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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks, Bill. I was wondering myself how to
check out</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the truth or falsity of the article. There
are so many </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>works of fiction and wierd conspiracy theories
printed on the Internet. But there are also some previously overlooked
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>things </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>that when checked out hold up as true. If
anyone </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>else can think </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of ways to check the facts of this article, please
let us know. That certainly would be great if 60 Minutes would be
willing to check it out </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as you asked them to, Bill. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Julie</FONT></DIV>
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<A href="mailto:fbbecker@earthlink.net" title=fbbecker@earthlink.net>william
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 15, 2001 8:37
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Article-- says the gov't
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks Julie:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is among the top three useful and insightful
and practicle thins shared on the OS List. I forwarded a copy to Mike
Wallace to check out....if anyone has the guts I assume it is Mike.....I don't
know about his bosses, of course.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The playwrite Bertolt Brecht was right onb "the
money" when he wrote about such things.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>IF TRUE, I pray something constructive and
protective for all citizens is done about what is described in the note you
sent.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bill Becker</FONT></DIV>
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<A href="mailto:julie@pinefish.com" title=julie@pinefish.com>Julie
Hotard</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 15, 2001 10:12
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A stock broker I know sent me this.
Comments?<BR><BR>Julie<BR><BR>> >Peter Phillips wrote: SUPPRESSED
DETAILS OF CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADING<BR>> >LEAD DIRECTLY INTO THE CIA's
HIGHEST RANKS CIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR<BR>> >"BUZZY" KRONGARD MANAGED
FIRM THAT HANDLED "PUT" OPTIONS ON UAL<BR>> ><BR>> >by
Michael C. Ruppert [c COPYRIGHT, 2001, Michael C. Ruppert and FTW<BR>>
>Publications, <<A
href="http://www.copvcia.com/">http://www.copvcia.com/</A>> <A
href="http://www.copvcia.com/">http://www.copvcia.com/</A> All
Rights Reserved. - May be<BR>> >reprinted or distributed for
non-profit purposes only.]<BR>> ><BR>> >FTW, October 9, 2001 -
Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream<BR>> >U.S. media,
there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of<BR>>
>transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal)<BR>>
>foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon.<BR>> ><BR>> >In the case of
at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5<BR>> >million
prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the "put options"<BR>> >on
United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who
is now in the number three Executive Director position at the
Central Intelligence Agency.<BR>> ><BR>> >Until 1997 A.B.
"Buzzy" Krongard had been Chairman of the investment<BR>> >bank A.B.
Brown. A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker's Trust in 1997.<BR>>
>Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of<BR>>
>Banker's Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U.S. banks named by
Senator<BR>> >Carl Levin this year as being connected to money
laundering.<BR>> >Krongard's last position at Banker's Trust
(BT) was to oversee<BR>> >"private client relations."<BR>>
><BR>> >In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some
of the<BR>> >wealthiest people in the world in a kind of
specialized banking<BR>> >operation that has been identified by the
U.S. Senate and other<BR>> >investigators as being closely connected
to the laundering of drug<BR>> >money. Krongard (re?) joined the CIA
in 1998 as counsel to CIA<BR>> >Director George Tenet. He was
promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this
year.<BR>> ><BR>> >BT was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. The
combined firm is the single largest bank in Europe. And, as
we shall see, Deutsche Bank played several key roles in events
connected to the September 11 attacks.<BR>> ><BR>> >THE
SCOPE OF KNOWN INSIDER TRADING<BR>> ><BR>> >Before looking
further into these relationships it is necessary to<BR>> >look at the
insider trading information that is being ignored by<BR>> >Reuters,
The New York Times and other mass media.<BR>> ><BR>> >It
is well documented that the CIA has long monitored such trades -<BR>>
>in real time - as potential warnings of terrorist attacks and
