THEBLACKBOOK AUDIT

Whitney Webb

Our investigations stand on Whitney's work. This page collects what we drew from it, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.

The book

Where their work appears on this site

How we graded the claims built on their work

2 FACT · 11 PROBABLY TRUE · 4 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.

  1. 8. The 2022 Predecessor — Chiliad, Carbyne, and Epstein-orbit prediction-market interest

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
  2. BCCI — the bank that ran the plumbing

    FACT
    Military Grift →
  3. Cohn Exports the Model: The Lineage to Maxwell and Epstein

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
  4. Jeffrey Epstein's adoption of the Roy Cohn method

    SOME SMOKE
    The Roy Cohn Method →
  5. Mena and ADFA — Barry Seal, Jackson Stephens, and the Arkansas node

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Military Grift →
  6. Reading the 1991 convergence: POA, Maxwell’s death, and the Mega Group first meeting in the same year

    SOME SMOKE
    Leslie Wexner →
  7. Robert Maxwell and the international distribution of modified PROMIS

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Israeli Influence on the United States →
  8. Roy Cohn's 'favor bank': trading favors, leverage, and blackmail

    FACT
    The Roy Cohn Method →
  9. The Cohn / Rosenstiel / Hoover Blackmail Triangle

    SOME SMOKE
    Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
  10. The Shackley / Wilson ‘private CIA’ — the pre-Enterprise pattern

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Military Grift →
  11. Wexner gave Epstein his institutional standing (Harvard, Rockefeller University)

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Leslie Wexner →
  12. Wexner’s 2020 letter and the deceit claim

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Leslie Wexner →
  13. What Epstein's contact directory documents about his operational reach

    PROBABLY TRUE
    The Epstein Class →
  14. What Wexner Foundation records look like once Epstein’s trustee role and the $2.3M Barak transfers are factored in

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Leslie Wexner →
  15. Why the 1991 founding date sits inside the Wexner-Epstein timeline

    SOME SMOKE
    Leslie Wexner →
  16. Why the Epstein-as-intelligence-asset pattern matters without a smoking gun

    PROBABLY TRUE
    The Epstein Class →
  17. Wikipedia and later reporting call the Mega Group a pro-Israel lobby; the 1998 WSJ called it philanthropic

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Leslie Wexner →