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by Whitney Webb<\/p>\n
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Many were surprised to learn earlier this month that the key co-conspirator in Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s intelligence-linked sexual blackmail operation, Ghislaine Maxwell, had been in hiding in New England since Epstein\u2019s arrest and subsequent \u201csuicide\u201d last summer. Her recent arrest, of course, has returned attention to the Epstein scandal and to Ghislaine\u2019s ties to the entire operation, in which she played a central and crucial role, arguably more so than Epstein himself.<\/p>\n
Ghislaine was\u00a0first reported<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to be living in New England at the mansion of her alleged boyfriend Scott Borgeson on August 14th<\/sup>\u00a0of last year. Though Maxwell is believed to have stayed there until purchasing the nearby New Hampshire home where she was arrested, attention from her presence on the East Coast was immediately and sensationally re-directed to the West Coast when, a day later on August 15th<\/sup>,\u00a0the\u00a0New York Post<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0published a picture allegedly depicting Maxwell reading a book on \u201cCIA operatives\u201d at an In-N-Out Burger in Los Angeles, California. The photo was\u00a0later revealed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to have been photoshopped and a fake, but ultimately served its purpose in distracting from her actual location in New England.<\/p>\n While the media frenziedly covered the fake In-N-Out Burger photo, the appearance of an unexpected visitor nearby Borgeson\u2019s mansion succeeded in largely slipping under the radar. On August 18th<\/sup>, Ghislaine\u2019s sister Christine\u00a0was spotted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u201cpacking up a number of bags\u201d into a SUV just a few miles from Borgeson\u2019s \u201csecluded beachfront\u201d home. Christine, who currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas, declined to comment on why she was visiting the exact area where Ghislaine was allegedly hiding at the time.<\/p>\n Out of the seven Maxwell siblings, Ghislaine Maxwell has undoubtedly received the bulk of media scrutiny both in recent years and arguably ever since the suspected homicide of the family patriarch, Robert Maxwell, in 1991. In the years since his death, Robert Maxwell\u2019s close ties to Israeli intelligence and links to other intelligence agencies have been documented by respected journalists and investigators including\u00a0Seymour Hersh<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Gordon Thomas<\/strong><\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n While Ghislaine\u2019s own ties to intelligence have since come to light in relation to her critical role in facilitating the Jeffrey Epstein sexual blackmail operation. Little, if any attention, has been paid to her siblings, particularly Christine and her twin sister Isabel, despite them having held senior roles at the Israeli intelligence front company that facilitated their father\u2019s greatest act of espionage on Israel\u2019s behalf, the sale of the bugged PROMIS software to the U.S. national laboratories at the heart of the country\u2019s nuclear weapons system.<\/p>\n Not only that, but Christine and Isabel later became directly involved with technology-based business ventures that directly involved Ghislaine during the very period she worked with Epstein on behalf of Israeli and U.S. intelligence to ensnare powerful U.S. political and public figures in a sexual blackmail scheme involving minors. At the time, Ghislaine described her profession to a number of newspapers as \u201can internet operator.\u201d Then, after this venture\u2019s multi-million dollar sale to a competitor, Christine and Isabel became involved with successors to the PROMIS software scandal that were closely tied to U.S. intelligence and Israeli intelligence, respectively.<\/p>\n Ghislaine herself also became involved in these affairs, as did Jeffrey Epstein following his first arrest, as they began courting the biggest names in the U.S. tech scene, from Silicon Valley\u2019s most powerful venture capital firms to its most well-known titans. This also dovetailed with Epstein\u2019s investments in Israeli intelligence-linked tech firms and his claims of having troves of blackmail on prominent tech company CEOs during this same period.<\/p>\n With Ghislaine\u2019s name and her ties to intelligence now inking their way back into the media sphere, detailing the decades-long course of these technology-focused espionage operations and their persistent ties to the Maxwell sisters demands the attention it deserves, as the need to air out the real Maxwell family business \u2013 espionage \u2013 is now greater than ever before.<\/p>\n One of the most brazen and successful operations conducted by Israeli intelligence on a global scale is undeniably its sale of a bugged software program to governments, corporations and major financial and scientific institutions around the world. That software program, known as the Prosecutor\u2019s Information Management System or by its acronym PROMIS, was orginally created and marketed by Inslaw Inc., a company created by former NSA official Bill Hamilton and his wife Nancy.