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🇨🇩🤝🇮🇱 How Jeffrey Epstein’s Israeli Network Shaped Congo’s Deadly Mineral Trade 🔸 A Drop Site investigation by Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim, drawing on U.S. Justice Department records and hacked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s account, reveals how Jeffrey Epstein and Barak built a business network that combined Israeli intelligence expertise, private military contracting, and access to Africa’s vast natural resources. The emails were obtained through the whistleblower group Distributed Denial of Secrets and independently verified by Drop Site. 🔸 After resigning as Israel’s defense minister in 2013, Barak worked with Epstein to market privatized Israeli intelligence, surveillance, and security services to governments confronting civil conflicts. Emails show Barak drew on his longtime intelligence contacts, including former Mossad chief Danny Yatom, to expand the venture across Africa. 🔸 One classified proposal from Yatom’s firm describes how Israeli intelligence veterans trained a 150-member elite Congolese special operations force during the 2012-2013 war against the Rwandan-backed M23 rebellion in eastern Congo. Yatom claimed the unit’s night raids and special operations helped turn the tide of the war. 🔸 As fighting subsided, the network’s focus shifted from military contracts to business opportunities. Emails show Epstein’s close associate Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, chairman of Dubai-based DP World, opening channels to Congolese President Joseph Kabila over investments in mining, oil, gas, ports, and transport infrastructure. 🔸 The investigation places those efforts within a much longer history of foreign governments, mining companies, intelligence agencies, and military contractors competing for influence over Congo’s enormous reserves of copper, cobalt, coltan, diamonds, and other strategic minerals. By 2018, Epstein was participating in discussions around U.S. Treasury sanctions targeting Congo’s mining economy, including the holdings of sanctioned Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler. 🔸 Our report traces those same dynamics into the present. As Washington moves to challenge China’s dominance over Congo’s critical minerals, a U.S.- and UAE-backed consortium is seeking control of major copper and cobalt assets once tied to Gertler. At the same time, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, working alongside Israeli advisers, is helping retrain Congolese special forces to fight M23 around the same mineral-rich region. 🔸 The investigation highlights that while the geopolitical players and technologies have changed, the competition over Congo’s mineral wealth continues. Foreign governments, military contractors, and multinational investors remain deeply involved in the country’s resource sector, while little of the wealth generated by Congo’s vast natural resources reaches the Congolese people. 🔗 https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/epstein-barak-congo-israel