to being closely involved in their affairs. Greenberg also, at some point, saw his philanthropic efforts intersect closely with those of Charles Bronfman, per the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.39

Had Greenberg potentially been informed by a loose-lipped Edgar Bronfman, just as Giuseppe Tome had been, and passed this along to one of his "protégés" at Bear Stearns, Jeffrey Epstein? Or had Epstein, a protégé of Greenberg’s, been advising Bronfman on behalf of the bank? After all, Epstein was said to have worked "with wealthy clients on bigger projects that sought an edge in esoteric markets," and Bronfman could have been such a client.40

If so, it may have prompted Epstein’s "abrupt" resignation, not so much to protect a young Epstein, but potentially to protect Greenberg, who had – by then – risen to become Bear Stearns’s CEO. Greenberg being ensnared in the SEC’s investigation would have been a much bigger headache for the bank than Epstein – now, a former limited partner in the bank.

In addition, given the networks of both Giuseppe Tome and Danny Levine at this time, and how Epstein would become a fixture in those networks in short order, it may be possible that Epstein’s abrupt resignation was part of an effort not just to shield Greenberg, but the full extent of these particular networks in this 1981 insider trading scheme, which was considerably larger than the select components that the SEC had chosen to investigate.

If Epstein was advised to leave due to potential legal concerns, it is worth mentioning that, as noted in Chapter 6, Bear Stearns was represented by the law firm Rogers & Wells and, from 1976 to 1981, was specifically a client of William Casey. Though Casey likely wasn’t involved in this particular situation, given that he had become CIA director several weeks before the tender offer, it is worth reminding the reader that Casey’s influence is another potential factor to consider when examining this situation as well as Epstein’s activities immediately after leaving the bank.

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After leaving Bear Stearns, Epstein would later claim that he went on to manage "money only for billionaires," telling Vicky Ward in 2003 that "I was the only person crazy enough, or arrogant enough, or misplaced enough, to make my limit a billion dollars or more."41 However, it appears that there was much more to the story, as the details of Epstein’s life, from his 1981 exit from Bear Stearns until around 1986, are murky at best. The details that are known about Epstein during this period point to something considerably different than Epstein’s own account of his activities at this time. This is particularly obvious when one considers that his formal role as a money manager did not appear to begin until 1988, when he founded J. Epstein & Co.42

Throughout the 1980s, Epstein’s main company was called Intercontinental Assets Group, which was incorporated in 1981.43 Apart from that, little about the company is known. However, there is little indication he used the company to manage billionaire wealth, as the existing evidence about his life during this decade points in another direction.

After Epstein’s 2019 arrest, a former friend of Epstein’s, Jesse Kornbluth, stated that Epstein had claimed to be a "bounty hunter" for the rich and powerful:

When we met in 1986, Epstein’s double identity intrigued me – he said he didn’t just manage money for clients with mega-fortunes, he was also a high-level bounty hunter. Sometimes, he told me, he worked for governments to recover money looted by African dictators. Other times those dictators hired him to help them hide their stolen money.44

Actress Anna Obregón later stated that she had hired Epstein, who mentioned his company Intercontinental Assets Group, to help her father, Madrid-based real estate magnate Antonio García Férnandez. García Férnandez had been one of several powerful Spanish individuals, which included members of the Spanish royal family, who had invested in Drysdale Government Securities, which collapsed due to fraud in 1982. Epstein had been hired by Obregón to "recover" money from the Drysdale collapse on behalf of her father, according to James Patterson’s book Filthy Rich.45

Similar claims also surfaced in Vicky Ward’s 2003 profile of Epstein in Vanity Fair. Ward wrote that: "A few of the handful of current friends who have known him since the early 1980s recall that he used to tell them he was a 'bounty hunter,’ recovering lost or stolen money for the government or for very rich people. He has a license to carry a firearm."46

Reference to firearms during this period can be found in even earlier reports of Epstein, such as a 2001 report in the UK’s Evening Standard that was written by Nigel Rosser. There, Rosser asserts the following about Epstein:

He has a licence to carry a concealed weapon, once claimed to have worked for the CIA although he now denies it – and owns properties all over America. Once he arrived at the London home of a British arms dealer bringing a gift – a New York police-issue pump-action riot gun. "God knows how he got it into the country," a friend said.47

The identity of this British arms dealer may be Sir Douglas Leese. Per Steven Hoffenberg, an alleged "mentor" to Epstein who worked closely with him beginning in 1987, he had been introduced to Epstein by Leese and further claimed that, soon after Epstein left Bear Stearns, he began working closely with the "mysterious" British arms dealer.48 Hoffenberg’s own relationship with Epstein is dealt with later in this chapter.

Per Hoffenberg, in an interview with journalist Edward Szall, Epstein was hired by Leese to serve as an investment banker for Leese-owned and Leese-managed companies.49 Douglas Leese’s son, Julian Leese has stated that Epstein first interacted with the Leese family around 1981, after meeting another of Douglas Leese’s sons, Nick, at a party hosted by "a well-known oil baron down in Texas."50 Julian Leese has acknowledged that his father was a "mentor" to Epstein and has spoken at length about Epstein seeming bright and intelligent as well as deeply entwined with business and social networks in the UK during this period.

Hoffenberg has also asserted that Epstein, in the early 1980s, "was trained in arms trafficking and money laundering by Adnan Khashoggi and Sir Douglas Leese jointly.… Jeffrey Epstein was a major participant and principal in the arms trafficking and money laundering operations of Adnan Khashoggi and Sir Douglas Leese, for Israel, for what they were doing in the United Kingdom."51

Much of Leese’s own history is shadowy. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he worked at Cam Gears Limited, an automobile parts manufacturing company, and became its managing director in 1957.52 Cam Gears was acquired by TRW Inc. in 1965, which had previously been known as Thompson Ramo-Woolbridge. It was the result of a merger between Thompson Products, a major supplier of aircraft parts for the US Air Force, and Ramo-Woolbridge, a military contractor for ICBM components and components for other weapons systems.