<\/p>\n In 1982, Inslaw leased its revolutionary PROMIS software to the U.S. Justice Department, then headed by arch neocon Edwin Meese III, Ronald Reagan\u2019s most trusted advisor and who would later go on to advise Donald Trump following the 2016 election. The success of the software, which allowed integration of separate databases and information analysis on a previously unimaginable scale, eventually caught the attention of Rafi Eitan, the notorious and legendary Israeli spymaster and handler of the \u201cmost damaging spy<\/strong><\/a>\u201d in American history, Jonathan Pollard. Eitan, at the time, was serving as the then-head of the now defunct Israel intelligence service known as Lekem, which focused specifically on espionage related to scientific and technical information and discoveries.<\/p>\n Eitan\u00a0had first learned<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of PROMIS from Earl Brian. Brian was a long-time associate of Ronald Reagan who had previously worked for the CIA in covert operations and had been in charge of Reagan\u2019s healthcare program when Reagan was governor of California. Brian often bragged of\u00a0the nickname<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0he had acquired in overseeing that health care initiative \u2013 \u201cthe man who walked over the dead.\u201d In 1982, however, Brian was attempting to build a business empire, in which then-AG Ed Meese\u2019s wife was a\u00a0major investor<\/strong><\/a>, and he had first met Eitan while attempting to sell a healthcare system in Iran.<\/p>\n Brian divulged the efficacy of PROMIS, but \u2013 instead of praising its revolutionary approach to data analysis \u2013 expressed his frustration that the software enabled U.S. federal investigators to successfully track and target money laundering and other financial crimes. He also expressed frustration that he had been left out of the profits on PROMIS, the development of which he had followed closely for several years.<\/p>\n As their conversation wore on, Eitan and Brian\u00a0hatched a plan<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to install a \u201ctrapdoor\u201d, today more often referred to as a back door, into the software. They would then market PROMIS throughout the world, providing Israeli intelligence and allied elements of U.S. intelligence with a direct window into the operations of its enemies and allies while also netting Eitan and Brian massive profits for the sale of the software. Brian, of course, would also be able to use PROMIS to circumvent authorities investigating financial crimes.<\/p>\n According to the testimony of ex-Mossad official Ari Ben-Menashe, after a copy of PROMIS was obtained by Israeli military intelligence (via direct collusion with the U.S. Department of Justice),\u00a0Ben-Menashe\u00a0contacted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0an Israeli American programmer living in California on Eitan\u2019s orders. That programmer then planted a \u201ctrapdoor\u201d or back door into the software that would allow Lekem covert access to any database connected to a device on which the software was installed.<\/p>\n Once the back door was present, Brian attempted to use his company Hadron Inc to market the bugged PROMIS software around the world, though he first had tried to buy out Inslaw to do so. Unsuccessful, Brian turned to his close friend, then-Attorney General Ed Meese, and the Justice Department then abruptly refused to make the payments to Inslaw that had been stipulated by the contract, essentially using the software for free, which Inslaw claimed to be theft.<\/p>\n Meese\u2019s actions would force Inslaw into bankruptcy and Inslaw\u00a0subsequently sued<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the Justice Department, with a US court later finding that the Meese-led department \u201ctook, converted, stole\u201d the software through \u201ctrickery, fraud and deceit.\u201d With Inslaw out of the way, Brian sold the bugged software to Jordan\u2019s and Iraq\u2019s intelligence services, a major boon for Israel, and to a handful of companies. Despite this, Eitan was unsatisfied with Brian and Hadron and he quickly turned to the person he thought could most effectively market and sell PROMIS to governments of interest all over the world, Robert Maxwell.<\/p>\n First recruited as an asset of Israeli intelligence in the early 1960s, Maxwell\u2019s standing with Israeli intelligence would strengthen considerably beginning in the early 1980s, when he purchased a web of Israeli companies, many of which were official \u201cservice providers<\/strong><\/a>\u201d for the Mossad. One of these companies, a computer firm called Degem, had been used for years to provide cover to Mossad assassins that conducted kidnappings and murders in Latin America and Africa.