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Endnotes
1 Nigel Rosser, “Andrew’s Fixer; She’s the Daughter of Robert Maxwell and She’s Manipulating His Jetset Lifestyle,” Evening Standard (London), January 22, 2001, https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-conten ... _SHE_STHE- DAUGHTER-OF-ROBERT-MAXWELL-AND-1.pdf.
2 “Where Our Money Comes From,” BBC, https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/about ... /funding/; “Gates Foundation Awards $20 Million to BBC World Service Trust,” Philanthropy News Digest, March 7, 2011, https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news ... ion-tobbc- world-service-trust.
3 Whitney Webb, “Epstein Victim Maria Farmer Speaks With Whitney Webb, Full Phone Call - Part 2,” The Last American Vagabond, May 26, 2020, https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com ... thwhitney- webb-full-phone-call-part-2/.
4 Whitney Webb, “The Maxwell Family Business: Espionage,” Unlimited Hangout, July 15, 2020, https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/07/in ... espionage/.
5 Po Bronson, “On The Net, No One Knows You’re a Maxwell,” Wired, February 1, 1999, https://www.wired.com/1999/02/maxwell/.
6 Saskia Sissons, “Mysterious Business of the Queen of NY-Lon,” Sunday Times (London), November 12, 2000, https://www.mintpressnews.com/wpcontent/ uploads/2019/10/Mysterious-business-of-the-queen-of-NY-Lon-1.pdf.
7 The Newsroom, “Misery in the Maxwell House,” The Scotsman, November 16, 2001, https://www.scotsman.com/news/misery-ma ... se-2510066.
8 Bronson, “On The Net.”
9 CNET News staff, “MSN to Use McKinley Directory,” CNET, December 18, 1995, https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/msn-to ... directory/.
10 Sharon Wrobel, “Serial Entrepreneur,” The Jerusalem Post, August 24, 2006, https://www.jpost.com/Business/Business ... repreneur; Katie Hafner, “The Perils of Being Suddenly Rich,” New York Times, April 21, 2007, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/tech ... ayden.html.
11 Julia Angwin, “Excite Will Buy Magellan Search Engine,” SFGATE, June 28, 1996, https://www.sfgate.com/business/article ... ch-Engine- 2976079.php.
12 Bronson, “On The Net.”
13 Whitney Webb, “Isabel Maxwell: Israel’s ‘Back Door’ Into Silicon Valley,” Unlimited Hangout, July 24, 2020, https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/07/in ... l-israels- back-door-into-silicon-valley/.
14 “The Full History of the Israel Start Up Nation,” Ntegra, https://www.ntegra.com/insights/israel-start-nation.
15 “The Full History of the Israel Start Up Nation.”
16 “Team - Yozma,” Yozma, https://www.yozma.com/team/yigal_erlich.asp.
17 Whitney Webb, “The CIA, Mossad and “Epstein Network” Are Exploiting Mass Shootings,” MintPress News, September 6, 2019, https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-israel-mossadjeffrey- epstein-orwellian-nightmare/261692/; Whitney Webb, “From ‘Spook Air’ to the ‘Lolita Express’: The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship,” Unlimited Hangout, August 23, 2019, https://unlimitedhangout.com/2019/08/in ... iveseries/ from-spook-air-to-the-lolita-express-the-genesis-and-evolution-of-the-jeffreyepstein- bill-clinton-relationship/.
18 Orr Hirschauge and Yoav Stoler, “Israel Blurs the Line Between Defense Apparatus and Local Cybersecurity Hub,” CTECH, March 29, 2018, https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/arti ... 56,00.html.
19 “Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak Gave Harvey Weinstein Info on Israeli Firm Hired to Fight Accusations,” Haaretz, November 7, 2017, https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2017-11-07/tyarticle/ ex-pm-barak-gave-weinstein-info-on-israeli-firm-hired-to-fightaccusations/ 0000017f-e6bb-df2c-a1fffefb60db0000.
20 Webb, “Maxwell Family Business.”
21 “Ed Mlavsky,” Gemini Israel Ventures, http://www.gemini.co.il/team/ed-mlavsky/.
22 “Ed Mlavsky.”
23 Marcy Oster, “Rafi Eitan, Spymaster Who Led Capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann and Handled Jonathan Pollard, Dies at 92,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 24, 2019, https://www.jta.org/2019/03/24/israel/r ... hmann-and- handled-jonathan-pollard-dies-at-92.
24 “Jonathan Pollard Indictment,” US District Court for the District of Columbia, November 7, 1984, https://www.israellobby.org/pollard/060 ... tment.pdf; Grant Smith, “The Jonathan Pollard Affair: Unanswered Questions Abound,” Antiwar.com, December 3, 2015, https://original.antiwar.com/smith-gran ... nanswered- questions-abound/; Philip Shenon, “American Linked to Pollard Case Reports Work for Israeli Military,” New York Times, April 3, 1987, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/03/worl ... orts-work- for-israeli-military.html.
25 Claudia Wright, “Did U.S. Government Funds Pay Costs of Pollard Espionage?,” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August 1987, https://www.wrmea.org/1987-august/shadows-did- us-government-funds-pay-costs-of-pollard-espionage.html.
26 Philip Shenon, “Another Is Sought in Pollard Case,” New York Times, April 2, 1987, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/02/worl ... -case.html.
27 “Commtouch,” Gemini Israel Ventures, http://www.gemini.co.il/companies/commtouch/; “CommTouch - Home of Pronto Internet Mail,” CommTouch, https://web.archive.org/web/19970106042 ... ommtouch/; “Cyren,” Warburg Pincus, https://warburgpincus.com/investments/cyren/.
28 Bronson, “On The Net,”; “Cyren LTD. SEC Filing,” EDGAR Online, January 25, 2006, https://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/Di ... gInfo.aspx? Type=HTML&text=%2526lt%253bNEAR%252f4%2526gt%253b(%22IAN%22%2C%22BONN ER%22)&FilingID=4148067&ppu=%2FPeopleFilingResults.aspx%3FPersonID%3D2707526% 26PersonName%3DIAN%2520BONNER.
29 “Cyren LTD. SEC Filing.”
30 “CommTouch Business Partners,” CommTouch, https://web.archive.org/web/19970106042 ... ommtouch/p artners/partners.html.
31 Bronson, “On The Net.”
32 Bronson, “On The Net.”
33 “Cyren LTD. SEC Filing.”
34 “Cyren LTD. SEC Filing.”
35 Bronson, “On The Net.”
36 Wrobel, “Serial Entrepreneur.”
37 Ronit Adler, “Isabel Maxwell: I Think My Father’s Death Was an Accident, My Sister Thinks It Was Murder,” Globes, February 9, 2006, https://en.globes.co.il/en/article--1000059949.
38 Bronson, “On The Net.”
39 J. Correspondent, “Magnates Daughter Forges Own Path in Silicon Valley,” Jewish News of Northern California, December 24, 1999, https://jweekly.com/1999/12/24/magnate-sdaughter- forges-own-path-in-silicon-valley/.
40 Yehoshua Sagi and Mary Sagi-Maydan, “Comfortable in Her Skin,” Haaretz, February 13, 2002, https://www.haaretz.com/2002-02-13/ty-a ... 0017ff6fb- d5bd-a17f-f6fb5de60000.
41 Bronson, “On The Net.”
42 Sagi and Sagi-Maydan, “Comfortable in Her Skin.”
43 “Magnates Daughter Forges Own Path.”
44 Jessica Steinberg, “New Ventures: Born in Israel, Raised in U.S.,” New York Times, June 13, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/13/busi ... in-israel- raised-in-us.html.
45 Adler, “I Think My Father’s Death Was an Accident.”
46 Ann McFerran, “Relative Values: Elisabeth Maxwell, the Widow of Robert Maxwell, and Their Daughter Isabel,” The Times (UK), April 11, 2004, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/relative-values- elisabeth-maxwell-the-widow-of-robert-maxwell-and-their-daughter-isabel-7s67cqwksvb.
47 “Voyaging around Her Father, the Hi-Tech Maxwell,” The Observer, October 8, 2000, https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... erbusiness.
48 “WITI Women - Isabell Maxwell,” WITI, https://witi.com/wire/witiwomen/imaxwel ... ell3.shtml.
49 Sagi and Sagi-Maydan, Comfortable in Her Skin.”
50 McFerran, “Relative Values.”
51 Alan D. Abbey, “Isabel Maxwell Fights Back,” The Jerusalem Post, December 12, 2003, https://www.academia.edu/40635328/Isabe ... ights_back.
52 Abbey, “Isabel Maxwell Fights Back.”
53 Isabel Maxwell, “Case Dismissed,” The Jewish Chronicle, November 22, 2002, https://archive.thejc.com/archive/1.302835.
54 Abbey, “Isabel Maxwell Fights Back.”
55 “International Board of Governors of the Peres Center for Peace,” The Peres Center For Peace, October 4, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20111004150 ... erescenter. org/fulllist.html.
56 Bronson, “On The Net,”; J. Correspondent, “Magnates Daughter Forges Own Path,”;
57 “Voyaging around Her Father, the Hi-Tech Maxwell.”
58 CNET News staff, “Magellan Cofounder Finds Email,” CNET, February 21, 1997, https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and- ... nds-email/.
59 “WITI Women - Isabell Maxwell Profile,” WITI, https://witi.com/wire/witiwomen/imaxwell/index.shtml.
60 Adler, “I Think My Father’s Death Was an Accident.”
61 “CommTouch Boosts Number of Shares for IPO,” Los Angeles Times, July 12, 1999, https://web.archive.org/web/20200719212 ... es/la-xpm- 1999-jul-12-fi-55177-story.html.
62 Larraine Segil, Fastalliances: Power Your E-Business (New York: John Wiley, 2001), 40, https://archive.org/details/fastalliances00larr.
63 CNET Staff, “MSN to Use McKinley Directory.”
64 “CommTouch Boosts Number of Shares for IPO.”
65 “CommTouch Boosts Number of Shares for IPO.”
66 Steinberg, “New Ventures: Born in Israel, Raised in U.S.”
67 Astrid Wendlandt and Claude Chendjou, “Markets Too Tough for A Small World IPO,” Reuters, May 19, 2008, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-summ ... 020080519; “Well Connected: The Net Jet Set,” The Sunday Times (UK), June 13, 2004, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/well ... 9zmj6bt93k.
68 Wendlandt and Chendjou, “Markets Too Tough.”
69 “Paul Allen during AmfAR’s ‘Cinema Against AIDS Cannes’ Benefit,” Getty Images, May 20, 2004, https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/ne ... a-against- aids-cannes-benefit-news-photo/107278856; Johnny Vedmore, “Epstein & Junkermann: September 1, 2002 - The Secret Senators and the Wexner War on Iraq,” Vocal Media, August 26, 2019, https://vocal.media/theSwamp/epstein-an ... september- 1-2002-the-secret-senators-and-the-wexner-war-on-iraq.
70 “Commtouch and Microsoft Enter Into Distribution and Service Agreement,” Yahoo, October 27, 1999, https://web.archive.org/web/19991128155 ... 7/ca_commt ou_2.html.
71 Reuters, “Company News; Commtouch Discloses Stock Purchase by Microsoft,” New York Times, December 31, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/31/busi ... commtouch- discloses-stock-purchase-by-microsoft.html.
72 “Voyaging Around Her Father, the Hi-Tech Maxwell.”
73 “Voyaging Around Her Father, the Hi-Tech Maxwell.”
74 Segil, Fastalliances, 40.
75 “Messaging Solutions: Hosted Exchange,” CommTouch, https://web.archive.org/web/20010204034 ... tions/host edxchg.shtml.
76 “CommTouch Boosts Number of Shares for IPO,”; Shlomy Golovinsky, “Commtouch CEO Gideon Mantel: We Have Better Chances than Rival Critical Path,” The Marker, July 16, 2001, https://www.themarker.com/misc/2001-05- ... df18af0000.
77 Scotsman Newsroom, “Misery in the Maxwell House.”
78 “New Directors Named to Commtouch Board,” SEC.gov, March 19, 2008, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data ... 7455_ex99- 2.htm.
79 “Cyren Launches Free Online Web Security Test for SMBs and Enterprises,” PR Newswire, September 15, 2016, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... reeonline- web-security-test-for-smbs-and-enterprises-300328519.html.
80 Sagi and Sagi-Maydan, “Comfortable in Her Skin.”
81 Adler, “I Think My Father’s Death Was an Accident.”
82 “Isabell Maxwell Bio,” Maxwell Communications, https://archive.vn/20130701061134/http: ... com/search? q=cache:Wqex6Jwe6C4J:www.maxwellcommunications. com/isabel.htm+&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us.
83 Adler, “I Think My Father’s Death Was an Accident.”
84 “Icognito Raises $3.1 Million to Expand Its Next Generation Content Filtering Solutions Globally and Recruits Veteran Executive Isabel Maxwell as CEO,” PRWeb, September 15, 2003, https://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/09/prweb80151.htm.
85 Abbey, “Isabel Maxwell Fights Back.”
86 Sagi and Sagi-Maydan, “Comfortable in Her Skin,”; “Gil Shwed,” Prabook, https://prabook.com/web/gil.shwed/726125.
87 Adler, “I Think My Father’s Death Was an Accident,”; “Shimon Peres Breakfasts at Buck’s in Woodside,” The Almanac, May 10, 2000, https://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2000 ... peres.html.
88 “Isabel Maxwell,” World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/people/isabel-smaxwell; Abbey, “Isabel Maxwell Fights Back.”
89 “International Board of Governors,” The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, https://www.peres-center.org/en/the-org ... l-board2/; “About Us,” The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, https://www.peres-center.org/en/theorganization/ about-us/.
90 “People by Andrew Pierce,” The Times (UK), December 4, 2002, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peop ... r20dk5qkk; Adler, “I Think My Father’s Death Was an Accident.”
91 “Isabel Maxwell,” World Economic Forum; “About Us,” IVN-Israel Venture Network, https://ivn.org.il/.
92 “Itsik Danziger, IVN Yozma Fund Chairman,” IVN-Israel Venture Network, https://ivn.org.il/itsikdanziger/.
93 “Freeman Dyson,” Wikipedia, Last modified July 21, 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... man_Dyson; Tara McKelvey, “Esther Dyson: Breaking through Tech’s Glass Ceiling,” BBC News, May 27, 2014, https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26858383.
94 “Esther Dyson,” World Economic Forum, https://web.archive.org/web/20160928050 ... a/authors/ estherdyson/.
95 Esther Dyson, Andrei Sakharov’s House, in Sarov, photo, April 12, 2005, https://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/9209120/; Pavel V. Oleynikov, “German Scientists in the Soviet Atomic Project,” Nonproliferation.org, https://www.nonproliferation.org/wpcontent/ uploads/npr/72pavel.pdf.
96 Hillel Fendel, “Sakharov Widow Supports Israel,” Israel National News, May 22, 2009, https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/131510.
97 Esther Dyson, And What Do They Learn?, photo, April 12, 2005, https://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/9209659/.
98 “Chelyabinsk-70,” GlobalSecurity.org, https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/worl ... 70_nuc.htm.
99 John J. Fialka, “U.S. Probes Silicon Graphics’ Computer Sale to Russian Lab,” Wall Street Journal, February 18, 1997, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB856227124490610000.
100 “The Sad Saga of Silicon Graphics,” BusinessWeek, August 4, 1997, https://archive.ph/20131230135538/http: ... b35381.htm.
101 “Silicon Graphics and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance To Define the Future of Graphics,” Microsoft, December 17, 1997, https://news.microsoft.com/1997/12/17/s ... phics-and- microsoft-form-strategic-alliance-to-define-the-future-of-graphics/.
102 Fialka, “U.S. Probes Silicon Graphics’ Computer Sale.”
103 Fialka, “U.S. Probes Silicon Graphics’ Computer Sale.”
104 “Control Data Corporation,” Minnesota Computing History, https://mncomputinghistory.com/control- ... rporation/.
105 Kate Briquelet and Noah Kirsch, “This Year’s TED Conference Will Be a Mini Epstein Reunion,” The Daily Beast, April 9, 2022, https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-year ... ence-will- be-a-mini-epstein-reunion; Russell Brandom, “AI Pioneer Accused of Having Sex with Trafficking Victim on Jeffrey Epstein’s Island,” The Verge, August 9, 2019, https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798 ... afficking- island-court-records-unsealed.
