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The bank remained vague about the actual nature of its relationship with the convicted sex trafficker. Newly released documents reveal that Epstein and de Rothschild’s personal relationship was much closer than the bank previously acknowledged. According to emails released by the U.S. House Oversight Committee on November 12, Epstein planned to see a Broadway play with de Rothschild in January 2014, and scheduled a private trip with her to Montreal that September.

A second set of documents—the leaked inbox of former Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak, hacked by Handala and uploaded by non-profit whistleblower Distributed Denial of Secrets—sheds light on Epstein’s efforts to leverage his personal friendship with de Rothschild to raise funds for the development of Israeli cyberweapons. After Barak’s retirement from government in 2013, he recruited Pavel Gurvich, a graduate of the Israel Defense Forces’ secretive Unit 81 technology unit, to source cyberweapons startups from the Israeli intelligence community. Gurvich did not respond to a request for comment.

Private communications between Barak and Gurvich show discussions about a wide range of cyberweapons concepts drawn from Israeli military research, inspired in part by the astonishing scope of U.S. global surveillance apparatus revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013. Epstein pushed forward a plan to finance Israeli “offensive cyber” startups with the hope of winning de Rothschild’s support.

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Some crazy conspiracy nut who lives in an RV in the wilderness somewhere with the walls covered in tin foil: "I knew it! I fucking KNEW IT!!!"

[–] Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Fr. I died when I saw the title because it reads like a conspiracy theory class roster lmao

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Boycott Switzerland.

'Neutrality' is a lie for propping up dictators money. The Swiss are as bad as the Saudis.