“Or maybe he was both. Maybe Five Eyes?”
Right on the money. CIA, Mossad, MI6, Pentagon, FBI, Global Corporations, all of them. He was an asset in common for them all to gather extortion material.
Why would Mossad be part of an operation that pointed right toward them?
I agree that "Five Eyes", MOIS, CIA, KGB, CCCP, etc might have been running an operation that superficially appeared to point at Israel.