Sex-trafficking blackmail rings were a much more widespread phenomenon in our government, and government’s all around the world, than we previously believed.
Naval Intelligence officer Edwin Wilson, served in the 1970s on the board of Consultants International, an organization the CIA used as a front company.
Wilson’s main responsibility was front companies used to smuggle goods on behalf of U.S. intelligence services all over the world. But another of his tasks was running sexual blackmail operations for the CIA, specifically around the time of the Nixon-era Watergate scandal.
Frank Terpil, Wilson’s former partner at the CIA, would tell investigative journalist Jim Hougan:
“Historically, one of Wilson’s Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary…. Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasy in the flesh…. A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras…. The technicians in charge of filming … [were] TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porno stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office.”
A key figure in sexual-blackmail operations run in conjunction between the U.S. government and the crime world was McCarthy-era lawyer and future Donald Trump confidant, Roy Cohn.
In fact, a less well-known fact about Cohn is how he aided the CIA’s covert propaganda efforts that were part of the larger Iran-Contra guns-for-hostages scandal of the 1980s. Also not as well known, is that many of the key figures in sexual-blackmail operations and several front-companies for the CIA involved in funneling money to Central American Contra paramilitaries, were also trafficking minors for their sexual exploitation and use in sexual-blackmail rings.
In order to keep the entire Iran-Contra affair viable, the Ronald Reagan White House needed a propaganda effort to shore up public support for Reagan’s Latin American policies, including support of the Contras.
This domestic propaganda effort was technically illegal and required the CIA outsource the job to a private company to minimize the risk of fall-out. Director of the U.S. Information Agency at the time, Chad Wick, whom Cohn was close to, took the lead in getting private funding for the effort.
Just a few days later, Cohn brought a close friend, media mogul Rupert Murdock to the White House.
Murdoch would soon become the source for that private funding.
After that initial meeting, Murdoch would become increasingly close to the Reagan White House. As a consequence, he would benefit greatly from Reagan’s policies. That in turn would allow Murdoch to increase his U.S. media holdings and to create the Fox Broadcast Corporation in 1987.
This article is based on a report by Whitney Webb of The Last American Vagabond on the origins of the Epstein ring. You can read Webb’s full report here and here.