Hyderabad, July 16 -- United States Vice President JD Vance has said that convicted child sex offender and billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein could have had connections to Mossad or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as he "clearly had connections" to both American and Israeli intelligence.

Vance addressed several topics during an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, including Jeffrey Epstein, the Epstein Files release and an alleged Israeli campaign against the US-Iran talks.

When podcast host Rogan asked Vance about the American financier, he claimed to have "some theories." Rogan suggested one such theory that Epstein was working for Mossad, the Israeli national intelligence agency.

"Yeah, Mossad or CIA," Vance repl...