Jeffrey Epstein was likely a Russian spy, Poland‘s prime minister has claimed.
Donald Tusk made the explosive claim at a government meeting, revealing that Polish authorities will be investigating the dead paedophile financier’s possible links with Russian intelligence.
He said: ‘More and more leads, more and more information, and more and more commentary in the global press all relate to the suspicion that this unprecedented paedophilia scandal was co-organised by Russian intelligence services.
‘I don’t need to tell you how serious the increasingly likely possibility that Russian intelligence services co-organised this operation is for the security of the Polish state.
‘This can only mean that they also possess compromising materials against many leaders still active today.’
The US Department of Justice released millions of file related to Epstein, who was found dead in his New York prison cell in 2019, on Friday.
The cache has revealed his ties to many prominent people in politics, finance, academia, media and business – both before and after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to prostitution charges.
The files include 1,056 documents naming Russian President Vladimir Putin and 9,629 referring to Moscow.
Jeffrey Epstein (pictured, right, with Ghislaine Maxwell) was likely a Russian spy, Poland’s prime minister has claimed
Tusk said Epstein, seen wearing a communist style cap, led the ‘unprecedented paedophilia scandal’ which was ‘co-organised by Russian intelligence services’
Among the files was a statement to the FBI made by a confidential source who claimed that Epstein was a wealth manager for Russian leader Vladimir Putin and former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
The source, who was not named in the document – marked ‘Secret’ and not for ‘foreign nationals’ – said Epstein was ‘president Vladimir Putin’s wealth manager and provided the same service for [former] Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.’
The FBI source also claimed that Epstein ‘had dirt on other people’ and made his money from ‘charging his clients fees to hide their money offshore.’
Epstein also ran ‘the world’s largest honeytrap operation’ on behalf of the KGB when he procured women for his network of associates, intelligence sources told the Mail on Sunday.
The sources say it could explain why Epstein appeared to enjoy an ultra-wealthy lifestyle out of kilter with his career as a financier, although there is no documentary evidence linking Putin and his spies directly to Epstein’s illicit activities.
But the sources also claim that while US security services ‘monitored’ Epstein’s Russian connections for years, their UK equivalents were hesitant due to Epstein’s connection to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
The cache includes an email claiming Bill Gates asked one of Epstein’s advisers to provide medicine to treat sexually transmitted diseases due to ‘sex with Russian girls’ – something he has dismissed as ‘completely false’.
An image from the latest release from the Epstein files. Epstein seems to have secured audiences with Vladimir Putin after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution
Ghislaine Maxwell (centre) pictured with two men who appear to be two Russian army personal. Robert Maxwell’s daughter is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking and other offences linked to her association with Epstein, who she is said to have met shortly after her father’s death
In a government meeting, Donald Tusk (pictured) said the authorities would establish a team to investigate any potential fallout in Poland from Epstein’s crimes
American intelligence experts believe Epstein was inducted into the world of espionage via business deals with Robert Maxwell, the disgraced media magnate who – like Epstein – died in murky circumstances; in Maxwell’s case his body was found floating in the Atlantic in 1991, having apparently fallen overboard from his yacht.
Maxwell’s daughter, Ghislaine, is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking and other offences linked to her association with Epstein, who she is said to have met shortly after her father’s death.
Security sources say Robert Maxwell was a Russian asset from the 1970s, when he worked to extradite Soviet Jews to Israel, with the involvement of Israeli intelligence service Mossad.
In return, they say, Maxwell laundered Russian money into the West – with the help of Epstein.
They think the financier was introduced to Maxwell and the KGB by an oil tycoon also in the pay of Russian intelligence. Probes into Robert Maxwell’s business dealings have uncovered links not only to the KGB and Mossad – but also MI6.
US security officials also believe Epstein had long-standing ties with Russian organised crime, who could have been blackmailing him. That could explain the ease with which Epstein appeared to be able to fly in ‘girls’ from Russia.
A source said: ‘You have Andrew, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and all the rest placed in compromising positions on an island bristling with technology. It’s the world’s largest honey trap operation.
‘The Americans have been on this for years, but our lot have seemed more queasy about it, presumably because of the Royal link.’ All the high-profile figures named in the files deny any wrongdoing.