<\/p>\n Through Degem and other Maxwell-owned companies based in Israel and elsewhere, Maxwell marketed PROMIS so successfully that Israeli intelligence soon had access to the innermost workings of innumerable governments, corporations, banks and intelligence services around the world. Many of Maxwell\u2019s biggest successes came in selling PROMIS to dictators in Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America. Following the sale and after Maxwell collected a handsome paycheck, PROMIS\u2019 unparalleled ability to track and surveil anything \u2013 from cash flows to human movement \u2013 were used by these governments to commit financial crimes with greater finesse and used to hunt down and disappear dissidents. Israeli intelligence, of course, watched it all play out in real time.<\/p>\n In Latin America, for instance, Maxwell sold PROMIS to\u00a0military dictatorships in Chile and Argentina<\/strong><\/a>, which were used to facilitate the mass murder that characterized Operation Condor as the friends and families of dissidents and so-called subversives were easily identified using PROMIS. PROMIS was so effective for this purpose that, just days after Maxwell\u00a0sold the software<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to Guatemala, its US-backed dictatorship rounded up 20,000 \u201csubversives\u201d who were never heard from again. Of course, thanks to the back door in PROMIS, Israeli intelligence knew the identities of Guatemala\u2019s disappeared before the victim\u2019s own families. Israel was also\u00a0intimately involved<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the arming and training of many of the same Latin American dictatorships that had been sold the bugged PROMIS software.<\/p>\n Though Israeli intelligence found obvious use for the steady stream of sensitive and classified information, their biggest prize was yet to come \u2013 top secret government laboratories in the United States. Eitan\u00a0tasked Maxwell<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with selling PROMIS to US labs in the Los Alamos complex, including Sandia National Laboratory, which was and is at the core of the US nuclear weapons system. Notably, the eventual sale of PROMIS to these laboratories by Maxwell occurred during the same period in 1984 when Eitan tasked one of Israel\u2019s top experts in nuclear targeting with supervising Jonathan Pollard\u2019s espionage of U.S. nuclear secrets on Israel\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n In order to plot how he would accomplish such a feat, Maxwell would meet with none other than Henry Kissinger, who told him that \u2013 in order to sell PROMIS to these sensitive laboratories \u2013 he needed to enlist the services of then-Senator for Texas John Tower, who was the head of the Senates\u2019 Armed Services Committee at the time. Maxwell quickly struck a deal with Tower and then, using Mossad money,\u00a0paid Tower $200,000<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for his services, which included opening doors \u2013 not just to the Los Alamos complex, but also to the Reagan White House. Tower would arrange a trip for Maxwell to travel to Sandia National Laboratory, where he would market PROMIS. Unlike most other PROMIS sales, this one would not be handled by Degem, but a US-based company called Information on Demand.<\/p>\n It is worth noting that, despite Tower\u2019s obvious and treasonous actions with respect to U.S. national security, another long-time \u201csource\u201d of Robert Maxwell, George H.W. Bush, would attempt to nominate Tower to serve as U.S. Secretary of Defense. When the Senate refused to confirm Tower, only then did Bush nominate Dick Cheney, who would then head the Pentagon and oversee the U.S.\u2019 role in the First Gulf War. Not long after his failure to secure the nomination as Pentagon chief, Tower died in a suspicious plane crash soon after the equally suspicious death of Robert Maxwell.<\/p>\n Robert Maxwell\u00a0purchased<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Information on Demand from its founder, Sue Rugge \u2013 a former librarian, through the Pergamon Group in 1982 \u2013 the very year plans were made by Rafi Eitan and Earl Brian to subvert PROMIS. Its offices were just a few doors down from the home of Isabel Maxwell and her first husband Dale Djerassi, son of the scientist credited with creating the birth control pill.<\/p>\n According to\u00a0FBI files<\/a>\u00a0obtained by Inslaw Inc. via a FOIA request in the 1990s, San Francisco\u2019s FBI opened an investigation into Information on Demand a year later in October 1983 and subsequently interviewed Rugge about the business and its activities. She told the FBI that the company\u2019s sources \u201cinclude over 250 computer data bases\u201d and that company uses these to \u201clocate single facts as well as provide answers to complex questions dealing with such areas as comprehensive marketing research, custom data summaries, sophisticated literature searching, current awareness service and global information capability.<\/p>\n One of these databases included Lockheed\u2019s Dialog database and \u201cthe Defense Technical Center which is connected to the Department of Defense (DOD) which contains classified information. \u201d She asserted, however, that the company \u201chas no password for access and further no need for access.