He repeatedly seeks an audience with Putin, but wouldn’t an agent have a direct line? He certainly had a direct line with Ehud Barak. They literally traveled the globe together making deals for Israel. Regarding Russia Epstein seems to be more of an opportunist. There’s an email where they are looking into an opportunity to support Ilya Ponomarev, who wanted to lead an “uprising against Putin”.

Epstein was not a Russian agent. He was an Israeli agent.