An image from the latest release from the Epstein files. US security officials also believe Epstein had long-standing ties with Russian organised crime. That could explain the ease with which Epstein appeared to be able to fly in ‘girls’ from Russia
Media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who security sources say was a Russian asset from the 1970s, when he worked to extradite Soviet Jews to Israel, with the involvement of Israeli intelligence service Mossad
In a startling email, sent to Epstein on September 11, 2011, an unidentified associate discusses an ‘appointment with Putin’ during a forthcoming trip to Russia. The individual tells Epstein: ‘Spoke with Igor. He said last time you were in Palm Beach, you told him you had an appointment with Putin on Sept 16 and that he could go ahead and book his ticket to Russia to arrive a few days before you.’
Epstein appears to have had another meeting scheduled with Putin in 2014. In an email to Epstein, Japanese entrepreneur Joi Ito tells the paedophile that another US billionaire named Reid Hoffman, co-founder of website LinkedIn, was unable to join.
‘Hey Jeffrey,’ Ito writes. ‘I wasn’t able to convince Reid to change his schedule to go meet Putin with you.’ It is unclear whether this meeting took place.
A subsequent email sent by Ito suggested it was cancelled after Russian-backed forces shot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing 298 people.
Writing to Epstein three days later, Ito said: ‘Bad idea now after the plane crash.’ Meanwhile, in the 2010 exchange regarding the former Duke of York, Epstein told Andrew that he has a ‘friend who I think you might enjoy having dinner with’.
When pressed by Andrew for more details, Epstein replied: ‘She’s 26, Russian, clever, beautiful, trustworthy and yes, she has your email.’
The MoS previously revealed how this woman, a blue-eyed blonde, was ‘not only abused by Epstein but trafficked by him for many years’, according to her legal representative.
And in another email sent in November 2010, Epstein asks an individual whether he needs a Russian visa, adding: ‘I have a friend of Putin’s, should I ask him?’
Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein was found hanged in 2019, but relatives believe he was murdered to silence him
Epstein with his right-hand woman and longtime lover, Ghislaine Maxwell
Other messages revealed Epstein claimed he could give the Kremlin valuable insight into Mr Trump ahead of a summit with Putin in Helsinki.
The financier messaged Thorbjorn Jagland, then secretary general of the Council of Europe, suggesting he could pass on a message to Putin about how to handle the US President.
In a June 2018 exchange, Epstein indicated that Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s ambassador to the UN, ‘understood Trump after our conversations’.
He advised that Mr Jagland, the former prime minister of Norway, could ‘suggest to putin, that lavrov [Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s veteran foreign minister], can get insight on talking to me [sic].’
Epstein told Mr Jagland that Mr Trump ‘must be seen to get something’. Mr Jagland responded that he would meet Mr Lavrov’s assistant on the following Monday and relay the message.
Earlier that month Epstein had also messaged Steve Bannon, a Trump ally, to tell him Mr Jagland was due to meet Putin and Lavrov and was then staying overnight with him at his mansion in Paris.
The extraordinary exchanges took place before the totemic Helsinki summit between Mr Trump and Putin in July 2018, during which the US President insisted he did not think that Russia interfered in the 2016 Presidential election.
Another document reveals the FBI was warned that Epstein was believed to be a Mossad spy.
A report by FBI bosses highlighted how a source told the agency: ‘Epstein was close to the former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Barak and trained as a spy under him.’ In June 2013, Epstein sent an email to Mr Barak saying: ‘Putin will re do his staff in the summer, bringing only very trusted people closer… more info on phone or face to face.’
The agency’s unnamed source also highlighted how Epstein was linked to a former leader of Putin’s youth organisation named Masha Drokova, a San Francisco-based businesswoman who was once an ardently pro-Putin teenager – and starred in a documentary that featured her kissing the autocrat.
The source concluded that Ms Drokova’s company, Day One Ventures, was ‘in Silicon Valley to steal technology’. It also details how the FBI spy discussed Epstein with Ms Drokova.
‘CHS and Drokova spoke, but Drokova did not talk at all about technology; instead, she looked at CHS and said “You knew Epstein didn’t you.” She said Epstein was a “wonderful man” and that it was a crying shame what had being [sic] done to him.’
Russia’s foreign ministry did not immediately reply to a written request for comment on Tusk’s allegations.
The Russian embassy in Warsaw also did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
In December, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the Epstein files showed the hypocrisy of Western elites.
‘Here, as I understood, were all the Western “lecturers on life” who looked down on Russia and who lectured us about ‘democracy and human rights’ in interesting poses with equally interesting leisure partners,’ she said on Telegram.