106 On Lander’s connection to Thinking Machines: Robert Buderi, Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2022), 94. Whitney Webb, “Biden’s Nominee For New Cabinet-Level Science Position Is Epstein-Linked Geneticist,” Unlimited Hangout, February 5, 2021, https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/re ... l-science- position-is-epstein-linked-geneticist/.
107 Jeremy Diamond and Kate Sullivan, “White House Science Adviser Resigns, Acknowledges ‘disrespectful and Demeaning’ Behavior after Investigation,” CNN, February 8, 2022, https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/07/politics ... stigation/ index.html.
108 Esther Dyson, Nathan Myhrvold and Olga Dergunova, Microsoft, photo, April 12, 2005, https://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/9208938/.
109 Gabriel Sherman, “The Epstein Case Puts New Focus on Old Names – Including Clinton,” Vanity Fair, July 23, 2019, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07 ... l-spirals- a-new-focus-on-clinton.
110 Sherman, “The Epstein Case Puts New Focus on Old Names.”
111 “Report Concerning Jeffrey Epstein’s Interactions With the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,” MIT, January 10, 2020, http://factfindingjan2020.mit.edu/files/MIT-report.pdf? 200117.
112 “Report Concerning Jeffrey Epstein’s Interactions With the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
113 Kat Tenbarge and Benjamin Goggin, “Bill Gates Made Donations to MIT through Jeffrey Epstein —Here Are All of the Tech Mogul’s Connections to the Financier,” Business Insider, September 10, 2019, https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-ga ... y-epstein- mit-donations-ronan-farrow-2019-9.
114 “About Edge.Org,” Edge, https://www.edge.org/about-edgeorg.
115 “John Brockman,” Dazed, July 8, 2012, https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandcul ... n-brockman.
116 John Naughton, “John Brockman: The Man Who Runs the World’s Smartest Website,” The Observer, January 8, 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... nbrockman- edge-interview-john-naughton.
117 “About Edge.Org.”
118 Naughton, “John Brockman.”
119 Dazed, “John Brockman.”
120 Andrew Brown, “The Hustler,” The Guardian, April 29, 2005, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/ ... anreview25.
121 James Gorman, “Nimble Deal-Maker For Stars Of Science,” New York Times, October 14, 1997, https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/14/scie ... of-science. html.
122 Evgeny Morozov, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler,” The New Republic, August 22, 2019, https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/ ... al-enabler.
123 Gorman, “Nimble Deal-Maker.”
124 Dazed, “John Brockman.”
125 Dazed, “John Brockman.”
126 Soo Kim, “Sun Valley Conference 2021—Billionaire Summer Camp Explained and Who Is Attending,” Newsweek, July 9, 2021, https://www.newsweek.com/sun-valley-conference- 2021-billionaire-summer-camp-explained-who-attending-1608334.
127 John Markoff and David Johnston, “U.S. Investigates Whether K.G.B. Recruited Ex-White House Aide,” New York Times, April 9, 1994, https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/09/us/usinvestigates- whether-kgb-recruited-ex-white-house-aide.html.
128 Markoff and Johnston, “U.S. Investigates.”
129 James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, “Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA,” New York Times, July 31, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/busi ... enics.html.
130 Dazed, “John Brockman.”
131 “The Edge ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ 2015,” Edge, March 18, 2015, https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-bil ... inner-2015.
132 “The Edge ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ 2015.”
133 Kayla Kibbe, “Edge Foundation President May Have Been Jeffrey Epstein’s Connection to Intellectual Elite,” InsideHook, August 23, 2019, https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/ ... -may-have- been-jeffrey-epsteins-connection-to-intellectual-elite.
134 “Nathan Myhrvold,” Edge, https://stage.edge.org/memberbio/nathan_myhrvold; “Linda Stone,” Edge, https://stage.edge.org/memberbio/linda_stone; “Esther Dyson,” Edge, https://www.edge.org/memberbio/esther_dyson; “Bill Gates,” Edge, https://www.edge.org/memberbio/bill_gates.
135 John Cook, “Jeffrey Epstein Was Meeting with Silicon Valley Reporters before His Arrest, ‘rambling’ about All the People He Knew in Tech,” Business Insider, August 13, 2019, https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey ... ore-death- 2019-8.
136 Aaron Holmes, “Former Silicon Valley VC Says Ghislaine Maxwell Attended an Investor Party in 2011 despite Reports ‘about Her Supplying Underage Girls for Sex,’” Business Insider, July 6, 2020, https://www.businessinsider.com/ghislai ... s-vcparty- alleges-ellen-pao-2020-7.
137 Cook, “Jeffrey Epstein Was Meeting with Silicon Valley Reporters before His Arrest.”
138 Cook, “Jeffrey Epstein Was Meeting with Silicon Valley Reporters before His Arrest.”
139 James B. Stewart, “The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People,” New York Times, August 12, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/busi ... y-epstein- interview.html.
140 Sarah McBride, “Epstein Arrest Leaves Top Technology Figures Racing to Distance Themselves,” Bloomberg, July 31, 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07- 31/jeffrey-epstein-arrest-spurs-tech-figures-to-distance-themselves.
141 McBridge, “Epstein Arrest Leaves Top Technology Figures Racing.”
142 Kate Briquelet, “Ghislaine Maxwell Bragged About ‘Pal’ Jeff Bezos,” The Daily Beast, July 23, 2020, https://www.thedailybeast.com/ghislaine ... eff-bezos; Ebony Bowden, “Ghislaine Maxwell Attended Jeff Bezos’ Secretive Writers’ Retreat: Report,” New York Post, November 1, 2019, https://nypost.com/2019/11/01/ghislaine ... -attended- jeff-bezos-secretive-writers-retreat-report/.
143 Patricia Leigh Brown, “3 Days In the Future,” New York Times, February 28, 2002, https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/gard ... uture.html.
144 Blake Montgomery, “Epstein-Funded Scientist George Church Is Creating a Genetics-Based Dating App,” The Daily Beast, December 10, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-funded- scientist-george-church-is-creating-a-genetics-based-dating-app; Allan Hall and Fiona Macrae, “Wanted: ‘Adventurous Woman’ to Give Birth to Neanderthal Man - Harvard Professor Seeks Mother for Cloned Cave Baby,” Mail Online, January 20, 2013, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ted-birth- Neanderthal-man-Harvard-professor.html.
145 Julia Belluz, “DNA Scientist James Watson Has a Remarkably Long History of Sexist, Racist Public Comments,” Vox, January 15, 2019, https://www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18182530/ ... son-racist.
146 Stewart, Goldstein, and Silver-Greenberg, “Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA.”
147 Stewart, Goldstein, and Silver-Greenberg, “Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA.”
148 “Virginia Roberts Fled Epstein after Being Asked to Have Surrogate,” Mail Online, March 21, 2020, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... d-Epstein- Ghislaine-Maxwell-asked-surrogate-baby.html.
149 Sravasti Dasgupta, “Accuser Says She Saw Photos of Ghislaine Maxwell Nude and Pregnant at Epstein’s Home,” The Independent, December 8, 2021, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... ant-photo- epstein-b1971772.html.
150 “Conference on the New Economy Panelists,” The White House, April 5, 2000, https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov ... 405-b.html.
151 “Conference on the New Economy Panelists.”
152 Webb, “From ‘Spook Air’ to the ‘Lolita Express.’”
153 Robert Cyran, “SpaceX Is a Throwback to the 1990s,” DealBook, January 21, 2015, https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/21 ... the-1990s/.
154 Cyran, “SpaceX Is a Throwback.”
155 Steven Levy, “Bill Gates and President Bill Clinton on the NSA, Safe Sex, and American Exceptionalism,” Wired, November 12, 2013, https://www.wired.com/2013/11/bill-gates-bill-clinton- wired/.
156 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/explodin ... wh_b_30381
157 Levy, “Bill Gates and President Bill Clinton.”
158 “Committed Grants,” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/c ... ?q=clinton
159 “How We Work,” Clinton Health Access Initiative, https://www.clintonhealthaccess.org/howwe- work/.
160 “About Us,” Clinton Health Access Initiative, https://www.clintonhealthaccess.org/aboutus/# history
161 Jack Crowe, “Epstein’s Lawyer Claimed the Alleged Pedophile Helped Devise the Clinton Global Initiative,” Yahoo, July 8, 2019, https://news.yahoo.com/epstein-lawyer-claimed-alleged- pe-dophile-223701676.html.
162 “Committed Grants,” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
163 Nancy Gohring, “Bill Clinton Drops In at Microsoft to Say Thanks,” PCWorld, November 2, 2007, https://web.archive.org/web/20210125053 ... /139219/ar ticle.html.
164 “Clinton Foundation And Gates Foundation Partner To Measure Global Progress For Women And Girls,” Clinton Foundation, February 13, 2014, https://web.archive.org/web/20161110141 ... sreleases/ clinton-foundation-and-gates-foundation-partner-measure-global-progress-women- and.
165 Emily Flitter and James B. Stewart, “Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past,” New York Times, October 12, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/busi ... gates.html.
166 Monica Nickelsburg, “Vice President Gates? WikiLeaks Emails Reveal Bill and Melinda Were on Hillary Clinton’s Short List,” GeekWire, October 18, 2016, https://www.geekwire.com/2016/vice-pres ... a-hillary- clintons-short-list/.
167 Kate Briquelet and Pilar Melendez, “Bill Gates Praised Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Lifestyle: ‘Kind of Intriguing,’” The Daily Beast, October 12, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-gates- praised-pedophile-jeffrey-epstein-kind-of-intriguing.
168 Kate Briquelet and Lachlan Cartwright, “Bill Gates Thought Jeffrey Epstein Was His Ticket to a Nobel Prize, Ex-Staffer Says,” The Daily Beast, May 18, 2021, https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-gate ... to-anobel- ex-staffer-says.
169 Tore Gjerstad and Gard Oterholm, “Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein met with Nobel Committee chair,” The Daily Beast, October 2, 2020, https://www.dn.no/magasinet/dokumentar/jeffreyepstein/ thorbjorn-jagland/terje-rod-larsen/bill-gates-and-jeffrey-epstein-met-with-nobel-committee- chair/2-1-885834.
170 Kate Briquelet and Lachlan Cartwright, “Melinda Gates Warned Bill About Jeffrey Epstein,” The Daily Beast, May 7, 2021, https://www.thedailybeast.com/melinda-g ... ill-gates- about-jeffrey-epstein.
171 “Man Arrested at Bill Gates’ Estate for Reportedly Trading Child Porn,” KIRO 7 News Seattle, December 31, 2015, https://www.kiro7.com/news/man-arrested ... eportedly- trading-/43531857/.
172 “Clinton Global Initiative,” Clinton Foundation, https://web.archive.org/web/20220805174 ... nitiative/.
173 “Globalsolver Foundation, Blue World Alliance in Tarzana, California,” NonProfitFacts.com, https://web.archive.org/web/20210406032 ... balsolver- Foundation.html.
174 Rudy Havenstein, Twitter post, April 10, 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20210615032 ... in/status/ 1381015795011047427; “Xavier Malina’s Email & Phone Number,” SignalHire, https://web.archive.org/web/20210410231 ... 2010022048 16/https://www.signalhire.com/profiles/xavier-malina’s-email/53404874.
175 “Xavier Malina.”
176 “Alexander Djerassi,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, https://carnegieendowment. org/experts/1088.
177 “The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Inaugural Cohort of Fellows,” The Rockefeller Foundation, https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/n ... announces- inaugural-cohort-fellows/.
178 “Team,” Andreessen Horowitz, https://a16z.com/about/team/.
179 Kate Clark, “Former Israeli Prime Minister Helps Launch A16z-Backed Cyber Defense Startup,” Pitchbook, July 16, 2018, https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/for ... -minister- helps-launch-a16z-backed-cyber-defense-startup.
180 “Melanie Walker,” Speakerpedia, https://speakerpedia.com/speakers/melanie-walker.
181 “The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Inaugural Cohort of Fellows,”; “Bill Gates Is Back in Business with BgC3,” Geek.com, December 4, 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20191204112 ... s-is-back- in-business-with-bgc3-606971/; Caroline Waxler, “Bill Gates Starts Mysterious New Company Just In Time For Halloween,” Business Insider, October 22, 2008, https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/10 ... ny-justin- time-for-halloween.
182 Waxler, “Bill Gates Starts Mysterious New Company.”
183 Melanie Walker, “Healthcare in 2030: Goodbye Hospital, Hello Home-Spital,” World Economic Forum, November 11, 2016, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/healthcare-in- 2030-goodbye-hospital-hello-home-spital/.
184 Emma Nolan, “A Timeline of Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein’s Relationship,” Newsweek, May 10, 2021, https://www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-jef ... ationship- 1590004.
185 Meghana Keshavan, “Science Advisor to Bill Gates Launches New Firm, Raising $150M Fund,” MedCity News, April 19, 2016, https://medcitynews.com/2016/04/biomati ... -partners- bill-gates/.
186 Briquelet and Cartwright, “Melinda Gates Warned Bill,”; Priscilla DeGregory, “Bill Gates’ Former Advisor Boris Nikolic Turns down Role as Executor of Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate,”- New York Post, September 27, 2019, https://nypost.com/2019/09/27/bill-gate ... isorboris- nikolic-turns-down-role-as-executor-of-jeffrey-epsteins-estate/.
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190 David Crow, “Bill Gates Joins $120m Fundraising for Editas Medicine Gene Start-Up,” Financial Times, August 10, 2015, https://www.ft.com/content/bd0f94ae-3f79-11e5-b98b- 87c7270955cf.
191 DeGregory, “Bill Gates’ Former Advisor Boris Nikolic Turns down Role.”
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Part 1 of 2
John Poindexter
CHAPTER 21. FROM PROMIS TO PALANTIR: THE FUTURE OF BLACKMAIL
CARBYNE911
Carbyne911, formerly Reporty, is an Israeli tech-start-up founded in 2014 that promises to revolutionize how calls are handled by emergency service providers, as well as by governments, corporations, and educational institutions. Prior to Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest in mid-2019, Carbyne had received high praise from US and Israeli media, with Fox News hailing the company’s services as the answer to the "aging 911 systems" in the US and the Jerusalem Post writing that the company’s platform offers "hi-tech protection to social workers and school principals" in the event of school shootings.1 Other reports claimed that Carbyne’s services result in "a 65% reduction in time-to-dispatch" for emergency services.2
Carbyne’s call-handling/crisis management platform has already been implemented in several US counties and Latin American countries and the company now boasts offices in not only the US but also in Mexico, the UK, and Israel. Carbyne’s expansion to more emergency service provider networks in the US is likely, given that federal legislation seeks to offer grants to upgrade 911 call centers throughout the country with the very technology of which Carbyne is the leading provider. One of the main lobby groups promoting this legislation, the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), has a "strong relationship" with Carbyne, according to Carbyne’s website.3
Yet, what seemed like the inevitability of Carbyne’s widespread adoption in the US hit a snag following the 2019 arrest and subsequent death of Jeffrey Epstein. After his first arrest and light sentence for soliciting sex from a minor in 2007, Epstein had been tapped by former Israeli Prime Minister and former head of Israeli military intelligence Ehud Barak to become a key financial backer of Carbyne.
As a result of increased scrutiny into Epstein’s business activities and his ties to Israel, particularly to Barak, Epstein’s connection to Carbyne was revealed and extensively reported on by the independent media outlet Narrativ, whose expose on Carbyne revealed not only some of the key intelligence connections of the start-up company but also how the architecture of Carbyne’s product itself raises "serious privacy concerns."4
After media scrutiny of Carbyne in the wake of Epstein’s death, its board and executive team were shaken up dramatically, with the apparent goal of obfuscating its intimate ties to Israel and Barak specifically. This is likely because the intelligence links of Carbyne’s leadership at the time of Epstein’s arrest and death, were considerable.5 In addition to Barak – a former Israeli prime minister and former head of Israeli military intelligence – who was then serving as Carbyne’s chairman, the company’s executive team were mainly former members of Israeli intelligence, including the elite military intelligence group, Unit 8200. Also on the board at the time was Nicole Junkermann, whose ties to Epstein have been discussed in chapters 14 and 18.
