The Epstein Emails: The Russian Connection
According to Jeffrey Epstein, Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin learned a lot about Trump from their conversations. Then, he died. "Life is short," said the pedophile. "Start with dessert."
Twenty thousand pages of emails are a lot to digest, but one from Jeffrey Epstein to Thorbjorn Jagland, the former prime minister of Norway, raises a number of interesting questions that are worth pursuing.
“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a 2017 email to Jagland, who was leading the Council of Europe at the time.
During the exchange, Epstein explained he had already spoken with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, about Trump before Churkin died earlier in 2017, and that Churkin had learned an awful lot about the incoming president.
“Churkin was great,” Epstein wrote. “He understood trump (sic) after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”
Epstein added, “I think you might suggest to putin (sic) that lavrov can get insight on talking to me.”
So who is Vitaly Churkin? And why is he of more than passing interest?
What may not be readily apparent to most readers is that Churkin, who died suddenly in 2017, had ties to Trump dating back to 1986 when Trump made his first trip to Moscow.
Indeed, in the fall of that year, at a New York luncheon given by cosmetics czar Leonard Lauder, Trump found himself seated next to Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, and Vitaly Churkin, who was then the “second secretary” in the Soviet embassy.
At the time, both Soviet diplomats effusively professed their infatuation with Trump Tower, the crown jewel of Trump’s empire that had just been erected in midtown Manhattan, and now they were suggesting that Trump should build a similar edifice near the Kremlin, on Red Square.
As Trump claimed in The Art of the Deal, “One thing led to another, and now I’m talking about building a large luxury hotel, across the street from the Kremlin, in partnership with the Soviet government.
A few months later, in January 1987, Trump received a letter from Ambassador Yuri Dubinin that began, “It is a pleasure for me to relay some good news from Moscow.” The letter added that Intourist, the leading Soviet tourist agency, “had expressed interest in pursuing a joint venture to construct and manage a hotel in Moscow.”
Trump was thrilled. Having a Trump Tower Moscow would solidify Trump’s position as one of the greatest real estate developers on the planet.
Now, the cynics among you might think that the Soviets were merely plying Trump with sycophantic flattery in order to recruit him as an asset— in which case, you’d be absolutely correct.
Indeed, as I wrote in American Kompromat, according to Yuri Shvets, a former major in the KGB, the letter inviting Trump was really written at the behest of General Ivan Gromakov in the First Chief Directorate’s rezidentura in Washington. “It was an established procedure for the KGB stations in the US to use Ambassador Dubinin to pass on invitations to Americans to visit Moscow,” Shvets told me. “Usually, those trips were used for ‘deep development,’ recruitment, or for a meeting with the KGB handlers.”
In most cases, the trips were organized by Goscointourist, the Soviet government traveler agency that was better known as Intourist. and served as a front for the KGB. According to Shvets, if the trip included all expenses paid by Intourist, it was a clear indication that the KGB was behind it.
On July 4, Trump flew to Moscow with Ivana and two assistants. He checked out various potential building sites for a Trump Tower, including several near Red Square.
During the trip, Trump stayed in a suite at the National Hotel where Vladimir Lenin and his wife had stayed in 1917. All of which was subject to twenty four hour surveillance by the KGB.
As to what activities the KGB may have captured in its surveillance, Oleg Kalugin, the former head of counterintelligence for the KGB, explained to me that the KGB to hired young women and deployed them as prostitutes to entrap visiting politicians and businessmen. In other words, Intourist was used to monitor foreigners in the Soviet Union and to facilitate “honey traps.”
“In your world, many times, you ask your young men to stand up and proudly serve their country,” Kalugin told a reporter. “In Russia, sometimes we ask our women just to lie down”
“I would not be surprised if the Russians have, and Trump knows about them, files on him during his trip to Russia and his involvement with meeting young ladies that were controled by Soviet intelligence.
As for Churkin, who later became ambassador to the UN, he helped Dubinin set up Trump’s trip, and, as a result, it is possible he had first hand knowledge about how the KGB recruited Trump as a Russian asset.
But Churkin died in New York on 20 February 2017, at the age of 64. The cause of death, according to Russian diplomats, was heart failure. But according to the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office, an autopsy performed on Churkin suggested that toxicology tests were needed to establish the cause of death. Churkin was the fifth Russian diplomat posted abroad to die unexpectedly, in a remarkably similar fashion, since November 2016, ten weeks earlier.
Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Churkin had met several times from 2015 until 2017, sent an email to tech billionaire Peter Thiel stating, “As you read my Russian ambassador friend died. Life is short, start with dessert.”[28]
This article is a small treasure because it adds to the larger mosaic. At the same time, I do not believe that the Russians were originally behind the Epstein kompromat gathering project. Ari Ben-Menashe repeatedly stated that it was a project of Israeli military intelligence.
However, where the Russians could have taken part was in the supply of young women. The 1990s were very difficult years in Russia and many young women were eager to get to countries of the global West. They did not necessarily expect sexual services to be part of the job, but once they arrived in the target countries the situation often turned another way. The age of consensual sexual contact was also set differently in parts of the Eastern Bloc, starting at around fourteen in some countries, I think, because the legal protection of minors was simply not as developed at that time.
What Epstein did is completely reprehensible. However, since he was providing a sort of high-end escort service, the women were still treated on the better half of the scale. Those who were entrapped by Russian organized crime and placed in various locations across Europe were treated like animals in ways so horrific that the gentle souls of Western people would not be able to digest.
Many people also completely miss the rich relationship between Epstein and Robert Maxwell, especially their cooperation in moving money through practically untraceable networks. This matters because the Brits were running a similar kompromat project for their own goals elsewhere. Maybe this was the original source of Epstein’s inspiration.
But back to the Russians. Where they most likely interacted with Epstein, I would guess, was in the area of offshore finance and intelligence.
Brush all the noise aside. Trump was recruited willingly to DESTROY The US because Trump has to repay Putler for refinancing Trump, Internat’l. In espionage and extortion, there are NO coincidences.