Poppy’s Son in the White House
Part I Through 2001 with a bit more on Trump and Epstein
From a variety of sources, such as Whitney Webb (Unlimited Hangout), David Livingstone (Ordo ab Chao ) ,Russ Baker (Family of Secrets) , Sterling Seagrave (Gold Warrior) Cheri Seymour (The Last Circle), Heidner (Collateral Damage) etc. , Philip Marshal (The Big Bamboozle), historycommons. org, Devvy Kidd?, Question Everything.
For more detailed review of 9/11 see this
And this:
1998-Phil Gramm as head of the Senate Banking Committee achieved the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Blitey Act.
In terms of offshore bank trading programs, what it meant was that no longer did banks have to work with agents or intermediaries in concert with trading components; they could now work directly with one another, and also cut out the middle man.
Enron entities made bank trade profit monies offshore and brought them onshore by borrowing against these cash assets, or loans. Loans too are non-taxable events
Gramm was married to Wendy Gramm who was former head of the Commodity Futures Committee, which allowed Enron to do its energy dealings
When she resigned from the CFTC, she became a highly paid with perks, member of the Board of Directors with Enron.
1998-In December 1998, Philip Zelikow co-signed with John Deutch an article for Foreign Affairs entitled “Catastrophic Terrorism,” in which they speculated on what would have happened if the 1993 WTC bombing (already arbitrarily attributed to bin Laden) had been done with a nuclear bomb:
“An act of catastrophic terrorism that killed thousands or tens of thousands of people and/or disrupted the necessities of life for hundreds of thousands, or even millions, would be a watershed event in America’s history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented for peacetime and undermine Americans’ fundamental sense of security within their own borders in a manner akin to the 1949 Soviet atomic bomb test, or perhaps even worse. [...]
Like Pearl Harbor, the event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillanceof citizens, detention of suspects and use of deadly force.”
1999-A prominent Epstein victim, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, says his ex-girlfriend and alleged "madam," Ghislaine Maxwell, recruited her into Epstein's sex trafficking operation when she worked as a locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 1999, when she was 15.
1999-Putin recruited two oligarchs who were among his closest confidants, Roman Abramovich and Lev Leviev, to undertake the highly unlikely mission of creating a new religious organization called the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russiaunder the leadership of Rabbi Berel Lazar, a leader in the Hasidic movement called Chabad-Lubavitch.
Founded in the late eighteenth century, the tiny, Brooklyn-based Chabad-Lubavitcher movement is a fundamentalist Hasidic sect centered on the teaching of the late Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who is sometimes referred to as a messiah—moshiach—a savior and liberator of the Jewish people. It is antiabortion, views homosexuality as a perversion, and often aligns itself politically with other fundamentalist groups on the right.
Its biggest donors included Leviev, an Israeli billionaire who was an Uzbek native and was known as the “King of Diamonds” thanks to his success in the diamond trade, and Charles Kushner, an American real estate developer who was later jailed for illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering.
Kushner is also the father of Jared Kushner, who married Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and later became a senior adviser to President Trump. Leviev’s friendship with Lazar dates back to 1992 and, according to Haaretz, made Leviev “the most influential, most active and most connected person in the Jewish community of Russia and made Lazar the country’s chief rabbi.”
Roman Abramovich, controlled the trading arm of one of Russia’s largest oil companies through an Isle of Man company that had figured in the Bank of New York affair. Mr. Abramovich ran the Siberian oil giant Sibneft, which sold its oil through a company called Runicom.
2000-just weeks before the contentious November presidential election that saw the US Supreme Court unconstitutionally determine the victory of the Bush–Cheney Republicans, an influential Washington think tank named the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) issued an extraordinary report based on the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance prepared by Dick Cheney, then President George H.W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense.
The members of the PNAC included Cheney, his earlier assistant at the Pentagon, Paul Wolfowitz, Don Rumsfeld, and other key members of what would be the Bush–Cheney neoconservative presidency. The PNAC report, financed by the Bradley Foundation and the John M. Olin Foundation, both linked with the US military industry, was prepared as a military blueprint for the incoming administration.
Besides mentioning the necessity for a New Pearl Harbor to fund the rebuild it states the desire for “advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes that may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
The report called for a most aggressive US military agenda at a time when many were asking if the world even needed NATO following the end of the Cold War and Russian moves to build down her nuclear force.