\u201d Elsewhere in the document, it notes that Information on Demand claimed not have any access to classified information \u201cto the best of their knowledge\u201d and \u201cincludes information concerning government and various available means of tapping government information databases.\u201d<\/p>\n The FBI asked Rugge about one client of the company in particular, whose name and identifying information is redacted in its entirety, but notes that this mysterious client had worked with Information on Demand since at least 1973. Subsequent efforts by Inslaw Inc. and others to learn the identity of the redacted client have been unsuccessful since 1994.<\/p>\n Notably, just one month before the FBI opened an investigation into Information on Demand and interviewed Sue Rugge, another related Maxwell-owned firm, Pergamon International Information Corporation,\u00a0had sent a letter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to then-CIA Director Bill Casey, offering to provide the agency with access to patent databases. The only redacted portion of the letter is the identity of PIIC\u2019s Executive Vice President, who had written the letter to Casey.<\/p>\n After Rugge had been interviewed, FBI interest in Information on Demand peaked soon after in June 1984, when a formal investigation was opened. This took place after two employees of Sandia National Laboratory who worked in technology transfer approached the Bureau over Information on Demand\u2019s efforts to sell PROMIS to the laboratory. Those employees were compelled to contact the FBI after obtaining information from employees of the National Security Agency (NSA) regarding \u201cthe purchase of Information on Demand Inc. by one Robert Maxwell, the owner of Pergamon International.\u201d The specific information on this purchase from the NSA is included in the report but redacted in its entirety. Two months later, one of the Sandia employees followed up with the Bureau, suggesting that the NSA and FBI jointly investigate Information on Demand, but was essentially stonewalled and told to take it up with FBI headquarters.<\/p>\n The FBI case file is coded as a foreign counter-intelligence investigation specifically, suggesting that the case was opened because the FBI was made aware of the alleged involvement of a foreign intelligence service in some aspect of Information on Demand\u2019s activities that related specifically to the \u201cdissemination, marketing or sale of computer software systems, including but not limited to the PROMIS computer software product.\u201d It also noted that Maxwell himself had previously been the subject of a \u201csecurity investigation\u201d conducted by the FBI from 1953 until 1961, the year Maxwell was formally recruited as an Israeli intelligence asset.<\/p>\n In early August 1984, FBI headquarters and other higher-ups in the Ed Meese-led Department of Justice, which itself was complicit in the whole sordid PROMIS affair, ordered the New Mexico office to halt its investigation into Information on Demand, Maxwell and PROMIS. The cover-up, oddly enough, continues today, with the FBI\u00a0still refusing<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to release documents pertaining to Robert Maxwell and his role in the PROMIS scandal.<\/p>\n Several months following the shuttering of the FBI investigation into Information on Demand, Robert Maxwell again returned to Sandia National Laboratories in February 1985, signing the contract for the sale of PROMIS and listing himself as President and CEO of Information on Demand. A few months later, he passed that role on to his daughter Christine, who served as the company\u2019s president and CEO up until her father\u2019s death in 1991, according to\u00a0her r\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/strong><\/a>. Upon the collapse of his business empire shortly after his demise, which also resulted in the closure of Information on Demand, Christine created a company called Research on Demand that offered similar services and specialized \u201cin Internet- and Big Data analytics-related market studies for companies in the Telecoms.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition, Isabel Maxwell, who lived in close proximity to the company\u2019s offices in Berkely, CA,\u00a0told\u00a0Haaretz<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that she had also worked for Information on Demand, which she refers to as \u201cher sister\u2019s company,\u201d following her 1989 divorce from Dale Djerassi.<\/p>\n After the death of Robert Maxwell, in what most of his family and many of his biographers regard as a murder conducted by Israeli intelligence, his children began to pick up the pieces and sought to rebuild their father\u2019s empire. Of his seven children, five took on different aspects of their father\u2019s vast portfolio.<\/p>\n Kevin and Ian Maxwell took over much of his businesses (and the associated fall-out) and his murky network of interlocking companies, trusts and foundations spread throughout the world. Ghislaine, having already positioned herself in New York at her father\u2019s behest to anchor his efforts to expand his empire and operations into Manhattan, began a sexual blackmail operation on behalf of Israeli intelligence alongside Jeffrey Epstein. Christine and Isabel, however, would take off where Maxwell\u2019s intelligence-linked work with PROMIS and in technology had left off by cashing in on a new revolutionary technology, the Internet.