The lineage is interesting:

Robert Maxwell allegedly sold a backdoored version of the PROMIS software to many governments, including the US government.

Christine Maxwell, founder of the Magellan search engine, co-founded the Chiliad data analysis software that was used in the FBI post 9/11.

Her co-founder was Alan Wade, who then went to the CIA in the role of CIO when In-Q-Tel founded Palantir.

Epstein invested in Thiel's Valar fund after 2008.

some leaked emails show they where quite close https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043807