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Ehud Barak

b. 1942

Former Israeli PM, Epstein associate, and serial surveillance-venture founder.

Ehud Barak — former Israeli prime minister and defense minister — sits where the Epstein money and the Israeli surveillance industry meet. He took investment tied to Epstein into the emergency-response/data firm Carbyne, and has launched a string of surveillance ventures, the latest being Paragon Solutions.

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  1. Epstein-linked money flowed into Barak's venture Carbyne.

    PROBABLY TRUE

    Barak chaired and invested in Carbyne, a call-handling/data firm that took funding connected to Epstein — a node in the Israeli tech pipeline this site traces.

  2. He is the force behind a succession of surveillance ventures, including Paragon.

    FACT

    Paragon Solutions is his third surveillance venture — spyware infrastructure sold into the same market as NSO's Pegasus.

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