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How the CIA, Mossad and \u201cthe Epstein Network\u201d are Exploiting Mass Shootings to Create an Orwellian Nightmare<\/h1>\n

Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, Orwellian \u201csolutions\u201d are set to be foisted on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to crush internal dissent in the United States.<\/h4>\n

By Whitney Webb
\nMintPress News<\/p>\n

F<\/span>ollowing the arrest and subsequent death in prison of alleged\u00a0child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a little-known Israeli tech company began to receive increased publicity, but for all the wrong reasons. Not long after Epstein\u2019s arrest, and his relationships and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as Epstein\u2019s close associate and former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist and prominent Trump backer Peter Thiel.<\/p>\n

Carbyne911, or simply Carbyne, develops call-handling and identification capabilities for emergency response services in countries around the world, including the United States, where it has already been implemented in several U.S. counties and has partnered with major U.S. tech companies like Google. It specifically markets its product as a way of mitigating mass shootings in the United States without having to change existing U.S. gun laws.<\/p>\n

Yet, Carbyne is no ordinary tech company, as it is deeply connected to the elite Israeli military intelligence division, Unit 8200, whose \u201calumni\u201d often go on to create tech companies \u2014 Carbyne among them \u2014 that frequently maintain their ties to Israeli intelligence and, according to Israeli media reports and former employees, often \u201cblur the line\u201d between their service to Israel\u2019s defense\/intelligence apparatus and their commercial activity. As this report will reveal, Carbyne is but one of several Israeli tech companies marketing themselves as a technological solution to mass shootings that has direct ties to Israeli intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n

<\/span>In each case, these companies\u2019 products are built in such a way that they can easily be used to illegally surveil the governments, institutions and civilians that use them, a troubling fact given Unit 8200\u2019s documented prowess in surveillance as a means of obtaining blackmail and Israel\u2019s history of using tech companies to aggressively spy on the U.S. government. This is further compounded by the fact that Unit 8200-linked tech companies have previously received U.S. government contracts to place \u201cbackdoors\u201d into the U.S.\u2019 entire telecommunications system as well as into the popular products of major American tech companies including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, many of whose key managers and executives are\u00a0now former Unit 8200 officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it no secret that placing Unit 8200 members in top positions in multinational tech companies is a \u201cdeliberate policy\u201d meant to ensure Israel\u2019s role as the dominant global \u201ccyber power\u201d, while also combating non-violent boycott movements targeting Israel\u2019s violations of international law and stifling the United Nations\u2019 criticisms of Israeli government policy and military operations abroad.<\/p>\n

As Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s links to intelligence in both the United States and Israel \u2014 the subject of\u00a0a recent four-part series<\/a>\u00a0exclusive to\u00a0MintPress<\/i>\u00a0\u2014 began to be revealed in full, his financing of Carbyne came under scrutiny, particularly for the company\u2019s deep ties to Israeli intelligence as well as to certain Americans with known connections to U.S. intelligence. Ehud Barak\u2019s own role as both financier and chairman of Carbyne has also added to that concern, given his long history of involvement in covert intelligence operations for Israel and his long-standing ties to Israeli military intelligence.<\/p>\n

Another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from the Trump administration\u2019s proposed hi-tech solutions to mass shootings. Indeed, after\u00a0the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas<\/a>, President Trump \u2014 who received political donations from and has been advised by Thiel following his election \u2014\u00a0asked tech companies<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cdetect mass shooters before they strike,\u201d a service already perfected by Thiel\u2019s company Palantir, which has developed \u201cpre-crime software\u201d already in use throughout the country. Palantir is also a contractor for the U.S. intelligence community and also has a branch based in Israel.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most disturbing of all, whatever technological solution is adopted by the Trump administration, it is set to use a controversial database first developed as part of a secretive U.S. government program that involved notorious Iran-Contra figures like Oliver North as a means of tracking and flagging potential American dissidents for increased surveillance and detention in the event of a vaguely defined \u201cnational emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n

As this report will reveal, this database \u2014 often referred to as \u201cMain Core\u201d \u2014 was created with the involvement of Israeli intelligence and Israel remained involved years after it was developed, and potentially to the present. It was also used by at least one former CIA official on President Reagan\u2019s National Security Council to blackmail members of Congress, Congressional staffers and journalists, among others.<\/p>\n