Carbyne’s founding and current CEO, Amir Elichai, served in Unit 8200 and had tapped former Unit 8200 commander and board member of AIPAC Pinchas Buchris to serve as the company’s director and on its board.6 In addition to Elichai, another Carbyne co-founder, Lital Leshem, also served in Unit 8200 and later worked for Israeli private spy company Black Cube. As previously mentioned in the last chapter, Black Cube is a known front for Israeli intelligence. The only Carbyne co-founder that didn’t serve in Unit 8200 is Alex Dizengoff, who previously worked for the office of Israel’s Prime Minister.7
Unit 8200 is an elite unit of the Israeli Intelligence corps that is part of the IDF’s Directorate of Military Intelligence and is involved mainly in signal intelligence (i.e., surveillance), cyberwarfare, and code decryption. It is frequently described as the Israeli equivalent of the NSA, and Peter Roberts, senior research fellow at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute, characterized the unit in an interview with the Financial Times as "probably the foremost technical intelligence agency in the world and stand[ing] on a par with the NSA in everything except scale."8
Notably, the NSA and Unit 8200 have collaborated on numerous projects, most infamously on the Stuxnet virus as well as the Duqu malware.9 In addition, the NSA is known to work with veterans of Unit 8200 in the private sector, such as when the NSA hired two Israeli companies to create backdoors into all the major U.S. telecommunications systems and major tech companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and Google.10 Both of those companies, Verint and Narus, have top executives with ties to Israeli intelligence; one of those companies, Verint (formerly Comverse Infosys), has a history of aggressively spying on US government facilities and was previously discussed in chapter 14.11 Unit 8200 is also known for spying on civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories for "coercion purposes" – i.e., gathering info for blackmail – and also for spying on Palestinian-Americans via an intelligence-sharing agreement with the NSA.12
Unlike many other Unit 8200-linked start-ups at the time, Carbyne also boasted ties at the time to the Trump administration, including Palantir founder and Trump ally Peter Thiel – another investor in Carbyne alongside Epstein and Barak.13 Thiel’s company Palantir, discussed later in this chapter, is a major contractor to US intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the US. In addition, Carbyne’s board of advisers at the time included former Palantir employee Trae Stephens, who was a member of the Trump transition team, as well as former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.14 Trump donor and New York real estate developer Eliot Tawill was also on Carbyne’s board, alongside Ehud Barak, Nicole Junkermann, and Pinchas Buchris.15 After the personnel shake-up, its board of advisers now includes former Secretary of Homeland Security under Trump, Kirstjen Nielsen.16
Privacy concerns with Carbyne go beyond the company’s ties to Israeli intelligence and US intelligence contractors like Peter Thiel’s Palantir. For instance, Carbyne’s smartphone app extracts the following information from the phones on which it is installed:
According to Carbyne’s website, this same information can also be obtained from any smartphone, even if it does not have Carbyne’s app installed, if that phone calls a 911 call center that uses Carbyne or merely any other number connected to Carbyne’s network.
Carbyne is a Next-Generation 9-11 (NG911) platform and the explicit goal of NG911 is for all 911 systems nationwide to become interconnected. Thus, even if Carbyne is not used by all 911 call centers using an NG911 platform, Carbyne will ostensibly have access to the data used by all emergency service providers and devices connected to those networks. This guiding principle of NG911 also makes it likely that one platform will be favored at the federal level to foster such interconnectivity and, given that it has already been adopted by several counties and has ties to influential former US government officials, Carbyne is a logical choice.
Another cause for concern is how other countries have used platforms like Carbyne, which were first marketed as emergency response tools, for the purpose of mass surveillance. Narrativ noted the following in its investigation of Carbyne:
Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app and discovered that the app automatically profiles a user under 36 "person types" including "followers of Six Lines" which is the term used to identify Uyghurs. Another term refers to "Hajj," the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. The app monitors every aspect of a user’s life, including personal conversations, power usage, and tracks a user’s movement.19 Such technology is currently used by Israeli military intelligence and Israel’s domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet to justify "pre-crime" detentions of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Carbyne’s platform has its own "pre-crime" elements, such as its c-Records component, which stores and analyzes information on past calls and events that pass through its network. This information "enables decision makers to accurately analyze the past and present behavior of their callers, react accordingly, and in time predict future patterns."20 Notably, pre-crime, i.e. "predictive policing," has long been a key focus of Palantir, the company co-founded and closely tied to Peter Thiel, whose Founders Fund helped finance Carbyne.21
PROMIS, PALANTIR, AND PRE-CRIME
In general terms, Palantir was created to be the privatized panopticon of the national-security state, the newest rebranding of the big data approach of intelligence agencies to surveilling both foreign and domestic populations. The latter in particular has long been a key objective of US intelligence, having been pioneered by the CIA as far back as the Vietnam War.22 It was later covertly turned against the bulk of the US population by both US and Israel intelligence during the Iran-Contra and PROMIS software scandals of the 1980s, though efforts to use these big data approaches to target domestic protests and specific social movements had been ongoing for years.
The panopticon was originally an English philosopher’s concept for a new, revolutionary prison design, but the idea was more fully developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Foucault, in his book Discipline and Punish, noted that: "The major effect of the panopticon is to induce in the inmate a state of consciousness and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power." Said differently, the uncertainty that one may be under surveillance at any time and for any reason induces obedience in that individual, allowing a small number of people to control the masses.23 It is perhaps unsurprising that, for a 2020 profile on Palantir in the New York Times, the company’s co-founder and CEO Alex Karp chose to pose with three Palantir employees under a large portrait of Foucault.24
As previously detailed in chapter 9, in the 1980s, individuals at the heart of the Iran-Contra scandal began to develop a database called Main Core, which firmly placed the US national security state on its current, tech-fueled Foucauldian path.25 A senior government official with a high-ranking security clearance and service in five presidential administrations told Radar in 2008 that Main Core was "a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived 'enemies of the state’ almost instantaneously."26 It was expressly developed for use in "continuity of government" (COG) protocols by figures like Oliver North and was used to compile a list of US dissidents and "potential troublemakers" to be dealt with if the continuity of government protocol was ever invoked.
Main Core utilized PROMIS software, which was stolen from its owners at Inslaw Inc. by top Reagan and US intelligence officials as well as Israeli spymaster Rafi Eitan.27 Also intimately involved in the PROMIS scandal was media baron and Israeli "super spy" Robert Maxwell.28 Like PROMIS, Main Core involved both US and Israeli intelligence and was a big data approach to the surveillance of perceived domestic dissidents.29
Meanwhile, Main Core persisted and continued to amass data. That data could not be fully tapped into and utilized by the intelligence community until after the events of September 11, 2001, which offered a golden opportunity for the use of such tools against the domestic US population, all under the guise of combating "terrorism." For example, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, government officials reportedly saw Main Core being accessed by White House computers.
September 11 was also used as an excuse to remove information "firewalls" within the national security state, expanding "information sharing" among agency databases and, by extension, also expanding the amount of data that could be accessed and analyzed by Main Core and its analogues.
As Alan Wade, then serving as the CIA’s chief information officer, pointed out soon after 9/11:
In an attempt to build on these two post-9/11 objectives simultaneously, the US national security state attempted to institute a "public-private" surveillance program so invasive that Congress defunded it just months after its creation due to concerns it would completely eliminate the right to privacy in the US. Called Total Information Awareness (TIA), the program sought to develop an "all-seeing" surveillance apparatus managed by the Pentagon’s DARPA.31 The official agreement was that invasive surveillance of the entire US population was necessary to prevent terrorist attacks, bioterrorism events, and even naturally occurring disease outbreaks before they could take place.
The architect of TIA, and the man who led it during its relatively brief existence, was John Poindexter, best known for being Reagan’s National Security Advisor during Iran-Contra and being convicted of five felonies in relation to that scandal.32 Poindexter, during the Iran-Contra hearings, had famously claimed that it was his duty to withhold information from Congress.33
One of Poindexter’s key allies at the time as it related to TIA was the chief information officer of the CIA, Alan Wade.34 Wade met with Poindexter in relation to TIA numerous times and managed the participation of not just the CIA but all US intelligence agencies that had signed on to add their data as "nodes" to TIA in exchange for gaining access to its tools.
The TIA program, despite the best efforts of Poindexter and his allies such as Wade, was eventually forced to shut down after considerable criticism and public outrage. For instance, the American Civil Liberties Union claimed that the surveillance effort would "kill privacy in America" because "every aspect of our lives would be catalogued," while several mainstream media outlets warned that TIA was "fighting terror by terrifying US citizens."35 Though the program was defunded, it later emerged that TIA was never actually shut down, with its various programs having been covertly divided among the web of military and intelligence agencies that make up the US national security state.36 While some of those TIA programs went underground, the core panopticon software that TIA had hoped to wield began to be developed by the very company now known as Palantir, with considerable help from the CIA and Alan Wade, as well as Poindexter.
At the time it was formally launched in February 2003, the TIA program was immediately controversial, leading it to change its name in May 2003 to Terrorism Information Awareness in an apparent attempt to sound less like an all-encompassing domestic surveillance system and more like a tool specifically aimed at "terrorists." Nevertheless, the TIA program was shuttered by the end of 2003.
The same month as the TIA name change and amid the growing backlash against the program, Peter Thiel incorporated Palantir.37 Thiel, however, had begun creating the software behind Palantir months in advance, though he claims he can’t recall exactly when. Thiel, Karp, and other Palantir co-founders claimed for years that the company had been founded in 2004, despite the paperwork of Palantir’s incorporation by Thiel directly contradicting this claim.38
Also, in 2003, apparently soon after Thiel formally created Palantir, none other than Richard Perle called Poindexter, saying that he wanted to introduce the architect of TIA to two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. According to a report in New York Magazine, Poindexter was told by Perle that he "was precisely the person" who Thiel and Karp wanted to meet, mainly because "their new company was similar in ambition to what Poindexter had tried to create at the Pentagon," that is, TIA.39 During that meeting, Thiel and Karp sought "to pick the brain of the man now widely viewed as the godfather of modern surveillance." Perle’s roles at Hollinger International, ties to Israeli espionage scandals and his lobbying on behalf of Bernard Schwartz’s Loral were discussed in chapters 14 and 17.
Soon after its incorporation, though the exact timing and details of the investment remain hidden from the public, the CIA’s In-Q-Tel became Palantir’s first backer, aside from Thiel himself, who invested an estimated $2 million in the company.40 In-Q-Tel’s stake in Palantir would not be publicly reported until mid-2006.41
Though the influx of cash was certainly useful, Palantir’s CEO Alex Karp later told the New York Times that "the real value of the In-Q-Tel investment was that it gave Palantir access to the CIA analysts who were its intended clients."42 A key figure in the making of In-Q-Tel investments during this period, including Palantir, was the CIA’s chief information officer at the time, Alan Wade.43
After the In-Q-Tel investment, the CIA would be Palantir’s only client until 2008. During that period, Palantir’s two top engineers – Aki Jain and Stephen Cohen – traveled to CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia every two weeks.44 Jain recalls making at least two hundred trips to CIA headquarters between 2005 and 2009. During those regular visits, CIA analysts "would test [Palantir’s software] out and offer feedback, and then Cohen and Jain would fly back to California to tweak it." As with In-Q-Tel’s decision to invest in Palantir, the CIA’s chief information officer at the time, Alan Wade, played a key role in many of these meetings and subsequently in the "tweaking" of Palantir’s products.
It should come as no surprise, then, that there is a clear overlap between Palantir’s products and the vision that Wade and Poindexter had held for the failed TIA program. One can see the obvious parallels between Palantir and TIA by examining how the masterminds behind each describe their key functions.
Take, for instance, the following excerpt from Shane Harris’ book The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State regarding Wade’s and Poindexter’s views of TIA’s "built-in privacy protections":
Compare TIA’s "selective revelation" sales pitch with that more recently offered by Karp and Thiel to the New York Times about Palantir’s own supposed privacy safeguards:
The explanation offered by Poindexter and Wade for TIA and the explanation presented by Karp and Thiel for Palantir are essentially analogous. Similarly, Palantir’s "immutable log" concept, whereby "everything a user does in Palantir creates a trail that can be audited," was also a hallmark of the TIA system envisioned by Poindexter and Wade.47
As noted in The Watchers:
The benefits in repurposing the "public-private" TIA into a completely private entity after TIA was publicly dismantled are obvious. For instance, given that Palantir is a private company as opposed to a government program, the way its software is used by its government and corporate clients benefits from "plausible deniability" and frees Palantir from constraints that would be present if it were instead a project tied to the military or public sector.
As noted in an October 2020 profile on the company in the New York Times:
CHRISTINE MAXWELL’S CHILIAD
While Wade was involved in operating the information technology infrastructure of US intelligence and in guiding the rise of Palantir, he was also intimately involved with another company known as Chiliad. Chiliad was a data analytics company founded in the late 1990s by Paul McOwen, Robert Maxwell’s daughter Christine Maxwell, and an unnamed third individual.50 However, sources such as Bloomberg lists Alan Wade as the "mysterious" third cofounder of Chiliad, meaning that Wade, as the third co-founder, was involved in creating Chiliad while also serving in a top post at the CIA.51 The company was founded with "$3 million in angel investment" of unknown origin.52
This is significant for two main reasons. First, Chiliad was developed to be the very tool that would be sought by US intelligence in the immediate aftermath of September 11, an event that notably took place shortly after Wade became the CIA’s chief information officer.53 The company had conveniently been set up well in advance, allowing it to score key contracts with the US government, including the FBI, thanks to the advanced stage of its product as well as its founders’s intelligence connections. This, along with a glowing recommendation from the 9/11 Commission, benefited Chiliad’s software, which was remarkably similar to the PROMIS software and early versions of Palantir.54
Due to ongoing litigation in the PROMIS case, efforts were made by the US national security state to retool and tweak the PROMIS software sufficiently so that they could argue that the software then in use had become dissimilar to the original stolen product, according to the original PROMIS developer, Bill Hamilton of Inslaw Inc. To avoid further litigation with Inslaw, the authors of the theft of PROMIS, and other beneficiaries of that theft, likely saw a need to create analogous software, likely by further developing already modified versions of PROMIS, that appeared to have different origins.
Second, Wade, who was employed by the CIA at the time of Chiliad’s founding, created the company with Christine Maxwell, sister of Ghislaine Maxwell and daughter of Robert Maxwell. As noted in chapter 9, Christine was intimately involved in and ended up leading the US-based front company that Robert Maxwell had used to sell versions of PROMIS that seriously compromised US national security.55 Her subsequent effort, through the McKinley Group, was an effort that involved several of her siblings (Isabel, Kevin and Ghislaine) and was aimed at "rebuilding" their father’s legacy. As was also noted in chapter 9, US intelligence, Israeli intelligence and figures tied to organized crime were all intimately involved in the PROMIS software scandal. Thus, the involvement of both Wade and Maxwell in creating Chiliad and the overlap between the PROMIS software and Chiliad’s software, suggests Chiliad was a successor to PROMIS produced by this same network.
In addition, Wade’s role in the rise of Palantir suggests that Palantir may be another successor to PROMIS, a possibility explored in greater detail in my past reporting at MintPress News.56 Maxwell’s involvement with the company suggests that Chiliad could also have carried a back door, much like the original PROMIS, to give foreign intelligence agencies or other groups covert access to the electronic infrastructure of the FBI and US intelligence community.
Other notable and relevant aspects, in terms of the Maxwell connection to Chiliad include a key source of its early funding. According to reports, among Chiliad’s three early investors was Allied Commercial Exporters Ltd., which is based in London. Company records show that the company is part of the business empire of British real estate mogul, Jack Dellal.57 As previously noted in chapter 4, Dellal was a member of the Clermont Club, whose early members included either individuals tied to the Profumo Affair or subsequent business associates of Robert Maxwell, such as James Goldsmith and Roland Walter "Tiny" Rowland.
Dellal was a noted gambler and a rather infamous banker who is alleged to have played a role in the collapse of Keyser Ullman due to fraudulent loans, many of which were tied to real estate markets and some of which were used to finance the foundations of Dellal’s subsequent real estate empire.58 Keyser Ullman, prior to its collapse, was also intimately linked to the main business concern of Tiny Rowland, Lonrho (see chapter 6).
Another key source of funding for Chiliad was Hewlett-Packard. Hewlett-Packard has long had a very close relationship with US intelligence, which expanded dramatically in 2001 under the leadership of its then-CEO Carly Fiorina.59
Notably, Palantir began its rise to prominence as the go-to counterterrorism software of the West, just as Chiliad began to pivot away from that sector. Chiliad eventually folded a few years later. Notably, in the years prior to its shutdown, Chiliad had begun moving into health-care data, a pivot that became very obvious by 2012, when it began adding prominent health-care industry executives to its company board and getting involved in aiding "medical research."60
Not long after Chiliad was shut down, Wade, who had also been the chairman of its board for many years, was added to the board of a UK cybersecurity firm called Darktrace.61 Darktrace is the result of the joining of UK intelligence with a team of AI researchers at Cambridge who were seeking to develop the AI "singularity."62 This attempt at "self-aware" AI was subsequently developed into "cybersecurity" software under the watchful eye and direction of UK intelligence. Darktrace’s intelligence-linked software now runs not only a large swath of the UK power grid and the computers of major corporations around the world but also cybersecurity for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), giving it access to masses of patient-health data.
