Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The Metropolitan Police investigation into Peter Mandelson over the leaking of sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein has established an unambiguous principle: those who seek to compromise the UK’s secrets to a foreign intelligence-linked sexual predator forfeit their access to power.

Mandelson was sacked as US Ambassador, has resigned his membership of the Labour Party, and has been forced to quit the House of Lords over ongoing revelations about his relationship to Epstein.

He now faces potential criminal charges for misconduct in public office.

Yet, the same convicted sex offender who received state secrets from Mandelson, was simultaneously a “co-owner” through a significant limited partnership investment of a Silicon Valley venture fund controlled by Peter Thiel – the billionaire founder of defence analytics giant Palantir Technologies, which now holds more than £670 million in UK Government contracts spanning nuclear weapons systems, NHS patient records, Ministry of Defence operations, and police intelligence databases.

More than 100 documents from the files released by the US Department of Justice, seen by Byline Times, reveal that Thiel personally solicited and maintained a business partnership with Epstein that stretched from 2014 through 2019, all the way up to Epstein’s final arrest.

During this period, Epstein was a “co-owner” of Thiel’s Valar fund..."

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/jeffrey-epstein-and-peter-thiel-co-owned-venture-fund-as-thiels-palantir-entered-uk-government/

#UK #Palantir #Thiel #Valar #VentureFund #NHS #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Thiel Spokesman Denies Former Israeli PM's Claim Jeffrey Epstein 'Co-Owned' Palantir Founder’s Venture Fund – But Confirms Epstein was a Limited Partner

A former Israeli Prime Minister and intelligence chief described Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein as "owners" of a venture fund. The founder of Palantir, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson, has denied the claim - but emails reveal how Thiel cultivated Epstein as a business partner

Byline Times
Feb 5 at 3:40pmWeb
Show threadMiguel Afonso CaetanoFeb 5

"In December 2021, Peter Mandelson’s Global Counsel and Palantir jointly hosted a webinar on “the next steps the UK should take in realising the UK’s life sciences vision.” Swindells chaired the meeting. The webinar marked the formal release of a Palantir white paper that bore striking similarities to the NHS data strategy published six months later in June 2022.

Throughout this period, Mandelson maintained a financial stake in Global Counsel even after stepping back from day-to-day management. When Starmer travelled to Washington in February 2025 for a meeting at Palantir’s headquarters, it was Mandelson who arranged the Prime Minister’s visit through the British Embassy.

Less than seven months after that Starmer-Palantir meeting, in September 2025, Palantir won a £240.6 million Ministry of Defence contract without a competitive tender. Defence officials used a “defence and security exemption” to justify the direct award."

Show threadMiguel Afonso CaetanoFeb 5

"Embedding Palantir into the UK’s most critical and sensitive systems represents an urgent national security risk precisely because its chairman, Peter Thiel, was a co-owner with a convicted sex offender operating as a vector for malign foreign influence, through whom he cultivated his own connections to senior Russian officials.

This is not a company that shares Britain’s values. It is a company controlled by a billionaire who actively partnered with a Russian intelligence-linked sex trafficker, and granted access to Britain’s most sensitive systems by a lobbying firm whose founder had compromised himself to that very same trafficker.

The British government moved swiftly to sever Mandelson’s ties underscores the extent to which his secretive intimate relationship with Epstein posed an ongoing national security threat.

The logic that removed Mandelson must now be applied to Palantir. Britain’s nuclear weapons programme, NHS patient data, military operations, and police intelligence should not be controlled by a company whose founder was Jeffrey Epstein’s business partner."

Show threadPersonneFeb 5

@remixtures

Not just that, but both him and his co-founders (Lonsdale) and CEO (Karp) openly talk about Democracy as a hindrance, as well as Musk, Andressen et al...

Show threadPersonneFeb 5

@remixtures

How can the UK even carry on with these contracts? They're immensely dangerous, with or without Epstein connections! Is everyone asleep at the wheel? WTF?

It reminds me of that occasion when the UK was about to sell the license for the Rolls Royce Merlin engine to the Germans, and was stopped because someone realised it would have been a gigantic stupid mistake.