Triple Conspiracy Special. Before Epstein's Island, there was that Beach House in Solona, California. Trump Coup! Iran/Contra! JFK Assassination!

The idea the Epstein Island was a "honeypot", where the CIA or the Mossad or the Saudi's, Bush's, Clinton's, etc. could maintain their power grip by compromising politicians is not new, though likely more sophisticated and depraved. It was a sub-plot in The God Father 2 (or GF-1, feel free to correct.)

"Never get caught with a live boy or a dead girl", as the saying goes.

The Playboy Mansion was also believed to be a honeypot for politicians and actors that were probably getting to full of themselves for the studio bosses back in the 60's, 70's and 80's.

The level of sophistication has no doubt "improved" since the '60s and '70s. Technology made it easier to both record the activities more surreptitiously and distribution is of course easier with the Internet.

We're are guessing the level of depravity has increased since the Playboy Mansion's "hey-day."

In the 1950s and '60s, a picture of a legal age Bunny canoodling with a corporate executive might have been enough to compromise the businessman. ie. "I'll do anything, just don't show my wife, she will divorce me and we'll be kicked out of Bushwood."

As social norms became more liberal, trying to blackmail a man of importance by threatening to expose an extramarital affair, was not going to cut it.

By the '70s and '80s, exposing a homosexual affair between consenting adults probably wasn't as impactful as a blackmail threat as it was in the '50s and '60s.

One can imagine that at some point the blackmailers started using children. Maybe that was Epstein's contribution to the blackmail industry.

There is probably another level after that. After all, how do you blackmail a Saudi Sheikh who already has four wives under the age of 16?

There was that Beach House in Solona, California

One of the conspirators in the attempt to take out Trump has been around a long time. Stefan Halper was a key player in the Iran/Contra Scandal from back in the 1980s.

As the excerpt below shows, Halper was involved in the S&L Scandal as a founder of Palmer National Bank. The bank owned the note on a Beach House in Solona, California  that looks like it was used as a honeypot.

 D.C. BANK SWEPT UP IN INTRIGUE FUNDS CHANNELED TO NORTH ACCOUNT

PETE BREWTON, OF THE HOUSTON POST STAFF

HOUSTON POST; FINAL Section: National Page: A1

SUNDAY June 10, 1990

 ...Palmer National co-founder Stefan Halper helped set up North's legal defense fund. Halper's name appears in the final entry of North's White House journal under the heading, "Legal Defense Fund."

 Palmer National held a $250,000 note on a California beach house that was used by organized crime associates and figured in the criminal convictions of two S&L figures.

  Palmer National, a relatively small bank with assets under $100 million, occupies a modern building at 1667 K St. N.W....

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Stefan Halper

...Dixon is not believed to be a suspect in the case, however investigators say he purchased the services of 20 call girls, including victim Donna Gentile, for a party at his Solana Beach, Calif., the San Diego Union reported. The nude body of Gentile -- her mouth stuffed with rocks -- was found the day after the two-day party concluded, sources told the newspaper....

Whether or not the beach house was used in the same manner as Epstein's Island retreat, the connection to Halper and his other activities involving Iran/Contra, CIA ops. and dubious financial partners provides some context to his role in pushing the "Russian Dossier" to take out President Trump.

Palmer National Bank's Financial Sponsor was an associate of George Herbert Walker Bush and Carlos Marcello

One of Palmer National Bank's early sources of financing was from Herman K. Beebe Sr.. Beebe was a key figure in the S&L crises through his ownership and/or self-dealing that caused the collapse of several Texas banks in the 1980's. It is believed he helped fund Iran/Contra and related Mena, Arkansas activities through some of these banks and is otherwise known to have raised money for "Poppy" Bush's campaigns over the years.

Carlos Marcello

...Beebe is alleged to have ties to New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello, and the Post reported ties between Beebe and Renda, a New York money broker who allegedly is associated with the Gambino and Lucchese crime families in New York. Link to article Oct. 8, 1988.

Carlos Marcello is often considered to have been a key player in the JFK Assassination.

Vaccara’s important book identifies Carlos Marcello, the powerful Mafia chief of New Orleans, as the mandante of the assassination, its chief organizer. Marcello – born Calogero Minacori in Tunis, to Sicilian parents....  Link to Article Mar. 20, 2014.