At least part of the mainstream media is admitting that Jeffrey Epstein was a spy gathering kompromat. They just have the wrong country he was serving.
By Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Reading by Tim Foley
Epstein documents have been confirming for months that he was clearly and undeniably an Israeli intelligence operative, which the latest round of releases have strongly reinforced. So naturally the western media are running with the story that Epstein worked for Vladimir Putin.
A new Daily Mail article is headlined, “Epstein’s sex empire was ‘KGB honeytrap’: Paedophile financier had multiple talks with Putin after conviction — with Russian girls flown in to harvest ‘kompromat’ on world-famous figures.”
The Daily Mail is owned and controlled by billionaire British aristocrat Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, who was the subject of a recent Guardian article titled “Move over, Murdoch: will Lord Rothermere be Britain’s most powerful media mogul?”
A headline from The Daily Telegraph blares “Epstein’s links to Putin and Kremlin spies raise fears he was Russian agent.” The Telegraph is owned and controlled by British billionaire Sir Frederick Barclay.
A headline by Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun asks, “As FBI files reveal fake passport, secret recordings and links to the KGB and Putin — was Jeffrey Epstein a Russian SPY?” It should here be noted that according to Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
“Emails reveal new theory about whom Jeffrey Epstein was really working for,” reads a headline from Murdoch’s New York Post, with author Anthony Blair writing that “Emails showing unnamed sources discussing meetings between Epstein and the Russian president are prompting questions about whether the disgraced Wall Street figure may have trafficked girls from Russia in a state-backed effort to run the world’s ‘largest honeytrap’ to ensnare the rich and the powerful.”
They are trying to Russiagate the Epstein files
We have the most braindead commentariat in world
Literal quote from FBI source: “Epstein was close to the former PM of Israel, Ehud Barak and trained as a spy under him”
Marr is running interference here. Our media is compromised https://t.co/0hQrbl3V8z
— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) February 2, 2026
Imperial propagandist Andrew Marr is saying on LBC that there are now “growing suspicions of a Russian connection” to Epstein, suggesting that the financier’s mysterious fortune must have come from Moscow because “he filmed and taped powerful western leaders in deeply compromising situations.”
This is of course ridiculous. Epstein is a known intelligence operative for the state of Israel, not Russia. This is an established fact, and has been for some time.
Back in November we discussed how Drop Site News had been publishing reports about Epstein’s intelligence ties under headlines like “Israeli Spy Stayed for Weeks at a Time With Jeffrey Epstein in Manhattan”, “Jeffrey Epstein Helped Broker Israeli Security Agreement With Mongolia”, “Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War”, and “Jeffrey Epstein Helped Israel Sell a Surveillance State to Côte d’Ivoire”. 
Drop Site’s Ryan Grim recently noted on Twitter that the latest Epstein files released by the DOJ make this an even more conclusively established fact than it already was.
“One of the main arguments mainstream media figures make in private as to why they haven’t been able to follow Drop Site’s reporting on Epstein and his links to US and Israeli intel is that a lot of the documents we relied on are leaked and not confirmed officially by the government,” Grim said. “With this latest DOJ dump, many of the emails are now confirmed 100% as authentic, so that excuse vanishes. Let’s see if they can report it now.”
And, of course, they can’t report it now, for the same reason they’re presently trying to spin Epstein as a Russian agent. The mass media do not exist to report verified news stories, they exist to promote the information interests of the western empire and the oligarchs who steer it.
It certainly does not serve the interests of the oligarchs and empire managers to have people reading the Epstein files with the view that he was an Israeli operative conducting his abuses and manipulations at the highest levels of society with the blessings of the western intelligence cartel. So of course they’re scrambling to make it about Russia.
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Putin and Russia again? Of course. Poor little USA, and EU, and NATO; they cannot make a move without Russia, and James-Bond-baddie and master criminal Putin, always anticipating and out-manoeuvring them. All the causes of the bad things in the world point back to Russia: Trump and all the other western oligarchs involved with Epstein? Russia. Underwater pipelines sabotaged? Russia. Planes shot down, towering infernos? All Russia. Surely Russia is to blame for the US invasion of Venezuela. Consider yourself fortunate to live in the USA where your leaders remember that it is the working classes that they work for, and it is the working classes who pay for the leaders’ lifestyles and healthcare. The US leaders regard the people respectfully, and respond to them much more honestly and with such dignity; like in Minneapolis currently. Putin bad, western imperialism good.
Read a FB post about this. Interesting to see that many commenters recognized Israel rather than Russia as the culprit. Such a cynical move.
We don’t have to put up with their unchallenged gaslighting any longer – we can easily create a different structure for a ‘public’ sector of mass media that faithfully represents majority (non-rich) citizens’ interests.
There should only be two options for the structure of mass media businesses – either as a private/commercial (shareholder) controlled entity, or as a member controlled Co-operative type entity in a (new) Commons ‘public’ sector, under direct citizens’ ‘votes’ control.
(Eg., the ‘public’ sector BBC Depts. could choose one or the other – no more corrupt Gov appointee run fake ‘public’ media.).