Among PNAC report recommendations were Remove Saddam Hussein, by war if necessary. Deploy global missile defense “to provide a secure basis for US power projection around the world.”
Control space and cyberspace, and create a “new military service—US Space Forces—with the mission of space control.”
Exploit the Pentagon’s “revolution in military affairs,” including moving to high-tech, unmanned weaponry, such as drones. Develop a new family of more effective nuclear weapons. The US “should seek to establish a network of ‘deployment bases’ or ‘forward operating bases’ to increase the reach of current and future forces.” It must move beyond western Europe and northeast Asia to increased permanent military presence in southeast Asia and east Asia “to cope with the rise of China to great-power status.” Redirect the US Air Force “toward a global first-strike force.” End the Clinton administration’s “devotion” to the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty with Russia. “Preserve Pax Americana” and a “unipolar 21st century” through securing and expanding “zones of democratic peace, deter rise of new great-power competitor, defend key regions (Europe, East Asia, Middle East), and exploit transformation of war.”
Virtually every item of that PNAC report was realized after 2000 during the George W. Bush presidency. (Others like the Space Force under Trump)Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and the team around Bush senior who had drafted the so-called Wolfowitz Doctrine in 1992 implemented that doctrine through the presidency of Bush’s son. They named it the War on Terror.
Among the members of that high-powered PNAC military think tank were key neoconservative war hawks that would soon serve in key positions in the new administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as well as run Bush’s War on Terror after September 11, 2001
In addition to Cheney—who, as Bush’s vice president, de facto ran foreign policy, much as George H.W. Bush did for Reagan two decades before—the PNAC members included Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan American who became George W. Bush’s special envoy to Afghanistan after the US invasion in 2001 and later ambassador to US-occupied Iraq. It included I. Lewis “Scooter’” Libby, who became chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney.
The PNAC also included Donald H. Rumsfeld, soon-to-be secretary of defense for the Bush–Cheney presidency. The PNAC members signing the September 2000 report included Paul D. Wolfowitz as well, as Rumsfeld’s undersecretary of defense.
Wolfowitz had authored the controversial 1992 Pentagon Defense Planning Guidance, dubbed the Wolfowitz Doctrine, that called for US “preemptive” wars against any potential challenger to America’s “sole superpower hegemony.”
2000/1999-according to usa today
“In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conduct[s] exercises simulating what the White House [later] says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties.”
One of the imagined targets is the World Trade Center. According to NORAD, these scenarios are regional drills, rather than regularly scheduled continent-wide exercises. They utilize “[n]umerous types of civilian and military aircraft” as mock hijacked aircraft, and test “track detection and identification; scramble and interception; hijack procedures; internal and external agency coordination; and operational security and communications security procedures.”
The main difference between these drills and the 9/11 attacks is that the planes in the drills are coming from another country, rather than from within the US. Before 9/11, NORAD reportedly conducts four major exercises at headquarters level per year. Most of them are said to include a hijack scenario
2000-Though planes being flown into the Pentagon would later be described by government officials as “unimaginable” and “unthinkable” after the attacks, a simulation of planes being flown into the Pentagon had been conducted less than a year prior to September 11, 2001 .
On October 24-26, 2000, a “hypothetical” military exercise was played out featuring an airline crashing into the Pentagon killing 341 people followed by yet another May 2001 Department of Defense “hypothetical scenario” which saw hundreds of medical personnel training for a “guided missile in the form of a hijacked 757 airliner” crashing into the Pentagon.
1999, Kissinger joined Mack McLarty to open Kissinger McLarty Associates. McLarty was a CFR member, Carlyle Group Senior Advisor and White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton.
Kissinger McLarty is a corporate member of the Council of the Americas, the New York-based business organization established by David Rockefeller in 1965.
In November 2002, Kissinger was appointed by President George W. Bush to chair the newly established National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States to investigate the September 11, 2011, attacks on the World Trade Center. Kissinger stepped down as chairman on December 13, 2002 rather than reveal his business client list, when questioned about potential conflicts of interest.[809]
In 2003, Kissinger was in Moscow where he heard George H.W. Bush deliver the keynote speech at a dinner for Russian business leaders, including Yukos-Sibneft founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, on behalf of the Carlyle Group. Bush was there to facilitate an $18 billion deal by American oil giant ChevronTexaco for a blocking stake in the new Yukos-Sibneft.
