Sexpionage is the likely reason Jeffrey Epstein became a useful asset to intelligence agencies. He was already building his criminal skills with someone 8 years older than him, Steven Hoffenberg.
The two carried out financial scams and the media often had stories about the wealth they generated in the 80s.
Born in Brooklyn in 1945 to Jewish parents, Hoffenberg founded the Towers Financial Corporation in the early 1970s after dropping out of college.
The company started out as a debt collection agency, buying outstanding medical bills and forcing debtors to pay out what they could.
Towers Financial grew quickly, acquiring several insurance companies that Hoffenberg would use to siphon funds from.
Hoffenberg was introduced to Epstein in 1987 by the British arms dealer Douglas Heubert Leese.
Douglas Heubert Leese was a British Defence Contractor who died in 2011.
Douglas Leese operated in Saudi Arabia through Adnan Kashoggi (died 2017):
Adnan Khashoggi was a Saudi businessman and arms dealer known for his business dealings, extensive geopolitical influence, and opulent lifestyle, which earned him the moniker “The Great Gatsby of the Middle East.” During his peak in the early 1980s, Khashoggi’s net worth was estimated at around $4 billion, amassed through his pivotal role as an intermediary between Western defense companies and the Saudi government.
Epstein became a fixer for Kashoggi
Records show Jeffrey Epstein’s requests for multiple passports, travels to Africa and Middle East
More than 50 pages from Epstein’s passport forms were obtained by ABC News.
Jeffrey Epstein is reported to have been under the surveillance of the CIA since at least 1983, when he was involved as a financial fixer for Adnan Khashoggi, a key figure in the CIA’s Iran-Contra covert arms deals. Epstein managed covert funds connected to the CIA’s primary operative in the Iran-Contra scandal. The CIA’s oversight of Epstein during this period is considered likely due to his role in financing arms transactions in the Middle East. Epstein’s connections extend to various entities including Mossad, Saudi Arabia, and the Iran-Contra network, highlighting his involvement in complex international covert operations. This analysis aligns with historical accounts of Khashoggi‘s role in trafficking weapons for the CIA’s Iran-Contra operation, which also involved Canadian routes.
The Mysterious DARPA Grants Epstein claimed to manage money for billionaires, yet his only documented funding source was a $30 million grant from the Pentagon’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in the early 2000s. Why would a defense agency fund a man with no scientific background? Former intelligence officials have speculated this was a cutout for black-budget operations, possibly related to human behavior studies (a known CIA interest post-MKUltra).
The 2006 Sweetheart Plea Deal Despite overwhelming evidence, Epstein served just 13 months in a private wing of a county jail—a deal orchestrated by Alexander Acosta, who later admitted he was told to back off because Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” (Source: [Miami Herald](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html))
Private Island Surveillance Witnesses describe Epstein’s Caribbean estate as littered with cameras, with recordings of high-profile guests. This aligns with Cold War-era CIA honeypot ops, where compromising material was used to manipulate politicians and scientists.
Epstein’s Mossad Links: The Maxwell Connection
If the CIA had a stake in Epstein, Mossad’s involvement is even clearer. His longtime accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a known Mossad operative who died mysteriously in 1991 after looting his employees’ pensions to fund Israeli intelligence operations.
The Israeli Billionaire Network Epstein’s closest financial ties were to Leslie Wexner (L Brands/Victoria’s Secret) and Ehud Barak (former Israeli PM). Wexner, who signed over $46 million in properties to Epstein, had deep Mossad-linked business dealings. Barak, meanwhile, visited Epstein’s townhouse multiple times post-conviction (Source: [Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7362345/Ehud-Barak-defends-visiting-Epsteins-home.html)).
The “Scientific” Fronts
Epstein’s donations to Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics and his associations with physicists like Stephen Hawking suggest an intelligence recruitment pipeline. Mossad has a history of targeting academics for tech espionage—was Epstein vetting potential assets?
The Likely Truth: A Multi-Agency Blackmail Hub
Epstein’s operation reeks of a joint venture:
Mossad provided the blackmail leverage (via Maxwell’s connections).
