An astonishing link between Jeffrey Epstein, New Mexico nuclear weapons labs and a major ally to President Donald Trump was unearthed recently in a bombshell report from author, film producer and veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.
Using “documented facts all drawn” from public records, Valdes-Rodriguez established a timeline suggesting that Epstein’s New Mexico property was outfitted with a “private microwave communications link” that may have been used to surveil two U.S. nuclear weapons labs – a communications link that appears to have been maintained by the property’s new owner, a major Trump ally.
In 1993, Epstein purchased a sprawling 7,600-acre property known as Zorro Ranch, located “at the precise geographic midpoint” between Sandia National Laboratories, “one of the most sensitive nuclear weapons facilities in the United States,” and Los Alamos National Laboratory, “the other crown jewel of American nuclear weapons research.”
The property would change hands after Epstein’s 2019 death to none other than GOP candidate Donald Huffines, who purchased the property in secret in 2023 but was exposed as the new buyer last month. Huffines' son, Russell Huffines, was hired by the Trump administration last June as associate director of agency outreach, a position he’s paid $83,500 a year for and still holds today, RealClear Investigations has reported.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) records reviewed by Valdes-Rodriguez show that in 2016, the property was granted “two active Microwave Industrial/Business Pool licenses,” licenses that facilitate advanced and secretive data communication channels. Recent FCC records reveal that those two licenses are still active.
“Together they constitute a permanent, fixed, bidirectional private microwave communications link – a dedicated two-way data channel operating entirely outside commercial internet infrastructure, through channels where traffic cannot be monitored, intercepted, or logged by third parties,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote.
The property’s advanced communications link is capable of carrying transmissions between Zorro Ranch and a cluster of major communication towers in Sandia Crest, a mountain ridge near Albuquerque, New Mexico – a capability that Valdes-Rodriguez flagged as highly unusual.
“To understand the significance of this infrastructure, consider who actually uses Industrial/Business Pool microwave systems: NSA field stations, CIA operational facilities, FBI secure data operations, Department of Defense installations, electric utilities, natural gas pipeline operators, high-frequency trading firms, and major bank data centers,” she wrote.
“None of those descriptions apply to a private vacation ranch in the high desert.”
As to how the property’s advanced communication capabilities may have been used in surveilling the nearby nuclear facilities, Valdes-Rodriguez noted two key elements: Robert Maxwell, the late father of Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and an advanced surveillance software known as the Prosecutor’s Management Information System, or PROMIS.
PROMIS was an American-developed surveillance tool developed in the late 1970s considered highly advanced at the time for its ability to integrate and cross-reference large datasets. National Archives records made public in 2017 revealed that a copy of the software was secretly given to Israeli intelligence, which Valdes-Rodriguez wrote had “recognized PROMIS’s potential as a global surveillance weapon.”
Citing public records, Valdes-Rodriguez wrote that Maxwell was, at one point, an Israeli intelligence “asset tasked with selling the backdoored PROMIS software to governments and institutions worldwide.” Maxwell had also “sold backdoored surveillance software to Sandia National Laboratories in 1985,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote, a claim supported by a declassified but heavily redacted FBI document.
“A decade later, his daughter’s partner built a private off-network communications link from the geographic midpoint between Sandia and Los Alamos directly to a tower at Sandia Crest,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote.
“The surveillance infrastructure Maxwell embedded in Sandia, and the communications infrastructure Epstein built toward it, are connected by geography, by the Sandia Crest relay point, and by the decade-long relationship between Robert Maxwell’s daughter Ghislaine and Jeffrey Epstein himself.”
Valdes-Rodriguez also noted that Zorro Ranch's new owners – the Huffines family – had terminated "several FCC licenses on the property" in 2024 and 2026, but selected to maintain the "microwave link to Sandia Crest."
"This is likely not a mere oversight, as they did terminate three other FCC licenses," she wrote. "The curious piece is why they’ve left the two remaining licenses in the name of the late Epstein’s company rather than transferring them to their own."