Epstein Secrets

@ 5 Ihad written several books: My book Inquest examined the failure of the FBI, @ the Secret Service, and the CIA to establish the context of the John F. Kennedy assassination. This interest continued in other books of mine, including Decep- tion, in which I investigated the vulnerability of intelligence servi

d the CIA to establish the context of the John F. Kennedy assassination. This interest continued in other b

61 When I had been investigating: Edward Jay Epstein, The Annals of Unsolved Crime (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2013), 209-40. 262 “I don’t know him”: Lugovoy, interview with author. 264 It was rare: The vast majority of the fifteen American defectors to the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including Joel Bar

t Service and CIA to establish the context of the John F. Kennedy Assassination. This interest continued on other o

e and CIA to establish the context of the John F. Kennedy Assassination. This interest continued on other o

terviewed a number of people in Moscow, including Andrei Lugovoy. A former KGB officer assigned to protecting the Kremlin’s top members in the 1990s, Lugovoy later opened his own security company. In 2005, he became a business associate of Litvinenko’s in gathering information, and made regular trips to Lo

rk on Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, a film in which I had a cameo role. I had also debated Stone about the his- torical accuracy of his 1991 movie JFK at Town Hall in New York. When we dined, he had just written, produced, and directed Snowden, an independently financed film depicting Snowden, as S

SECRETS Alexander Litvinenko, I had interviewed Andrei Lugovoy. A former KGB officer assigned to protecting the Kremlin’s top members in the 1990s, Lugovoy later opened his own security company. In 2005, he became a business associate of Litvinenko’s in gathering informa- tion and made regular trips to L