The CIA (or FBI) ensured legal protection in exchange for access to kompromat on powerful Americans.
Other agencies (MI6, Saudi intelligence?) may have played roles, given Epstein’s ties to Prince Andrew and Gulf financiers.
The Cover-Up: Why Epstein Had to Die
His 2019 “suicide” in a high-security federal jail—despite being taken off suicide watch and guards allegedly sleeping—fits the playbook of an intelligence cleanup. Whether killed by U.S. actors (to protect political figures) or foreign ones (to bury Israeli ops), his death ensured the full truth would never surface.
The Takeaway
Epstein wasn’t just a predator. He was a weaponized intermediary, a living blackmail database for agencies that operate above the law. Until we confront the intelligence shadow world that enabled him, his story will remain unfinished—and his accomplices unpunished.
Towers was a bill collection agency founded by Steven J. Hoffenberg, who told CBS News he hired Epstein in 1987 to help commit a billion dollars worth of financial fraud.
“He was my best friend for years. My closest friend for years,” Hoffenberg told CBS News, speaking of Epstein. “We ran a team of people on Wall Street, investment people that raised these billion dollars illegally. He was my guy, my wingman.”
1993 Hoffenberg briefly owned the New York Post. He was close friends with Donald Trump and once rented an entire floor of Trump Tower.
8 March 1997 Hoffenberg was sent to jail for 20 years, (Hoffenberg stole $460m from 200,000 investors to fund a lavish lifestyle of private jets, expensive cares, and luxury homes in New York and Florida).
Epstein was not prosecuted.
Hoffenberg got out of jail after 18 years (2025), the years that Epstein spent committing crimes of blackmail using his pedophilia to lure young girls into a sex trafficking web.
Hoffenberg always claimed the ponzi scheme was not his idea:
….it was his protege Jeffrey Epstein who had masterminded the scam…..
After leaving prison, he launched a lawsuit against Epstein in 2016 in which he claimed the late paedophile was the “architect” of the scheme.
2017 Steven Hoffenberg was found dead in his Connecticut apartment, aged 77. He lived alone.
The Daily Mail reported that one of Epstein’s abuse victims Maria Farmer had contacted police after becoming concerned about Mr Hoffenberg.
Steven Hoffenberg was convicted of ‘one of the largest Ponzi schemes’ in the mid-90s (New York Post/YouTube)Jeffrey Epstein, pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell, was identified as the mastermind of a Ponzi scheme by Steven Hoffenberg (Channel 4)Maria Farmer became one of Epstein’s most high profile victims after going public with sexual abuse allegations (CBS News)
Hoffenberg was a prolific social media user, tweeting more than 35,000 times about Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew and politics.
His Twitter account shows he posted eight times on 27 July, before going silent.
Ms Farmer told Dailymail.com that she became concerned as Hoffenberg had been in poor health after being diagnosed with Covid-19.
“Hoff was one of my dearest friends on earth, more like a father than my own father ever was to me,” Ms Farmer told Dailymail.com.
“He lived in kindness, always giving what little he had, never asking for anything.
“This man was beyond incredible and a dear friend to survivors of Epstein… as he was also.”
Maria Farmer was one of the first of Epstein’s victims to go public with sexual abuse allegations.
Her sister Annie Farmer was one of four women to testify at Ghislaine Maxwell’s child sex trafficking trial in December last year.
Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. The reason for her transfer has not been publicly disclosed. NBC News Go.com
6 August 2025
Attorney Gloria Allred, who represents multiple survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, publicly called for the House to issue subpoenas to past and current key Trump officials—Alex Acosta, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Deputy AG Todd Blanche.
Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire who now sits in jail on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors, has continued to draw media scrutiny in the weeks after his arrest on July 6. Part of the reason for this continued media interest is related to Epstein’s alleged relationship to the intelligence services and new information about the true extent of the sexual blackmail operation Epstein is believed to have run for decades.
As MintPress reported last week, Epstein was able to run this sordid operation for so long precisely because his was only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive operation that began in the 1950s and perhaps even earlier.
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