Given\u00a0recent reports<\/a>\u00a0on the Trump administration\u2019s plan to create a new government agency to use \u201cadvanced technology\u201d to identify \u201cneurobehavioral signs\u201d of \u201csomeone headed toward a violent explosive act\u201d using data collected by consumer electronic devices, the picture painted by the technology currently being promoted and implemented under the guise of \u201ckeeping Americans safe\u201d is deeply Orwellian. In fact, it points directly to the genesis of a far-reaching surveillance state far more extensive than anything yet seen in American history and it is being jointly developed by individuals connected to both American and Israeli intelligence.<\/p>\n

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Demystifying Carbyne<\/h2>\n

Carbyne911, which will be referred to simply as Carbyne in this report, is an Israeli tech-startup that promises to revolutionize how calls are handled by emergency service providers, as well as by governments, corporations and educational institutions. Not long after it was founded in 2014 by veterans of Israeli military intelligence, Carbyne began to be\u00a0specifically marketed<\/a>\u00a0as a solution to mass shootings in the United States that goes \u201cbeyond the gun debate\u201d and improves the \u201cintelligence that armed emergency responders receive before entering an armed shooter situation\u201d by providing video-streaming and acoustic input from civilian smartphones and other devices connected to the Carbyne network.<\/p>\n

Prior to Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s arrest in July, Carbyne had been receiving high praise from U.S. and Israeli media, with\u00a0Fox News<\/i><\/a>\u00a0hailing the company\u2019s services as the answer to the U.S.\u2019 \u201caging 911 systems\u201d and\u00a0the\u00a0Jerusalem Post<\/i><\/a>\u00a0writing that the company\u2019s platform offers \u201chi-tech protection to social workers and school principals.\u201d Other reports\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0that Carbyne\u2019s services result in \u201ca 65% reduction in time-to-dispatch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carbyne\u2019s call-handling\/crisis management platform has already been implemented in several U.S. counties and the company has offices not only in the U.S. but also in Mexico, Ukraine and Israel. Carbyne\u2019s expansion to more emergency service provider networks in the U.S. is likely, given that federal legislation seeks to offer grants to upgrade 911 call centers throughout the country with the very technology of which Carbyne is the leading provider. One of the main lobby groups promoting this legislation, the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), has a \u201cstrong relationship\u201d with Carbyne, according to\u00a0Carbyne\u2019s website<\/a>. In addition, Carbyne has also\u00a0begun marketing its platform<\/a>\u00a0for non-emergency calls to governments, educational institutions and corporations.<\/p>\n

Yet, what seemed like the inevitability of Carbyne\u2019s widespread adoption in the U.S. hit a snag following the recent arrest and subsequent death of sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who exploited underage girls for the purpose of obtaining \u201cblackmail\u201d on the rich and poweful, an operation that\u00a0had clear ties to intelligence<\/a>. Epstein, after his first arrest and light sentence for soliciting sex from a minor in 2007, was tapped by former Israeli Prime Minister and former head of Israeli military intelligence Ehud Barak, to become a key financial backer of Carbyne.<\/p>\n

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Ehud Barak, center, poses with Carbyne co-founders Alex Dizengof, Amir Elichai and Lital Leshem. Photo | Yossi Seliger<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As a result of increased scrutiny of Epstein\u2019s business activities and his ties to Israel, particularly to Barak, Epstein\u2019s connection to Carbyne was revealed and extensively reported on by the independent media outlet\u00a0Narativ<\/i>, whose\u00a0expos\u00e9 on Carbyne<\/a>\u00a0revealed not only some of the key intelligence connections of the start-up company but also how the architecture of Carbyne\u2019s product itself raises \u201cserious privacy concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n

MintPress\u00a0<\/i>detailed many of Carbyne\u2019s main intelligence connections in\u00a0Part III<\/a>\u00a0of the investigative series \u201cInside the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail<\/a>.\u201d In addition to Barak \u2014 former Israeli prime minister and former head of Israeli military intelligence \u2014 serving as Carbyne\u2019s chairman and a key financer, the company\u2019s executive team are all former members of Israeli intelligence, including the elite military intelligence unit, Unit 8200, which is often compared to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).<\/p>\n

