{"id":147846,"date":"2025-07-14T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=147846"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:41:46","slug":"counterintelligence-legend-could-shed-light-on-the-epstein-mystery-but-hes-not-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/counterintelligence-legend-could-shed-light-on-the-epstein-mystery-but-hes-not-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Counterintelligence legend could shed light on the Epstein mystery, but he\u2019s not talking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Analysis by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span>, July 14, 2025 <\/em>Real World News<\/span><\/a>
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It is President Donald Trump, not Attorney General Pam Bondi, who wants to \u201cmove on\u201d from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as made clear by his recent statements following the press release from the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

Is he continuing a coverup apparently favored by the Democrat Party to protect powerful friends or is he delaying justice for strategic reasons? Read this article to the concluding paragraph before considering an answer to that question.<\/p>\n

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on July 7, 2025. \/ Video Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Indeed, that answer may not be that complicated, even as it raises more questions.<\/p>\n

On the same weekend that the DOJ officially closed its Epstein investigation, Trump received Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House concluding an historic collaboration that targeted the militant Islamic regime in Iran with the \u201c12-day war\u201d and the U.S. B-2 strikes on Iran\u2019s nuclear sites.<\/p>\n

As WorldTribune<\/strong><\/span>.com<\/em><\/span> and Geostrategy-Direct<\/strong><\/span>.com<\/em><\/span><\/a> have reported<\/span><\/a>, this offensive also significantly targeted the global and Mideast ambitions of communist China, the number one adversary of the United States.<\/p>\n

But what does this have to do with Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s unlikely rise to billionaire status with an unparalleled globalist rolodex?<\/p>\n

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Jeffrey Epstein in 1980<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Epstein\u2019s alleged involvement with senior Israeli political and intelligence officials, including via Ghislaine Maxwell and her late father, Robert Maxwell has been widely reported.<\/p>\n

According to a WorldTribune<\/strong>.com<\/em> and Geostrategy-Direct<\/strong><\/a>.com<\/em> report<\/a> in May 2023, it is former CIA Director William Burns who \u201cmarks the key to understanding Epstein\u2019s spy career.\u201d<\/p>\n

A substack.com column by independent journalist Steve Rodan<\/span><\/a>, also cited Obama\u00a0White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler’s central role in Epstein’s later years:<\/p>\n

The Obama White House \u201cnurtured Epstein\u2019s relationship with the super-rich after his jail time,\u201d Rodan wrote. \u201cThis included Gates, who was with Epstein plenty of times.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to rehabilitate Epstein\u2019s image after his time in prison, the Obama administration also encouraged scientists, college presidents, celebrities and others to visit his homes. ….<\/p>\n

Harvard University provided Epstein with his own office on campus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which leads to other intelligence-related issues about which there is a widespread consensus:<\/p>\n

__ The United States has a longstanding but secret strategic relationship with the modern state of Israel that includes active intelligence sharing and military technology cooperation.<\/p>\n

__ The FBI\u2019s J. Edgar Hoover maintained active files on all U.S. presidents under whom he served and on other powerful heads of states and individuals. U.S. intelligence agencies have perpetrated numerous nefarious and arguably unconstitutional programs casually and unofficially justified for national security purposes. And those agencies had connections with most suspects in the JFK assassination, including Lee Harvey Oswald.<\/p>\n

How can the U.S. government in 2025 deal with the spooky and creepy Jeffrey Epstein network without taming an out-of-control intelligence community it has enabled since the end of World War II?<\/p>\n

James Jesus Angleton<\/strong><\/p>\n

One man, the legendary James Jesus Angleton, has unique insights on those issues. But this Yale-educated man of mystery known as the ultimate \u201cspook\u201d never revealed what he knew and took any such secrets to his grave when he died on May 11, 1987.<\/p>\n

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James Angleton holding the ashes of DCI Allen Dulles. \/ CIA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Angleton served in the Office of Strategic Services in Italy and London during World War II. As a key founding officer of the CIA, he exercised outsized influence on the agency from the start.<\/p>\n

He also spearheaded what emerged as the agency\u2019s most significant and secret alliance with Israel\u2019s intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n

Angleton served as chief of the counterintelligence department of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1975. Former DCI Richard Helms said Angleton was “recognized as the dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world”.<\/p>\n

A senior WorldTribune<\/strong><\/span>.com<\/em><\/span> editor knew Angleton in the early 1980s when he worked with several retired Air Force officers on the Strategic Defense Initiative. The tall, slim storehouse of secrets shared a few, making no secret of his anticommunist worldview and fears that the agency\u2019s counterintelligence function had been fatally diminished after CIA Director William Colby demanded his resignation in 1974.<\/p>\n

But Angleton\u2019s unbridled passion for his profession during the CIA\u2019s early years have led to disturbing and unanswered questions about an unaccountable U.S. intelligence community:<\/p>\n