<\/p>\n \u201cWe literally were trying to think about how to restart this whole business\u201d that had collapsed after their father\u2019s death, Christine Maxwell\u00a0would later say<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of her decision to found, along with her husband Roger Malina, Isabel and Isabel\u2019s then-husband David Hayden, their internet services company \u2013 the McKinley Group \u2013 in January 1992. Isabel would remember the decision similarly,\u00a0telling\u00a0Wired<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in 1999, that she and her sister had \u201cwanted to circle the wagons and rebuild,\u201d seeing McKinley as \u201ca chance to recreate a bit of their father\u2019s legacy.\u201d In 2000, Isabel\u00a0would tell\u00a0The Guardian<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that her father would \u201clove it [the internet] if he was still here.\u201d \u201cHe was very prescient\u2026.He\u2019d be in his element, he\u2019d be having a blast, I\u2019m sure he\u2019d be thrilled to know what I\u2019m doing now,\u201d she told the UK-based publication while \u201cthrowing back her head and laughing loudly.\u201d Notably, at that time, Isabel was leading Israeli software company with ties to Israeli military intelligence and powerful Israeli political players, including some who had previously worked directly under her father.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not hard to see why Christine and Isabel saw the internet as their chance to expand upon and rebuild upon Robert Maxwell\u2019s \u201clegacy.\u201d As previously mentioned, Christine, right up until her father\u2019s death, had been president and CEO of the Robert Maxwell-owned Israeli intelligence front company, Information on Demand, where Isabel had also worked. Upon his death, Christine had founded a related company called Research on Demand, which specialized in \u201cinternet and big data analytics\u201d for telecommunications firms, and would later overlap with the McKinley Group\u2019s work. McKinley began as a directory with a rating system for websites, later transitioning into the Magellan search engine, all of which Isabel Maxwell\u00a0told\u00a0Cnet<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in 1997\u00a0<\/em>were all Christine\u2019s idea.<\/p>\n McKinley created what became known as the Magellan online directory, remembered as \u201cthe first site to publish lengthy reviews and ratings of websites.\u201d Magellan\u2019s \u201cvalue-added content\u201d approach attracted several large corporations, resulting in \u201cmajor alliances<\/strong><\/a>\u201d with AT&T, Time Warner, IBM, Netcom and the Microsoft Network [MSN] that\u00a0were negotiated by<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Isabel Maxwell. Microsoft\u2019s major alliance with McKinley came in late 1995, when\u00a0Microsoft announced<\/strong><\/a>that Magellan would power the search option for the company\u2019s MSN service. Time Warner first chose Magellan for its early web portal called Pathfinder and Magellan was on the homepage of the internet browser Netscape for much of the 1990s.<\/p>\n However, McKinley\u2019s fortunes were troubled as its efforts to be the first search engine to go public fell through, igniting\u00a0a stand-off<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0between Christine Maxwell and Isabel\u2019s husband that also resulted in the company\u2019s\u00a0essentially falling behind<\/strong><\/a>other market leaders both missing the window for a second IPO attempt and lagging behind in adding ad revenue to their business model. Excite, which was later acquired by AskJeeves,\u00a0ultimately bought<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the McKinley Group and Magellan for 1.2 million shares of Excite stock in 1996, which was then valued at $18 million. It was allegedly Isabel Maxwell who made the deal possible, with Excite\u2019s CEO at the time, George Bell,\u00a0claiming<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0she alone salvaged their purchase of McKinley.<\/p>\n Despite the company\u2019s lackluster end, the Maxwell sisters and other stakeholders in the company, Ghislaine Maxwell among them, not only obtained a multi-million dollar payout from the deal, but also forged close connections with Silicon Valley high-rollers. Upon McKinley\/Magellan\u2019s sale, the overt ties of Christine and Isabel Maxwell to intelligence in both the U.S. and Israel would grow considerably.