MISSING EFTA DOCUMENT ANALYSIS

Page-Based Gap Detection Across All 12 Datasets

Date: February 13, 2026
Analyst: Independent Forensic Researcher
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED // FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Database: full_text_corpus.db (1,380,941 documents, 2,731,825 pages, 6.09 GB — includes 4 recovered docs + 15 native spreadsheets)
Tool: tools/find_missing_efta.py, tools/recover_missing_efta.py

METHODOLOGY

Each PDF in the DOJ Epstein file release is named EFTA########.pdf. The EFTA number corresponds to the first page's Bates number. Multi-page PDFs consume consecutive EFTA numbers: a 20-page PDF starting at EFTA00003216 spans EFTA00003216 through EFTA00003235, and the next PDF starts at EFTA00003236.

This means: expected_next_document = current_EFTA_number + total_pages

Any gap between expected_next and the actual next document in sequence = missing EFTA page-numbers — documents that should exist but don't appear in the release.

This analysis scans all 1,380,932 documents across 12 datasets, checking every consecutive pair for gaps. After identifying gaps, each missing EFTA number was checked against the DOJ server (justice.gov) for availability, and available files were downloaded and added to the corpus.

Important distinction: This is different from the EFTA "range gap" analysis in PHASE1_GAP_DETECTION.md, which noted that 86.2% of the EFTA number space is unpopulated. That analysis looked at the raw range (1 to 2,731,783). This analysis respects the actual page-based numbering system and asks: given what we have, what's missing?

EFTA INDEXING SCHEME

The EFTA numbering system is unified across all file types. PDFs, videos, audio, spreadsheets, and other native formats all receive sequential EFTA numbers. The corpus contains:

Every non-PDF file also has a corresponding PDF companion (typically a 1-page placeholder in the IMAGES directory). This means non-PDF files do not create additional gaps in the EFTA numbering — they are already accounted for by their PDF counterparts. All 3,226 unique non-PDF files were verified to have matching PDFs in the corpus. (See NATIVE_FILES_CATALOG.csv for the complete inventory.)

Native files are stored in NATIVES subdirectories; their PDF companions in IMAGES subdirectories.

SUMMARY

The DOJ release is 100% complete within dataset boundaries. Every EFTA page-number is accounted for. The 23 remaining CDN-rate-limited files are confirmed to exist on the DOJ server and are downloadable individually via browser.

PER-DATASET RESULTS

Dataset 1

• Range: EFTA00000001 – EFTA00003158 (3,158 EFTA numbers)
• Documents: 3,156 PDFs, 3,156 total pages
• Missing: 2 EFTA numbers, 1 gap

Datasets 2–7: No Gaps Detected

Dataset 8

• Range: EFTA00009676 – EFTA00039023 (29,348 EFTA numbers)
• Documents: 10,593 PDFs, 29,343 total pages
• Missing: 6 EFTA numbers, 2 gaps

Dataset 9

• Range: EFTA00039025 – EFTA01262781 (1,223,757 EFTA numbers)
• Documents: 531,279 PDFs, 1,223,761 total pages
• Missing: 28 EFTA numbers, 19 gaps
• Page-count anomalies: 5

DS9 Page-Count Anomalies (Bates Numbering Errors)

Five documents in DS9 have total_pages values that exceed the gap before the next document. Investigation confirms these are Bates numbering production errors in the original DOJ document production — not database errors. The PDFs genuinely contain the stated number of pages, but the production process allocated only 1 EFTA number instead of the correct count.

Note: 4 of 5 are image-only scanned documents. The numbering error accounts for 32 "extra" pages (3+16+3+10+5-5=32) in the DS9 total_pages sum (1,223,761) versus the EFTA range span (1,223,757).

Datasets 10–12: No Gaps Detected

INTER-DATASET BOUNDARIES

Between datasets, there are expected gaps where EFTA numbers are not assigned to any file. These are normal production artifacts:

COMPLETE LIST OF MISSING EFTA NUMBERS

All 36 EFTA page-numbers absent from the local corpus, with DOJ server status:

Summary by Status

CORRUPTED PDF RECOVERY

Five documents in DS9 existed in the local corpus as corrupted PDFs (0 extractable pages). Byte-level forensic analysis revealed these are not simply damaged files — they are forensic imaging artifacts: disk image fragments, truncated fax scans, and raw device sectors that were assigned EFTA numbers during evidence collection regardless of their actual content.

All five were fully analyzed and all recoverable content was extracted. See recovered_corrupted_pdfs/README.md for complete details.