Though it’s not exactly clear, TRW seems to have been Leese’s introduction into the world of weapons dealing. Oddly enough, years later, a young Bill Gates, who would eventually develop his own ties to Epstein (see Chapter 20), would also get "his first big break" thanks to TRW, when he worked "debugging grid control software for" the company at age 15.53

Anecdotal evidence may also indicate the Leese family’s persistent ties to TRW. After it was acquired by TRW, Cam Gears would have fallen under TRW’s automobile-focused subsidiary, TRW Automotive, which was headquartered in Livonia, Michigan. In 2017, the International Police and Fire Chaplains Association (IPFCA) of Taylor, Michigan, received a $50,000 donation from Gratitude America Limited, a foundation connected to Jeffrey Epstein. The donation was brokered by Douglas Leese’s son Julian Leese, who was friends with IPFCA director Daniel Tackett.54 Taylor and Livonia are just 13 miles apart and the aforementioned donation seems to indicate long-standing family ties of the Leese’s to the local area, as well as Epstein’s enduring ties to the Leese family.

Julian Leese has denied his father was an "arms dealer," claiming he worked in "defense" but was mainly involved in manufacture and sale of defense products other than weapons, such as radar systems.55 However, Julian Leese has conceded that his father was a friend of notorious arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, whose friendship with Douglas Leese most likely revolved around something other than radar and navigation systems.

Between 1966 and 1967, soon after Cam Gears was acquired by TRW, Leese began living in South Wraxall Manor, a luxurious home in Wiltshire, England. The house had been sold by its previous owners, the aristocratic Long family, in 1966, and at least one account from 1967 states that Leese was living in the home at that time, suggesting that he had been the mysterious "businessman" who had purchased the home.56 An acquaintance of Leese’s later stated that Leese "gave very unusual parties" at South Wraxall Manor as early as the 1970s, but didn’t elaborate as to why they were "very unusual."57

In 1978, House of Wraxall Limited was established with Douglas Leese and his wife, Jane Primrose Leese, listed as company directors. Douglas Leese listed his address as being located in Hong Kong, while that of his wife was listed as South Wraxall Manor. The company was officially involved in the development and sale of real estate projects.58

Not long after the creation of this company, Leese found himself involved with the Wraxall Group. It is unclear, given the name of Leese’s residence at the time, if he was the founder/owner of the Wraxall Group. However, he was certainly in charge of the Group’s Bermuda subsidiaries, including the Bermuda-based, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Wraxall Group, the Lorad Company.59 Before going into greater detail about Lorad, and how Lorad may have been central to not only Leese’s but Epstein’s activities in the early 1980s, it is worth detailing a few of the other characters involved with the Wraxall Group.

Other individuals tied to the Wraxall Group aside from Leese include Sir Maurice (Robert) Johnston, who had previously served in the British military, attaining the rank of Lieutenant General and serving in Germany, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Northern Ireland, and Borneo. He was Deputy Chief of Defense Staff in 1982 and 1983 before retiring from the military. A year later, in 1984, Johnston became "managing director, Freshglen Ltd, Wraxall Group."60

Another interesting individual was "executive vice president of the Wraxall Group" from 1986 to 1990 – Peter Maxwell Dickson.61 Dickson, who has a lengthy history of engaging in fraud and suspect banking practices, ran the Bermuda-based firm Grosvenor Group Holdings, a decades-old offshore complex that has stashed away over $1 billion for the Dukes of Westminster over the years.62 Grosvenor Group Holdings also controlled a Dickson-owned bank called Horizon Bank International that was set up in 1995 by William Cooper, who then served as the bank’s managing director.

From 1981 to 1984, Cooper was the general manager of Swiss American Banking Group, which had been organized by Bruce Rappaport and Marvin Warner with the assistance of Burton Kanter.63 Rappaport, discussed at length throughout this book (mainly in chapter 3), was intimately involved with the Iran- Contra affair and BCCI, as well as intelligence/organized crime networks in I-srael and Russia. He was also a close friend of William Casey. Kanter was the moblinked attorney that had previously partnered with CIA banker Paul Helliwell who was first introduced in chapter 1.

While Dickson has his own ties to the shadow banking empires previously detailed in this book, it is uncertain when he made those connections. It’s quite likely that he came into contact with those forces during or after his time with the Wraxall Group. This is because, Sir Douglas Leese, who managed Wraxall’s businesses in Bermuda, where Dickson also resided, seems to have been very much connected to these same networks, including via his reported involvement in arms deals that paralleled Iran-Contra itself back in the early 1980s. These deals are also alleged to have involved not only Saudi arms dealer and Iran-Contra figure Adnan Khashoggi, but also Jeffrey Epstein.

The Lorad Company was one of the main Wraxall subsidiaries in Bermuda that was firmly under Leese’s control. In June 1983, a joint venture of Lorad and another company was formed called Norinco Lorad Limited and, six months later, Lorad (Far East) Limited was created in Hong Kong, where Leese had already had at least one address listed as early as 1978.64 The Norinco referenced here is the Chinese state-owned weapons producer Norinco (North Industries Corporation), which was founded in 1980 with the approval of the State Council of China.

After its founding, Norinco, along with a handful of other Chinese state-owned firms, helped China to emerge "as a leading arms supplier to the Third World, signing agreements between 1983 and 1990 worth more than $16 billion" ($33.7 billion in 2022 dollars). During this period, "much of China’s business was with Iran; Beijing became Tehran’s biggest weapons supplier during the 1981-88 Iran-Iraq War, selling $4.8 billion [$10.1 billion in 2022 dollars] in weapons and munitions to Iran in 1983-90," according to then-senior staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee William Triplett II, writing for the Washington Post in 1991.65

These sales to Iran during this period were dominated by Norinco as well as Poly Technologies, owned by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and China Jingan, controlled by the People’s Armed Police. Thus, the very year these Chinese weapons companies began selling massive amounts of weapon to Iran, 1983, was also the same year the main company involved in its sales, Norinco, set up a joint venture with the Leese-managed Lorad Company in Bermuda.

