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points by slowin 9 hours ago | 0 comments

> On that note, they never worked on french spies as infidelity and sex stuff hold seemingly zero leverage over french men.

Tell that to Jean-Luc Brunel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Brunel

[–] throw-qqqqq 9 hours ago

IIUC: Brunel was into underage girls and intelligence agencies cannot employ kids..

[–] kevin_thibedeau 5 hours ago

According to Bustamante the CIA will readily supply illicit materials to their assets.

[–] kraken_cult 9 hours ago

They can traffic them though, see Epstein and Mossad.

[–] wand3r 9 hours ago

The "sex stuff" is doing A LOT of heavy lifting here.

[–] xnyan 9 hours ago

Sure? He didn't kill himself because people found out, but because he was faced with spending the rest of his life in prison.

[–] laimewhisps 6 hours ago

He maybe didn't even kill himself? Just like Epstein.

[–] wtlak 9 hours ago

Epstein & company were involved probably in Iran Contra, arms deals in Angola and mysterious transactions involving human trafficking:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/31/jp-morgan-j...

$1 billion for trafficking would be 100,000 trafficking victims at a rate of $10,000 per victim, which is claimed by LLMs and some Internet sites. It does not make sense and looks like another operation where ironically the trafficking was the cover.

In other words, we know nothing about the real dynamics that led to the "suicides" of Epstein and Brunel.