Mass media in Western societies is near all owned & delivered by a small group of wealthy elites, & significantly funded via advertising by a handful of large Corporations. That can have its place in providing public discourse & entertainment non-critical to ‘democracy’, but it should not be the only model for media with power (& reach).
We can easily create a system where citizens control a similar size sector of the media directly, through non-profit media Commons/Common Ownership structured publishers/providers, which exclude all private capital & revenue income. (Instead, they are controlled by members with equal voting rights, like Worker Co-ops or Community Businesses.)
In this sector, their only permitted income comes from our currency issuer Govs (at zero cost), but not directly. Instead of Gov directing which Commons Media enterprises get grant funding, citizens, equally, disburse the funds via an annual voucher system, whereby they sponsor their preferred Commons media provider(s).
This simple system ensures full democratic participation in a sector of mass media, & thus the political discourse which elevates politics to power.
And we need it now, as our *first* priority, before humanity’s path to its own self-destruction becomes irreversible.
Yes, but just a quibble about language. As George Carlin would say if still around: “gaslighting” is a trendy term that means the same as good old fashioned English words: Lies and bullshit. So we can just change the wording a bit: unchallenged packs of lies and non-stop, unadulterated, 100% pure, uncut bullshit!
Yes!
Thank you Caity!
I know better, it’s that thing about good intentions and how they pave the road to HELL!
I do not give OF, okay. Honestly I would not expect me to be the one to have to make an effort to communicate this info to others because I’m not any type of vetted expert. IDNGOF. The friggin’ crickets are killing my ringing ears!
Does anyone here besides C.J, J.A. and the irrepressible Ray McGovern have any real feel or solid grasp of what a double or triple counter intelligence agent could be normally expected to be involved in? I’m thinking not so much, better call Ray!
Epstein, unlike Kim Philby and JJ Angleton did not survive his true test. I figure because he compromised the richest of the rich, those billionaires and U.S. intelligence decided he had to go.
Time to wake the hell up and smell the DIRTY MONEY AND WHAT IT BUYS _
This will hold – SubStack.com. The Epstein Files: The Real Reason Trump Had To Steal the 2024 Election. I’m thinking we need to communicate better. See the section in this story RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA.
Before everyone gets antsy better call Mr. Wonderful of the intelligence world on Russia expert and get him up to speed. Dave Troy contributed to this story and one other. And they documents to back up claims of Epstein’s contacts with Russia. And they have quite a large amount of information in the form of documents to back them up.
This takes no convincing of anyone on my part. These folks have closed the circle on an operation that has been ongoing in earnest since
the middle 1970’s.
Get your trusty Google up and search INSLAW AFFAIR, www(dot)archive(dot)gov/files/research/kavanaugh/releases/docid-70105136.pdf.
The file is a letter with attachments – the letter is under the letter head of ; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mc Cloy retired partner Elliot Richardson. To: The Honorable Kenneth W. Starr, Independent Counsel, Office of Independent Counsel, 1001 Pennsylvania Ave,. N.W., Washington D.C 20004.
We may get to discuss one of my favorite subjects. The theft of the PROMIS software from William Hamilton and his wife bankrupting INSLAW. The Clinton’s are firmly connected to Jackson T. Stephens and his privately held Systematic Corp and specialty software corp
specializing in banking administration software.
Hamilton’s INSLAW started in 1973 as a non-profit funded from Law Enforcement Assistance Administration grants. Very Ironically.
I leave with one observation I come away with after quickly going. through the “This will hold piece.”
The authors there claim they believe Epstein acted independent of Israeli Intelligence. I figure Mr. McGovern would be best to field the questions which arise from these claims. Judging from my brief once over of the documents supporting Epstein’s direct contact with Russian officials it seems to be very obvious Epstein may well have been working for Israel, the U.S. and Russian interests pretty much the way one would expect a triple agent to be involved in. Remember this number as read through this material $40 Billion in FSB money.
Kids I’m exhausted Be Safe everybody the, this time looks as thought the Ship of State might hit the rocks.
Check is in the mail Joe!
Your essay is the first I had heard of this absurd attempt by those in power and the complicit media to demonize Russia and discredit Putin. If there were not so much happening that we must take very very seriously, one might be inclined to laugh. But this is no laughing matter as there will be many who may believe this nonsense. Further building support for the ongoing destruction of Ukriane, the continuation of the US’s proxy war initiated in the hope of removing Putin from office and significantly diminishing the role of Russia on th world stage.
I have added the quote from this essay to my email tag line:
“The mass media do not exist to report verified news stories, they exist to promote the information interests of the western empire and the oligarchs who steer it. “
It’s The Daily Mail. ‘Nuf said.
Exactly. Cheap, trashy tabloid.
All kinds of western institutions keep compromising files for strategic use maybe secret college clubs of the ivy ways and means. They probably try to compromise each other and for induction ceremonial use. The strategic dominance may even have created a religion that became an empire based on rumor and defamation to promote occupation of far off lands. All of it reverberating over the ages and arising from the ashes of history on the backs of empires.