Carbyne\u2019s current CEO, Amir Elichai,\u00a0served in Unit 8200<\/a>\u00a0and tapped former Unit 8200 commander\u00a0and current board member of AIPAC\u00a0Pinchas Buchris<\/a>\u00a0to serve as the company\u2019s director and on its board. In addition to Elichai, another Carbyne co-founder,\u00a0Lital Leshem<\/a>, also served in Unit 8200 and later worked for Israeli private spy company Black Cube. The only Carbyne co-founder that didn\u2019t serve in Unit 8200 is Alex Dizengof, who\u00a0previously worked<\/a>\u00a0for Israel\u2019s Prime Minister\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0MintPress<\/i>\u00a0noted in\u00a0a past report<\/a>\u00a0detailing Israeli military intelligence\u2019s deep ties to American tech giant Microsoft, Unit 8200 is an elite unit of the Israeli Intelligence corps that is part of the IDF\u2019s Directorate of Military Intelligence and is involved mainly in signal intelligence (i.e., surveillance), cyberwarfare and code decryption. It is frequently described as the Israeli equivalent of the NSA and Peter Roberts, senior research fellow at Britain\u2019s Royal United Services Institute, characterized the unit in\u00a0an interview<\/a>\u00a0with the\u00a0Financial Times<\/i>\u00a0as \u201cprobably the foremost technical intelligence agency in the world and stand[ing] on a par with the NSA in everything except scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notably, the NSA and Unit 8200 have collaborated on numerous projects, most infamously on the\u00a0Stuxnet virus<\/a>\u00a0as well as the\u00a0Duqu malware<\/a>. In addition, the NSA is known to work with veterans of Unit 8200 in the private sector, such as when the NSA\u00a0hired two Israeli companies<\/a>, to create backdoors into all the major U.S. telecommunications systems and major tech companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and Google. Both of those companies, Verint and Narus, have top executives with ties to Israeli intelligence and one of those companies, Verint (formerly Comverse Infosys), has a history of\u00a0aggressively spying<\/a>\u00a0on U.S. government facilities. Unit 8200 is also\u00a0known for spying<\/a>\u00a0on civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories for \u201ccoercion purposes\u201d \u2014 i.e., gathering info for blackmail \u2014 and also for\u00a0spying on Palestinian-Americans<\/a>\u00a0via an intelligence-sharing agreement with the NSA.<\/p>\n

Unlike many other Unit 8200-linked start-ups, Carbyne also boasts several tie-ins to the Trump administration, including Palantir founder and Trump ally Peter Thiel \u2014\u00a0another investor<\/a>\u00a0in Carbyne. In addition, Carbyne\u2019s\u00a0board of advisers<\/a>\u00a0includes former Palantir employee Trae Stephens, who was a member of the Trump transition team, as well as former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.\u00a0Trump donor and New York real-estate developer<\/a>\u00a0Eliot Tawill is also on\u00a0Carbyne\u2019s board<\/a>, alongside Ehud Barak and Pinchas Buchris.<\/p>\n

Yet, privacy concerns with Carbyne go beyond the company\u2019s ties to Israeli intelligence and U.S. intelligence contractors like Peter Thiel. For instance, Carbyne\u2019s smartphone app\u00a0extracts the following information<\/a>\u00a0from the phones on which it is installed:<\/p>\n

Device location, video live-streamed from the smartphone to the call center, text messages in a two-way chat window,\u00a0any data from a user\u2019s phone<\/b>\u00a0if they have the Carbyne app and ESInet, and\u00a0any information that comes over a data link<\/b>, which Carbyne opens in case the caller\u2019s voice link drops out.\u201d\u00a0(emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to\u00a0Carbyne\u2019s website<\/a>, this same information can also be obtained from any smartphone, even if it does not have Carbyne\u2019s app installed, if that phone calls a 911 call center that uses Carbyne or merely any other number connected to Carbyne\u2019s network.<\/p>\n