According to Steven Hoffenberg, by 1983, Leese was working closely with Jeffrey Epstein, specifically on the sale of Chinese weapons to Iran.66 Per Hoffenberg, Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, by then on the payroll of Israel’s Mossad and close to the intelligence apparati of the Saudis and the United States, was also part of these efforts and had a "revenue sharing agreement" with Leese on arms deals.67 Hoffenberg also asserts that Leese was deeply enmeshed in British intelligence networks and was actively involved with those networks at the time. If we are to believe Hoffenberg, then Khashoggi, Leese, and Epstein were working together on a parallel operation to Iran-Contra while Iran-Contra was on-going.

In addition, Leese and Khashoggi were both involved in the 1985 arms deal with Saudi Arabia, known as the Al-Yamamah Deal, albeit on different sides. Khashoggi represented the French weapons industry, while Leese, along with Khashoggi rival Wafic Said, represented British defense interests, which ultimately won the day. Khashoggi later claimed that the deal had been secured for Britain, in part, due to the involvement of Mark Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher’s son whose peripheral role in Iran Contra is discussed in Chapter 7.68 Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister at the time the Al-Yamamah Deal was signed, whereby Saudi Arabia paid for weapons largely manufactured by BAE Systems in oil, and accusations later arose that Britain only won the deal due to having bribed Saudi leadership.69 Corruption investigations into Al Yamamah were later shut down thanks in large part to the efforts of Tony Blair as well as Prince Andrew, with the latter being a well-known Epstein confidant.70

Aside from the documented Norinco-Leese and Leese-Khashoggi connections, there is further evidence that supports Hoffenberg’s claims. For instance, during this period, Adnan Khashoggi was a reported client of Epstein, per Vicky Ward as cited by New York Magazine, during the period after he left Bear Stearns and before he formally teamed up with Hoffenberg and Leslie Wexner, which includes this period of time (i.e. 1983).71 Epstein is also known to have been associated with Leese during this period, and Leese subsequently appears in Epstein’s black book of contacts. In addition, Epstein later maintained a relationship with at least one of Leese’s sons, Julian. Douglas Leese’s other son, Nicholas, who allegedly introduced Epstein to the Leese family, was arrested in 1996 and charged with over 200 counts related to corruption in Singapore.72

Furthermore, during this period of time, Epstein was clearly involved in the world of shadowy banking practices and fronts. Per his claims to several friends and as mentioned in more than a few press reports authored prior to his 2007 arrest, Epstein was working as a financial "bounty hunter" and helped both recover and hide stolen money on behalf of powerful people. Thus, to be successful in such work, he would have needed an intimate working knowledge of front companies, offshore banking, and other components of the financial webs woven by those looking to hide away "looted" money.

If Adnan Khashoggi was indeed Epstein’s client, this suggests that Epstein may have been associated with BCCI in some capacity. If Epstein worked in this financial "bounty hunter" capacity for Khashoggi, it’s very likely that he would have come into contact with BCCI during this period, as BCCI was the main bank Khashoggi used during the period in which they were alleged to have worked together. In addition, the weapons sales to Iran that involved Norinco during this period, in which Leese, Epstein, and Khashoggi are alleged to have been involved, also made heavy use of BCCI. As noted by the Washington Post in 1991:

According to a Hong Kong source with detailed knowledge of China’s weapons sales policies, until recently, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was the bank of choice for the arms exporters. With its extensive Mideast operations and reputed money-laundering proclivities, BCCI would have been a natural fit for the Chinese. BCCI also operated in Beijing, the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone outside Hong Kong and in 27 branches in Hong Kong itself through what BCCI called the Bank of Credit and Commerce Hong Kong (BCCHK).73

Years later, when BCCI was collapsing, the Lippo Group of the Riady family, who boasted close ties to Bill Clinton and Clinton/Bush financier Jackson Stephens, would attempt to intervene to rescue BCCHK. It is worth noting the involvement of Riady/Stephens with the BCCI subsidiary that was used by Norinco and other state-owned firms during this period. This is because, as will be detailed extensively in Chapters 16 and 17, Epstein may have been involved in arms smuggling activities related to a network that spanned the Clinton White House, Norinco and the Poly Group, and the Riadys in the mid-1990s. The fact that Epstein would find himself enmeshed within these same networks in the mid- 1990s further corroborates his involvement with those same entities back in 1983, as has been alleged by Hoffenberg and other sources.

Hoffenberg, who was found dead in his apartment in late August 2022, had notably confided in Edward Szall off the record that Epstein had had a relationship with BCCI, but did not provide any specifics.

BCCI’s considerable intelligence ties and the reported intelligence connections of Khashoggi and Leese also make it worth considering Epstein’s past claims, as cited by Nigel Rosser, that he once worked for the CIA. BCCI’s connections to the CIA and other allied intelligence agencies were discussed in Chapter 7. In addition, at the time this operation involving Khashoggi, Leese, and Epstein was said to have occurred – around 1983 – Khashoggi also employed two other men deeply enmeshed in these networks where Big Business, intelligence, and organized crime intermingle: Roy Cohn and Robert Keith Gray.74 Notably, Gray was also very much involved with BCCI, as noted in Chapter 7, and both Cohn and Gray were involved in sexual blackmail operations to some extent.

