A former CIA counterterrorism officer has claimed Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019, was an intelligence asset working for Israel. John Kiriakou, a CIA whistleblower, said Epstein operated as what intelligence agencies call an 'access agent', using wealth and influence to get close to powerful figures and gather compromising material.
Kiriakou made the claims during an interview on The Diary of a CEO, where he said Epstein fitted a pattern used in CIA training to illustrate how foreign intelligence services recruit intermediaries rather than targets themselves.
