2000 – Christine Maxwell delivers a discussion paper to UNESCO's InfoEthics 2000 Conference. 2000 – Epstein founds the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation to fund and support cutting-edge science around the world. Mar. 23, 2000 – An article in the New York Post describes Jeffrey Epstein as “an enigmatic figure. Rumors abound — including wild ones about a career in the Mossad and, contrarily, the CIA.” July 2000 – A Guardian article describes Isabel Maxwell, president of Commtouch, as "one of the toughest and best connected female internet entrepreneurs. In Israel she is lauded for her charity work and sits on the board of governors of former prime minister Shimon Peres' Centre for Peace, alongside such luminaries as Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Jimmy Carter and Larry Ellson." Nov. 2000 – "Started last year with $3 million in angel funding from family and friends, Chiliad jumped from the shadows [recently] by announcing a $24.5 million investment from Hewlett-Packard Co... The two companies also formed a strategic alliance in which Chiliad will use HP servers, storage, consulting, and software, while HP will explore how to use the start-up's search technology in its products..." The company also has a working relationship with Cisco Systems.  Jan. 22, 2001 – The Evening Standard of London reports that Prince Andrew has been spending more time with his friend Ghislaine Maxwell than he is with his own children.  2001 – Reports indicate that there are over 100,000 child pornography sites on the internet.  2001 – 17-year-old Virginia Roberts is forced by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to have sex with Prince Andrew on three separate occasions. She will be made to describe the encounters to Epstein in order that he can gain compromising information about the Prince’s sexual habits and preferences.  Sept. 2001 – Michael Isikoff interview with Carly Fiorina (Sept. 2015):  "In the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, she received a phone call from Michael Hayden, then the director of the NSA, asking her assistance in providing HP computer servers to the NSA for expanded surveillance." Fiorina complies with the request by redirecting trucks of HP computer servers that are on their way to retail stores from a warehouse in Tennessee to the Washington beltway, where they are escorted by NSA security to Ft. Meade headquarters.  Sept. 11, 2001 – The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center results in the establishment of mass electronic surveillance programs originating within various government agencies.  Jan. 2002 – John Poindexter, working through Syntek Technologies, is appointed to develop sophisticated data-mining software for DARPA’s Total Information Awareness program. The system will utilize sophisticated computer algorithms to find relevant information – links between people, organizations, places, and things – from the masses of available data, looking for connecting information patterns that can be evaluated and analyzed, and learning what patterns discriminate between legitimate and suspicious behavior.  2002 – Chiliad forms a partnership with a failing company called Ezenia!, and within a year they will obtain many lucrative defense contracts. The number and value of these contracts (and others) will increase substantially. 2002 – Jeffrey Epstein is introduced to Ehud Barak by former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Apart from being a former prime minister of Israel, Barak is a former minister of defense and the former head of Israeli military intelligence. He oversaw Unit 8200’s operations, as well as other units of Israeli military intelligence, in all three of those positions. For most of his military and later political career, Barak has been closely associated with covert operations. 2002 – Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker spend a week touring AIDS project sites in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, and Mozambique for the Clinton Foundation. 2002 – Marvin Minsky holds a conference at Epstein’s Little St. James Island. May 2002 – Epstein’s nonprofit Epstein Interests donates $100,000 to the UJA-Federation of New York. The UJA-Fed is one of the largest Jewish non-profits in the world, with a turnover of more than $200 million a year, distributed to dozens of charitable organizations in the US, Israel, and around the world. 2003 - The FBI begins working with Chiliad in setting up a software system as "a top secret/sensitive compartmented information system." Robert Mueller is the Director of the FBI at this time. 2003 - Jeffrey Epstein donates $30 million to Harvard University. 2003 - Jeffrey Epstein donates $6.5 million to MIT. 2003 – George Nader is imprisoned for one year for sexually abusing ten boys in the Czech Republic. 2003 – Vicky Ward of Fortune magazine publishes the first expose on Jeffrey Epstein, detailing his billionaire lifestyle but omitting any mention of his pedophile activities. She will later claim that she tried to warn the public about him but her editor kept her from doing so.  May 2003 – Peter Thiel cofounds Palantir Technologies, a private software company that specializes in big data analytics. The only early investors will be Thiel ($30 million) and the CIA front company, In-Q-Tel ($2 million).  Feb. 4, 2004 – Mark Zuckerberg founds Facebook. This is the same day that DARPA cancels its LifeLog project, which is a platform for collecting information on people in order to track and chart their entire lives.  2004 – Jeffrey Epstein and attorney Paul Hoffman attempt to get a $1.2 million underwater fiber-optic cable project passed that would run from St. Thomas to Little St. James Island. 2004 – Ehud Barak receives $2.5 million from Les Wexner’s Wexner Foundation for unspecified ‘consulting services’ and ‘research’ on the foundation’s behalf. Epstein is a trustee of the foundation at this time and one of its top donors.  July 2004 - An article in the South Florida Sun Sentinel describes Commtouch as a maker of anti-spam software (i.e. internet security). 2005 - Chiliad describes its software for DoD procurement, revealing its sophistication with regard to real-time analysis of live network data to determine predictive behavior: "Unlike traditional approaches to predictive analysis driven only by historic data models, the proposed approach will combine well-understood behavior and patterns to anticipate likely courses of action, with new behavior patterns detected from live field sensor data, leveraging value from real-time analysis of 'unstructured' content, deriving structured data from these sources, and leveraging further value from these structured data with triggers on relational databases. Analysis and metadata generation are executed on-the-fly, moment-to-moment using live network data, not yet indexed. Detected strategy changes from field data are fed back into the continuous monitoring loop in near real-time, improving adaptive and responsive capability that is proactive, anticipatory, and reactive at the same time... Response-time can be almost immediate in time-critical situations." 2005 - The first investigation into Epstein is opened. 2006 – Stephen Hawking attends a conference at Epstein’s Little St. James Island. 2006 – Tax returns for this year show that Jeffrey Epstein’s former charity, the C.O.U.Q. Foundation, gave $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation and $6.5 million to Harvard University’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.  2006 - Washington Post:  "FBI Shows Off Counterterrorism Database... The FBI has built a database with more than 659 million records... culled from more than 50 FBI and other government agency sources... It is one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents... The FBI's Investigative Data Warehouse was launched in 2004. The system [was] designed by Chiliad Inc. of Amherst, Mass." May 2006 - Epstein is charged with multiple counts of unlawful sex acts with a minor.  Sept. 2006 – Peter Thiel donates $3.5 million to foster anti-aging research through the nonprofit Methuselah Mouse Prize foundation. By 2017, he will have donated over $7 million to the foundation. Thiel will state that he wants to make progress on anti-aging research, and that he is registered to be cryonically preserved, in the hopes that he might be successfully revived by future medical technology.  2007 - Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, becomes chair of the CIA's External Advisory Board when it is first created in this year by CIA director Michael Hayden, and spends two years leading it. 2007 – Alan Dershowitz and other Epstein lawyers claim that Epstein had been part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative.  2007 - Epstein's lawyers meet with Miami's top federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta and secretly negotiate an illegal plea deal for solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution. Acosta will later claim that he was ordered by a superior to withhold charges against Epstein because Epstein is an intelligence agent. What agency he works for isn't revealed. 2007 – The NSA implements the PRISM surveillance program, which allows the government to collect all user data content from companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Yahoo, and others.  2007 – Isabel Maxwell marries Al Seckel. Seckel will be interviewed by Jeffrey Epstein in 2010.