Bush was also there to help complete a $500 million deal between Alfa and the Carlyle Group. Alfa’s dubious clout in Washington during the 1990s was assisted through the support of senior Democrats like Republicans like Dick Cheney and CFR member Richard Burt, a former Reagan State Department official and US ambassador to Germany, and close ally of Kissinger. The Moscow Times noted that Bush had come to Moscow in June of 1998, just two months before the Russian economy imploded, for the lavish opening of Goldman Sachs’ office there.
Kissinger was on the board of Khodorkovsky’s Open Russia Foundation, a position he said he accepted at the invitation of Lord Jacob Rothschild, another board member. Open Russia Foundation, based in Somerset House in London, owned by the Rothschild’s Family Trust, with Kissinger as its trustee.
1999-An online trading division, Enron Online, was launched during the dot-com boom, and by 2001 it was executing online trades worth about $2.5 billion a day. Enron also invested in building a broadband telecommunications networkto facilitate high-speed trading.
Some allege the off sheet "debts" of Enron, were in fact income, generated in large part through "Federal" Reserve bank trading programs, which 9/11 was orchestrated to try to cover-up and keep Enron from imploding by evil doers
2000 January : Former President George H. W. Bush meets with the bin Laden family on behalf of the Carlyle Group.
He had also met with them in November 1998 (see November 1998), but it is not known if he meets with them again after this. Bush denies this meeting took place until a thank you note is found confirming that it took place.
October 2000, Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, the real estate management arm of AIG connected Blackstone Group, purchased the mortgage secured by WTC-7.
In 1998, AIG had invested $1.35 billion in the Blackstone Group, a private New York merchant bank. According to the New York Times, the two companies had worked together for many years. Indeed, Maurice Greenberg had served on Blackstone’s advisory board since 1989.
2000-Enron, UNOCAL and other companies had completed most sectors of the gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Dabhol. As in the case of Enron, investment for these interlinking pipelines was obtained at the expense of gullible shareholders,
Even a Saudi prince (Badr M. Al-Aiban) was duped into investing into the project through the CentGas Consortium. The only gap was Afghanistan.
The United States government, which had earlier done its best to defend Enron’s unethical practices in India, tried to appease the Taliban by giving them $2 million and inviting their senior leaders to Texas for talks.
It should be noted that Enron was the single biggest contributor to President Bush’s first election campaign.
But the talks stalled. In his memoir, the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan during 9-11 and ex-Guantanamo detainee Abdul Salam Zaeef recalls American disappointment when the Taliban awarded the pipeline contract to an Argentinian company BRIDAS, instead of Enron cahoot UNOCAL.
2000, Reginald Howe introduced his GATA lawsuit, naming the Deutschebank as a key party to a gold price-fixing lawsuit, prompting an investigation by the FBI into Swiss and Deutschebank gold trading accounts. The FBI records for this investigation were located at WTC
2000-2001 US officials held several meetings with the Taliban from 2000 to summer 2001, in an effort to get the Taliban to agree to a joint federal government with their local enemies, the Northern Alliance, promising financial aid and international legitimacy if the deal was struck. By then, US policymakers had belatedly concluded that the Taliban would never bring the stability needed for the pipeline project.
According to Pakistani Foreign Minister Niaz Naik, who was present at the meetings, US officials threatened the Taliban with military action if they failed to comply with the federalization plan. Even the date of threatened military action, October 2001, was proposed. Needless to say, the Taliban rejected the plan.11
So months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a war on Afghanistan was already on the table. Jean-Charles Brisard, a former French intelligence officer, thus speculates that 9/11 may have been a pre-emptive attack by al-Qaeda to head off the declared US military invasion of Afghanistan.
2001-Scarcely a month after Bush moves into the White House, Vice President Cheney has his first secret meeting with Ken Lay and other Enron executives on February 22. Other meetings
Other meetings follow on March 7 and April 17. It is the details of these meetings that the Bush Administration is seeking to keep private.
It's clear the Cheney had his own conflicts of interest with Enron. A chief benefactor in the trans-Caspian pipeline deal would have been Halliburton, the huge oil pipeline construction firm which was previously headed by Cheney.
Vice President's energy task force changed a draft energy proposal to include a provision to boost oil and natural gas production in India in February of last year. The amendment was so narrow that it apparently was targeted only to help Enron's Dabhol plant in India.
Later, Cheney stepped in to try to help Enron collect its $64 million debt during a June 27 meeting with India's opposition leader Sonia Gandhi.