other<BR>> >economic moves contrary to U.S. interests. Previous
stories in FTW<BR>> >have specifically highlighted the use of
Promis software to monitor such trades.<BR>> ><BR>>
>It is necessary to understand only two key financial terms to<BR>>
>understand the significance of these trades, "selling short" and
"put options". "Selling Short" is the borrowing of stock, selling it
at<BR>> >current market prices, but not being required to
actually produce<BR>> >the stock for some time.<BR>> ><BR>>
>If the stock falls precipitously after the short contract is
entered,<BR>> >the seller can then fulfill the contract by
buying the stock after<BR>> >the price has fallen and complete
the contract at the pre-crash<BR>> >price. These contracts often
have a window of as long as four<BR>> >months.<BR>> ><BR>>
>"Put Options," are contracts giving the buyer the option to sell<BR>>
>stocks at a later date. Purchased at nominal prices of, for
example, $1.00 per share, they are sold in blocks of 100 shares. If
exercised, they give the holder the option of selling selected
stocks at a future date at a price set when the contract is
issued.<BR>> ><BR>> >Thus, for an investment of $10,000 it might
be possible to tie up<BR>> >10,000 shares of United or American
Airlines at $100 per share, and<BR>> >the seller of the option
is then obligated to buy them if the option<BR>> >is executed. If the
stock has fallen to $50 when the contract<BR>> >matures, the holder of
the option can purchase the shares for $50 and immediately sell
them for $100 - regardless of where the market then stands.<BR>>
><BR>> >A call option is the reverse of a put option, which is,in
effect, a<BR>> >derivatives bet that the stock price will go
up.<BR>> ><BR>> >A September 21 story by the Israeli Herzliyya
International Policy<BR>> >Institute for Counterterrorism, entitled
"Black Tuesday: The World's Largest Insider Trading Scam?" documented
the following trades connected to the September 11 attacks:<BR>>
><BR>> >Between September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options
Exchange saw<BR>> >purchases of 4,744 put options on United Airlines,
but only 396 call<BR>> >options - - Assuming that 4,000 of
the options were bought by<BR>> >people with advance knowledge of the
imminent attacks, these<BR>> >"insiders" would have profited by almost
$5 million.<BR>> ><BR>> >On September 10, 4,516 put options on
American Airlines were bought<BR>> >on the Chicago exchange, compared
to only 748 calls. Again, there was<BR>> >no news at that point
to justify this imbalance - - Again, assuming<BR>> >that 4,000 of
these options trades represent "insiders," they would<BR>> >represent
a gain of about $4 million.<BR>> ><BR>> >[The levels of
put options purchased above were more than six times higher than
normal.]<BR>> ><BR>> >No similar trading in other airlines
occurred on the Chicago exchange in the days immediately preceding
Black Tuesday.<BR>> ><BR>> >Morgan Stanley Dean Witter &
Co., which occupied 22 floors of the<BR>> >World Trade Center,saw
2,157 of its October $45 put options bought in<BR>> >the three trading
days before Black Tuesday; this compares to an<BR>> >average of 27
contracts per day before September 6. Morgan Stanley's<BR>>
>share price fell from $48.90 to $42.50 in the aftermath of the<BR>>
>attacks. Assuming that 2,000 of these options contracts were
bought based upon knowledge of the approaching attacks, their
purchasers could have profited by at least $1.2 million.<BR>>
><BR>> >Merrill Lynch & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the
World Trade<BR>> >Center, saw 12,215 October $45 put options
bought in the four<BR>> >trading days before the attacks; the previous
average volume in those<BR>> >shares had been 252 contracts per day [a
1200% increase!].<BR>> ><BR>> >When trading resumed, Merrill's
shares fell from $46.88 to $41.50;<BR>> >assuming that 11,000 option
contracts were bought by "insiders,"<BR>> >their profit would have
been about $5.5 million.<BR>> ><BR>> >European regulators are
examining trades in Germany's Munich Re,<BR>> >Switzerland's Swiss Re,
and AXA of France, all major reinsurers with<BR>> >exposure to the
Black Tuesday disaster. [FTW Note: AXA also owns<BR>> >more than
25% of American Airlines stock making the attacks a "double<BR>>
>whammy" for them.]<BR>> ><BR>> >On September 29, 2001 - in a
vital story that has gone unnoticed by<BR>> >the major media - the San
Francisco Chronicle reported, "Investors<BR>> >have yet to collect
more than $2.5 million in profits they made<BR>> >trading options in
the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11,<BR>> >terrorist
attacks, according to a source familiar with the trades and<BR>>
>market data.<BR>> ><BR>> >"The uncollected money raises
suspicions that the investors - whose<BR>> >identities and
nationalities have not been made public - had advance<BR>> >knowledge
of the strikes."<BR>> ><BR>> >They don't dare show up
now.<BR>> ><BR>> >The suspension of trading for four days after
the attacks made it<BR>> >impossible to cash-out quickly and claim the
prize before<BR>> >investigators started looking.<BR>> ><BR>>
>"October series options for UAL Corp. were purchased in highly<BR>>