All roads lead to Russia. Donald Trump has been bought and compromised by Zionists for decades {after his Titanic sinking of Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City, he was bailed out by the Rothschild’s}. Better to attribute Epstein’s kompromat operation to Bond villain, Vladimir Putin, and Western-contrived nemesis, Russia. With the fall of the Soviet Union America could have aided Russia in its agonizing transition to a republic; benefitting from quid pro quo relations with the resource-rich country. Instead, the Cold War never ended for the Empire. It needs bad guys to rationalize bloated military expenditures that fill the coffers of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, et. al., and the vampirization of other’s natural assets. Israel-gate is not only a reality of Trump’s personal nightmare that we are all forced to inhabit, or his erstwhile partner in pedophilia, but undergirds U.S. foreign and domestic policy. The Great Parasite has one of its own.
Still attempting to scapegoat the disobedient Russians. What a clown show the collective Western governments are. Pathetic.
In Europe, it’s the cheap and easy way to gain the limelight – blame the Russians. The mainstream media laps it up, and spoon feeds it to the gullible masses, regardless of the facts.
The Russians must be used to it now, and probably have a good laugh at how dumb these westerners really are.
It’s beyond laughable that anyone could believe Russia is behind the Epstein operation when it was pretty clearly connected to Israel. Only the most deluded FOX News fan or Maddow aficionado could even entertain the idea.
Others may also have become reminded of that discerning, very observant comic some years ago in the cast of Saturday Night Live, Jon Lovitz, whose pathological liar character Tommy Flanagan would respond to Ms. Johnstone’s insightful article with something like this:
“Yeah, that’s right! It was the Russians who Jeffrey Epstein was secretly working for, – and not Israel!”
“Yeah! That’s the ticket!”
Peace.
As soon as I saw the headlines about Epstein and supposed Russian ‘connections ‘ I thought “of course there are!” I expect it will be China next.
Sure. Putin is so powerful that he did it! WE remember when Biden was President, there was a saying: if Biden farts Putin is guilty.
Ridiculous…
Thanks much! Debunking this story is always fashionable, always germane, always deeply appreciated!
The 99 percent Russiaphobia Ametican public will have no problem believing the Epstein Putin connection.Dumping on anything Russian in America is the pastime of political pundits on both sides of the isle.There is little wiggle room between the Democratic and Republican parties when it comes to criticism of Russia, Communism or no Communism.One thing that the American people agree on is that Russia is evil,because that is all they have been told for over a hundred yesrs.How could a people who hardly read books think anything else.Even if they were a casual reader,the authors of most books that cover anything Russian never fail to criticize the Russian leaders,whoever they are.I am an 80 year old American veteran and know how much the Russian people suffered in WW2,of which the consequence was their defeat of Nazi Germany resulted in not having fascist nazi Germany 56 miles off the coast of Alaska and a decidedly different life for my fellow Americans.There would have been no Rock and Roll,no Elvis,no boys of summer.I am that one Tenth of Americans that you will never convince that Russia is evil.
I think the cheap shots against Russia will fail, like the ridiculous “Russia gate” distraction. Most serious analysts already knew that Epstein was a Mossad/CIA asset. The evidence is even more clear now.
As to be expected, the complete “files” will never be released. As Caity points out, this is being used as a political diversion and distraction. Although no hard evidence is available so far, there is loads of circumstantial evidence that DT was also in the middle of this. I would bet a large sum of money that Orange Judas was one of the pedophile rapists. Not just Andrew, Clinton, Gates etc.
So, we can add these crimes to the already long list of crimes committed by the idiot emperor: genocide, war crimes, abuse of power, high crimes against the constitution, violation of most of the Bill of Rights, raping and abusing underage girls, and maybe even more. These people are just fine with mass murdering thousands upon thousands of children. (Remember Madeleine Albright?) So in their minds raping children is no big deal.
The Sycophant-Stenographer media also diverts attention by demonizing Iran and China in addition to Russia. Many so-called independent media repeat CIA boilerplate BS uncritically to claim that the “Iranian regime” brutally slaughtered over a 100 thousand innocent, nonviolent protesters. Anyone familiar with the facts knows that this is complete bollocks. The DoubleThink: Trump bad, but Iran worse, so we must support Emperor Pedo to bomb Iran to “help the Iranian people” WTF? Sadly, this is always the BS excuse for the war criminal “liberals” and “compatible left”.
If the Nuremberg trial legal standards were ever to be applied, many in the US would face execution for some of the most heinous, evil deeds in history.
It’s funny you should mention Nuremberg and the legal standard- 1300 Nazi scientists etc and 800 Japanese criminals (worse apparently) were given sanctuary in USA ( CIA specifically ) and the world has suffered the consequences.
Funny, you forgot it was called Operation Paperclip. But Nazis were executed at Nuremberg just the same, or do you want to dispute that?
Who controls the western governments ?
Who controls the MSM ?
Who controls silicon valley ?
Clue: It ain’t the Russians (or Chinese).
You forgot Hollywood.
Bingo! and same for Johnny: Hollywood , music industry, Wall street, much of Academia,
Should there be a demand for the NSA files on Epstein history? Who is this supposed branch of the US government actually accountable to?
The soulless corporation.