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The Maxwell Twins, Magellan, and 9/11 Software Contracts

from #207 - Whitney Webb Returns | The Tim Dillon Show · #207

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Webb describes Ghislaine's sisters Christine and Isabel Maxwell building the Magellan search engine and later Chiliad, a data-analysis company that got embedded in US intelligence databases after 9/11.

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  • Isabel Maxwell ran CommTouch (now Siren), an Israeli company whose software is integrated into Microsoft Windows, Google, and Dell computers worldwide
  • Epstein rebranded as a tech investor around 2012, cultivating relationships with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sergey Brin while claiming to have blackmail on Silicon Valley elites
  • Epstein funded Carbine 9/11, chaired by Ehud Barak, former head of Israeli military intelligence, who visited Epstein's island and apartments containing underage Eastern European girls
  • Intelligence agencies have shifted from honeypot operations like those on Epstein's Island to digital blackmail as the new battleground for information and power
  • Maxwell's Israel venture capital firm is backed by Leela Capital Partners, composed of former members of Israel's Unit 8200 military intelligence who only invest in companies staffed by Israeli intelligence operatives
  • In 2012, Israeli intelligence began policy of privatizing operations previously conducted in-house by Mossad, spinning them off to private companies like Black Cube, whose former chairman was Meir Dagan, head of Mossad
  • Cyber Reason's CEO explicitly describes his cybersecurity work as a continuation of his Unit 8200 role hacking nation-states, and the company now runs on Pentagon, CIA, and NSA computers
  • Chiliad's operations as a US government contractor wound down in 2012, coinciding with the Israeli policy shift toward privatized intelligence operations
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Isabelle MaxwellJeffrey EpsteinMossadEhud BarakGoogleMicrosoftMeir DaganBlack CubeCybereasonUnit 8200DellSergey BrinRobert MaxwellMark ZuckerbergPentagonNSACIALeela Capital PartnersIsrael venture capitalNSO GroupElon Musk

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