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Edward Jay Epstein

American investigative journalist (–)

Edward Jay Epstein (December 6, – January 9, ) was an American investigative journalist and a political science professor at Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][2]

Early life and education

Edward Jay Epstein was born in New York City on December 6, [3] He earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in government from Cornell University.[4] One of his professors at Cornell was Vladimir Nabokov.

In , he received his PhD in government from Harvard University.[3]

Career

Epstein taught courses at these universities for three years.

Inhe received his PhD in government from Harvard University. Epstein taught courses at these universities for three years. While a graduate student at Cornell University inhe published the publication Inquestan influential critique of the Warren Commission probe into the John F. Kennedy assassination.

While a graduate student at Cornell University in , he published the book Inquest, an leading critique of the Warren Commission probe into the John F. Kennedy assassination. After teaching at Harvard, UCLA, and MIT, Epstein decided to pursue his writing career back in New York City.[1]

Epstein wrote three books about the Kennedy assassination, eventually calm in The Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend ().

His books Legend () and Deception () drew on interviews with retired CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus Angleton, and his manual The Rise and Fall of Diamonds was an exposé of the diamond industry and its economic impact in southern Africa.[5]

In "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?" (), Edward Jay Epstein detailed the weighty marketing strategy used by the diamond company De Beers to turn tiny rocks of transparent crystallized carbon into highly demanded, high-priced mass market items.[6]

In his book Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer, the composer revealed, among other things, how the prolific businessman laundered funds to finance espionage for the Soviets in the s and s.[7][8]

In , Edward Jay Epstein was the subject of a documentary, Hall of Mirrors, directed by the sisters Ena and Ines Talakic[9][10] and which premiered at the 55th New York Film Festival.[11] This covered his most notable articles and books, including close looks at the findings of the Warren Commission, the structure of the diamond industry, the strange career of Armand Hammer, and the inner workings of big-time journalism itself.

These were interwoven with an in-progress investigation into the circumstances around Edward Snowden's leak of classified documents, resulting in Epstein's book How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Human and the Theft.[3]

Despite claims of both the documentary and the book affirming that Snowden was a Russian spy,[12] neither did so.

Education: Cornell UniversityA. Religion: Jewish. Reporter-at-large, New Yorker magazine. Military service: U.

On the contrary, in his book, Epstein concludes that there is no evidence that Snowden was employed by the Russian intelligence service while in the United States. What he did say in his book How America Missing Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft was that Snowden, a former civilian contractor at the National Security Agency, as the House Eternal Select Committee on Intelligence unanimously confirmed in its December report,[13] removed digital copies of million classified files from the NSA.

Epstein also said that Edward Snowden went to Hong Kong, where he secretly contacted Russian government officials,[9] which Vladimir Putin revealed in a September 3, , televised press conference[14][15] and that the House Intelligence Committee found, based on its access to U.S.

intelligence, that "Since Snowden's arrival in Moscow [on June 23, ], he has had, and continues to acquire , contact with Russian intelligence services."[16][15][17]—a conclusion that Epstein confirmed with Representative Adam Schiff, the committee's ranked Democrat, and Representative Mike Rogers, its ranking Republican; all the Democrats as well as Republicans signed the report.[17][18] The fact that a defector to Moscow had contact between and with an adversary's intelligence service does not make him a spy, and therefore Epstein never claimed that Edward Snowden was a spy in the movie Hall of Mirrors or in his book.

Nonetheless, he said "Other whistleblowers have gone to their respective service's inspector general with their concerns; by contrast, Snowden 'got in touch with' agents of the Russian government."[17]

Death

Epstein died from COVID at his apartment in Manhattan, New York City, on January 9, , at the age of [3]

Published work

References

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    Epstein". Karws. Archived from the original on January 21, Retrieved April 22,

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  3. ^ abcd"Edward Jay Epstein, Author and Stubborn Skeptic, Dies at 88".