Not long after Darktrace’s foray into healthcare began, Palantir made its own pivot into healthcare, both for the NHS in the UK and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the US. The latter partnership has expanded considerably during the Covid-19 crisis, from the HHS Protect database to contact tracing to Operation Warp Speed. Palantir’s expansion into nearly every sector of government is set to continue, particularly with president Biden’s appointed leader of the US intelligence community -- Avril Haines, who was a consultant to Palantir right up until she joined Biden’s 2020 campaign as an adviser.63
Notably, Palantir’s expansion into the NHS was facilitated in part by the NHS Healthtech Advisory Board, which was created in 2018 to advise the UK’s then- Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock. On that board was a familiar face, Nicole Junkermann. One of the other board members, and its alleged architect, is a military and intelligence-linked figure named Daniel Korski.64 The same year the Healthtech Advisory Board was created, Korski co-founded the Govtech Summit, which has heavily promoted the products of Carbyne911 and related companies.
That these very networks would converge around valuable stores of personal health data is no accident, as the intelligence-linked Epstein was also seeking to move into this space. Around the same time he sought to rebrand as a tech investor, Epstein was also working to build up a company focused around "DNA data-mining." Created in 2012, Southern Trust was a "start-up" created by Epstein with the apparent goal of sequencing people’s genomes and selling that data to the pharmaceutical industry.65 Per reports, Southern Trust sought to create a "search engine capable of pinpointing genetic links to diseases."66
Epstein claimed that "what Southern Trust will do will be basically organizing mathematical algorithms so that if I want to know what my predisposition is for cancer we can now have my genes specifically sequenced."67 Epstein was reportedly working with at least one US scientist on the project who was affiliated with Harvard, though their identity remains unknown.68 As previously mentioned, Epstein had funded the work of several prominent scientists and Epstein likely had recruited one of them to the project. Of the scientists Epstein funded, Harvard’s Martin Nowak fits the description of the scientist that Epstein gave in testimony. Epstein had previously donated $6.5 million in 2003 to Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, which Nowak led.69 In 2012, the year Southern Trust was created, Nowak had developed mathematical models that described the behavior of colon cancer cells.70
Southern Trust specifically sought to gather DNA from residents of the US Virgin Islands, where Southern Trust was based. This DNA collection would then be used to "create a catalog of population-level genetics data." Then, Southern Trust’s team would develop a search engine to assess that data for links to diseases that Epstein once called a "biomedical Google."71 The company then planned to create a "virtual laboratory" to conduct experiments via computer models as well as to produce "computer generated solutions for medical problems."72
The company also, oddly, planned to amass data for its proprietary search engine that would allow it "to search things on an individual basis both in the medical field and the financial field." Southern Trust was also described as planning to provide "cutting edge consulting services to companies around the world lying in part upon the use of biomedical and financial information."73 Was Southern Trust seeking to correlate people’s genetic data with their financial data?
Epstein also said of his vision for the company that "I would like to have young people – I’m a teacher by heart – engaged early on" in his project.74 Epstein also spoke at length in testimony saying that he wanted to train young people to program and develop his company’s algorithms, training them in the Virgin Islands. He also implied that he would one day would be able to tailor educational programs for those young people based on their sequenced genome.75
Despite being a sex offender and having suffered a financial decline due to his past controversies the 2008 financial crash, Epstein’s Southern Trust netted him $200 million in a few short years and was a key part of what the New York Times described as Epstein’s "financial rebound."76
THE FUTURE OF BLACKMAIL
In 2012, Epstein seemed to know something that those guiding other, more prominent "data mining" firms like Chiliad and Palantir also knew – that, soon, data would become the world’s most valuable commodity. This would become a common public talking point in the years that followed. For instance, in 2017, The Economist declared that the world’s most valuable resource was no longer oil, but data. Referring to data as "the oil of the digital era," it notes that this new "data economy" runs on masses of data generated by billions of devices as well as algorithms, particularly Artificial Intelligence algorithms. It also notes that the "data economy" is intimately linked to Big Tech’s "surveillance systems," which gives these powerful companies a "God’s eye view" of both markets and citizen behavior.77
Epstein’s decision to court and gather "dirt" on Big Tech scions, while also rebranding as a tech investor and entrepreneur, was carefully calculated. Indeed, he and the Maxwells were intimately aware of how the digital revolution was drastically reshaping the face of blackmail and influence operations. Arguably beginning with the PROMIS software scandal, which intimately involved the Maxwells, the utility of bugged software to intelligence agencies quickly became obvious. With a few lines of surreptitious code, intelligence agencies could gain access to troves of sensitive data in real-time, which previously would have required scores of highly embedded and sophisticated spies. Yet, those spies could be caught if just one in their network slipped up. However, with a few lines hidden among thousands and thousands lines of code, a software program’s "treachery" is much more difficult to detect.
By the time computers and mobile phones began to become increasingly commonplace, the more communication that took place in the digital world. People, including powerful businessmen and politicians, began conducting much of their most sensitive communications, both personally and professionally, on electronic devices. Leaks from Hillary Clinton’s email server and, more recently, Hunter Biden’s laptop, are important reminders of this. The more dependent people became on digital platforms and software, the more that their data could reveal about their preferences (whether "normal", embarrassing or abnormal) and their activities (whether legal or criminal).
While Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, throughout the 1990s and beyond, blackmailed powerful people using trafficked women and girls, the digital revolution offered them, and their benefactors, a new opportunity to fulfill the same operational goals, but with much less risk. For example, if a Congressman’s phone or computer logs attempts to access pornography websites, one needs only obtain the electronic proof of those searches or website visits to blackmail that Congressman. There is no longer a need to spend significant sums of money on maintaining remote locations with pinhole cameras or on maintaining a harem of trafficked women and girls. Instead one only needs to gain access to the data on the person they are targeting in order to find their darkest and most damaging secrets.
Some of Epstein’s own interest in technology appears to have been informed by his obsessions with genetics and eugenics, as well as his interest in the merging of man and technology (i.e. transhumanism).78 However, it appears that his targeting of top leaders of Big Tech, via Edge and other means beginning in the late 1990s and early 2000s, was based on a belief that, if he could exert influence over those who controlled Big Tech (influence which he claimed to have due to his knowledge of their sexual proclivities), he could gain privileged access to the masses of data they harvest and control. Given the intersections of Epstein and the Maxwell to the tech sector over the years, and how their involvement with Big Tech grew precipitously after Epstein’s sex trafficking operation first came under scrutiny and fell apart, it appears that Epstein and Maxwell moved away from sexual forms of blackmail to electronic forms of blackmail, from sex trafficking to data trafficking.
While this shift may have provided new opportunities for Epstein and Maxwell, it also made them irrelevant. If software can be exploited to extract and compile secrets and artificial intelligence can then analyze that information, then human operators of previous varieties of blackmail schemes become increasingly unnecessary. In a world where blackmail is overwhelmingly electronic, people like Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell become liabilities to be silenced, rather than assets to protect.
Another critical consequence of the advent of electronic blackmail is that the very same systems that enable that blackmail to occur are intimately enmeshed with the infrastructure of mass surveillance. This is the core idea behind the panopticon model. As noted earlier in this chapter, if an individual is under the impression that they may be being watched at any given time for any given reason, the perpetual possibility of surveillance induces obedience. Such a model allows for the masses to be controlled much more easily. The ultimate goal of blackmail is also control, albeit of a different variety. Yet, with mass surveillance and the ability to harvest the digitally logged secrets of anyone with a digital profile, this allows forms of control, like blackmail, to be used on a mass scale.
No longer must intelligence assets develop and execute sophisticated operations to obtain damaging information on a person – that information now likely lies in their digital footprint. This is not just true for men and women of power and influence – today it is true for most of us in our increasingly digital world. In order to obtain damaging information on a person of interest, intelligence agencies and their allies in the corporate world or the world of organized crime, only need to search for that person in the right database. In a matter of seconds, your secrets are in their hands.
While the United States has long been "one nation under blackmail," the perpetuation of this system and means of control is rapidly reaching its logical conclusion. Before, public officials, politicians and others of power and influence were targeted with blackmail. Now, blackmail is more readily accessible and more easily obtained on any American than ever before in history. We now live in a reality where our communications are monitored and stored, where many willingly surround themselves with audio and video recording devices that intelligence agencies have known access to.79
The more we live our lives on our phones and our computers, the more we can be exploited if and when certain groups and networks with access to our data decide that they want something from us. Yet, now that these corrupt power structures have grown so accustomed to our digital dependence, we now have the chance to disrupt the empire that they have built on a foundation of blackmail, bribes and bullets. By taking ownership of our data, and depriving intelligence-linked Big Tech their monopoly of control over it, we can start to rupture a system that would enslave us if allowed to advance. Main Core, Total Information Awareness and other such systems have never gone away and lie in wait, waiting to be weaponized against the civilian populace if and when demands for change become too great.
The power structures explored in this book represent generational networks of criminal activity. Those networks have only continued to grow and accumulate power through their corruption of institutions, including the government and the media. Also key to their success has been our compliance. However, our compliance is born out of the belief that our institutions are not corrupt or, at least, not that corrupt.
When one realizes where power really lies and how it really functions, it becomes clear that the only way to deter a corrupt system of this magnitude, which has now merged public and private power into the hands of a very small few, is not to comply. The government is no longer capable of investigating itself and our institutions have long been too compromised to guarantee American well-being or the American way of life. Instead quite the opposite has taken place. The US, after being used by these networks to loot countries around the world, has itself been looted and hung out to dry to benefit families and groups who trace their origins back to when organized crime first merged with intelligence.
Upon realizing the reality of the situation, as this book has endeavored to show, non-compliance is a must when facing a system that, among other crimes, is willing to enable and engage in the unconscionable exploitation and abuse of children to further its stranglehold over the country, and ultimately over us.
John Poindexter
CHAPTER 21. FROM PROMIS TO PALANTIR: THE FUTURE OF BLACKMAIL
CARBYNE911
Carbyne911, formerly Reporty, is an Israeli tech-start-up founded in 2014 that promises to revolutionize how calls are handled by emergency service providers, as well as by governments, corporations, and educational institutions. Prior to Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest in mid-2019, Carbyne had received high praise from US and Israeli media, with Fox News hailing the company’s services as the answer to the "aging 911 systems" in the US and the Jerusalem Post writing that the company’s platform offers "hi-tech protection to social workers and school principals" in the event of school shootings.1 Other reports claimed that Carbyne’s services result in "a 65% reduction in time-to-dispatch" for emergency services.2
Carbyne’s call-handling/crisis management platform has already been implemented in several US counties and Latin American countries and the company now boasts offices in not only the US but also in Mexico, the UK, and Israel. Carbyne’s expansion to more emergency service provider networks in the US is likely, given that federal legislation seeks to offer grants to upgrade 911 call centers throughout the country with the very technology of which Carbyne is the leading provider. One of the main lobby groups promoting this legislation, the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), has a "strong relationship" with Carbyne, according to Carbyne’s website.3
Yet, what seemed like the inevitability of Carbyne’s widespread adoption in the US hit a snag following the 2019 arrest and subsequent death of Jeffrey Epstein. After his first arrest and light sentence for soliciting sex from a minor in 2007, Epstein had been tapped by former Israeli Prime Minister and former head of Israeli military intelligence Ehud Barak to become a key financial backer of Carbyne.
As a result of increased scrutiny into Epstein’s business activities and his ties to Israel, particularly to Barak, Epstein’s connection to Carbyne was revealed and extensively reported on by the independent media outlet Narrativ, whose expose on Carbyne revealed not only some of the key intelligence connections of the start-up company but also how the architecture of Carbyne’s product itself raises "serious privacy concerns."4
After media scrutiny of Carbyne in the wake of Epstein’s death, its board and executive team were shaken up dramatically, with the apparent goal of obfuscating its intimate ties to Israel and Barak specifically. This is likely because the intelligence links of Carbyne’s leadership at the time of Epstein’s arrest and death, were considerable.5 In addition to Barak – a former Israeli prime minister and former head of Israeli military intelligence – who was then serving as Carbyne’s chairman, the company’s executive team were mainly former members of Israeli intelligence, including the elite military intelligence group, Unit 8200. Also on the board at the time was Nicole Junkermann, whose ties to Epstein have been discussed in chapters 14 and 18.
Carbyne’s founding and current CEO, Amir Elichai, served in Unit 8200 and had tapped former Unit 8200 commander and board member of AIPAC Pinchas Buchris to serve as the company’s director and on its board.6 In addition to Elichai, another Carbyne co-founder, Lital Leshem, also served in Unit 8200 and later worked for Israeli private spy company Black Cube. As previously mentioned in the last chapter, Black Cube is a known front for Israeli intelligence. The only Carbyne co-founder that didn’t serve in Unit 8200 is Alex Dizengoff, who previously worked for the office of Israel’s Prime Minister.7
Unit 8200 is an elite unit of the Israeli Intelligence corps that is part of the IDF’s Directorate of Military Intelligence and is involved mainly in signal intelligence (i.e., surveillance), cyberwarfare, and code decryption. It is frequently described as the Israeli equivalent of the NSA, and Peter Roberts, senior research fellow at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute, characterized the unit in an interview with the Financial Times as "probably the foremost technical intelligence agency in the world and stand[ing] on a par with the NSA in everything except scale."8
Notably, the NSA and Unit 8200 have collaborated on numerous projects, most infamously on the Stuxnet virus as well as the Duqu malware.9 In addition, the NSA is known to work with veterans of Unit 8200 in the private sector, such as when the NSA hired two Israeli companies to create backdoors into all the major U.S. telecommunications systems and major tech companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and Google.10 Both of those companies, Verint and Narus, have top executives with ties to Israeli intelligence; one of those companies, Verint (formerly Comverse Infosys), has a history of aggressively spying on US government facilities and was previously discussed in chapter 14.11 Unit 8200 is also known for spying on civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories for "coercion purposes" – i.e., gathering info for blackmail – and also for spying on Palestinian-Americans via an intelligence-sharing agreement with the NSA.12
Unlike many other Unit 8200-linked start-ups at the time, Carbyne also boasted ties at the time to the Trump administration, including Palantir founder and Trump ally Peter Thiel – another investor in Carbyne alongside Epstein and Barak.13 Thiel’s company Palantir, discussed later in this chapter, is a major contractor to US intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the US. In addition, Carbyne’s board of advisers at the time included former Palantir employee Trae Stephens, who was a member of the Trump transition team, as well as former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.14 Trump donor and New York real estate developer Eliot Tawill was also on Carbyne’s board, alongside Ehud Barak, Nicole Junkermann, and Pinchas Buchris.15 After the personnel shake-up, its board of advisers now includes former Secretary of Homeland Security under Trump, Kirstjen Nielsen.16
Privacy concerns with Carbyne go beyond the company’s ties to Israeli intelligence and US intelligence contractors like Peter Thiel’s Palantir. For instance, Carbyne’s smartphone app extracts the following information from the phones on which it is installed:
Device location, video live-streamed from the smartphone to the call center, text messages in a two-way chat window, any data from a user’s phone if they have the Carbyne app and ESInet, and any information that comes over a data link, which Carbyne opens in case the caller’s voice link drops out.17
According to Carbyne’s website, this same information can also be obtained from any smartphone, even if it does not have Carbyne’s app installed, if that phone calls a 911 call center that uses Carbyne or merely any other number connected to Carbyne’s network.
Carbyne is a Next-Generation 9-11 (NG911) platform and the explicit goal of NG911 is for all 911 systems nationwide to become interconnected. Thus, even if Carbyne is not used by all 911 call centers using an NG911 platform, Carbyne will ostensibly have access to the data used by all emergency service providers and devices connected to those networks. This guiding principle of NG911 also makes it likely that one platform will be favored at the federal level to foster such interconnectivity and, given that it has already been adopted by several counties and has ties to influential former US government officials, Carbyne is a logical choice.