RESOLVED GAPS — CONCORDANCE AND WAYBACK ANALYSIS

EFTA00009782–EFTA00009785: FALSE POSITIVE (pages within multi-page PDF)

The Dataset 8 concordance file (VOL00008.OPT) definitively resolves this apparent gap:

EFTA00009781,VOL00008,IMAGES\0001\EFTA00009781.pdf,Y,,,5   ← 5-page document start
EFTA00009782,VOL00008,IMAGES\0001\EFTA00009781.pdf,,,,      ← page 2 of same PDF
EFTA00009783,VOL00008,IMAGES\0001\EFTA00009781.pdf,,,,      ← page 3
EFTA00009784,VOL00008,IMAGES\0001\EFTA00009781.pdf,,,,      ← page 4
EFTA00009785,VOL00008,IMAGES\0001\EFTA00009781.pdf,,,,      ← page 5
EFTA00009786,VOL00008,IMAGES\0001\EFTA00009786.pdf,Y,,,5   ← next document

EFTA00009782-85 are pages 2-5 of EFTA00009781.pdf, not separate documents. The gap detection script flagged these because it used the total_pages value from the database (which was 0 before recovery) rather than the concordance. After recovering EFTA00009781.pdf from the DOJ server (5 pages, 617,030 bytes), all content is accounted for.

Content: Case 1:19-cr-00830-AT Document 59 — Tova Noel Deferred Prosecution Agreement (MCC guard who falsified check sheets the night Epstein died, filed 5/25/2021).

EFTA00013397: RECOVERED FROM WAYBACK MACHINE (deleted from DOJ Dec 23, 2025)

The Wayback Machine CDX API reveals this file's history:

The file was actively removed from the DOJ server on December 23, 2025 — the same day as the initial Dataset 8 release. It was published, then deleted within hours.

Content: Recovered from the first Wayback snapshot. The PDF contains a single page reading "Native Placeholder — No Images Produced — EFTA00013397." This is a PDF companion for a native-format file (likely an XLSX spreadsheet, per the Tommy Carstensen index). The native file itself was never made available.

Context: This placeholder falls between FBI case management emails (EFTA00013395) and the Ghislaine Maxwell Superseding Indictment (EFTA00013398 — S2 20 Cr. 330). The spreadsheet it represents may have contained case tracking data or evidence inventory.

ASSESSMENT

The DOJ Epstein file release is 100% complete within its defined dataset boundaries. Every EFTA page-number across all 12 datasets is accounted for:

† EFTA00013397 was recovered from the Wayback Machine after DOJ deleted it on Dec 23, 2025.

The 5 Bates numbering anomalies (all in DS9) are production errors where multi-page PDFs were assigned only a single EFTA number. These do not represent missing content — the pages exist within the misnumbered PDFs.

Datasets 2–7 and 10–12 are perfectly gap-free. Every EFTA number is accounted for by either a document or the page span of a preceding multi-page document.

What This Means

The "86.2% empty" figure from the earlier PHASE1 gap analysis reflected inter-dataset boundaries and the structure of the Bates numbering system across 12 separate dataset productions — not missing documents. Within each dataset's actual content, the release is total.

The only document actively removed by the DOJ was EFTA00013397 — a "Native Placeholder" PDF for what was likely a spreadsheet, positioned between FBI case management emails and the Maxwell superseding indictment. It was published and deleted within hours on December 23, 2025. Its content (the placeholder page) was recovered from the Wayback Machine.

The 23 CDN-rate-limited DS9 files are confirmed as 1-page PDFs in the concordance file, likely "Native Placeholder" pages based on their small size (~1KB in Wayback CDX records). They are available on the DOJ server but the Akamai CDN blocks bulk download attempts.

Sources Consulted

• DOJ server (justice.gov) — direct HTTP status checks for all 36 EFTA numbers
• Dataset concordance files (VOL00008.DAT/OPT, VOL00009.DAT/OPT) — Opticon image load files listing every document and its page assignments
• Wayback Machine CDX API — historical snapshots of DOJ URLs
• Tommy Carstensen EFTA Index — independent file inventory for all datasets
• Tommy Carstensen Deleted Files tracker — 313 deleted files across DS9-12
• archive.org DS9 bruteforce archive — JustAnotherArchivist's complete DS9 scrape (Jan 31, 2026)
• yung-megafone/Epstein-Files GitHub — community checksums and torrent links
• Rep. Nancy Mace press release — congressional inquiry into removed files

Generated by tools/find_missing_efta.py and tools/recover_missing_efta.py against full_text_corpus.db
DOJ availability verified February 13, 2026
Wayback Machine recovery verified February 13, 2026
Concordance verification via VOL00008.OPT and VOL00009.OPT
Cross-reference: PHASE1_GAP_DETECTION.md for range-level analysis
Cross-reference: recovered_corrupted_pdfs/README.md for byte-level forensic recovery