In addition, in 1989, Khashoggi himself had been called by Vanity Fair "one of the greatest whoremongers in the world."75 His biographer, Ronald Kessler, remarked in 1988 that "His [Khashoggi’s] whole modus operandi was to influence clients with his opulent lifestyle" and that "he would give them [potential clients] anything they wanted: girls, food, cash… He had quite a variety of occasions on the boat. Some were very formal, some were orgies."

According to the UK’s Independent, "One of the 'girls’ used in this way, Pamella Bordes, later spoke of being 'part of an enormous group … used as sexual bait,’" suggesting that Khashoggi commanded a veritable harem of women who were used to entice, or potentially coerce, would-be clients.76 However, these lists of "potential clients" also included notable politicians, diplomats, celebrities, and a cadre of businessman. In the case of politicians and diplomats, it’s entirely possible that Khashoggi’s yacht was used as a means of collecting blackmail that Khashoggi used to benefit his network, or anyone willing to pay the right price.77 This was also alleged by the head of a highly-connected call-girl ring, Fortuna Israel a.k.a. "Madame Tuna," as discussed in Chapter 7.

Notably, Khashoggi’s infamous yacht would be sold to Roy Cohn’s protégé, Donald Trump, in 1988, with the involvement of the Sultan of Brunei.78 As will be mentioned in the next chapter, the Sultan of Brunei would become Epstein’s landlord in the office he shared with Evangeline Gouletas-Carey and, as we will see in Chapter 19, the Sultan of Brunei makes other curious appearances in the Epstein-Clinton relationship.

In addition, both Cohn and Gray were very close to then-CIA Director Bill Casey. In Gray’s case, as noted in the previous chapter, Newsweek described him as often having "boasted of his close relationship with the CIA’s William Casey; Gray used to say that before taking on a foreign client, he would clear it with Casey."79 In Cohn’s case, Christine Seymour, Cohn’s long-time switchboard operator, said Casey and Cohn were close friends and, during the 1980 Reagan campaign, Casey "called Roy almost daily."80 As noted in the last chapter, in the immediate aftermath of Reagan’s electoral victory, both Cohn and Gray took Khashoggi on as a client. Jeffrey Epstein would follow suit, shortly after his resignation from Bear Stearns. As previously mentioned, Casey had been the legal representative of Bear Stearns during Epstein’s time there up until several weeks before Epstein’s abrupt resignation, when Casey became CIA director.

With Cohn, Gray, and Casey in the periphery, this also raises the additional possibility that Epstein may have first been exposed to the idea of sexual blackmail operations in this period, due to his proximity to people like Cohn and Gray through Khashoggi, as well as (and more likely) his proximity to Khashoggi himself. Another possibility is that Epstein was first exposed to this type of operation through a potential link to BCCI, as the "dirtiest bank of them all" was also alleged to have been involved in the sex trafficking of minors.

According to the report entitled The BCCI Affair, by then-US Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Hank Brown (R-CO), BCCI officials were alleged to have obtained leverage over and curried favor with powerful individuals, including prominent members of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), by providing them with young virgins, many of whom were under the age of 18.

The report (pages 69-70) specifically states:

BCCI’s involvement in prostitution arose out of its creation of its special protocols department in Pakistan to service the personal requirements of the Al-Nahyan family of Abu Dhabi, and on an as-needed basis, other BCCI VIPs, including the families of other Middle Eastern rulers.

Several BCCI officers described the protocol department’s handling of prostitution to Senate investigators in private, and two – Abdur Sakhia and Nazir Chinoy – confirmed their general knowledge of the practice in testimony.

The prostitution handled by BCCI was carried over from practices originally instituted by [BCCI founder Agha Hasan] Abedi at the United Bank, when working with a woman, Begum Asghair Rahim, he cemented his relationship with the Al-Nahyan family through providing them with Pakistani prostitutes.

Among BCCI bank officials in Pakistan, Begum Rahim was reputed to have in United Bank first won the favors or attention of the royal family by arranging to get virgin women from the villages from the ages of 16 to 20. Rahim would make payments to their families, take the teenaged girls into the cities, and there taught them how to dress and how to act, including the correct mannerisms. The women would be then brought to the Abu Dhabi princes. For years, Rahim would take 50-60 of these girls at a time to large department stores in Lahore and Karachi to get them outfitted for clothes. Given the size of Rahim’s revenue and her spending habits – $100,000 at a time was not unusual when she was engaged in outfitting her charges – her activities became notorious in the Pakistani community generally, and there was substantial competition among clothiers and jewelers for her business.

According to one U.S. investigator with substantial knowledge of BCCI’s activities, some BCCI officials have acknowledged that some of the females provided some members of the Al- Nahyan family [one of the ruling families in the UAE] were young girls who had not yet reached puberty, and in certain cases, were physically injured by the experience. The official said that former BCCI officials had told him that BCCI also provided males to homosexual VIPs.81

This BCCI-run sex trafficking operation has some obvious similarities to the operation that would later be run by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, with Maxwell’s actions in that operation paralleling the actions of Begum Asghair Rahim to a considerable degree (see Chapter 18).

Returning to the matter of Epstein’s past claim to have been tied to the CIA during this period, there is also evidence of Norinco specifically working with CIA assets to arm the CIA-backed Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Michael Riconosciuto, who was then directly affiliated with the CIA and who programmed a backdoor into PROMIS (see Chapter 9), also claimed to have personally assisted the CIA effort to arm the Mujahideen in Afghanistan with unassembled Chinese rocket systems in 1986. Riconosciuto alleges that he aided this specific effort using pre-existing connections of his to Norinco.

