Performing privileged work for the government in some shape or form which allows you to skirt the legal rules and makes you immune to certain issues (e.g. travel with diplomatic passport or invent fake identities to hide your real family tree). In force-colonized countries such as South Africa, the local colonial overlords openly looted the country, first in the name of the monarch and later for their own wealthy class which was still deeply connected to the European aristocracy.

Simply focusing on five-eyes three-letter agencies is too narrow because there are thousands of "inofficial" entities surrounding them. And at least on paper if you are working in intelligence you're an idealistic government servant. But history shows that those idealists mostly become the whistleblowers we read about, because they notice that not all five-eyes governments are equal. Some are monarchies, and the crown does royal things which are incompatible with democratic values and the narrative of the "American dream".

People always blame CIA and their black budgets but what if CIA was actually subverted by British aristocracy. The most famous spy in the world is James Bond, 007, not a "yankee".

Maxwell family was very big in software and networking, especially for identity control. Their siblings ran many dot-com SV companies. Epstein family was blacklisted from Hollywood due to antisemitism and moved into radio stations & broadway. Jeffrey was arrested '83 by Scotland Yard in London and a bit earlier Jarecki was arrested in East Germany and later stationed a very long time in Heidelberg, which is 1hr away from Thiel's official origin story. The Trump family also originates closeby. Fred Trump could've known both because he sent youth abroad from NY area with the American Foreign Service (AFS).

When the King visited the white house, Mr. Trump was seemingly out of character did not speak a bad word.