Sebag Montefiore Simon & Santa: Simon Montefiore is a British “”“historian”“”, television presenter, and author of pop-“”“history”“” books and novels. Ghislaine attended the launch of Montefiore’s book, “The Court of the Red Tsar” (https://deepclips.com/clip/3225/exclusive-i-fear-i-saw-virginia-roberts-inside-jeffrey-epstein-s-creepy-new-mexico-ranch-contractor-claims). Santa is his wife and sister of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, who died of an ulcer in 2017. The Palmer-Tomkinson family is so close with the Royal Family that King Charles II was named Tara’s godfather. As such, Simon and Santa are good friends of King Charles II and Queen Camilla (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4721868/The-lit-girl.html). Simon’s great-great-uncle was an international financier who worked for the Rothschilds in the 1800s. Simon and his family are still close to the Rothschilds to this day (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/montefiore200801).

If you go to the Stalin or Beria pages on Wikipedia, nearly half of the most outrageous claims come from Montefiore. He alleges that Russia gave him access to the “Soviet archives” in the early 2000’s for his book Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, despite the fact that Russia denies it and they’ve never let anyone do it since.

He’s a huge Zionist “historian” who regularly denies genocide (https://www.thefp.com/p/the-intifada-comes-to-britain) and believes that all problems in the Middle East are caused by the existence of Palestinians (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/).

    • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      okay based on my further reading it seems that they were “opened” in 91 but even then a lot of records remained closed, and getting a permit to search them yourself in the current geopolitical climate is apparently very difficult if you’re from a western country.