In an interview with author Cheri Seymour, Riconosciuto stated that the furnishing of weapons to Iran, the Afghanistan Mujahideen, and the Contras were done by the a single entity, which he referred to as simply "The Company."82 Riconosciuto also said that Mujahideen and Contras would "pay" for the arms with drugs, not currency, as part of the parallel "arms-for-drugs" trafficking operations that was detailed in Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance, among other sources. The FBI would later refer to "The Company" in a case file on Andrew C. Thornton II, calling it a CIA-linked network of former special forces officers and law enforcement officials involved in the smuggling of cocaine into the US.83

Another associate of Riconosciuto during this period, namely W. Patrick Moriarty, was also deeply involved in managing negotiations and trade agreements with China during this period, supporting Riconosciuto’s claim that he and his networks during this period were connected to influential Chinese firms, such as Norinco. The Norinco connection to BCCHK, as well as the alleged connections to Epstein and then-CIA-connected Riconosciuto, makes the case that Norinco was involved with the CIA-affiliated individuals and entities during this period as it related to arms deals.

Furthermore, given that Khashoggi was affiliated with Saudi, American, British, and Israeli intelligence by 1982, it is also possible that Epstein made his way into the fold of intelligence himself through Khashoggi.

Epstein’s affiliation with some national intelligence agency was essentially confirmed in 2019, when it was reported that then-Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, who had signed off on Epstein’s "sweetheart deal" during his first criminal case, had "been told" to back off of Epstein, that Epstein was above his pay grade. "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone," Acosta had reportedly told the Trump transition team.84 It is unclear, from Acosta’s reported statements, exactly what intelligence agency, American or foreign, Epstein had been affiliated with and when.

It is entirely possible that, as Epstein once claimed, he worked for the CIA during this specific period, and later affiliated himself with another intelligence agency. Alternatively, he may have worked for more than one intelligence agency at a time, being a double or potentially even triple agent.

According to former Israeli military intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe, who I first interviewed in December 2019, Epstein’s affiliation with Israeli intelligence dated back at least to the mid-1980s, when Ben-Menashe was personally introduced to Epstein by Robert Maxwell. Per Ben-Menashe, Maxwell introduced Epstein as having been approved by the "higher ups" in the Israeli intelligence network where Ben-Menashe and Maxwell were both operating. The introduction reportedly occurred at Maxwell’s offices in London.85

During this period, Ben-Menashe has stated that he believes one of these "higher ups" was Ehud Barak, the future Prime Minister of Israel who was head of the Israeli military intelligence directorate AMAN from 1983 to 1985. Ben- Menashe could not recall the exact date of his introduction to Epstein, but stated that it occurred within that 1983-1985 period in which Barak held this post. Barak would later become infamous for his close proximity, not only to Epstein, but his sex trafficking/sex blackmail operation, which is discussed in the next chapter.

In a September 2019 interview with journalist and former CBS News producer Zev Shalev, he stated "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."86

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. Ben-Menashe was not aware of Epstein being involved in arms deals for anyone else he knew at the time, but did confirm that Maxwell wanted to involve Epstein in the arms transfer in which he, Davies, and Ben-Menashe were engaged on Israel’s behalf.

After the initial introduction, Ben-Menashe would witness Epstein at Maxwell’s offices on several occasions, stating that Epstein was "frequently present" at that location. Ben-Menashe stated specifically that Epstein "used to be in [Robert Maxwell’s] office [in London] quite often" and would arrive there between trips to and from Israel.87 Ben-Menashe also asserted that Ghislaine Maxwell accompanied her father so frequently 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 had specifically been involved in prior to her father’s death. Ghislaine’s early life and her relationship with her father is detailed in Chapter 15.

Aside from Ben-Menashe’s claims, there are also statements made by Steven Hoffenberg that, during the late 1980s, Epstein had boasted of his ties to Israel’s intelligence services, claiming that it had been Ghislaine Maxwell who had made the introduction.88 Furthemore, Zev Shalev reported that another well-placed and independent source, who has remained anonymous, had corroborated Ben- Menashe’s assertions that Epstein had been an intelligence asset for Israel.89

Close ties to Israel’s government later in his life can also be seen in an odd visit Epstein made to Israel in 2008. The visit was odd partly due to the timing, as it took place during the course of his trial and just a few months before he was sentenced to prison in June 2008. In April of that year, the Palm Beach Daily News reported that Epstein was staying at the Tel Aviv Hilton and quoted an Epstein spokesman as saying that he was "spending Passover, meeting with Israeli research scientists, and taking a tour of military bases."90 Access to military bases is certainly not something easily obtained by tourists to Israel, even very wealthy ones, again suggesting that Epstein had long-standing connections to Israel’s national security apparatus, along with his "friendship" to Ehud Barak.

Some have speculated that the timing of this trip saw Epstein implore prominent Israelis for aid in his legal troubles back in the US. After all, as will be revisited again in chapter 14, Ehud Barak was a key reason behind Bill Clinton’s controversial pardon of Marc Rich and Epstein may have thought a similar intervention could work to his benefit.

It is worth noting that, during and before this period of Epstein’s career (i.e. the early to mid-1980s), both Israeli and British intelligence were already involved in the acquisition of sexual blackmail domestically within the United States. Some of the blackmail sources were call services operating in New York and Washington, DC that sexually exploited minors.

In 1982, the New York State Select Committee on Crime, which investigated nationwide networks of underage sex trafficking and the production of child pornography, saw committee investigator Dale Smith reveal that an accountant for "several call service operations" in Washington, DC, named Robert Koehler was selling "information on the sexual proclivities of the clients to agents of foreign intelligence services."91 Two other call service operations were called Brian’s Boys and Fantasies Unlimited, which were operated out of Alexandria, Virginia, and managed by Jonathan C. Reynolds III. Reynolds told Smith that he was "selling information out of the call services" specifically "to British and Israeli intelligence."92 Smith also stated that Soviet Military Intelligence had been purchasing similar information from call services in Washington.93

Epstein’s involvement with intelligence during this period and his subsequent sex trafficking activities suggest that these operations, as well as those practiced by top officials at BCCI during this period, may have served as a sort of blueprint for Epstein’s own, subsequent sex trafficking/sex blackmail operation with Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the intelligence-connected Robert Maxwell.

