“PAY THE BAD GUYS”: The Six-Year Private Operation in Which a Convicted Sex Offender Directed Gates Foundation Strategy in Taliban Territory, Committed Its Funds, and Designed Its Anonymity

On the afternoon of June 9, 2013, Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Gmail account was, for roughly two hours, the operational center of a covert foreign policy apparatus serving the Gates Foundation. At 1:09 PM, former UN Under-Secretary-General Terje Rød-Larsen forwarded Epstein a classified field intelligence package on Taliban backchannel communications, ghost workers, and ghost children in Pakistan’s vaccination program. At 3:39 PM, Epstein forwarded the package to Bill Gates’s chief science advisor, Boris Nikolic. One minute later, Epstein wrote back to Rød-Larsen with a five-word reply: “bg will send 5 million to start.” He was committing Bill Gates’s money to a UN diplomat, outside any formal grant process, having just relayed Taliban intelligence to a foundation executive, on a Sunday, from a Gmail account.

Part 6 of the full Epstein Files Series documented the intelligence channel through which Terje Rød-Larsen routed field reports from Pakistan and Nigeria through Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Gmail to Bill Gates’s chief science advisor, Boris Nikolic. That article established the mechanism: what information moved, how fast, and who received it.

This installment, Part 13, documents what was being debated inside that channel — in the weeks before it became fully operational. The question it forces is not merely one of legal exposure. It is a question about who was actually running Gates Foundation field strategy in conflict zones, and on whose moral compass that strategy was calibrated.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• The FCPA question. On March 5, 2013, Jeffrey Epstein asked Boris Nikolic whether the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act applies to foundation work in Afghanistan. Not a lawyer. Not the Gates Foundation’s legal counsel. Epstein. That routing tells you where decision-making authority actually resided.
• The Machiavelli position. The following day, Epstein asked: if paying tribal leaders is the only way to vaccinate children in Taliban territory — even knowing the money may buy weapons — is it justified? Nikolic said yes, invoking Machiavelli by name. His note on Gates: “Bill is much more reluctant/negative re this.” The covert apparatus had its own moral logic. Gates, by this account, was its most hesitant participant — not its architect.

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