Epstein Files, KGB Playbook, and Britain’s Unanswered Questions

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As new files surface, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey calls for a full inquiry into links that “look straight out of the Kremlin playbook”

By TRH World Desk

New Delhi, February 5, 2026 — As fresh Epstein files circulate and old emails resurface, a question once confined to the margins of conspiracy discourse is being dragged back into the mainstream: was Jeffrey Epstein merely a criminal operator, or was he also an intelligence asset?

Speaking to Times Radio, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey did not claim to have definitive answers—but he made it clear that the evidence now emerging demands far more scrutiny than it has received so far.

“When (Poland) Prime Minister Donald Tusk shows his concern,” Davey said, “when a lot of the behaviour of Epstein, when you look at it, looks like it’s come out of the Kremlin playbook—frankly, the photographs, the recalls, the young Russian women putting people in compromising positions—it’s got the Kremlin written all over it.”

Davey pointed to the repeated references to Moscow and Vladimir Putin in the files released so far, arguing that the pattern is difficult to ignore. “Whether it confirms that Epstein was a Russian spy, I don’t know yet,” he said. “But we must get to the bottom of that.”

The implications, Davey warned, extend well beyond Epstein himself. Describing Epstein as “an evil man who lived life for himself and behaved in the most appalling ways,” Davey suggested that any confirmed intelligence link would raise grave national security concerns—particularly if senior political figures were compromised.

He singled out the correspondence between Epstein and former (the UK) Deputy Prime Minister Peter Mandelson, describing the tone of the emails as disturbingly routine. “What struck me was the casual nature of them,” Davey said. “Like he was doing it all the time. So what else did Mandelson tell Epstein?”

Davey stressed that if it were proven that confidential information was shared during the financial crisis—and that such material reached a foreign intelligence-linked intermediary—it would represent a breach of trust “at another level altogether,” undermining both Britain’s economic and security interests.

The Liberal Democrat leader stopped short of making direct accusations. But his conclusion was unequivocal: “The case for an inquiry into this is overwhelming.”

At a time when Western democracies are reassessing past complacency toward foreign interference, the Epstein files may yet force Britain to confront not just a criminal scandal—but a possible intelligence failure hiding in plain sight.