Another cause for concern is how other countries have used platforms like Carbyne, which were first marketed as emergency response tools, for the purpose of mass surveillance. Narrativ noted the following in its investigation of Carbyne:
In May, Human Rights Watch revealed Chinese authorities use a platform not unlike Carbyne to illegally surveil Uyghurs. China’s Integrated Joint Operations Platform brings in a much bigger data-set and sources of video, which includes an app on people’s phones. Like Carbyne, the platform was designed to report emergencies. Chinese authorities have turned it into a tool of mass surveillance.18
Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app and discovered that the app automatically profiles a user under 36 "person types" including "followers of Six Lines" which is the term used to identify Uyghurs. Another term refers to "Hajj," the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. The app monitors every aspect of a user’s life, including personal conversations, power usage, and tracks a user’s movement.19 Such technology is currently used by Israeli military intelligence and Israel’s domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet to justify "pre-crime" detentions of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Carbyne’s platform has its own "pre-crime" elements, such as its c-Records component, which stores and analyzes information on past calls and events that pass through its network. This information "enables decision makers to accurately analyze the past and present behavior of their callers, react accordingly, and in time predict future patterns."20 Notably, pre-crime, i.e. "predictive policing," has long been a key focus of Palantir, the company co-founded and closely tied to Peter Thiel, whose Founders Fund helped finance Carbyne.21
PROMIS, PALANTIR, AND PRE-CRIME
In general terms, Palantir was created to be the privatized panopticon of the national-security state, the newest rebranding of the big data approach of intelligence agencies to surveilling both foreign and domestic populations. The latter in particular has long been a key objective of US intelligence, having been pioneered by the CIA as far back as the Vietnam War.22 It was later covertly turned against the bulk of the US population by both US and Israel intelligence during the Iran-Contra and PROMIS software scandals of the 1980s, though efforts to use these big data approaches to target domestic protests and specific social movements had been ongoing for years.
The panopticon was originally an English philosopher’s concept for a new, revolutionary prison design, but the idea was more fully developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Foucault, in his book Discipline and Punish, noted that: "The major effect of the panopticon is to induce in the inmate a state of consciousness and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power." Said differently, the uncertainty that one may be under surveillance at any time and for any reason induces obedience in that individual, allowing a small number of people to control the masses.23 It is perhaps unsurprising that, for a 2020 profile on Palantir in the New York Times, the company’s co-founder and CEO Alex Karp chose to pose with three Palantir employees under a large portrait of Foucault.24
As previously detailed in chapter 9, in the 1980s, individuals at the heart of the Iran-Contra scandal began to develop a database called Main Core, which firmly placed the US national security state on its current, tech-fueled Foucauldian path.25 A senior government official with a high-ranking security clearance and service in five presidential administrations told Radar in 2008 that Main Core was "a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived 'enemies of the state’ almost instantaneously."26 It was expressly developed for use in "continuity of government" (COG) protocols by figures like Oliver North and was used to compile a list of US dissidents and "potential troublemakers" to be dealt with if the continuity of government protocol was ever invoked.
Main Core utilized PROMIS software, which was stolen from its owners at Inslaw Inc. by top Reagan and US intelligence officials as well as Israeli spymaster Rafi Eitan.27 Also intimately involved in the PROMIS scandal was media baron and Israeli "super spy" Robert Maxwell.28 Like PROMIS, Main Core involved both US and Israeli intelligence and was a big data approach to the surveillance of perceived domestic dissidents.29
Meanwhile, Main Core persisted and continued to amass data. That data could not be fully tapped into and utilized by the intelligence community until after the events of September 11, 2001, which offered a golden opportunity for the use of such tools against the domestic US population, all under the guise of combating "terrorism." For example, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, government officials reportedly saw Main Core being accessed by White House computers.
September 11 was also used as an excuse to remove information "firewalls" within the national security state, expanding "information sharing" among agency databases and, by extension, also expanding the amount of data that could be accessed and analyzed by Main Core and its analogues.
As Alan Wade, then serving as the CIA’s chief information officer, pointed out soon after 9/11:
One of the post-September 11 themes is collaboration and information sharing. We’re looking at tools that facilitate communication in ways that we don’t have today.30
In an attempt to build on these two post-9/11 objectives simultaneously, the US national security state attempted to institute a "public-private" surveillance program so invasive that Congress defunded it just months after its creation due to concerns it would completely eliminate the right to privacy in the US. Called Total Information Awareness (TIA), the program sought to develop an "all-seeing" surveillance apparatus managed by the Pentagon’s DARPA.31 The official agreement was that invasive surveillance of the entire US population was necessary to prevent terrorist attacks, bioterrorism events, and even naturally occurring disease outbreaks before they could take place.
The architect of TIA, and the man who led it during its relatively brief existence, was John Poindexter, best known for being Reagan’s National Security Advisor during Iran-Contra and being convicted of five felonies in relation to that scandal.32 Poindexter, during the Iran-Contra hearings, had famously claimed that it was his duty to withhold information from Congress.33
One of Poindexter’s key allies at the time as it related to TIA was the chief information officer of the CIA, Alan Wade.34 Wade met with Poindexter in relation to TIA numerous times and managed the participation of not just the CIA but all US intelligence agencies that had signed on to add their data as "nodes" to TIA in exchange for gaining access to its tools.
The TIA program, despite the best efforts of Poindexter and his allies such as Wade, was eventually forced to shut down after considerable criticism and public outrage. For instance, the American Civil Liberties Union claimed that the surveillance effort would "kill privacy in America" because "every aspect of our lives would be catalogued," while several mainstream media outlets warned that TIA was "fighting terror by terrifying US citizens."35 Though the program was defunded, it later emerged that TIA was never actually shut down, with its various programs having been covertly divided among the web of military and intelligence agencies that make up the US national security state.36 While some of those TIA programs went underground, the core panopticon software that TIA had hoped to wield began to be developed by the very company now known as Palantir, with considerable help from the CIA and Alan Wade, as well as Poindexter.
At the time it was formally launched in February 2003, the TIA program was immediately controversial, leading it to change its name in May 2003 to Terrorism Information Awareness in an apparent attempt to sound less like an all-encompassing domestic surveillance system and more like a tool specifically aimed at "terrorists." Nevertheless, the TIA program was shuttered by the end of 2003.
The same month as the TIA name change and amid the growing backlash against the program, Peter Thiel incorporated Palantir.37 Thiel, however, had begun creating the software behind Palantir months in advance, though he claims he can’t recall exactly when. Thiel, Karp, and other Palantir co-founders claimed for years that the company had been founded in 2004, despite the paperwork of Palantir’s incorporation by Thiel directly contradicting this claim.38
Also, in 2003, apparently soon after Thiel formally created Palantir, none other than Richard Perle called Poindexter, saying that he wanted to introduce the architect of TIA to two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. According to a report in New York Magazine, Poindexter was told by Perle that he "was precisely the person" who Thiel and Karp wanted to meet, mainly because "their new company was similar in ambition to what Poindexter had tried to create at the Pentagon," that is, TIA.39 During that meeting, Thiel and Karp sought "to pick the brain of the man now widely viewed as the godfather of modern surveillance." Perle’s roles at Hollinger International, ties to Israeli espionage scandals and his lobbying on behalf of Bernard Schwartz’s Loral were discussed in chapters 14 and 17.
Soon after its incorporation, though the exact timing and details of the investment remain hidden from the public, the CIA’s In-Q-Tel became Palantir’s first backer, aside from Thiel himself, who invested an estimated $2 million in the company.40 In-Q-Tel’s stake in Palantir would not be publicly reported until mid-2006.41
Though the influx of cash was certainly useful, Palantir’s CEO Alex Karp later told the New York Times that "the real value of the In-Q-Tel investment was that it gave Palantir access to the CIA analysts who were its intended clients."42 A key figure in the making of In-Q-Tel investments during this period, including Palantir, was the CIA’s chief information officer at the time, Alan Wade.43
After the In-Q-Tel investment, the CIA would be Palantir’s only client until 2008. During that period, Palantir’s two top engineers – Aki Jain and Stephen Cohen – traveled to CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia every two weeks.44 Jain recalls making at least two hundred trips to CIA headquarters between 2005 and 2009. During those regular visits, CIA analysts "would test [Palantir’s software] out and offer feedback, and then Cohen and Jain would fly back to California to tweak it." As with In-Q-Tel’s decision to invest in Palantir, the CIA’s chief information officer at the time, Alan Wade, played a key role in many of these meetings and subsequently in the "tweaking" of Palantir’s products.
It should come as no surprise, then, that there is a clear overlap between Palantir’s products and the vision that Wade and Poindexter had held for the failed TIA program. One can see the obvious parallels between Palantir and TIA by examining how the masterminds behind each describe their key functions.
Take, for instance, the following excerpt from Shane Harris’ book The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State regarding Wade’s and Poindexter’s views of TIA’s "built-in privacy protections":
Wade liked the idea, but he heard something even more intriguing in Poindexter’s pitch, a concept that he hadn’t heard in any of the tech briefings he’d sat through since 9/11: the words "protect privacy." Wade thought that Poindexter’s was the first ambitious information architecture that included privacy from the ground up.
He described his privacy appliance concept, in which a physical device would set between the use and the data, shielding the names and other identifying information of the millions of innocent people in the noise. The TIA system would employ "selective revelation," Poindexter explained. The farther into the data a user wished to probe, the more outside authority he had to obtain.45
Compare TIA’s "selective revelation" sales pitch with that more recently offered by Karp and Thiel to the New York Times about Palantir’s own supposed privacy safeguards:
Karp and Thiel say they had two overarching ambitions for Palantir early on. The first was to make software that could help keep the country safe from terrorism. The second was to prove that there was a technological solution to the challenge of balancing public safety and civil liberties – a "Hegelian" aspiration, as Karp puts it. Although political opposites, they both feared that personal privacy would be a casualty of the war on terrorism…
To that end, Palantir’s software was created with two primary security features: Users are able to access only information they are authorized to view, and the software generates an audit trail that, among other things, indicates if someone has tried to obtain material off-limits to them.46
The explanation offered by Poindexter and Wade for TIA and the explanation presented by Karp and Thiel for Palantir are essentially analogous. Similarly, Palantir’s "immutable log" concept, whereby "everything a user does in Palantir creates a trail that can be audited," was also a hallmark of the TIA system envisioned by Poindexter and Wade.47
As noted in The Watchers:
Poindexter also proposed "an immutable audit trail," a master record of every analyst who had used the TIA system, what data they’d touched, what they’d done with it. The system would be trained to spot suspicious patterns of use.… Poindexter wanted to use TIA to watch the watchers. The CIA team [including Alan Wade] liked what they heard.48
The benefits in repurposing the "public-private" TIA into a completely private entity after TIA was publicly dismantled are obvious. For instance, given that Palantir is a private company as opposed to a government program, the way its software is used by its government and corporate clients benefits from "plausible deniability" and frees Palantir from constraints that would be present if it were instead a project tied to the military or public sector.
As noted in an October 2020 profile on the company in the New York Times:
The data, which is stored in various cloud services or on clients’ premises, is controlled by the customer, and Palantir says it does not police the use of its products. Nor are the privacy controls foolproof; it is up to the customers to decide who gets to see what and how vigilant they wish to be.49
CHRISTINE MAXWELL’S CHILIAD
While Wade was involved in operating the information technology infrastructure of US intelligence and in guiding the rise of Palantir, he was also intimately involved with another company known as Chiliad. Chiliad was a data analytics company founded in the late 1990s by Paul McOwen, Robert Maxwell’s daughter Christine Maxwell, and an unnamed third individual.50 However, sources such as Bloomberg lists Alan Wade as the "mysterious" third cofounder of Chiliad, meaning that Wade, as the third co-founder, was involved in creating Chiliad while also serving in a top post at the CIA.51 The company was founded with "$3 million in angel investment" of unknown origin.52
This is significant for two main reasons. First, Chiliad was developed to be the very tool that would be sought by US intelligence in the immediate aftermath of September 11, an event that notably took place shortly after Wade became the CIA’s chief information officer.53 The company had conveniently been set up well in advance, allowing it to score key contracts with the US government, including the FBI, thanks to the advanced stage of its product as well as its founders’s intelligence connections. This, along with a glowing recommendation from the 9/11 Commission, benefited Chiliad’s software, which was remarkably similar to the PROMIS software and early versions of Palantir.54
Due to ongoing litigation in the PROMIS case, efforts were made by the US national security state to retool and tweak the PROMIS software sufficiently so that they could argue that the software then in use had become dissimilar to the original stolen product, according to the original PROMIS developer, Bill Hamilton of Inslaw Inc. To avoid further litigation with Inslaw, the authors of the theft of PROMIS, and other beneficiaries of that theft, likely saw a need to create analogous software, likely by further developing already modified versions of PROMIS, that appeared to have different origins.
Second, Wade, who was employed by the CIA at the time of Chiliad’s founding, created the company with Christine Maxwell, sister of Ghislaine Maxwell and daughter of Robert Maxwell. As noted in chapter 9, Christine was intimately involved in and ended up leading the US-based front company that Robert Maxwell had used to sell versions of PROMIS that seriously compromised US national security.55 Her subsequent effort, through the McKinley Group, was an effort that involved several of her siblings (Isabel, Kevin and Ghislaine) and was aimed at "rebuilding" their father’s legacy. As was also noted in chapter 9, US intelligence, Israeli intelligence and figures tied to organized crime were all intimately involved in the PROMIS software scandal. Thus, the involvement of both Wade and Maxwell in creating Chiliad and the overlap between the PROMIS software and Chiliad’s software, suggests Chiliad was a successor to PROMIS produced by this same network.
In addition, Wade’s role in the rise of Palantir suggests that Palantir may be another successor to PROMIS, a possibility explored in greater detail in my past reporting at MintPress News.56 Maxwell’s involvement with the company suggests that Chiliad could also have carried a back door, much like the original PROMIS, to give foreign intelligence agencies or other groups covert access to the electronic infrastructure of the FBI and US intelligence community.
Other notable and relevant aspects, in terms of the Maxwell connection to Chiliad include a key source of its early funding. According to reports, among Chiliad’s three early investors was Allied Commercial Exporters Ltd., which is based in London. Company records show that the company is part of the business empire of British real estate mogul, Jack Dellal.57 As previously noted in chapter 4, Dellal was a member of the Clermont Club, whose early members included either individuals tied to the Profumo Affair or subsequent business associates of Robert Maxwell, such as James Goldsmith and Roland Walter "Tiny" Rowland.
Dellal was a noted gambler and a rather infamous banker who is alleged to have played a role in the collapse of Keyser Ullman due to fraudulent loans, many of which were tied to real estate markets and some of which were used to finance the foundations of Dellal’s subsequent real estate empire.58 Keyser Ullman, prior to its collapse, was also intimately linked to the main business concern of Tiny Rowland, Lonrho (see chapter 6).
Another key source of funding for Chiliad was Hewlett-Packard. Hewlett-Packard has long had a very close relationship with US intelligence, which expanded dramatically in 2001 under the leadership of its then-CEO Carly Fiorina.59
Notably, Palantir began its rise to prominence as the go-to counterterrorism software of the West, just as Chiliad began to pivot away from that sector. Chiliad eventually folded a few years later. Notably, in the years prior to its shutdown, Chiliad had begun moving into health-care data, a pivot that became very obvious by 2012, when it began adding prominent health-care industry executives to its company board and getting involved in aiding "medical research."60
Not long after Chiliad was shut down, Wade, who had also been the chairman of its board for many years, was added to the board of a UK cybersecurity firm called Darktrace.61 Darktrace is the result of the joining of UK intelligence with a team of AI researchers at Cambridge who were seeking to develop the AI "singularity."62 This attempt at "self-aware" AI was subsequently developed into "cybersecurity" software under the watchful eye and direction of UK intelligence. Darktrace’s intelligence-linked software now runs not only a large swath of the UK power grid and the computers of major corporations around the world but also cybersecurity for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), giving it access to masses of patient-health data.
Not long after Darktrace’s foray into healthcare began, Palantir made its own pivot into healthcare, both for the NHS in the UK and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the US. The latter partnership has expanded considerably during the Covid-19 crisis, from the HHS Protect database to contact tracing to Operation Warp Speed. Palantir’s expansion into nearly every sector of government is set to continue, particularly with president Biden’s appointed leader of the US intelligence community -- Avril Haines, who was a consultant to Palantir right up until she joined Biden’s 2020 campaign as an adviser.63
Notably, Palantir’s expansion into the NHS was facilitated in part by the NHS Healthtech Advisory Board, which was created in 2018 to advise the UK’s then- Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock. On that board was a familiar face, Nicole Junkermann. One of the other board members, and its alleged architect, is a military and intelligence-linked figure named Daniel Korski.64 The same year the Healthtech Advisory Board was created, Korski co-founded the Govtech Summit, which has heavily promoted the products of Carbyne911 and related companies.
