The FBI Document That Calls Epstein a Spy: What FD-1023 Actually Says

Among the three million pages released by the Department of Justice in January 2026, one document stands apart from the financial records, flight logs, and email chains that make up the bulk of the Epstein files. It is an FBI FD-1023, the standardized form used by the Bureau to record information provided by a Confidential Human Source. It is three pages long. It was produced by the Los Angeles field office on October 19, 2020, based on a contact made three days earlier via encrypted messaging app. And it contains the most direct claim by any U.S. government document that Jeffrey Epstein operated as a foreign intelligence asset.

The document, indexed as EFTA00090314, carries two case file numbers: 804I-LA-3315657-INTELPRODS and 50D-NY-3027571. The first prefix, 804I, indicates a counterintelligence classification. The second, 50D, corresponds to the Southern District of New York criminal investigation into Epstein.

What the Source Told the FBI

The confidential source, identified only by the code S-00099701, was asked by a handling agent about "information he/she may be aware of related to improper domestic or foreign influence over the electoral process in the U.S." The source responded with a series of interconnected claims that swept from Harvard Law School to Israeli intelligence to the Trump White House.

The source stated that Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz "told CHS that if he were young again, he would be holding a stun gun as an Israeli Intelligence (Mossad) agent." The source believed Dershowitz was "co-opted by Mossad and subscribed to their mission."

The source then described a specific claim: Dershowitz told Alexander Acosta, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who negotiated Epstein's 2008 plea deal, that "Epstein belonged to both U.S. and allied intelligence services." The source reported sharing phone calls between Dershowitz and Epstein "during which he/she took notes." After these calls, the source stated, "Mossad would then call Dershowitz to debrief."

The most direct claim followed: "Epstein was close to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, and trained as a spy under him."

The source then described becoming "convinced that Epstein was a co-opted Mossad Agent."

The Broader Claims

The FD-1023 did not confine itself to Epstein. The source described a Russian venture capitalist named Masha Drokova, based in Silicon Valley and running a firm called Day One Ventures. When the source met Drokova, "she did not talk at all about technology; instead, she looked at CHS and said, 'You knew Epstein, didn't you.' She said Epstein was a 'wonderful man' and that it was a crying shame what had been done to him." The source concluded Day One Ventures was operating in Silicon Valley "to steal technology."

The document also contained claims about the Chabad movement, describing it as "basically state-sanctioned Judaism" that is "used by Putin to keep tabs on all the Russo-Jewish oligarchs." The source stated that "Chabad routinely uses charities to launder money."

What It Does Not Prove

An FD-1023 is not a finding of fact. It is a record of what a source said. The FBI files CHS reports as received, without necessarily endorsing their content. Sources have their own agendas, biases, and limitations. This particular source was providing information about multiple geopolitical topics in a single contact, ranging from Israeli intelligence to Russian technology theft to the Kushner family's real estate dealings.

The claim that Dershowitz told Acosta that Epstein "belonged to both U.S. and allied intelligence services" has been reported before in different forms. Acosta reportedly told the Trump transition team in 2017 that he had been told to leave Epstein alone because he "belonged to intelligence." Whether this referred to U.S. intelligence, Israeli intelligence, or both has never been officially clarified.

Dershowitz has denied all allegations of wrongdoing related to Epstein. Ehud Barak acknowledged visiting Epstein "more than ten but much less than a hundred" times but has denied any involvement in illegal activity. Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett dismissed the Mossad claims as "unfounded." Benjamin Netanyahu stated in 2026 that Barak's personal ties to Epstein "do not imply state espionage."

What It Adds

The significance of EFTA00090314 is not that it proves Epstein was a Mossad agent. It does not. What it demonstrates is that the FBI's own counterintelligence apparatus was receiving and documenting claims about Epstein's intelligence connections as late as October 2020, more than a year after his death. The document was filed under a counterintelligence case number. A handling agent asked the question. The Bureau recorded the answer.

The claims in the FD-1023 align with a broader body of allegations that have circulated for years. Former Israeli military intelligence official Ari Ben-Menashe has publicly stated that both Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were recruited as intelligence assets in the 1980s through Robert Maxwell's Mossad connections. Steven Hoffenberg, Epstein's partner in the Towers Financial Ponzi scheme, told reporters before his 2022 death that Epstein admitted intelligence ties. The documentary record shows Epstein invested in Barak's surveillance technology company Reporty (later Carbyne), attended Israeli security conferences, and maintained a relationship with Barak that Nili Priell, Barak's associate, helped coordinate across 3,474 documents.

None of this constitutes proof. All of it constitutes a pattern that the FBI considered worth documenting under a counterintelligence file number, fourteen months after the man at the center of it was found dead in a federal detention facility.

Source Documents

• EFTA00090314: FBI FD-1023 Confidential Human Source Reporting Document. Los Angeles Field Office, Squad 101. Source ID: S-00099701. Date of contact: October 16, 2020. Date of report: October 19, 2020. Case file numbers: 804I-LA-3315657-INTELPRODS (counterintelligence), 50D-NY-3027571 (SDNY criminal). 9,625 characters. 3 pages.