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US media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence
Connections between sex trafficker and spy agencies have been long teased. But few are covering them.
electronicintifada.net
US media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence
25 July 2025
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Noticeably absent from US news coverage of US President Donald Trump’s waffling over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files is any mention of the child sex predator’s apparent ties to Israeli intelligence.
A 13 July Nexis search of US news outlets found that, of the 383 stories unleashed by Trump’s broken promise to reveal everything Epstein, only a single article broached ties between Epstein and Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad – and then tried to undercut it.
The single story that did mention Mossad links, on 10 July in Atlantic Online, the online edition of The Atlantic Monthly, merely dismissed those making a case for Epstein’s ties to Mossad as “a claim often expressed with anti-Semitic rhetoric.”
Such omission, however, didn’t stop former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on 14 July from rejecting any Epstein-Mossad links as “categorically and totally false.”
There is plenty of good evidence, however, to suggest otherwise. The Epstein-Israeli intelligence connection was covered extensively in a 2019-2021 series of in-depth articles by MintPress News.
MintPress investigative reporter Whitney Webb summarized an interview by former CBS News executive producer and Narativ investigative journalist Zev Shalev with former senior executive for Israel’s Directorate of Military Intelligence Ari Ben-Menashe. There, Webb summed up, Ben-Menashe claimed “not only to have met Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, back in the 1980s, but that both Epstein and Maxwell were already working with Israeli intelligence during that time period.”
Ben-Menashe also told Shalev he saw Jeffrey Epstein in the office of Mossad asset Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, several times in the 1980s.
MintPress further reported that one of Epstein’s chief financial backers, Victoria’s Secret owner Les Wexner, was part of The Mega Group – a secretive group of billionaires formed in 1991 by Wexner and Seagram’s heir Charles Bronfman focused on “philanthropy and Jewishness,” its mission described by one member as faith in and devotion to the state of Israel.
Wexner became Epstein’s biggest financial client in 1989, handing over the financial management of his $1.4 billion business and his charitable foundation to a young man virtually unknown on Wall Street. By also granting him power of attorney, Epstein was authorized to cash Wexner’s checks and give away his money."