That these very networks would converge around valuable stores of personal health data is no accident, as the intelligence-linked Epstein was also seeking to move into this space. Around the same time he sought to rebrand as a tech investor, Epstein was also working to build up a company focused around "DNA data-mining." Created in 2012, Southern Trust was a "start-up" created by Epstein with the apparent goal of sequencing people’s genomes and selling that data to the pharmaceutical industry.65 Per reports, Southern Trust sought to create a "search engine capable of pinpointing genetic links to diseases."66
Epstein claimed that "what Southern Trust will do will be basically organizing mathematical algorithms so that if I want to know what my predisposition is for cancer we can now have my genes specifically sequenced."67 Epstein was reportedly working with at least one US scientist on the project who was affiliated with Harvard, though their identity remains unknown.68 As previously mentioned, Epstein had funded the work of several prominent scientists and Epstein likely had recruited one of them to the project. Of the scientists Epstein funded, Harvard’s Martin Nowak fits the description of the scientist that Epstein gave in testimony. Epstein had previously donated $6.5 million in 2003 to Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, which Nowak led.69 In 2012, the year Southern Trust was created, Nowak had developed mathematical models that described the behavior of colon cancer cells.70
Southern Trust specifically sought to gather DNA from residents of the US Virgin Islands, where Southern Trust was based. This DNA collection would then be used to "create a catalog of population-level genetics data." Then, Southern Trust’s team would develop a search engine to assess that data for links to diseases that Epstein once called a "biomedical Google."71 The company then planned to create a "virtual laboratory" to conduct experiments via computer models as well as to produce "computer generated solutions for medical problems."72
The company also, oddly, planned to amass data for its proprietary search engine that would allow it "to search things on an individual basis both in the medical field and the financial field." Southern Trust was also described as planning to provide "cutting edge consulting services to companies around the world lying in part upon the use of biomedical and financial information."73 Was Southern Trust seeking to correlate people’s genetic data with their financial data?
Epstein also said of his vision for the company that "I would like to have young people – I’m a teacher by heart – engaged early on" in his project.74 Epstein also spoke at length in testimony saying that he wanted to train young people to program and develop his company’s algorithms, training them in the Virgin Islands. He also implied that he would one day would be able to tailor educational programs for those young people based on their sequenced genome.75
Despite being a sex offender and having suffered a financial decline due to his past controversies the 2008 financial crash, Epstein’s Southern Trust netted him $200 million in a few short years and was a key part of what the New York Times described as Epstein’s "financial rebound."76
THE FUTURE OF BLACKMAIL
In 2012, Epstein seemed to know something that those guiding other, more prominent "data mining" firms like Chiliad and Palantir also knew – that, soon, data would become the world’s most valuable commodity. This would become a common public talking point in the years that followed. For instance, in 2017, The Economist declared that the world’s most valuable resource was no longer oil, but data. Referring to data as "the oil of the digital era," it notes that this new "data economy" runs on masses of data generated by billions of devices as well as algorithms, particularly Artificial Intelligence algorithms. It also notes that the "data economy" is intimately linked to Big Tech’s "surveillance systems," which gives these powerful companies a "God’s eye view" of both markets and citizen behavior.77
Epstein’s decision to court and gather "dirt" on Big Tech scions, while also rebranding as a tech investor and entrepreneur, was carefully calculated. Indeed, he and the Maxwells were intimately aware of how the digital revolution was drastically reshaping the face of blackmail and influence operations. Arguably beginning with the PROMIS software scandal, which intimately involved the Maxwells, the utility of bugged software to intelligence agencies quickly became obvious. With a few lines of surreptitious code, intelligence agencies could gain access to troves of sensitive data in real-time, which previously would have required scores of highly embedded and sophisticated spies. Yet, those spies could be caught if just one in their network slipped up. However, with a few lines hidden among thousands and thousands lines of code, a software program’s "treachery" is much more difficult to detect.
By the time computers and mobile phones began to become increasingly commonplace, the more communication that took place in the digital world. People, including powerful businessmen and politicians, began conducting much of their most sensitive communications, both personally and professionally, on electronic devices. Leaks from Hillary Clinton’s email server and, more recently, Hunter Biden’s laptop, are important reminders of this. The more dependent people became on digital platforms and software, the more that their data could reveal about their preferences (whether "normal", embarrassing or abnormal) and their activities (whether legal or criminal).
While Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, throughout the 1990s and beyond, blackmailed powerful people using trafficked women and girls, the digital revolution offered them, and their benefactors, a new opportunity to fulfill the same operational goals, but with much less risk. For example, if a Congressman’s phone or computer logs attempts to access pornography websites, one needs only obtain the electronic proof of those searches or website visits to blackmail that Congressman. There is no longer a need to spend significant sums of money on maintaining remote locations with pinhole cameras or on maintaining a harem of trafficked women and girls. Instead one only needs to gain access to the data on the person they are targeting in order to find their darkest and most damaging secrets.
Some of Epstein’s own interest in technology appears to have been informed by his obsessions with genetics and eugenics, as well as his interest in the merging of man and technology (i.e. transhumanism).78 However, it appears that his targeting of top leaders of Big Tech, via Edge and other means beginning in the late 1990s and early 2000s, was based on a belief that, if he could exert influence over those who controlled Big Tech (influence which he claimed to have due to his knowledge of their sexual proclivities), he could gain privileged access to the masses of data they harvest and control. Given the intersections of Epstein and the Maxwell to the tech sector over the years, and how their involvement with Big Tech grew precipitously after Epstein’s sex trafficking operation first came under scrutiny and fell apart, it appears that Epstein and Maxwell moved away from sexual forms of blackmail to electronic forms of blackmail, from sex trafficking to data trafficking.
While this shift may have provided new opportunities for Epstein and Maxwell, it also made them irrelevant. If software can be exploited to extract and compile secrets and artificial intelligence can then analyze that information, then human operators of previous varieties of blackmail schemes become increasingly unnecessary. In a world where blackmail is overwhelmingly electronic, people like Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell become liabilities to be silenced, rather than assets to protect.
Another critical consequence of the advent of electronic blackmail is that the very same systems that enable that blackmail to occur are intimately enmeshed with the infrastructure of mass surveillance. This is the core idea behind the panopticon model. As noted earlier in this chapter, if an individual is under the impression that they may be being watched at any given time for any given reason, the perpetual possibility of surveillance induces obedience. Such a model allows for the masses to be controlled much more easily. The ultimate goal of blackmail is also control, albeit of a different variety. Yet, with mass surveillance and the ability to harvest the digitally logged secrets of anyone with a digital profile, this allows forms of control, like blackmail, to be used on a mass scale.
No longer must intelligence assets develop and execute sophisticated operations to obtain damaging information on a person – that information now likely lies in their digital footprint. This is not just true for men and women of power and influence – today it is true for most of us in our increasingly digital world. In order to obtain damaging information on a person of interest, intelligence agencies and their allies in the corporate world or the world of organized crime, only need to search for that person in the right database. In a matter of seconds, your secrets are in their hands.
While the United States has long been "one nation under blackmail," the perpetuation of this system and means of control is rapidly reaching its logical conclusion. Before, public officials, politicians and others of power and influence were targeted with blackmail. Now, blackmail is more readily accessible and more easily obtained on any American than ever before in history. We now live in a reality where our communications are monitored and stored, where many willingly surround themselves with audio and video recording devices that intelligence agencies have known access to.79
The more we live our lives on our phones and our computers, the more we can be exploited if and when certain groups and networks with access to our data decide that they want something from us. Yet, now that these corrupt power structures have grown so accustomed to our digital dependence, we now have the chance to disrupt the empire that they have built on a foundation of blackmail, bribes and bullets. By taking ownership of our data, and depriving intelligence-linked Big Tech their monopoly of control over it, we can start to rupture a system that would enslave us if allowed to advance. Main Core, Total Information Awareness and other such systems have never gone away and lie in wait, waiting to be weaponized against the civilian populace if and when demands for change become too great.
The power structures explored in this book represent generational networks of criminal activity. Those networks have only continued to grow and accumulate power through their corruption of institutions, including the government and the media. Also key to their success has been our compliance. However, our compliance is born out of the belief that our institutions are not corrupt or, at least, not that corrupt.
When one realizes where power really lies and how it really functions, it becomes clear that the only way to deter a corrupt system of this magnitude, which has now merged public and private power into the hands of a very small few, is not to comply. The government is no longer capable of investigating itself and our institutions have long been too compromised to guarantee American well-being or the American way of life. Instead quite the opposite has taken place. The US, after being used by these networks to loot countries around the world, has itself been looted and hung out to dry to benefit families and groups who trace their origins back to when organized crime first merged with intelligence.
Upon realizing the reality of the situation, as this book has endeavored to show, non-compliance is a must when facing a system that, among other crimes, is willing to enable and engage in the unconscionable exploitation and abuse of children to further its stranglehold over the country, and ultimately over us.
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Endnotes
1 Emilie Ikeda, “‘Aging’ 911 Systems Slowly Begin to See Video and Text Upgrades,” Fox News, December 20, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/tech/aging-9-1- ... ationwide; Eytan Halon, “Jerusalem Looks to Hi-Tech to Protect Social Workers, Teachers,” February 5, 2019, https://www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/Jerusa ... ers-579737.
2 “Carbyne Partners With Global Hitss, an America Movil Company, to Bring Next-Gen Emergency Response Technology to Latin America,” PR Newswire, October 24, 2018, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 82270.html.
3 “I3 Compliant,” Carbyne, https://unlimitedhangout.com/wp-content ... scaled.jpg.
4 Zev Shalev and Tracie McElroy, “Jeffrey Epstein: Building Big Brother,” Narativ, July 27, 2019, https://narativ.org/2019/07/27/building-big-brother/.
5 “Our Team - Carbyne,” Carbyne, https://web.archive.org/web/20190901003 ... .com/team/.
6 Shalev and McElroy, “Building Big Brother,”; “Pinchas Buchris,” Carbyne, https://web.archive.org/web/20190912132 ... asbuchris/.
7 “Our Team – Carbyne.”
8 John Reed, “Unit 8200: Israel’s Cyber Spy Agency,” Financial Times, July 10, 2015, https://www.ft.com/content/69f150da-25b ... cb60e8f08c.
9 “NSA, Israel Created Stuxnet Worm Together to Attack Iran, Says Snowden,” South China Morning Post, July 9, 2013, https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article ... ys-snowden.
10 James Bamford, “Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA,” Wired, April 3, 2012, https://www.wired.com/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/.
11 Whitney Webb, “The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton Relationship,” MintPress News, August 23, 2019, https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-j ... ip/261455/.
12 Staff, “Snowden Reveal Makes Israeli Spies’ Protest An American Issue,” NPR, September 21, 2014, https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way ... ican-issue.
13 Shalev and McElroy, “Building Big Brother.”
14 “Our Team – Carbyne.”
15 Rich Bockmann, “NYC Real Estate Players Are Wasting No Time Backing Trump’s 2020 Run,” The Real Deal New York, April 17, 2017, https://therealdeal.com/2017/04/17/nyc- ... -2020-run/.
16 “Management Team,” Carbyne, https://carbyne.com/en/management-team/.
17 Andrew Westrope, “Carbyne-Cisco Partnership Means IoT Data for 911 Dispatch,” Gov-Tech, April 10, 2019, https://www.govtech.com/biz/Carbyne-Cis ... -Data-for- 911-Dispatch.html.
18 Shalev and McElroy, “Building Big Brother.”
19 Shalev and McElroy, “Building Big Brother.”
20 “C-Records,” Carbyne, https://web.archive.org/web/20181223030 ... c-records/.
21 Ali Winston, “Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology,” The Verge, February 27, 2018, https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/1705 ... leans-nopd.
22 For more on this topic, see: Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Program, 1st ed (New York: Morrow, 1990); Yasha Levine, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet (New York: PublicAffairs, 2018).
23 Johnny Vedmore, “Daniel Korski: The Intelligence-Linked Mastermind Behind the UK’s Orwellian Healthtech Advisory Board,” Unlimited Hangout, October 1, 2020, https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/10/in ... ts/korski/.
24 Michael Steinberger, “Does Palantir See Too Much?,” New York Times, October 21, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... -karp.html.
25 Whitney Webb, “The CIA, Mossad and “Epstein Network” Are Exploiting Mass Shootings,” MintPress News, September 6, 2019, https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-israe ... re/261692/.
26 Christopher Ketcham, “THE LAST ROUNDUP: Is the Government Compiling e List of Citizens to Detain under Martial Law?,” Radar Online, May/June 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20090129230 ... -magazine/ 2008/05/government_surveillance_homeland_security_main_core_01-print.php.
27 Webb, “The CIA, Mossad and “Epstein Network” Are Exploiting Mass Shootings.”
28 Whitney Webb, “The Maxwell Family Business - Investigative Series,” Unlimited Hangout, 2020, https://unlimitedhangout.com/the-maxwel ... -business/.
29 Webb, “The CIA, Mossad and “Epstein Network” Are Exploiting Mass Shootings.”
30 Justin Hibbard, “[ISN] Mission Possible,” InfoSec News, January 18, 2002, http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2002/01/0069.html.
31 “Q&A on the Pentagon’s ‘Total Information Awareness’ Program,” American Civil Liberties Union, https://www.aclu.org/other/qa-pentagons ... ss-program.
32 “Q&A on the Pentagon’s ‘Total Information Awareness’ Program,”; David Johnston, “Poindexter Is Found Guilty of All 5 Criminal Charges for Iran-Contra Cover-Up,” New York Times, April 8, 1990, https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/08/us/p ... er-up.html.
33 “Q&A on the Pentagon’s ‘Total Information Awareness’ Program.”
34 Shane Harris, The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 189, https://archive.org/details/watchersriseofam00harr/.
35 “Q&A on the Pentagon’s ‘Total Information Awareness’ Program,”; Rob Morse, “Fighting Terror by Terrifying U.S. Citizens,” SFGATE, November 20, 2002, https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fig ... -citizens- 2752084.php.
36 Mark Williams Pontin, “The Total Information Awareness Project Lives On,” MIT Technology Review, April 26, 2006, https://www.technologyreview.com/2006/0 ... formation- awareness-project-lives-on/.
37 “A (Pretty) Complete History of Palantir,” Maus Strategic Consulting, May 16, 2014, https://web.archive.org/web/20140516035 ... ing.com/1/ post/2014/04/a-pretty-complete-history-of-palantir.html.
38 Andy Greenberg, “How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut,” Forbes, August 14, 2013, https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenb ... uggernaut/.
39 Sharon Weinberger, “Is Palantir’s Crystal Ball Just Smoke and Mirrors?,” Intelligencer, September 28, 2020, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09 ... -karp.html.
40 Vaibhavi Khanwalkar, “Before Secretive Palantir Went Public, AOC Warned SEC Of ‘Material Risks’ To Investors,” International Business Times, October 1, 2020, https://www.ibtimes.com/secretive-palan ... rs-3055015.
41 “A (Pretty) Complete History of Palantir.”
42 Steinberger, “Does Palantir See Too Much?”
43 The Agency’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) works closely with In-Q-tel to identify investments that are of interest to the Agency. The CIO of the CIA at the time In-Q-tel invested in Palantir was Alan Wade. For the role the CIA’s CIO plays in In-Q-tel, See: Rick E. Yannuzzi, In-Q-Tel: A New Partnership Between the CIA and the Private Sector, (Joint Militrary Intelligence College Foundation, 2000), https://web.archive.org/web/20190404132 ... y/in-q-tel.
44 Steinberger, “Does Palantir See Too Much?”
45 Harris, The Watchers, 189.
46 Steinberger, “Does Palantir See Too Much?”
47 Greenberg, “How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir.”
48 Harris, The Watchers, 190.
49 Steinberger, “Does Palantir See Too Much?”
50 Christopher Calnan, “Chiliad Nets $4.5M of New $6M Round,” Boston Business Journal, May 8, 2007, https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog ... round.html.
51 “Chiliad Inc Company Profile,” Bloomberg, https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0817391D:US.
52 Calnan, “Chiliad Nets $4.5M of New $6M Round.”
53 “Chiliad, the Company That Solved the 9/11 ‘Connecting the Dots’ Problem, Hires Dan Ferranti as CEO,” Business Wire, August 29, 2019, https://www.inknowvation.com/sbir/story ... o-industry.
54 “Chiliad, the Company That Solved the 9/11 ‘Connecting the Dots’ Problem.”
