More Epstein files fuel claims paedo financier WAS a spy after ‘Mossad links’ and ‘Russian’s secret cams’ emerge in docs

NEW Jeffrey Epstein files have reignited explosive claims that the paedophile financier secretly worked as a foreign intelligence asset.

Messages from the latest tranche of docs reportedly include references to Israel’s spy agency Mossad and secret surveillance equipment allegedly installed across Epstein’s homes.

The documents appear to paint a murky picture of Epstein’s international contacts, fuelling speculation that he gathered compromising information on powerful figures.

According to The Times, newly released files include claims from a confidential FBI informant that the billionaire paedo was a “co-opted Mossad agent”.

An FBI report from October 2020 said the source had become “convinced that Epstein was a co-opted Mossad agent” and alleged the financier had been “trained as a spy”.

The report claimed Epstein had links to US and allied intelligence circles through his long-time lawyer Alan Dershowitz, citing elite academic and political connections.

Dershowitz dismissed the allegations, saying: “No intelligence agency would really trust him. That’s not something he would keep from his lawyers.”

Epstein himself appeared anxious about the rumours.

In a 2018 email to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, he asked him to “make clear that i dont work for mossad. :)”.

Barak and his wife, Nili, reportedly stayed frequently at Epstein’s New York townhouse and had planned a visit shortly before Epstein’s final arrest in 2019.

Barak has since said he regretted the relationship.

Israel’s current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, also pushed back on the claims, writing on X: “Jeffrey Epstein’s unusual close relationship with Ehud Barak doesn’t suggest Epstein worked for Israel. It proves the opposite.”

Despite this, the files appear to show how Epstein had extensive Israeli business and travel interests.

These include investments in an Israeli surveillance-linked start-up and multiple trips to Tel Aviv dating back decades.

Former British Army intelligence officer Lynette Nusbacher said there was no proof Epstein was a spy, but acknowledged lingering questions over his wealth.

She told The Times: “There’s a tremendous mystery, widely discussed, about where his money came from.

“But there is no evidence to suggest that he was anything other than the awful person he was convicted of being.”

Epstein also reportedly ordered staff to install hidden, motion-activated cameras in his homes – with a cryptic reference to Russians potentially assisting.

Emails show Epstein asked his pilot and handyman, Larry Visoski, to buy “three motion-detected hidden cameras, that record”, The Telegraph reported.

Visoski replied that he was already “installing them in Kleenex boxes now”.

On the same day, another email sent to Epstein warned: “Remember what we spoke about if you want to put cameras in the house. It will have to be very discreetly done. The Russians may come in handy.”

There is no further explanation of what role Russians may have played.

Epstein’s American Express statements reportedly corroborate purchases of surveillance equipment from a Florida “spy shop”, totalling more than $1,000.

The revelations are the strongest evidence yet that Epstein secretly recorded activity inside his properties, amid long-standing claims he gathered compromising material on visitors.

Some commentators, including Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, have speculated Epstein may have worked with Russian intelligence – though there is no clear evidence he was a Russian asset.

US authorities have repeatedly said there is “no credible evidence” Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals or maintained a “client list”.

Several of Epstein’s victims have long claimed they were secretly filmed.

Virginia Giuffre, Epstein’s most prominent accuser, wrote in her diary that she was taped being “abused by other men” for blackmail. She died by suicide last year.

Epstein denied having hidden cameras. In a 2006 email sent to himself, he said reports of covert surveillance were “misleading”, claiming police were aware of the cameras and that they had an “innocent explanation”.

Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.