By: Cliff Kincaid | America’s Survival
Have you seen the picture of Jeffrey Epstein wearing his communist Red Star cap? It was in the DOJ files just released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. He was a communist agent with extensive Russian connections.
“McCarthyism,” a term associated with hunting communists, was right in this case, though confirmation has officially come decades later.
And who would have thought to look in the corridors of power – Harvard, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the billionaire “Edge” organization?
The implications are enormous. America’s elite have been compromised. They must be named. They must be prosecuted.
President Trump was once seen palling around with Epstein, but then kicked him out of his exclusive Mar-a-Lago club when he was told Epstein was hitting on young girls.
I had believed that Epstein was a mastermind of a pedophile network serving the rich and powerful that involved blackmail. It now appears that Putin and his KGB were the real masterminds.
Epstein was a shady predator and a sex pervert who possibly videotaped the rich and famous having sex with young girls and boys. It turned out that Epstein was bisexual, with preferences for both sexes. His “clients” were probably men who wanted girls and boys.
Now we learn that he was doing so on behalf of the Kremlin.
The photo of Epstein wearing the Red Star cap was described as “undated” and released by the U.S. Department of Justice via the AP wire service.
Red Star caps are described as featuring a 5-point red star symbolizing socialism or communism. It is sometimes described as a “Mao cap,” a reference to the former Communist Chinese dictator, who wore one.
How could a college dropout like Epstein, someone with enormous wealth obtained through mysterious circumstances, reach the pinnacle of power? Was it because of his keen intellect? Clearly not.
With the assistance of high-powered lawyers such as Ken Starr, the special prosecutor who “investigated” the Clintons but covered up the murder of Clinton lawyer Vincent Foster, Epstein protected himself and his network, serving only 13 months in a country-club arrangement at a local jail. He had the best lawyers that money could buy.
His links to Vladimir Putin and Russia are prominently featured in the release, but there is still the matter of a secret trip he made to Communist Cuba to meet with then-Cuban President Fidel Castro. A photo has surfaced of them posing together.
One analyst commented, “Epstein has compromised so many politicians, businessmen, academics, and other leaders that the U.S. government finds it easier to cover it up than to come clean. It probably seemed like a manageable task in the 1990s and 2000s, but once the cover-up began, the U.S. government likely underestimated the scope of his operations and was also involved in the cover-up. Epstein likely worked with multiple intelligence agencies, but in his field of compromise, the lowest common denominator wins: the KGB/ Russians.”
In his book, Judgment in Moscow, Vladimir Bukovsky writes about Robert Maxwell, the father of Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, being a Russian agent. He put Armand Hammer in the same category.
He commented, “I am firmly convinced that no businessman at that time could have purely business relations with the USSR. One cannot deal with the devil without becoming his servant. Even leaving aside the dubious morality of selling one’s class hangman the rope of which Lenin spoke, it was hardly possible to fraternize with the Soviet demons without becoming corrupt.”
Looking at Robert Maxwell’s entire record, one analyst says it is clear he worked with British Intelligence and Israel’s Mossad, but his work with the Soviets was the most influential. “FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was notified every time Maxwell entered the U.S.,” he noted, referencing the files. “Many of his FBI files from the 1950s are completely blacked out. That means intelligence.”
Now that we know Epstein was a communist agent working closely with Vladimir Putin and the Russians, there are many more questions to be answered. As I wrote in a column last July:
“Epstein, a college dropout, was highly regarded by such elite organizations as the Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and even Harvard University. Epstein was accepted into the ‘Chairman’s Circle’ of the CFR’s top donors, but the group’s president, Richard Haass, has tried to distance himself from Epstein after his death. However, the Trilateral Commission, whose membership is by invitation only, has not said anything publicly about his involvement with the organization.
“Research into the agenda of these organizations is as important as finding out those who were rubbing elbows (or other body parts) with Epstein or the young girls in his harem.”
The investigations must go deeper.
A quick look into one of Epstein’s affiliated groups, the Edge organization, reveals a (deleted) “Billionaires’ Dinner” with photos of Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon and the Washington Post; Jeffrey Epstein; and many others. “Guests have included the leading third culture intellectuals of our time, dining and conversing with the founders of Amazon, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, SpaceX, Skype, Twitter,” said the website. “It is a remarkable gathering of outstanding minds — the people who are rewriting our global culture.”
To understand this mentality, let us begin with Vladimir Bukovsky’s book, which identified Maxwell by name and examined his network. It named the names of those who were behind the campaign to integrate the Soviet Union into the international order. Some were dupes, others were agents.
The book by this anti-communist freedom fighter who suffered at the hands of the communists was so explosive that all major American publishers rejected it. It was finally published by Ninth of November, a small press headquartered in California that is named after the day the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
On one level, that of street protests and insurrectionary activities, Bukovsky’s book notes that the Communist Party USA has been treated as a joke, since there were reportedly only about forty thousand communists in the whole of the USA. “One should not forget,” writes Bukovsky, “that back in 1917, Lenin also started out with only forty thousand comrades.” He goes on to describe communist involvement in domestic U.S. politics at Moscow’s direction.
It continues to this day.
To bring it up to date, however, we have to understand the “Russian threat,” downplayed by those who think Russia has changed for the better and that Putin is a God-fearing Christian nationalist. The Epstein files show a close working relationship with Putin and the Russians.
As I wrote at the time, based on an interview with Bukovsky, the so-called Russia-gate scandal implicating Donald J. Trump in a Russian influence operation was a “political game” and not to be taken seriously. He said, “For the first time, the left-wing establishment discovered the Russian threat. Previously, they didn’t see any threat. When it was real, and we tried to attract the attention of the world to the Russian threat, we were accused of being paranoid and unrealistic and things like that. Now we have proven we were not paranoid. It did exist. Suddenly, the world discovers the Russian threat. That, of course, is a political game.”
He said the Russia-gate allegations constituted political games by “the elites,” who “should have come to the conclusion that all of the socialist experiments are absolutely deadly.” Instead, however, we see that socialism is accepted by many young people and Democratic Party politicians today. And now that it has been proven beyond doubt that Epstein was a Russian agent, we will undoubtedly witness the Democrats trying to implicate Trump in his network when the Epstein Files Transparency Act was signed into law by President Trump on November 19, 2025.
There is also the matter of Epstein’s mysterious death.
Then-Attorney General William Barr told AP that Epstein’s “suicide” was the result of “a perfect storm of screw-ups.” But in the same way that then-candidate Donald J. Trump had brought up the case of the mysterious death of former Clinton aide Vincent Foster, calling it “fishy,” there are too many outstanding questions about the Epstein death.
Like Foster, he is a man who knew too much.
- Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org