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THE AUSTRIAN PASSPORT MYSTERY

The mystery surrounding the exact nature of Epstein’s intelligence connections forged during the 1980s deepened soon after Epstein’s 2019 arrest, when it was revealed in court that Epstein possessed in a safe "a passport from a foreign country with a picture of the defendant [i.e. Epstein] under another name." The passport had been issued in the 1980s.94 The contents of that safe were used by the prosecution to argue that Epstein was a flight risk, as the safe with the passport had also contained $70,000 in cash and 48 small diamonds.95 It was later revealed, during the course of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, that the safe had actually contained multiple passports, but only the details of the aforementioned passport "under another name" have been made public.96 That passport was long expired and would not have facilitated Epstein’s potential "quick getaway."

The passport had been issued in Austria and listed Epstein’s alias and a Saudi Arabian address. The alias of Epstein’s used in this passport remains unknown. The passport showed stamps from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia.97 These locations suggest deeper links to Khashoggi, who was from Saudi Arabia and close to Saudi intelligence, as well as the Maxwell family, who had family homes in both the United Kingdom and France. The visits to Spain may be explained by Epstein’s involvement with recovering lost millions on behalf of powerful Spaniards in 1982, including Ana Obregón’s father, as it related to the collapse of Drysdale Government Securities.

Epstein’s defense lawyers had attempted to explain away the passport. According to the Associated Press, they argued that "a friend gave it to him [Epstein] in the 1980s after some Jewish-Americans were informally advised to carry identification bearing a non-Jewish name when traveling internationally during a period when hijackings were more common."98 This claim appears to be related to concerns that followed the hijacking of Air France Flight 139 in 1976, when Israeli and Jewish hostages were separated from other hostages based largely on the passports in their possession.99

Given that Epstein was unable to meet the conventional qualifications for an Austrian passport – including long-term residency in Austria (the passport lists him as a resident of Saudi Arabia) and fluency in German – it appears that the only way to have acquired an Austrian passport was by unconventional means, meaning assistance from a well-connected Austrian official or foreign diplomat with clout in Austria.

The origins of this passport still remain shrouded in mystery. Some, such as journalist Edward Szall, have speculated that the source was Ronald Lauder, heir to the Estee Lauder fortune who served as the US ambassador to Austria from April 1986 to October 1987. There is certainly a case to be made for Lauder being the potential source. He would have been well-positioned to acquire such a passport, particularly for the reason cited by Epstein’s attorneys that Jewish- Americans could be targeted during travel, and in light of Lauder’s very public concerns over threats Jews faced from certain terror groups during that period.

In addition, Lauder swam in the same social circles as Epstein’s former patron Alan Greenberg as well as Donald Trump, another friend of Lauder and Greenberg who began his friendship with Epstein in 1987.100 Lauder’s parents were also close friends of Roy Cohn, Trump’s mentor who was the lawyer of Epstein’s client in the 1980s, Adnan Khashoggi.101 In 1987, Epstein also began his formal relationship with Leslie Wexner, who shares strong "philanthropic" connections to the Bronfmans with Lauder. Lauder would later take over Edgar Bronfman’s role as head of the influential Zionist lobby organization the World Jewish Congress in 2007. Wexner’s role in co-founding the Mega Group with Charles Bronfman and other intersections of their philanthropic endeavors are detailed in chapter 14.

Lauder also possessed some apparent connections to US intelligence as well as close ties to Israel’s government, particularly during Benjamin Netanyahu’s first term as Prime Minister, as Netanyahu’s successful 1996 campaign was largely bankrolled by Lauder. Regarding a potential US intelligence connection, Lauder co-founded the Eastern European broadcasting network CETV with Mark Palmer, a former US diplomat, Kissinger aide, and Reagan speechwriter. Palmer is best known for co-founding the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an organization often described as an accessory to US intelligence. NED’s first president confessed to the Washington Post in 1991 that "a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."102

In the case of Lauder’s Israel ties, Lauder himself has been alleged to have ties to Israel’s security and intelligence services, as he is a long-time, major funder of IDC Herzliya, an Israeli university founded in 1994 and closely associated with Israeli intelligence agencies.103 Lauder even founded IDC Herzliya’s Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy.104 In 2007, founding president of IDC, Uriel Reichman, told the Jerusalem Post that "a central mission of ours is the strengthening and development of Israel’s security forces."105 Notably, Israeli intelligence services have a history of using ambassadors abroad to procure false, foreign passports for its operatives.106

However, it is hard to know the likelihood of Lauder’s involvement in procuring the passport as the date of issuance or the passport’s creation, as well as the dates on the stamps to Saudi Arabia and other countries, remains unknown. Prosecutors in the 2019 case against Epstein stated that the document had expired in 1987, the year Lauder left his ambassadorship, but there is still a possibility it had been given to Epstein for shorter term use during Lauder’s time in that position.

Another possibility other than Lauder is the previous US ambassador to Austria, Helene Von Damm, who held that post from 1983 to 1986, and was a known attendee of parties on Roy Cohn’s yacht.107 Still another, and more likely, possibility was Von Damm’s deputy, Felix Bloch, who was known to buck protocol and was deemed insubordinate by both Von Damm and her successor Ronald Lauder.