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Carbyne gathers data points from users\u2019 phones as well as a myriad of other web-connected devices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Carbyne is a Next-Generation 9-11 (NG911) platform and the explicit goal of NG911 is for all 911 systems nationwide to\u00a0become interconnected<\/a>. Thus, even if Carbyne is not used by all 911 call centers using an NG911 platform, Carbyne will ostensibly have access to the data used by all emergency service providers and devices connected to those networks. This guiding principle of NG911 also makes it likely that one platform will be favored at the federal level to foster such interconnectivity and, given that it has already been adopted by several counties and has ties to the Trump administration, Carbyne is the logical choice.<\/p>\n

Another cause for concern is how other countries have used platforms like Carbyne, which were first marketed as emergency response tools, for the purpose of mass surveillance.\u00a0Narativ<\/i>\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0the following in its investigation of Carbyne:<\/p>\n

In May, Human Rights Watch\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0Chinese authorities use a platform not unlike Carbyne to illegally surveil Uyghurs. China\u2019s Integrated Joint Operations Platform brings in a much bigger data-set and sources of video, which includes an app on people\u2019s phones. Like Carbyne, the platform was designed to report emergencies. Chinese authorities have turned it into a tool of mass surveillance.<\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app. The group discovered the app automatically profiles a user under 36 \u201cperson types\u201d including \u201cfollowers of Six Lines\u201d which is the term used to identify Uyghurs. Another term refers to \u201cHajj,\u201d the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. The app monitors every aspect of a user\u2019s life, including personal conversations [and] power usage, and tracks a user\u2019s movement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such technology is currently used by Israeli military intelligence and Israel\u2019s domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet to justify \u201cpre-crime\u201d detentions of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. As will be noted in greater detail later in this report, Palestinians\u2019 comments on social media are tracked by artificial intelligence algorithms that flag them for indefinite detention if they write social media posts that contain \u201ctripwire\u201d phrases such as \u201cthe sword of Allah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carbyne\u2019s platform has its own \u201cpre-crime\u201d elements, such as it\u2019s\u00a0c-Records component<\/a>, which stores and analyzes information on past calls and events that pass through its network. This information \u201cenables decision makers to accurately analyze the\u00a0past and present behavior of their callers<\/b>, react accordingly, and in time\u00a0predict future patterns<\/b>.\u201d (emphasis added)<\/p>\n

Concerns have recently been raised that \u201cpre-crime\u201d technology may soon become more widely adopted in the U.S.,\u00a0after President Trump stated<\/a>\u00a0that one of his planned solutions to mass shootings in the wake of the recent tragedy in El Paso was for big tech companies to detect potential shooters before they strike.<\/p>\n

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Israeli intelligence, Blackmail and Silicon Valley<\/h2>\n

Though many of the individuals involved in funding or managing Carbyne have proven ties to intelligence, a closer look into several of these players reveals even deeper connections to both Israeli and U.S. intelligence.<\/p>\n

One of Carbyne\u2019s clearest connections to Israeli intelligence is through its chairman and one of its funders, Ehud Barak. Though Barak is best known for being a former prime minister of Israel, he is also a former minister of defense and the former head of Israeli military intelligence. He oversaw Unit 8200\u2019s operations, as well as other units of Israeli military intelligence, in all three of those positions. For most of his military and later political career, Barak\u00a0has been closely associated<\/a>\u00a0with covert operations.<\/p>\n

Prior to the public scrutiny of Barak\u2019s relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, following the latter\u2019s arrest this past July and subsequent death, Barak had come under fire for his ties to disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein. Indeed, it was Ehud Barak who put Weinstein\u00a0in contact with<\/a>\u00a0the Israeli private intelligence outfit Black Cube, which employs former Mossad agents and Israeli military intelligence operatives, as Weinstein sought to intimidate the women who had accused him of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Former Mossad director Meir Dagan led Black Cube\u2019s board until his death in 2016 and Carbyne co-founder Lital Leshem is Black Cube\u2019s\u00a0former director of marketing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After Barak put him in contact with Black Cube\u2019s leadership, Weinstein, according to\u00a0The New Yorker<\/i><\/a>, used the private spy firm to \u201c\u2018target,\u2019 or collect information on, dozens of individuals, and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focused on their personal or sexual histories.\u201d In addition,\u00a0The New Yorker<\/i>\u00a0noted that<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWeinstein monitored the progress of the investigations personally\u201d and \u201calso enlisted former employees from his film enterprises to join in the effort, collecting names and placing calls that, according to some sources who received them, felt intimidating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, more recently, it has been Barak\u2019s close relationship to Epstein that has raised eyebrows and opened him up to\u00a0political attacks from his rivals<\/a>. Epstein and Barak were first introduced by former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in 2002, a time when Epstein\u2019s pedophile blackmail and sex trafficking operation was in full swing.<\/p>\n