55 Webb, “The Maxwell Family Business - Investigative Series.”
56 Webb, “The CIA, Mossad and “Epstein Network” Are Exploiting Mass Shootings.”
57 “Allied Commercial Exporters Limited,” Gov.UK, https://find-and-update.company-informa ... 3/officers.
58 David Brewerton, “Jack Dellal Obituary,” The Guardian, November 8, 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ack-dellal.
59 Jim Geraghty, “The CEO and the CIA,” National Review, May 5, 2015, https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/05/ ... -geraghty/.
60 “Chiliad Removes the Big Data Consolidation Obstacle for Government and Healthcare With Discovery/Alert 7.0,” Business Wire, October 2, 2012, https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/ ... Alert-7.0; “Chiliad Inc. Names Thomas R. Sobocinski National Healthcare Executive; Brings More Than 30 Years Experience in Healthcare Provider and Insurance Industries,” Insurance NewsNet, June 28, 2012, https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/C ... obocinski- National-Healthcare-Executive-Brings-Mo-a-347855; “Chiliad Appoints Dr. Douglas M. Boyle to Board of Directors, Experienced Healthcare Executive to Help Guide Chiliad’s Expansion into Healthcare Market,” PRWeb, November 20, 2012, https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/ ... 53900.htm; “Chiliad Inc Company Profile,” Bloomberg, https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0817391D:US.
61 “Advisory Board,” Darktrace, https://web.archive.org/web/20200110221 ... soryboard/.
62 Johnny Vedmore, “Darktrace and Cybereason: The Intelligence Front Companies Seeking to Subjugate the World with the A.I. Singularity,” Unlimited Hangout, November 3, 2020, https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/11/re ... ngularity/.
63 Murtaza Hussain, “Controversial Data-Mining Firm Palantir Vanishes From Biden Adviser’s Biography After She Joins Campaign,” The Intercept, June 26, 2020, https://theintercept.com/2020/06/26/bid ... -palantir/.
64 Vedmore, “Daniel Korski.”
65 Erin Brodwin, “Jeffrey Epstein Had a ’Frankenstein’-like Plan to Analyze Human DNA in the US Virgin Islands, and It Reportedly Pulled in $200 Million,” Business Insider, October 4, 2019, https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey ... ies-2019-8.
66 Brodwin, “Jeffrey Epstein Had a ’Frankenstein’-like Plan.”
67 Brodwin, “Jeffrey Epstein Had a ’Frankenstein’-like Plan.”
68 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission, 2012, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... l#text/p38.
69 Nicholas M. Ciarelli, “Harvard To Keep Epstein Gift,” The Harvard Crimson, September 13, 2006, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006 ... ift-after/.
70 “Home Page,” Jeffrey Epstein Foundation, https://web.archive.org/web/20131123123 ... ation.com/.
71 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission.
72 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission.
73 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission.
74 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission.
75 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission.
76 Matthew Goldstein and Steve Eder, “Jeffrey Epstein Raked In $200 Million After Legal and Financial Crises,” New York Times, October 3, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/busi ... trust.html.
77 “The World’s Most Valuable Resource Is No Longer Oil, but Data,” The Economist, May 6, 2017, https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/ ... l-but-data.
78 Epstein’s interest in transhumanism was, unfortunately, under-explored in this book. For example, Epstein funded the World Transhumanist Association (now Humanity+) and its chairman, AI researcher Ben Goertzel. See: Michael Cook, “The Bizarre Transhumanist Fantasies of Jeffrey Epstein,” BioEdge, August 3, 2019, https://bioedge.org/uncategorized/the-b ... -epstein/; Edward Helmore, “Epstein Reportedly Hoped to Develop Super-Race of Humans with His DNA,” The Guardian, August 1, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/usnews/ 2019/aug/01/jeffrey-epstein-seed-human-race-report.
79 Chris Smith, “How a Smartphone Backdoor Can Be Used to Spy on Absolutely Everything You Do,” Yahoo, December 19, 2016, https://www.yahoo.com/tech/smartphone-b ... 10940.html.
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Endnotes
1 Emilie Ikeda, “‘Aging’ 911 Systems Slowly Begin to See Video and Text Upgrades,” Fox News, December 20, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/tech/aging-9-1- ... ationwide; Eytan Halon, “Jerusalem Looks to Hi-Tech to Protect Social Workers, Teachers,” February 5, 2019, https://www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/Jerusa ... ers-579737.
2 “Carbyne Partners With Global Hitss, an America Movil Company, to Bring Next-Gen Emergency Response Technology to Latin America,” PR Newswire, October 24, 2018, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 82270.html.
3 “I3 Compliant,” Carbyne, https://unlimitedhangout.com/wp-content ... scaled.jpg.
4 Zev Shalev and Tracie McElroy, “Jeffrey Epstein: Building Big Brother,” Narativ, July 27, 2019, https://narativ.org/2019/07/27/building-big-brother/.
5 “Our Team - Carbyne,” Carbyne, https://web.archive.org/web/20190901003 ... .com/team/.
6 Shalev and McElroy, “Building Big Brother,”; “Pinchas Buchris,” Carbyne, https://web.archive.org/web/20190912132 ... asbuchris/.
7 “Our Team – Carbyne.”
8 John Reed, “Unit 8200: Israel’s Cyber Spy Agency,” Financial Times, July 10, 2015, https://www.ft.com/content/69f150da-25b ... cb60e8f08c.
9 “NSA, Israel Created Stuxnet Worm Together to Attack Iran, Says Snowden,” South China Morning Post, July 9, 2013, https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article ... ys-snowden.
10 James Bamford, “Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA,” Wired, April 3, 2012, https://www.wired.com/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/.
11 Whitney Webb, “The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton Relationship,” MintPress News, August 23, 2019, https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-j ... ip/261455/.
12 Staff, “Snowden Reveal Makes Israeli Spies’ Protest An American Issue,” NPR, September 21, 2014, https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way ... ican-issue.
13 Shalev and McElroy, “Building Big Brother.”
14 “Our Team – Carbyne.”
15 Rich Bockmann, “NYC Real Estate Players Are Wasting No Time Backing Trump’s 2020 Run,” The Real Deal New York, April 17, 2017, https://therealdeal.com/2017/04/17/nyc- ... -2020-run/.
16 “Management Team,” Carbyne, https://carbyne.com/en/management-team/.
17 Andrew Westrope, “Carbyne-Cisco Partnership Means IoT Data for 911 Dispatch,” Gov-Tech, April 10, 2019, https://www.govtech.com/biz/Carbyne-Cis ... -Data-for- 911-Dispatch.html.
18 Shalev and McElroy, “Building Big Brother.”
19 Shalev and McElroy, “Building Big Brother.”
20 “C-Records,” Carbyne, https://web.archive.org/web/20181223030 ... c-records/.
21 Ali Winston, “Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology,” The Verge, February 27, 2018, https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/1705 ... leans-nopd.
22 For more on this topic, see: Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Program, 1st ed (New York: Morrow, 1990); Yasha Levine, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet (New York: PublicAffairs, 2018).
23 Johnny Vedmore, “Daniel Korski: The Intelligence-Linked Mastermind Behind the UK’s Orwellian Healthtech Advisory Board,” Unlimited Hangout, October 1, 2020, https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/10/in ... ts/korski/.
24 Michael Steinberger, “Does Palantir See Too Much?,” New York Times, October 21, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... -karp.html.
25 Whitney Webb, “The CIA, Mossad and “Epstein Network” Are Exploiting Mass Shootings,” MintPress News, September 6, 2019, https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-israe ... re/261692/.
26 Christopher Ketcham, “THE LAST ROUNDUP: Is the Government Compiling e List of Citizens to Detain under Martial Law?,” Radar Online, May/June 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20090129230 ... -magazine/ 2008/05/government_surveillance_homeland_security_main_core_01-print.php.
27 Webb, “The CIA, Mossad and “Epstein Network” Are Exploiting Mass Shootings.”
28 Whitney Webb, “The Maxwell Family Business - Investigative Series,” Unlimited Hangout, 2020, https://unlimitedhangout.com/the-maxwel ... -business/.
29 Webb, “The CIA, Mossad and “Epstein Network” Are Exploiting Mass Shootings.”
30 Justin Hibbard, “[ISN] Mission Possible,” InfoSec News, January 18, 2002, http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2002/01/0069.html.
31 “Q&A on the Pentagon’s ‘Total Information Awareness’ Program,” American Civil Liberties Union, https://www.aclu.org/other/qa-pentagons ... ss-program.
32 “Q&A on the Pentagon’s ‘Total Information Awareness’ Program,”; David Johnston, “Poindexter Is Found Guilty of All 5 Criminal Charges for Iran-Contra Cover-Up,” New York Times, April 8, 1990, https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/08/us/p ... er-up.html.
33 “Q&A on the Pentagon’s ‘Total Information Awareness’ Program.”
34 Shane Harris, The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State (New York: Penguin Press, 2010), 189, https://archive.org/details/watchersriseofam00harr/.
35 “Q&A on the Pentagon’s ‘Total Information Awareness’ Program,”; Rob Morse, “Fighting Terror by Terrifying U.S. Citizens,” SFGATE, November 20, 2002, https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fig ... -citizens- 2752084.php.
36 Mark Williams Pontin, “The Total Information Awareness Project Lives On,” MIT Technology Review, April 26, 2006, https://www.technologyreview.com/2006/0 ... formation- awareness-project-lives-on/.
37 “A (Pretty) Complete History of Palantir,” Maus Strategic Consulting, May 16, 2014, https://web.archive.org/web/20140516035 ... ing.com/1/ post/2014/04/a-pretty-complete-history-of-palantir.html.
38 Andy Greenberg, “How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut,” Forbes, August 14, 2013, https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenb ... uggernaut/.
39 Sharon Weinberger, “Is Palantir’s Crystal Ball Just Smoke and Mirrors?,” Intelligencer, September 28, 2020, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09 ... -karp.html.
40 Vaibhavi Khanwalkar, “Before Secretive Palantir Went Public, AOC Warned SEC Of ‘Material Risks’ To Investors,” International Business Times, October 1, 2020, https://www.ibtimes.com/secretive-palan ... rs-3055015.
41 “A (Pretty) Complete History of Palantir.”
42 Steinberger, “Does Palantir See Too Much?”
43 The Agency’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) works closely with In-Q-tel to identify investments that are of interest to the Agency. The CIO of the CIA at the time In-Q-tel invested in Palantir was Alan Wade. For the role the CIA’s CIO plays in In-Q-tel, See: Rick E. Yannuzzi, In-Q-Tel: A New Partnership Between the CIA and the Private Sector, (Joint Militrary Intelligence College Foundation, 2000), https://web.archive.org/web/20190404132 ... y/in-q-tel.
44 Steinberger, “Does Palantir See Too Much?”
45 Harris, The Watchers, 189.
46 Steinberger, “Does Palantir See Too Much?”
47 Greenberg, “How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir.”
48 Harris, The Watchers, 190.
49 Steinberger, “Does Palantir See Too Much?”
50 Christopher Calnan, “Chiliad Nets $4.5M of New $6M Round,” Boston Business Journal, May 8, 2007, https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog ... round.html.
51 “Chiliad Inc Company Profile,” Bloomberg, https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0817391D:US.
52 Calnan, “Chiliad Nets $4.5M of New $6M Round.”
53 “Chiliad, the Company That Solved the 9/11 ‘Connecting the Dots’ Problem, Hires Dan Ferranti as CEO,” Business Wire, August 29, 2019, https://www.inknowvation.com/sbir/story ... o-industry.
54 “Chiliad, the Company That Solved the 9/11 ‘Connecting the Dots’ Problem.”
55 Webb, “The Maxwell Family Business - Investigative Series.”
56 Webb, “The CIA, Mossad and “Epstein Network” Are Exploiting Mass Shootings.”
57 “Allied Commercial Exporters Limited,” Gov.UK, https://find-and-update.company-informa ... 3/officers.
58 David Brewerton, “Jack Dellal Obituary,” The Guardian, November 8, 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ack-dellal.
59 Jim Geraghty, “The CEO and the CIA,” National Review, May 5, 2015, https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/05/ ... -geraghty/.
60 “Chiliad Removes the Big Data Consolidation Obstacle for Government and Healthcare With Discovery/Alert 7.0,” Business Wire, October 2, 2012, https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/ ... Alert-7.0; “Chiliad Inc. Names Thomas R. Sobocinski National Healthcare Executive; Brings More Than 30 Years Experience in Healthcare Provider and Insurance Industries,” Insurance NewsNet, June 28, 2012, https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/C ... obocinski- National-Healthcare-Executive-Brings-Mo-a-347855; “Chiliad Appoints Dr. Douglas M. Boyle to Board of Directors, Experienced Healthcare Executive to Help Guide Chiliad’s Expansion into Healthcare Market,” PRWeb, November 20, 2012, https://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/ ... 53900.htm; “Chiliad Inc Company Profile,” Bloomberg, https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0817391D:US.
61 “Advisory Board,” Darktrace, https://web.archive.org/web/20200110221 ... soryboard/.
62 Johnny Vedmore, “Darktrace and Cybereason: The Intelligence Front Companies Seeking to Subjugate the World with the A.I. Singularity,” Unlimited Hangout, November 3, 2020, https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/11/re ... ngularity/.
63 Murtaza Hussain, “Controversial Data-Mining Firm Palantir Vanishes From Biden Adviser’s Biography After She Joins Campaign,” The Intercept, June 26, 2020, https://theintercept.com/2020/06/26/bid ... -palantir/.
64 Vedmore, “Daniel Korski.”
65 Erin Brodwin, “Jeffrey Epstein Had a ’Frankenstein’-like Plan to Analyze Human DNA in the US Virgin Islands, and It Reportedly Pulled in $200 Million,” Business Insider, October 4, 2019, https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey ... ies-2019-8.
66 Brodwin, “Jeffrey Epstein Had a ’Frankenstein’-like Plan.”
67 Brodwin, “Jeffrey Epstein Had a ’Frankenstein’-like Plan.”
68 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission, 2012, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... l#text/p38.
69 Nicholas M. Ciarelli, “Harvard To Keep Epstein Gift,” The Harvard Crimson, September 13, 2006, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006 ... ift-after/.
70 “Home Page,” Jeffrey Epstein Foundation, https://web.archive.org/web/20131123123 ... ation.com/.
71 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission.
72 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission.
73 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission.
74 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission.
75 “Jeffrey Epstein Testimony,” Economic Development Commission.
76 Matthew Goldstein and Steve Eder, “Jeffrey Epstein Raked In $200 Million After Legal and Financial Crises,” New York Times, October 3, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/busi ... trust.html.
77 “The World’s Most Valuable Resource Is No Longer Oil, but Data,” The Economist, May 6, 2017, https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/ ... l-but-data.
78 Epstein’s interest in transhumanism was, unfortunately, under-explored in this book. For example, Epstein funded the World Transhumanist Association (now Humanity+) and its chairman, AI researcher Ben Goertzel. See: Michael Cook, “The Bizarre Transhumanist Fantasies of Jeffrey Epstein,” BioEdge, August 3, 2019, https://bioedge.org/uncategorized/the-b ... -epstein/; Edward Helmore, “Epstein Reportedly Hoped to Develop Super-Race of Humans with His DNA,” The Guardian, August 1, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/usnews/ 2019/aug/01/jeffrey-epstein-seed-human-race-report.
79 Chris Smith, “How a Smartphone Backdoor Can Be Used to Spy on Absolutely Everything You Do,” Yahoo, December 19, 2016, https://www.yahoo.com/tech/smartphone-b ... 10940.html.
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Jeffrey Epstein (1st on the left, top row) at the Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer School in 1967.
Jeffrey Epstein was featured as "bachelor of the month" in the July 1980 issue of Cosmopolitan. He was then working for Bear Stearns. Source: Cosmopolitan, July 1980, Photo by Stephen Ogilvy.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Joe Kennedy at a reception following Kerry Kennedy's wedding to Andrew Cuomo in 1990. The caption for the photo from Star Magazine suggested that their interactions at the wedding were flirtatious.
Esther Dyson, Jeffrey Epstein, and Russian Federal Nuclear Center employee Pavel Oleynikov pose in front of Andrei Sakharov's house in Sarov, Russia in April 1998, https://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/9209120/
Nathan Myhrvold and Jeffrey Epstein chat at the 2000 Edge Billionaires' Dinner. Source: https://www.edge.org/igd/1200
Microsoft's Paul Allen poses for a photo with Nicole Junkermann at the Cinema Against AIDS Cannes event in Cannes, France. Getty images.