Bloch is a controversial figure who found himself investigated for illegal activities by the FBI and was alleged to have had relationships with foreign intelligence services, namely the Soviet Union. He had been the second-ranking officer at the US embassy in Vienna until 1987, when he returned to the US to head the State Department office handling regional affairs for Europe.108 He was suspended from his diplomatic post in mid-1989 and reportedly told investigators that the Soviet Union had paid him "a lot of money" and that he had collaborated with the Soviets for "many years," per the New York Times.109 However, he was never charged due to a purported "dearth of evidence."110

If Bloch indeed had had ties to the KGB, it is possible he had helped furnish a passport clandestinely for Epstein. This is because Robert Maxwell, who had reportedly brought Epstein into his arms dealing-intelligence network by the mid- 1980s, had considerable ties to the KGB and could have likely arranged for the Austrian passport through a man like Bloch. Among Maxwell’s close contacts in the KGB was Vladimir Kryuchkov, who joined the KGB in 1967 and would serve as the agency’s head from 1988 until August 1991, at which point he was involved with a failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.111 Another of Maxwell’s contacts with KGB connections was Yuri Andropov, who served as head of the KGB from 1967 through 1982.112

FROM LEESE TO HOFFENBERG

In 1987, it would again be Douglas Leese who would further alter the course of Epstein’s career, introducing him to Steven Jude Hoffenberg, who had founded and led Towers Financial Corporation. Towers Financial was ostensibly a collection agency, which originally focused on buying the debts people owed to hospitals, banks, and so on. Yet, with Epstein’s assistance, it would soon become much more.

Hoffenberg has stated that Douglas Leese was a principal at Towers Financial and wanted Hoffenberg to hire Epstein at the company for a position specifically related, originally at least, to the sale of securities.113 Per Hoffenberg, Douglas Leese, in introducing Epstein to Hoffenberg, was interested in using Towers Financial funds for the purpose of "embezzlement" and fraud and that this was part of his motive in introducing Epstein to Hoffenberg.114 Julian Leese has claimed that he worked briefly at Towers Financial and that he was the one who first introduced his father to Hoffenberg.115 Criminal financial activity would take place at Towers Financial, though those crimes would later be tied to Epstein and Hoffenberg, not Douglas or Julian Leese. However, Hoffenberg, who ultimately took the fall for the entire scheme, has stated that, not only was Douglas Leese involved in the planning of these crimes, but so were Douglas Leese’s sons Julian and Nicholas.

Hoffenberg told the Washington Post in 2019 that Leese had told him about Epstein, "The guy’s a genius.… He’s great at selling securities. And he has no moral compass."116 Hoffenberg, at the time, has admitted to having been "a schemer," stating that he "was always under investigation," well before Towers Financial Corporation collapsed and became known as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in US history.

Hoffenberg, after founding Towers in the early 1970s, had had several run-ins with the law. In one example, in 1980, Hoffenberg and two partners were "sued for fraud over their acquisitions of a hardware supplier," resulting in a $300,000 settlement.117 It was also reported in the 1980s that "the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Towers of selling $34 million in unregistered securities to the public" and that charge was also settled, though with "no admission of guilt."118

Leese’s assertion about Epstein’s genius and lack of morals appeared to have piqued the interest of Hoffenberg, perhaps because, with such talents, Hoffenberg could execute bigger and more lucrative "schemes." Between 1987 and 1993, Epstein was paid $25,000 a month by Hoffenberg. A year after they met, in 1988, Hoffenberg would also provide Epstein with a $2 million loan that, per Hoffenberg, Epstein never paid back.

The same year that Hoffenberg met Epstein and Epstein became involved in Towers Financial, the company "began constructing one of the largest frauds in history." The Washington Post detailed the origin of the scheme as follows:

The scheme began when Towers acquired the parent of two insurance companies, Associated Life Insurance United Fire. Then, Towers launched a takeover attempt against Pan Am, the once-proud but then-struggling airline.

To boost its chances, Towers told the SEC that it had an expert on its team: Epstein. Towers called him "a financial advisor who has been familiar with Pan Am for approximately six years" and was now advising Towers.

What neither regulators nor Pan Am knew was that, as Hoffenberg admitted later in court, Towers had begun devising a classic Ponzi scheme, named for a swindler who defrauded investors by moving money back and forth to create the false impression that profit was being made.

After acquiring the insurance companies, Towers began siphoning funds from them to make its bid for Pan Am look viable. Hoffenberg and Epstein also began pulling out hundreds of thousands of dollars for themselves, court documents show. Hoffenberg issued more than 50 checks from the insurance companies to pay his stepdaughter’s tuition, expenses on his private plane, and monthly $25,000 checks to Epstein.

"I advanced money to Epstein perpetually because I thought this thing could work," Hoffenberg said. "He could sell anything. People loved him."119

However, the takeover attempts of the airlines failed, causing problems for the Towers-owned insurance companies. Hoffenberg would then siphon off an additional $1.8 million from those companies in a failed attempt to acquire Emery Air Freight, leaving the insurance companies insolvent and robbing thousands of customers in Illinois and Ohio. The Illinois Department of Insurance and the SEC then sued Towers. Hoffenberg has said that some of these takeover attempts involved assistance from people at Epstein’s former employer Bear Stearns, but qualified that it was "not a lot."120

Yet, the duo of Epstein and Hoffenberg showed no signs of slowing down and instead expanded, developing a separate Ponzi scheme in 1988 that involved selling around $272 million in promissory notes, where they were "offering returns of 12 to 16 percent and marketing them largely to people of modest means, among them widows, retirees, and people with disabilities."121 Money from the sale of the promissory notes was used to convince Illinois regulators that the company was not actually insolvent and that the insurance companies had sufficient capital to cover claims. Two years later, in 1990, they would engage in similar behavior, selling about $210 million in bonds and filing false financial statements to cover their tracks.122 Regarding these acts, Hoffenberg would tell the Washington Post in 2019, "I call it a turnover. You raise a dollar here, you pay a dollar there. Epstein was brilliant at this."