Barak was a frequent visitor to Epstein\u2019s residences in New York, so often that\u00a0The Daily Beast<\/i>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that numerous residents of an apartment building linked to Epstein \u201chad seen Barak in the building multiple times over the last few years, and nearly half a dozen more described running into his security detail,\u201d adding that \u201cthe building is majority-owned by Epstein\u2019s younger brother, Mark, and has been tied to the financier\u2019s alleged New York trafficking ring.\u201d Specifically, several apartments in the building were \u201cbeing used to house underage girls from South America, Europe and the former Soviet Union,\u201d according to\u00a0a former bookkeeper<\/a>\u00a0employed by one of Epstein\u2019s main procurers of underage girls, Jean Luc Brunel.<\/p>\n

Barak is also known to have spent the night at one of Epstein\u2019s residences at least once, was photographed leaving Epstein\u2019s residence as recently as 2016, and has admitted to visiting Epstein\u2019s island, which has sported nicknames including \u201cPedo Island,\u201d \u201cLolita Island\u201d and \u201cOrgy Island.\u201d In 2004, Barak\u00a0received $2.5 million<\/a>\u00a0from Leslie Wexner\u2019s Wexner Foundation, where Epstein was a trustee as well as one of the foundation\u2019s top donors, officially for unspecified \u201cconsulting services\u201d and \u201cresearch\u201d on the foundation\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Barak formed a limited partnership company in Israel for the explicit purpose of investing in Carbyne (then known as Reporty) and invested millions of dollars in the company, quickly becoming a major shareholder and subsequently the company\u2019s public face and the chairman of its board. At least\u00a0$1 million<\/a>\u00a0of the money invested in this Barak-created company that was later used to invest in Carbyne came from the Southern Trust Company, which\u00a0was owned by<\/a>\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

In July, Bloomberg reported that Epstein\u2019s Southern Trust Company is identified in U.S. Virgin Islands filings as \u201ca DNA database and data mining\u201d company. Given Carbyne\u2019s clear potential for data-mining and civilian profiling, Epstein\u2019s investment in Carbyne using this specific company suggests that Carbyne\u2019s investors have long been aware of this little advertised aspect of Carbyne\u2019s product.<\/p>\n

In a statement to\u00a0the Israeli newspaper\u00a0Haaretz<\/i><\/a>, Barak asserted:<\/p>\n

I saw the business opportunity and registered a partnership in my control in Israel. A small number of people I know invest in it\u2026Since these are private investments, it wouldn\u2019t be proper or right for me to expose the investors\u2019 details.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, Barak\u00a0later admitted<\/a>\u00a0that Epstein had been one of the investors.<\/p>\n

MintPress\u2019\u00a0<\/i>recent series<\/a>\u00a0on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal noted in detail Epstein\u2019s ties to CIA\/Mossad intelligence assets, such as Adnan Khashoggi; CIA front companies, such as Southern Air Transport; and organized crime, through his close association with Leslie Wexner. In addition, Epstein\u2019s long-time \u201cgirlfriend\u201d and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, has\u00a0family links to Israeli intelligence<\/a>\u00a0through her father, Robert Maxwell. While it appears that Epstein may have been working for more than one intelligence agency, Zev Shalev, former executive producer for\u00a0CBS News<\/i>\u00a0and journalist at\u00a0Narativ<\/i>,\u00a0recently stated<\/a> that he had independently confirmed with two unconnected sources \u201cclosely connected to the Epstein story and in a position to know\u201d that Epstein had \u201cworked for Israeli military intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Exclusive: We have two independent sources confirming Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israeli military intelligence. In each case the source is closely connected to the Epstein story and in a position to know. You can take it to the bank. @narativlive<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/BdK1DrZEO6<\/a><\/p>\n

— Zev Shalev (@ZevShalev) August 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n