>unusual volumes three trading days before the terrorist attacks for
a<BR>> >total outlay of $2,070; investors bought the option contracts,
each<BR>> >representing 100 shares, for 90 cents each. [This
represents 230,000<BR>> >shares]. Those options are now selling
at more than $12 each. There<BR>> >are still 2,313 so-called "put"
optionsoutstanding [valued at $2.77<BR>> >million and representing
231,300 shares] according to the Options<BR>> >Clearinghouse
Corp."<BR>> ><BR>> >"The source familiar with the United trades
identified Deutsche Bank<BR>> >Alex. Brown, the American investment
banking arm of German giant<BR>> >Deutsche Bank, as the investment
bank used to purchase at least some<BR>> >of these options." This was
the operation managed by Krongard until<BR>> >as recently as
1998.<BR>> ><BR>> >As reported in other news stories, Deutsche
Bank was also the hub of<BR>> >insider trading activity connected to
Munich just before the attacks.<BR>> ><BR>> >CIA, THE BANKS AND
THE BROKERS<BR>> ><BR>> >Understanding the interrelationships
between CIA and the banking and<BR>> >brokerage world is critical to
grasping the already frightening<BR>> >implications of the above
revelations.<BR>> ><BR>> >Let's look at the history of
CIA, Wall Street and the<BR>> >big banks by looking at some of
the key players in CIA's history.<BR>> ><BR>> >Clark Clifford -
The National Security Act of 1947 was written by<BR>> >Clark
Clifford, a Democratic Party powerhouse, former Secretary<BR>>
>of Defense, and one-time advisor to President Harry Truman. In
the<BR>> >1980s, as Chairman of First American Bancshares, Clifford
was<BR>> >instrumental in getting the corrupt CIA drug bank BCCI a
license to<BR>> >operate on American shores. His profession: Wall
Street lawyer and<BR>> >banker.<BR>> ><BR>> >John Foster
and Allen Dulles - These two brothers "designed" the CIA<BR>>
>for Clifford. Both were active in intelligence operations during
WW<BR>> >II. Allen Dulles was the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland where
he met<BR>> >frequently with Nazi leaders and looked after U.S.
investments in<BR>> >Germany. John Foster went on to become Secretary
of State under<BR>> >Dwight Eisenhower and Allen went on to serve as
CIA Director under<BR>> >Eisenhower and was later fired by JFK. Their
professions: partners in<BR>> >the most powerful - to this day - Wall
Street law firm of Sullivan,<BR>> >Cromwell.<BR>> ><BR>>
>Bill Casey - Ronald Reagan's CIA Director and OSS veteran
who<BR>> >served as chief wrangler during the Iran-Contra years was,
under<BR>> >President Richard Nixon, Chairman of the Securities
and Exchange<BR>> >Commission. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and
stockbroker.<BR>> ><BR>> >David Doherty - The current Vice
President of the New York Stock<BR>> >Exchange for enforcement is the
retired General Counsel of the<BR>> >Central Intelligence
Agency.<BR>> ><BR>> >George Herbert Walker Bush - President from
1989 to January 1993,<BR>> >also served as CIA Director for 13 months
from 1976-7. He is now a<BR>> >paid consultant to the Carlyle Group,
the 11th largest defense<BR>> >contractor in the nation, which also
shares joint investments with<BR>> >the bin Laden family.<BR>>
><BR>> >A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard - The current Executive Director of
the Central<BR>> >Intelligence Agency is the former Chairman of the
investment bank<BR>> >A.B. Brown and former Vice Chairman of Banker's
Trust.<BR>> ><BR>> >John Deutch - This retired CIA Director from
the Clinton<BR>> >Administration currently sits on the board at
Citigroup, the<BR>> >nation's second largest bank, which has been
repeatedly and overtly<BR>> >involved in the documented laundering of
drug money. This includes<BR>> >Citigroup's 2001 purchase of a Mexican
bank known to launder drug<BR>> >money, Banamex.<BR>> ><BR>>
>Nora Slatkin - This retired CIA Executive Director also sits
on<BR>> >Citibank's board. Maurice "Hank" Greenburg - The CEO of
AIG<BR>> >insurance, manager of the third largest capital investment
pool in<BR>> >the world, was floated as a possible CIA Director in
1995. FTW<BR>> >exposed Greenberg's and AIG's long connection to CIA
drug<BR>> >trafficking and covert operations in a two-part series that
was<BR>> >interrupted just prior to the attacks of September 11.
AIG's stock<BR>> >has bounced back remarkably well since the attacks.
To read that<BR>> >story, please go to<BR>> ><BR>> >
<<A
href="http://www.copvcia.com/stories/part_2.html">http://www.copvcia.com/stories/part_2.html</A>><BR>>
><A
href="http://www.copvcia.com/stories/part_2.html">http://www.copvcia.com/stories/part_2.html</A><BR>>
><BR>> >One wonders how much damning evidence is necessary to
respond to<BR>> >what is now irrefutable proof that CIA knew about the
attacks and<BR>> >did not stop them. Whatever our government is
doing, whatever the<BR>> >CIA is doing, it is clearly NOT in the
interests of the American<BR>> >people, especially those who died on
September 11.<BR>> ><BR>>
>
end<BR>> ><BR>> > Peter Phillips Ph.D.<BR>>
> Sociology Department/Project Censored<BR>>
> Sonoma State University<BR>> > 1801 East
Cotati Ave.<BR>> > Rohnert Park, CA 94928<BR>>
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