Leslie Wexner and Rabbi Maurice Corson in an undated photo. https://www.wexnerfoundation.org/wp-con ... x1077.jpeg
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell greet then-President Bill Clinton at a September 1993 Donor Reception at the White House. Source: William J. Clinton Presidential Library.
Bill Clinton meets with Chinese weapons dealer Wang Jun in February 1996. Source: White House Communications Agency.
The Clintons photographed with Ng Lap Seng at a DNC event, date unknown. Source: DNC.
Charlie Trie testifies before the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee on March 1, 2000. Source: C-SPAN.
April 27, 1995
President William T. Clinton
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
It was a pleasure to see you recently at Senator Kennedy's house. There was too much to discuss and too little time. Using my fifteen seconds of access to discuss Jeffrey Epstein and currency stabilization, I neglected to talk with you about a top near and dear to my heart. Namely, affirmative action and the future. I am sending you a copy of a memo George Stephanopoulos asked me to prepare, and an article about my participation in an FCC set aside program.
I would very much like to continue my involvement with this issue. You deserve a lot of credit for many of your initiatives in this area. Let me know if I can help you in any way.
Sincerely,
Lynn Forester
A 1995 letter from Lynn Forester to President Clinton that discusses Jeffrey Epstein.
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Douglas Leese
Anonymous Posted: Saturday August 13, 2011
Posted: 2/2/2010 12:31:29 PM
By: Wrong email ...
Just for reference, my email is hunter @ alabamaagainstfraud.com
Anonymous Posted: Saturday, August 13, 2011
Posted: 2/2/2010 6:29:20 AM
By: Hunter - mentined in Tedder material
Back in my days of posting information on David Tedder, the name Douglas Leese showed up quite a bit. David Marchant wrote some stories on Tedder but I didn't search the KYC store library before making this post to check on Leese. Check the KYC story library, search this board, and google name - maybe some of my old posts will show up.
Internal Administrator Posted: Saturday, August 11, 2011
By: hm
where does he life now?
I have such unusual memories of him in the 70's when he had a house in Belgrave Mews 14, when he had bought Lord Long's Wraxhall Estates ... and gave very unusual parties ...
The administrator of Offshore Alerts discusses his experiences with Douglas Leese, a mentor of Epstein's.
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Clinton
REPORT DATE 09/28/93
REPORT TIME 04:59PM
WHITE HOUSE DONORS RECEPTION - September 29, 1993
AA Hon. Clark M. Clifford, Esq. and Mrs. Margery K. Clifford
Washington,DC
A Ms. Trudy Connolly
Waverly Fabric ...
U Ms. Wendy Cooper
Curator of Decorative Arts, The Baltimore Museum of Art
AA Mrs. Dorothy M. Craig & Mr. Earle M. Craig
Midland, TX
RA Mrs. Ann Cummis
A Mr. James Cunningham
Media, PA
A Ms. Angela Martinez
AA Mr. and Mrs. Mike Dugan (Barbara)
Hickory, NC
UU Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Duke
Little Rock, AR
AA Mrs. Cynthia East & Mr. Robert East
Cynthia East Fabrics, Inc.
AA Dr. & Mrs. G. Franklin Edwards (Peggy J.)
Washington, DC
RU Mrs. Jane Engelhard, Mr.
AA Mr. Jeffrey Epstein & Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell
New York, NY
AA Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Fairbanks (Louisa)
Katherine Lane Weens Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts
AA Mr. & Mrs. Lee Ficks (Joy)
Ficks Reed Company
AA Mr. & Mrs. Rod Fisher
Scarsdale, NY
AA Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Freesman (Norma)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ
AA Mr. & Mrs. Milton Friedman (Cynthia)
Chevy Chase, MD
AU Dr. & Mrs. Dana Allen Fuller
U Mr. Carson K. Glass, Esq.
Lubbock, TX
AA Mr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Gnadt (Pat)
Country Life
A Mrs. Barbara Goldsmith
New York, NNY
A Ms. Elizabeth Robins
A Mr. C. Gerald Goldsmith
Palm Beach, FL
A Ms. Susan Zizes Green
New York, NY
The invitation list for the September 1993 Donors Reception at the White House that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attended. Also listed as attending are Clark Clifford and C. Gerald Goldsmith. https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-e ... early-90s/
Clinton Presidential Library Photocopy
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
740 Jackson Place, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20505
(202) 737-8292
Dear Mr. Epstein:
This letter acknowledges the receipt, from Mr. A. Paul Prosperi, of your check, dated September 29, 1993, in the sum of $10,000, made payable to this Association.
We thank you for this contribution which will be used solely for the benefit of the White House, primarily to assist in funding the cost of refurbishing the Oval Office in the West Wing and certain areas of the Executive Residence.
By copy of this letter, we are informing Mr. Prosperi as well as Ms. Margaret Williams of the White House of the receipt of this gift from you.
Sincerely,
Bernard R. Meyer
Executive Vice President
A letter to Jeffrey Epstein from Executive Vice President of the White House Historical Association, Bernard Meyer, thanking Epstein for his donation of $10,000. The address listed for Epstein is his office at the Villard House he shared with Evangeline Gouletas-Carey. https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-e ... early-90s/
MEMO TO: Curtis K. Marcum #2029, Commander, Organized Crime Bureau
FROM: Elizabeth A. Leupp, Analyst, Organized Crime Bureau
DATE: June 6, 1991
SUBJECT: SHAPIRO HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION
Sir:
An analytical project was opened in 1985 as a result of the mob-style murder of Arthur Shapiro, a local attorney in the law firm (then) of Schwartz, Shapiro, Kelm and Warren.
Because of the strong similarities between this homicide and a Mafia (L.C.N.) "hit", the analysis included an in-depth study of major L.C.N. groups having contact in/near the central Ohio area. These groups seem to include crime "families" in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg, and to some degree, the Genovese family in New York City.
There seems to be very little reliable investigative literature concerning the Chicago and Detroit groups. However, we do have access to reports from MAGLOCLEN, the Pennsylvania Crime Commission and the New Jersey Commission of Investigation with reference to groups in Ohio and areas to the east of us. The attached L.C.N. information was lifted (and in many cases, blatantly plagiarized) from those sources.
Over time, the analysis of the Shapiro homicide became greatly expanded and more complex with the development of unusual interactive relationships between the following business organizations:
(a) The Major Chord Jazz Club and its parent/investment groups (now defunct),
(b) The Limited and its investment interests.
(c) The Walsh Trucking Company and the alleged relationship between owner Frank Walsh and the Genovese crime family;
(d) The law firm now known as Schwartz, Kelm, Warren and Rubenstein (homicide detectives report that the name was changed within hours of Shapiro's homicide),
(e) Omni Oil Company (dba Omni Petroleum, Omni Exploration),
(f) The Edward DeBartolo Corporation, of Youngstown, Ohio, and the alleged relationship between own Edward DeBartolo and the Genovese crime family;
(g) John W. Kessler, local developer.
The attached link link diagram illustrates these apparent relationships.
The primary source(s) of our information are intelligence summaries from investigators in our bureau, intelligence from MAGLOCLEN, the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, and the New Jersey Commission of Investigation, and published reports from major media (newspapers, periodicals). Copies of relevant reports are available for reference.
I. Historical Data (does not necessarily reflect current conditions):
A. The Major Chord Jazz Club and Jesry II Limited Partnership (now defunct).
1. Jesry II Limited Partnership was formed to own and manage the jazz club. This partnership is operated by Jesry II Corporation, of which Jerry Hammond was president. Mr. Hammond was also president of Columbus City Council at the time.
2. SNJC Holding. Inc, is named as an investor in the jazz club. It was incorporated August 6, 1987 by James H. Balthaser, attorney with Schwartz, Kelm, Warren and Rubenstein. This law firm is/was legal counsel for The Limited.
The address for SNJC Holding is Suite 3710, Huntington Center, the same address as Wexner Investment Company.
3. W & K Partnership was not registered and its owners could not be positively identified, but it is listed as an investor in the jazz club.
It is noted, however, that Wexner and Kessler are co-developers of "Wexley", and there was an annextion dispute involving the city of Columbus and "Wexley" land. It is possible that W & K Partnership was the forerunner of the New Albany Company through which Wexner and Kessler developed "Wexley".
4. The Smith-Hale Partnership was the investment of Ben W. Hale, Jr., and Constance Smith in the jazz club. Mr. Hale and Mrs. Smith's husband, Harrison W. Smith, are partners in the law firm of Smith and Hale, who represented "Wexley" developers Wexner and Kessler in the land annexation dispute.
B. Other Related Entities:
1. The law firm now known as Schwartz, Kelm, Warren & Rubenstein represented The Limited. Prior to his death, Arthur Shapiro managed this account for the law firm; Stanley Schwartz, senior partner, took over the account when Shapiro died.
2. Wexner Investment Company was incorporated December 31, 1987 by Stanley Schwartz as agent.
3. Samax Trading Corporation, a company Wexner controls, was incorporated in July 1985 by Stanley Schwartz who described the purpose: "the privately held company is engaged in business liquidation."
4. Through Samax, Wexner acquired 70 percent of Omni Exploration (dba Omni Oil) in August 1985. Stanley Schwartz was elected to the board of directors with Wexner.
5. Walsh Trucking Company is/was the major trucking company for The Limited. Francis "Frank" Walsh, owner and president, allegedly has strong ties to the Genovese crime family.
In July 1984, National Westminister Bank of New York notified Frank Walsh Financial Resources Company) that the New York Department of Law Organized Crime Task Force had issued a subpoena for Walsh's bank records. The notice was addressed to Frank Walsh Financial Resources at One Limited Parkway — the address of The Limited.
6. Leslie Wexner and the Youngstown, Ohio developer, Edward J. DeBartolo, have a long history of partnership in business dealings. Mr. DeBartolo allegedly has strong ties to the Genovese/LaRocca crime family.
C. Other Data Supporting Linkage:
1. Harold L. Levin, president of Wexner Investment Company, is also vice-president of P.F.I. Leasing Company. The two companies share a common telephone number on the 37th floor of the Huntington Center office building.
2. The 37th floor of the Huntington Center is also the address for the John W. Kessler Company and the New Albany Company.
3. The Wexner Investment Comppany also has an office in Suite 1675 of the Huntington Center, as does First Intercontinental Realty and Omni Exploration. The 16th floor is also one of two offices for the law firm of Schwartz, Kelm, Warren & Rubenstein.
4. In April 1986, Richard W. Rubenstein (Schwartz, Kelm, Warren & Rubenstein) was cited for speed in a vehicle registered to P.F.I. Leasing Company.
5. In Bexley, Leslie Wexner and Stanley Scwartz are/were next door neighbors. Harold Levin lives across the street from them.
D. Robert Morosky
1. Arthur Shapiro was reportedly in direct contact with Vice-Chairman Robert Morosky ("Number Two") at The Limited.
2. It has been noted that Les Wexner and Edward DeBartolo have a long history of business partnerships.
3. In June 1987, Robert Morosky abruptly and inexplicably left his employment with The Limited.
4. Morosky then appeared in the hierarchy of Campeau's Allied Stores amid rumors that Wexner had planned to acquire the stores.
5. DeBartolo had loaned financial backing to Campeau's investment in Allied and Federated.
II. BASES FOR CONCLUSION
A. Arthur Shapiro, a local attorney in the firm (then) Schwartz, Shapiro, Kelm & Warren, was murdered March 6, 1985 in a homicide having strong marks of a Mafia (L.C.N.) "hit". The homicide remains unsolved at this date.
While all alternatives remain open for investigation, the homicide is considered to be and is being treated as a "hit".
The motive is unknown. Homicide Squad investigators interviewed a number of associates, including the immediate family of the victim. Consensus was that Shapiro was a quiet, shy, private, secretive person and tended to be a "loner". No one could suggest a reason for his murder.
It was learned that Shapiro was the subject of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service because he had failed to file income tax returns for some seven years prior to his death, and he had invested in some questionable tax shelters.
The homicide occurred one day prior to Shapiro's scheduled appearance before a Grand Jury in the I.R.S. investigation, and there was some conjecture that Shapiro was in position to provide information to the Grand Jury that would have been damaging to some other party. The identity of that party and the nature of that information, however, could not be determined with any certainty.
Given the Mafia "hit", another question is the identity of an individual who had the necessary contacts in the L.C.N. — and the personal financial resources — to buy the contract.
Thus, while the motive remains unclear, the suspect is an individual who (a) knew Shapiro and had some personal/professional contact with him; (b) would benefit from his death or from ensuring his silence; (c) had close contact with L.C.N. figures or trusted L.C.N. associates; and (d) had the personal financial resources to afford the cost of the contract ("hit") .
B. Edward DeBartolo is a real estate developer out of Youngstown, Ohio, and is associated with Les Wexner of The Limited in Columbus. These subjects have a well-known history of business and investment partnerships, and in 1986, attempted jointly to acquire Carter-Hawley-Hale Department Stores.
Francis J. "Frank" Walsh is owner and chief executive officer of Walsh Trucking Company out of New Jersey. Walsh Trucking is/has been primary transporter for The Limited in Columbus. In July 1984, Walsh was being investigated by the New York Organized Crime Task Force; notices to this effect were addressed to Walsh at One Limited Parkway, Columbus.
Both DeBartolo and Walsh have been identified as associates of the Genovese-LaRocca crime family in Pittsburg (now called simply the Pittsburgh Family).
Thus, it can be determined that Les Wexner, through The Limited, is associated with at least two (2) organized crime figures who are associated with the Pittsburgh crime family.
C. In 1990, a follow-up analytical study found that Mr. Hammond's jazz club and investment company were no longer doing business, and Mr. Hammond had retired from City Council. At Mr. Hammond's recommendation, the vice-president of his jazz club, Ms Les Wright, was seated in his vacancy in City Council.
DeBartolo and Walsh were still considered associates of the Genovese-LaRocca crime family, and Walsh was still providing truck transportation for The Limited. Robert Morosky had moved from The Limited to Allied Stores now owned by Robert Campeau with financial backing from DeBartolo.
All other entities in the original study had co-located in close proximity in the Huntington Center office building.
III. CONCLUSION: HYPOTHESIS
From the predicate facts presented, it appears that Les Wexner had established contact with associates reputed to be organized crime figures, one of whom was a major investment partner and another was using The Limited headquarters as a mailing address.
It is not known whether there are other such figures among Wexner associates, but it can be hypothesized that the Genovese-LaRocca crime families might consider Wexner a friend.
Like Arthur Shapiro was, Wexner is considered a very secretive, very private person, and little is known about his business transactions that might raise questions of ethics and legality. For example, while it cannot be proved, it is hypothesized that W & K Partnership was an investment of Wexner and Kessler in Jerry Hammond's jazz club hoping to influence favorable zoning and annexation considerations for "Wexley". At the very least, there would be some question of ethics in this transaction.
It was reported that Jerry Hammond purchased suite 405 in Waterford Tower in August 1988, and there was some question of whether Mr. Hammond’s income at the time would support the mortgage payments. Within the next 18 to 24 months, Mr. Hammond left his position with City Council and with the gas company, and the jazz club closed. According to the 1991 Haines directory, Mr. Hammond still resides at Waterford Tower.
While transactions such as this would be questionable for homicide, it is transactions such as this — and business associates with organized crime ties — that lead to a question of ethics and legality of other unknown transactions and associates with which Wexner may be involved.
While there is no question of ethics or legality on the surface, it is noted that some business organizations and individuals have co-located and become submerged without merging with Wexner and his varied business interests. Most notable is Stanley Schwartz and the large Schwartz, Kelm, Warren and Rubenstein law firm. It is not clear, for example, why Stanley Schwartz would join the board of Omni Oil with Les Wexner whether or not the law firm represents The Limited. While The Limited would be an important client, the large law firm seems to remain independent of corporate bondage.
Thus, the concluding hypothesis is that Arthur Shapiro could have answered too many of these sorts of questions, and might have been forced to answer them in his impending Grand Jury hearing; Stanley Schwartz might now be able to answer some of the same questions for the same reason, but does not face a Grand Jury, is immersed in the pattern himself, and now has a powerful incentive to maintain discretion.
While the motive for the Shapiro homicide remains unclear, the suspect is an individual who (a) knew Shapiro and had some personal/professional contact with him; (b) would benefit from his death or by ensuring his silence; (c) had close contact with L.C.N. figures or trusted L.C.N. associates; and (d) had the personal financial resources to afford the cost of the L.C.N. contract ("hit").
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