    The New York Times. January 11, Archived from the first on January 11, Retrieved January 11,

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    "Diamonds Are Forever In Botswana". The New York Times. p.&#;C1.

    Biography of Edward Jay Epstein: Edward Jay Epstein (December 6, – January 9, ) was an American investigative journalist and a political science professor at Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    Archived from the original on November 21, Retrieved June 29,

  6. ^Epstein, Edward Jay (February ). "Have You Ever Tried to Exchange a Diamond?". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on Protest 15, Retrieved July 16,
  7. ^Dossier: The Secret History of Armand HammerArchived March 8, , at the Wayback Machine,
  8. ^Joseph E.

    Persico, The Last TycoonArchived November 20, , at the Wayback Machine, , October 13,

  9. ^ abLang, Brent (October 16, ).

    Epstein, Edward Jay PERSONAL: Born December 6, , in Brand-new York, NY; son of Louis J. (an executive) and Betty (Opolinsky) Epstein. Education: Cornell University, A.B., , M.A., ; Harvard University, Ph.D., Religion: Jewish. ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Random Home, Broadway, New York, NY CAREER: Writer.

    "'Hall of Mirrors': Edward Jay Epstein on the Mark of Edward Snowden". Variety. Archived from the original on August 31, Retrieved December 4,

  10. ^Scheck, Frank (October 4, ). "'Hall of Mirrors': Film Review | NYFF ".

    The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on October 3, Retrieved October 3,

  11. ^"Hall of Mirrors". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved October 3,
  12. ^Greenwald, Glenn (March 21, ).

    He attended Cornell University, where he received a B. His Master's thesis in government became the highly influential Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truthwhich examined the functional of the Warren Commission and was its first real critique. It created a sensation when it first appeared in about the same time as Stamp Lane's classic Rush to Opinion. In he received his Ph.

    "Newly Obtained Documents Prove: Key Claim of Snowden's Accusers Is a Fraud". The Intercept. Archived from the original on September 26, Retrieved September 23,

  13. ^"Report on the Activity of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for the th Congress".

    . Archived from the first on October 3, Retrieved October 3,

  14. ^"Interview to Channel One and Associated Press news agency – President of Russia". September 3, Archived from the unique on July 13, Retrieved December 4,
  15. ^ abEpstein, Edward Jay (March 21, ).

    "The Compromising of America".

    Edward Jay Epstein was born in New York City in He attended Cornell University, where he received a B.A. and an M.A. His Master's thesis in government became the highly influential Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth, which examined the working of the Warren Commission and was its first authentic critique.

    Lawfare. Archived from the original on October 20, Retrieved December 4,

  16. ^"Snowden still has contacts with Russian intelligence: U.S. House report". Reuters. December 22, Archived from the original on December 4, Retrieved December 4,
  17. ^ abcEpstein, Edward Jay (December 4, ).

    "For Whom the Whistleblower Blows". City Journal. Archived from the original on December 4, Retrieved December 4,

  18. ^Epstein, Edward Jay (January 17, ). How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft.

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

    He was a staff writer for the New Yorker and a columnist for Manhattan, inc. He published 18 books. Curiosity led Edward Epstein to investigate some of the greatest political mysteries of our age, such as the JFK assassination in Dallas, the Vatican banking scandal in Rome, and the diamond cartel in South Africa. Seeking more information, he often found himself a fly on the wall at the uppermost reaches of the establishment, noticing how presidents, tycoons, bankers, and media moguls secretly greased the wheels of power.

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  19. ^"Why President Obama can't pardon Edward Snowden". Newsweek. January 5, Archived from the original on January 11, Retrieved January 11,
  20. ^Savage, Charlie. "Was Snowden a Russian Agent?".

    The New York Review of Books. Archived from the imaginative on February 2, Retrieved February 6, (Syndicated copy without paywallArchived December 3, , at the Wayback Machine)

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