During this period, Epstein and Hoffenberg grew very close. "They traveled everywhere together – on Hoffenberg’s plane, all around the world, they were always together," one source told Vicky Ward in 2003.123 Hoffenberg, on the matter of their then-close relationship would later tell CBS News "He was my best friend for years. My closest friend for years.… We ran a team of people on Wall Street, investment people that raised these billion dollars illegally. He was my guy, my wingman."124

Hoffenberg later claimed to have fired Epstein in the early 1990s because Epstein "was stealing too much. I couldn’t supervise him."125 However, the manner in which they parted ways is disputed. Even if Hoffenberg did cut ties with Epstein well before he was arrested in 1993, Hoffenberg did seem to maintain ties with Epstein/Maxwell-connected networks until the very end. For example, when Hoffenberg moved to buy the New York Post, which he had done at Governor Mario Cuomo’s request, he used the same lawyers that Robert Maxwell had used to take over the New York Daily News just a few years prior to secure that transaction.126 It’s also worth noting that the way both Hoffenberg and Maxwell played up their respective "rescues" of well-known New York newspapers was remarkably similar.

Shortly after Hoffenberg became the New York Post’s "savior," he was sued by the SEC and Towers Financial filed for bankruptcy shortly thereafter. The Ponzi scheme had imploded.

Soon, Hoffenberg appeared in front of a Chicago grand jury, in November 1993, to which he confirmed while being questioned that "Jeffrey Epstein was the person in charge of the [fraudulent] transactions." When asked by federal prosecutor Edward Kohler if Epstein had been trying to manipulate the price of stocks, Hoffenberg responded affirmatively. Kohler’s line of questioning and overarching narrative at the hearing painted Epstein as the "technical wizard" of the Towers Financial fraud; yet, somehow, three months later, Epstein’s name mysteriously disappeared from the case.127

Hoffenberg was arrested in 1994 and pled guilty in April 1995. Hoffenberg had been offered a reduced sentence by prosecutors in exchange for information about co-conspirators, but either prosecutors were no longer interested in pursuing Epstein or Hoffenberg chose not to talk about Epstein.128 Other Towers executives, Mitchell Brater and Michael Rosoff, were charged for their role in the Towers Financial schemes, but Epstein was never charged.129

Hoffenberg has since alleged that he only pled guilty at the behest of his then-lawyer in order to reduce his sentence. His lawyer at the time, Jeffrey Hoffman, told the court that the guilty plea and accompanying confession from Hoffenberg was offered "to spare Mr. Hoffenberg the trauma, embarrassment, and expense of a trial," according to the New York Times.130

Hoffenberg has since claimed that, if his case had gone to trial, not only Epstein’s role in the fraud, but also the true extent of the Epstein-Leese connection would have been exposed. If so, this would have been damaging for several parties, including the intelligence agencies to which both Epstein and Leese were allegedly connected. There is evidence that Hoffenberg did attempt to withdraw his guilty plea after it had been filed, but this effort was mentioned in press reports at the time as having been "based in part on claims of mental illness," with Hoffenberg claiming he had been "mentally impaired" when he had pled guilty.131

Hoffenberg would attempt to file a lawsuit against Epstein in 2016, but Hoffenberg later withdrew the lawsuit, saying that victims of the Towers Financial fraud "may be in a better position to pursue and assert their own claims" against Epstein.132 A similar lawsuit was filed in 2018 by Towers Financial note and bondholders, but was dismissed, suggesting that efforts to shield Epstein from culpability in the Towers case continued nearly up until his 2019 arrest.133 Notably, that complaint alleged that Hoffenberg, despite having been offered a reduced sentence for offering information about co-conspirators in the early 1990s, did not provide any useable intel to investigators on Epstein until his 2016 lawsuit. The Daily Beast reported in 2019 that, in the early 1990s, Hoffenberg had never made an attempt to implicate Epstein prior to the 2016 lawsuit, but this was contradicted by reporting from the Washington Post, which referenced Hoffenberg’s November 1993 testimony that did both mention and implicate Epstein.134

According to Vicky Ward’s 2003 report on Jeffrey Epstein in Vanity Fair, it had been Hoffenberg who, in 1987, had originally "set Epstein up in the offices he still occupies in the Villard Houses, on Madison Avenue, across a courtyard from the restaurant Le Cirque." If that is the case, as other reports also claim, it would mean that Hoffenberg directly connected Epstein to a network involving the Gouletas family. Evangeline Gouletas appeared to share that very office directly with Epstein.

In his article "My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein," Edward Jay Epstein writes how in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein introduced him to "Evangeline Gouletas-Carey, the wife of former governor Hugh Carey, who shared an office with Epstein at the Villard Houses."135 That the two shared an office is confirmed by Business Insider: "John Catsimatidis, who owns the Manhattan grocery chain Gristedes, told Insider that he met Epstein through his friend Evangeline Gouletas, a real estate executive who shared an office with Epstein in the building of the then-Helmsley Hotel in the early 1990s."136

The Helmsley Hotel was the name of a Manhattan luxury hotel that was open from 1981 to 1992, at which point it was purchased by the Sultan of Brunei.137 The complex encompassed a portion of the Villard Houses, confirming that the shared Epstein/Gouletas-Carey office alluded to by both Edward Jay Epstein and John Catsimatidis were one and the same. Given the timing, it seems as though Hoffenberg helped forge the connection between Epstein and the Gouletas.

There seems to be special significance to the Gouletas connection. The Gouletas family’s lawyer – Allan Tessler – would join the board of Leslie Wexner’s The Limited in 1987, the same year that Epstein formally allied with Hoffenberg at Tower Financial and that Epstein became a financial advisor for Wexner. This could potentially mean that Hoffenberg may have had a role in the genesis of the Wexner-Epstein relationship by helping set Epstein up with Gouletas. As we shall see, the Gouletas had considerable ties, throughout the 1980s, to organized crimelinked businessmen in Wexner’s inner circle, corrupt New York politicians bankrolled by the Bronfmans and other companies and characters that have already been explored in previous chapters of this book.

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