A dinner Jeffrey Epstein recorded on his phone in February 2013 captures three men — Epstein, the outgoing Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers — discussing Vladimir Putin’s recruitment of Barak and how to make that happen.
In the weeks following that dinner, the conversation moved from an idea into a one-on-one meeting with Putin in St. Petersburg, and a million-dollar wire from Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg into a new Israeli company called Hyperion E.B.
The three men met at a Valentine’s weekend dinner inside Epstein’s six-story Manhattan townhouse on East 71st Street. The concept was simple: build on Barak’s personal rapport with Vladimir Putin and turn it into a full-time consultancy.
“I came to Sochi with, and sit down with him and his palace. He proposed we play billiards or whatever. He always hugs me, reminds of a story that I told him and I'm someone that looks him in the eye: I don't think that you are doing the right thing for you and for God like this or that.”
The recording was first surfaced by Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. after it was released by the DOJ in the FBI’s Epstein Files. It has a since been removed from those files but Mitchell retained a copy.
You can hear a clip of the taped conversation - digitally enhanced - below:
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