- Robert Maxwell, alleged Mossad asset, sold bugged PROMIS surveillance software to Sandia National Laboratories in 1985.
- Jeffrey Epstein purchased Zorro Ranch in 1993 at the midpoint between Sandia and Los Alamos nuclear labs and built a private microwave link to Sandia Crest.
- Ghislaine Maxwell, Robert's daughter, was Epstein's partner and connected him to the New Mexico property.
- Epstein's estate, including the ranch, passed to Karyna Shuliak, a Belarusian with Russian ties, after his death in 2019.
- In 2023, the ranch was bought by Donald and Mary Catherine Huffines, who kept the microwave link active in Epstein's company name.
- The Huffines family has documented connections to Russia, including a secret 2018 Moscow meeting with Russian officials.
- A son of the Huffines family works in the Trump White House, and the family invests in biotech involving neonatal cells.
- New Mexico authorities reopened an investigation into Zorro Ranch in 2026, but local media haven't reported the Maxwell-Epstein-Sandia connections.
- The article suggests a potential continuous intelligence operation linking Maxwell, Epstein, and the Huffines family via the ranch and its communications infrastructure.