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The Channel: Jeffrey Epstein's Three-Year Campaign to Reach Vladimir Putin

Patrick Duggan
Feb 22
4 min read

# The Channel: Jeffrey Epstein's Three-Year Campaign to Reach Vladimir Putin

In January 2014, a registered sex offender emailed the Secretary General of the Council of Europe with a proposal for Vladimir Putin.

> *you can explain to putin, that there should be a sophisticated russian version of bitcoin*

The sex offender was Jeffrey Epstein. The Secretary General was Thorbjørn Jagland — former Prime Minister of Norway, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the man who gives out the Peace Prize.

The proposal was cryptocurrency infrastructure for Russia, pitched through Europe's most senior institutional leader.

We found the entire correspondence.

"Lets Try to Set a Putin Meeting"

**EFTA01940931** — January 2014

Jeffrey Epstein to Thorbjørn Jagland:

> *lets try to set a putin meeting*

The casual tone — *"lets try"* — tells you this wasn't the first ask. Epstein wanted face time with the President of Russia and was using the head of the Council of Europe as his intermediary.

Same month, same channel (**EFTA01941232**):

> *you can explain to putin, that there should be a sophisticated russian version of bitcoin*

This is January 2014. Bitcoin is trading at $800. Russia is about to annex Crimea. And Jeffrey Epstein is proposing Russian cryptocurrency infrastructure through a back channel that runs through Strasbourg.

Eighteen Months Later

**EFTA02492828** — July 2015

Epstein to Jagland:

> *I still would like to meet putin and talk economy*

The word "still." Eighteen months of persistent effort. Epstein had not given up on a direct Putin meeting and was still working the Jagland channel.

The Silicon Valley Angle

Epstein didn't just use European diplomats. He tried to bring Silicon Valley.

**EFTA01914954** — July 20, 2014

Joi Ito (Director of MIT Media Lab) to Jeffrey Epstein, CC: Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder):

> *Hey Jeffrey. I wasn't able to convince Reid to change his schedule to go meet Putin with you. ;-)*

Epstein was organizing a delegation to meet Vladimir Putin. He recruited the director of MIT's most prestigious technology lab and the co-founder of the world's largest professional network. Ito served as intermediary, trying to get Hoffman to rearrange his calendar.

Hoffman declined due to scheduling — not principle. The MIT Media Lab director was CC'd on a plan to deliver Silicon Valley billionaires to the Russian president through a convicted sex offender.

The Intel Flow

Epstein didn't just seek access to Putin. He received intelligence about Putin.

**EFTA02503628** — April 2015

Someone briefing Epstein:

> *Putin. Feelings towards Obama and his actions with Syria. All beyond interesting.*

This is not news analysis. "Feelings towards Obama" suggests someone with direct access to Putin's emotional state and strategic calculus was reporting to Epstein. Intelligence-grade geopolitical briefing, delivered to a registered sex offender.

Meanwhile, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem — chairman of DP World, one of the world's largest port operators, owned by the Dubai government — was sending Epstein photos of himself with Putin:

**EFTA02487798** — September 2015

Subject line: **"Putin"**

Bin Sulayem to Epstein, with photo attachments. A Dubai government official sharing Putin access photos with a convicted sex offender. The Gulf-Russia-Epstein triangle in a single email.

The Russian Pipeline

The Putin channel existed alongside something darker.

DOJ evidence labels from Dataset 3 (**EFTA00004477**) document a categorization system:

> *THAIS, MOSCOW GIRLS, AFRICA, RUSSIA, YOGA GIRLS*

"MOSCOW GIRLS" and "RUSSIA" as separate categories. A Moscow-based pipeline and a broader Russian recruitment network. Global trafficking — organized, labeled, systematic.

**EFTA02359410** — October 2014

Someone offers Epstein a 24-year-old woman:

> *She is Russian and Polish (EU passport). 24 years old. She worked as assistant for Russian oligarchs.*

Nationality. Age. Passport status. Prior employment with oligarchs. This reads like a human resources listing.

**EFTA01619306** — February 14, 2019

Active trafficking iMessages, six months before Epstein's death:

> *Her social security is in Russia.*

The child's documents are in Russia. Active trafficking of a minor with Russian connections, Valentine's Day 2019. Same message chain: *"Done with pornhub introduction."* The child had *"BABY HAIR."*

**EFTA00009877** — March 2016

Page Six headline preserved in DOJ files:

> *Jeffrey Epstein's east side mansion houses Russian playmates*

The article was collected by investigators. They were tracking the Russian connection.

**EFTA02229698** — November 2017

Russian-language email from a Mail.Ru address in Epstein's correspondence. Mail.Ru is Russia's dominant email provider. Direct Russian-language communication in a sex offender's network.

The Convergence

Epstein was simultaneously:

- Pursuing a face-to-face meeting with Putin through the Council of Europe

- Proposing Russian cryptocurrency infrastructure

- Recruiting Silicon Valley billionaires for Putin delegations

- Receiving intelligence briefings about Putin's emotional state on Syria

- Receiving Putin photos from Gulf state officials

- Operating a trafficking pipeline that categorized "MOSCOW GIRLS" separately from "RUSSIA"

- Receiving Russian-language emails from Mail.Ru addresses

- Trafficking a minor whose "social security is in Russia"

This is not a social connection. This is an **operation** — one that spanned diplomatic channels, technology ventures, intelligence briefings, and human trafficking, all intersecting at a registered sex offender's inbox.

Every EFTA number is verifiable at [justice.gov/epstein](https://www.justice.gov/epstein). Search them at [epstein.dugganusa.com](https://epstein.dugganusa.com).

*DugganUSA LLC has indexed 364,000+ DOJ Epstein documents across all 12 EFTA datasets. Infrastructure cost: $76/month. We don't editorialize. We index.*