<\/p>\n While the company is often framed as being a venture between Christine and Isabel Maxwell, McKinley Group and Magellan were much more than just the twin sisters\u2019 business. For instance,\u00a0a November 2003 article<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0The Evening Standard<\/em>\u00a0notes that Christine and Isabel launched the company with considerable help from their brother, Kevin Maxwell who the article described as being \u201cconsumed by an overwhelming desire to be his \u2018dad reincorporated\u2019\u201d according to confidants. Another\u00a0Evening Standard<\/em>\u00a0article<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from March 2001 cited report that \u201cKevin played a major role\u201d in the company\u2019s affairs.<\/p>\n In addition, at the time,\u00a0<\/em>The Sunday Times<\/em>\u00a0noted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in November 2000 that Ghislaine Maxwell \u201chad a substantial interest in Magellan\u201d and netted a considerable sum following its sale to Excite in 1996. It also noted that Ghislaine, throughout the 1990s, had \u201cbeen discreetly building up a business empire as opaque as her father\u2019s\u201d and that \u201cshe is secretive to the point of paranoia and her business affairs are deeply mysterious.\u201d However, she would nonetheless describe \u201cherself as an \u2018internet operator\u2019\u201d even though \u201cher office in Manhattan refuses to confirm even the name or the nature of her business.\u201d A\u00a0separate article in\u00a0The Scotsman<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>from 2001 also notes that Ghislaine \u201cis extremely secretive about her affairs and describes herself as an internet operator.\u201d<\/p>\n Exactly how involved Ghislaine Maxwell was involved in the McKinley Group and Magellan is unclear, though her decision to describe herself as an \u201cinternet operator\u201d and her documented \u201csubstantial interest\u201d in the company suggest that it was more than superficial. What is notable, however, is that Ghislaine\u2019s time as an \u201cinternet operator\u201d and her business interests in Magellan overlap directly with her time working alongside Jeffrey Epstein in an\u00a0Israeli intelligence-linked sexual blackmail operation.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n During this period of time, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein frequently had considerable overlap in their finances, with press reports from the time often asking whether Ghislaine\u2019s expenses were paid by Epstein or through her access to the \u201clost Maxwell millions\u201d that had been hidden in a web of murky, untraceable financial entities and allegedly \u201cdisappeared\u201d following his 1991 death.<\/p>\n The latter is certainly a possibility as it was Ghislaine who was the first to walk into her late father\u2019s office on the Lady Ghislaine following his death, where she \u201cshredded all incriminating documents onboard,\u201d according to journalist John Jackson\u00a0who witnessed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the scene. This would likely mean that she was quickly able to distinguish which documents were \u201cincriminating\u201d and was intimately aware of his more unsavory business activities. In addition, prior to his death, Robert Maxwell had provided Ghislaine with a \u201ctailor-made<\/strong><\/a>\u201d New York corporation called Maxwell Corporate Gifts, of which little is known. The corporation was\u00a0reportedly intended<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to aid her in establishing a foothold in New York\u2019s power base for Robert Maxwell\u2019s planned expansion into New York society, a plan first set into motion following his purchase of the\u00a0New York Daily News<\/em>.<\/p>\n Notably,\u00a0an article<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0The Evening Standard<\/em>\u00a0in 2001 makes an odd comment about a major source of income from Epstein during the 1990s, stating that \u201chas made many millions out of his business links with the likes of Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner, whose trust he runs.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0In addition, Epstein victim Maria Farmer\u00a0noted in an interview<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that she overheard Ghislaine and Epstein discuss Bill Gates as though they knew him well in 1995. However, these mentions of Bill Gates here defies the official narrative about the Epstein-Gates relationship, which claims they first met in 2011.Given the \u201cmajor alliance\u201d between McKinley\/Magellan and Microsoft that was forged in 1995-1996, it is certainly possible that Epstein\u2019s pre-2001 \u201cbusiness links\u201d with Bill Gates were, in fact, related to Ghislaine\u2019s involvement and stake in Magellan. This is also supported by the fact that, as will be shown in Part 2 of this report, Magellan co-founder Isabel Maxwell had a personal relationship with Bill Gates and that he put her subsequent company, Israel-based CommTouch, \u201con the map<\/strong><\/a>\u201d after a major investment that had been brokered between Gates and Isabel personally. Part 2 will also show how both Isabel and Christine\u2019s overt involvement, with Israeli and U.S. intelligence, respectively, deepened after Magellan was sold to Excite in 1996.<\/p>\nTrap doors and Treason<\/h2>\n
Front Companies and FBI Cover-ups<\/h2>\n
Recreating their Father\u2019s Legacy<\/h2>\n
A Family Affair<\/h2>\n