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This episode follows a money trail that stayed hidden for nine years. In 2014 Jeffrey Epstein pushed a sit-down between Peter Thiel and Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister who once commanded Unit 8200, Israel’s signals intelligence unit. In 2015 Epstein put roughly $1.5 million into Carbyne, a Unit 8200-founded emergency-call platform chaired by Barak. That same year and the next, Epstein placed $40 million into Thiel’s Valar Ventures. In 2018 Thiel’s Founders Fund invested in Carbyne. Today Carbyne operates with U.S. 911 partners and can pull location, video, and messages from callers in real time. Former DHS secretaries advise it. A Palantir co-founder sits on its board. Is this coordination or coincidence? We map the timing, the players, the capabilities, and the policy gaps that let foreign-linked data pipes touch American emergency calls.
Full sources and complete investigation is live at kaitjustice.com.
By Kait JusticeThis episode follows a money trail that stayed hidden for nine years. In 2014 Jeffrey Epstein pushed a sit-down between Peter Thiel and Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister who once commanded Unit 8200, Israel’s signals intelligence unit. In 2015 Epstein put roughly $1.5 million into Carbyne, a Unit 8200-founded emergency-call platform chaired by Barak. That same year and the next, Epstein placed $40 million into Thiel’s Valar Ventures. In 2018 Thiel’s Founders Fund invested in Carbyne. Today Carbyne operates with U.S. 911 partners and can pull location, video, and messages from callers in real time. Former DHS secretaries advise it. A Palantir co-founder sits on its board. Is this coordination or coincidence? We map the timing, the players, the capabilities, and the policy gaps that let foreign-linked data pipes touch American emergency calls.
Full sources and complete investigation is live at kaitjustice.com.