"Epstein COVERUP Began in 1981!" - DARPA Docs Expert Exposes Truth | Mike Benz • 324
Julian Dorey · 29 Jul 2025 · 2h 46m
Guest: Mike Benz · Host: Joey Def, Julian Dorey
This conversation traces the Iran-Contra affair from its bureaucratic origins in the mid-1970s CIA reforms through to its supposed continuing echoes in present-day intelligence structures, and uses that history as a lens for examining Jeffrey Epstein's possible ties to intelligence networks. The guest, a researcher focused on declassified government and foreign-policy documents, walks through how post-Church Committee restrictions pushed covert action into NGOs, offshore banks, and outside financiers, and how figures like arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, CI proprietary airlines, and drug-running operations in Latin America and Afghanistan fit into that pattern. From there the discussion connects Southern Air Transport's relocation to service Les Wexner's company, Epstein's fake passport, and his financial rise after Robert Maxwell's death to a broader argument that Epstein functioned less as a formal intelligence asset than as a financier-facilitator embedded in networks tied to Israeli, Saudi, and American intelligence and diplomatic circles. The host and guest also examine universities (Harvard, Columbia), unions (AFL-CIO), and USAID as institutional vehicles for covert influence, argue this same infrastructure has been turned against domestic populist movements since 2016, and criticize the Trump administration's handling of Epstein-related disclosures, including unanswered questions about Alexander Acosta's Justice Department interview and unreleased CIA files. The guest calls for narrow, achievable transparency measures rather than expecting full disclosure of the underlying Epstein network.
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- Origins of Iran-Contra and CIA reforms
- Arms-for-hostages scheme with Khashoggi and Iran
- Drug-and-arms pipeline to the Contras via Southern Air Transport
- Congressional hearings: Gary Webb, Maxine Waters, John Deutch
- Southern Air Transport's move to service Wexner's company
- Epstein's fake passport and Saudi ties
- Alexander Acosta and the 'intelligence asset' question
- Iraqgate pipeline affair and Bruce Rappaport parallel
- Harvard, Columbia and academia as intelligence-linked institutions
- Unions as covert-action tools (AFL-CIO, teachers unions)
- Weaponization of these networks against domestic populism post-2016
- Trump's Epstein ties and calls for transparency
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“There has been this question about whether or not Epstein belongs to intelligence.”
“Ahud Barack was a military juggernaut. He was the head of Aman, which is the biggest intelligence group in Israel. Went to Jeffrey Epstein's home 43 times.”
“the CIA investigated itself for selling crack in Los Angeles and found no wrongdoing.”
“Every accusation is projection, man. And it works both ways.”