Two new documentaries on the Jeffery #Epstein affair delve into lurid details and give voice to his victims, but both scratch the surface of the political and intelligence dimensions of the scandal. https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/17/epstein-case-documentaries-wont-touch-tales-of-intel-ties/

Investigation Discovery premiered a three-hour special, “ #WhoKilledJeffreyEpstein?” on May 31, the first segment in a three-part series, that focused on Epstein’s August 2019 death in federal custody. The special followed @netflix release of " #JeffreyEpsteinfilthyrich."

Neither documentary however deals at all with Epstein’s suspected ties to the world of intelligence.

In an interview with Consortium News, former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe said that #Epstein did not work with #Mossad. “Military intelligence was who he was working with, big difference... It was military intelligence.”

In 'Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales,' a book published in December, Ben-Menashe is quoted as saying he worked with Robert Maxwell who introduced his daughter and Epstein to Israeli intelligence, after which they engaged in a blackmail operation for Israel.

Ben-Menashe also claims that Robert Maxwell had attempted to blackmail Mossad. “He really lost his compass once he started playing these games with people,” he told @Consortiumnews.

Both documentaries mention Prince Andrew in the context of allegations about him from one of Epstein’s victims, but neither film goes into much detail about Andrew’s role in the Epstein operation, which Ben-Menashe said, was to lure powerful men into Epstein’s orbit.

“The only person that can talk, that probably knows quite a bit, is the great prince,” Ben-Menashe said. “He was with him [ #Epstein] all the time. I really don’t know what his future is going to be like, either.”

Since a number of influential figures were named in a lawsuit filed by Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell the day before Epstein was found dead in his federal prison cell in New York, Ben-Menashe said: "I’m starting to think that lawsuit was his death sentence..."

"... because people didn’t want to be named. That’s my guess, it’s just a guess. Obviously, somebody decided that he had to go.”

Just before Ben-Menashe spoke to Consortium News on Monday, he said he had received an angry telephone call from Israel’s Channel 13 television station.

“They called me, and they went wild: ‘What, you believe Israel would use little girls? You are saying that? You are insulting the nation, you are making us anathema around the world.’ I said, ‘The truth is the truth.’...

"... And Jeffrey Epstein’s story is something that nobody wanted to hear. He was working with the Israelis, he was working with Maxwell,” Ben-Menashe said.

He added: “It’s a very bad story, and I can see why the Israelis are so concerned about it. I believe [Channel 13] were expressing anger, and I believe this was a message. I don’t like messages like that… it has to do with the timing and these stories coming out about Epstein."