To: Boris Nikolic From: Jeffrey Epstein Sent Sun 6/9/2013 3:39:47 PM (i) Bill Gates "letter": Pak media reported 8 June on an ostensible letter delivered by Bill Gates's "personal emissary" to Imran Khan (Chairman of Pakistan Justice Party, which placed 2nd in the 11 May elections, he will lead the opposition) requesting intervention with the Pak Taliban to allow polio eradication campaign, and that BG would be telephoning Imran Khan within a few hours. The Party Secretariat has officially confirmed receipt of the letter (although someone else may well have sent a letter purporting to speak for BC?)! However, the "false" news has already had the undesired effect of tying a high-profile US citizen to Pak's polio eradication, on the heels of the droning of the Pak Taliban No. 2 as well as a more recent droning of seven high-value targets. (a) Discreet confidential enquiry has yielded the following reaction from the Taliban (not yet in the public domain): "BG can try as much as he wishes to use Imran Khan or others to convince the Taliban, but these efforts will not yield the desired results, because Imran Khan is not our leader, we do not follow him, he cannot dictate to us, we are not answerable to him, he follows a "secular" line — we want an "Islamic" explanation on polio vaccination!" The latter point is in the IPI Mission Report as well as below in the TPs. (b) At present, the Pak Taliban are engaged in a far more essential issue for them, their concern that Pak authorities are trying to stir trouble on the border between the Afghan Taliban and the Pak Taliban. Hence a pointed BG denial of an outreach to Imran Khan would at this stage be irrelevant. So let us wait. (ii) On 5-6 June, an international conference of religious scholars was held at the International Islamic University of Islamabad, as a follow-up to a March regional conference in Cairo, to draw up strategies to overcome social and political challenges to polio eradication