2001-President George W. Bush backed China's entry into the World Trade Organisation despite the confrontation between the U.S. and China over a downed spy plane.
While Bush repeated his request that China allow full access to a damaged EP-3E Aries II spy plane and its 24 crewmembers -- stranded on China's Hainan Island since a collision with a Chinese fighter jet at the weekend -- he moved to separate the spat from China's WTO accession.
"I'm an advocate of China's entry into the WTO and I'm hopeful that the current situation ends quickly and our people come home,” Bush said.
The president said, "China is a strategic partner, I mean, strategic competitor but that doesn't mean we can't find areas in which we can partner and the economy is a place we can partner."
China later agreed to release the 24 detained US air crew after the US president, George Bush, said in a letter his government was "very sorry" for the loss of a Chinese fighter pilot who collided with their spy plane.
The 11-day-old deadlock ended after satisfying China's demand for a formal apology
July 3, 2001 -- The Chinese dismantled U.S. EP-3 spy plane held on China's Hainan Island and only released it over 2 months later
2001-On April 26 the Board of Commissioners for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey awarded Silverstein Properties and mall-owner Westfield America a 99-year-lease on the following assets: The Twin Towers, World Trade Center Buildings 4 and 5, two 9-story office buildings, and 400,000 square feet of retail space.
The partners' winning bid was $3.2 billion for holdings estimated to be worth more than $8 billion. JP Morgan Chase, a prestigious investment-bank that's the flagship firm of its kind for Rockefeller family interests, advised the Port Authority, another body long influenced by banker and builder David Rockefeller, his age then 85, in the negotiations.
The lead partner and spokesperson for the winning bidders, Larry Silverstein, age 70, already controlled more than 8 million square feet of New York City real estate. WTC 7 and the nearby Equitable Building were prime among these prior holdings. Larry Silverstein also owned Runway 69, a nightclub in Queens that was alleged 9 years ago to be laundering money made through sales of Laotian heroin.
It appeared that Silverstein had made a very bad deal, because the Twin Towers had to be decontaminated for asbestos. The decontamination process had been indefinitely postponed since the 1980s because of its cost, estimated at nearly $1 billion in 1989. In 2001, the New York Port Authority had been all too happy to shift responsibility to
Silverstein.
Immediately after acquiring the Twin Towers, Silverstein renegotiated the insurance contracts to cover terrorist attacks, doubling the coverage to $3.5 billion, and made sure he would retain the right to rebuild after such an event.
After the attacks, he took his insurers to court in order to receive double compensation, claiming that the two planes were two separate attacks.
After a long legal battle, he pocketed $4.5 billion.
2001-May Thomas E. White came from the top hierarchy of the Pentagon, then went to work for many years at Enron, in charge of their trading department where all the financial games were largely played, and then left Enron to become Army Secretary. Interesting timing.
(Isn't it most interesting that he headed the most corrupt component of Enron but was not charged with anything?)
One week after 9/11 letters were sent to dominant media entities about Anthrax. White then wore another hat as interim head of Homeland Security.
2001 February 16
United States airplanes attack Iraqi radar sites to enforce a “no-fly zone.” Bush calls the military action a “routine mission.”
2001 June 7
President Bush signs a $1.35 trillion tax cut into law. Although the amount falls short of the $1.60 trillion the administration has been seeking, the bill does slash income tax rates across the board and provides for the gradual elimination of the estate tax.
2001 al-Qaeda had assume control of Ariana Airlines, Afghanistan’s national airline in 1996, for use in its illegal trade network. Passenger flights become few and erratic, as planes are used to fly drugs, weapons, gold, and personnel, primarily between Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Pakistan.
About nine of the 9/11 hijackers work at the Kandahar airport in 2000, which is Ariana’s main hub
The Emirate of Sharjah, in the UAE, becomes a hub for al-Qaeda drug and arms smuggling. Typically, “large quantities of drugs” are flown from Kandahar, Afghanistan, to Sharjah, and large quantities of weapons are flown back to Afghanistan.
About three to four flights run the route each day. Many weapons come from Victor Bout, a notorious Russian arms dealer based in Sharjah.
Afghan taxes on opium production are paid in gold, and then the gold bullion is flown to Dubai, UAE, and laundered into cash.
Taliban officials regularly provide militants with false papers identifying them as Ariana Airlines employees so they can move freely around the world. For instance, one flight on a Ariana small plane in 2000 lists 33 crew members.
A former National Security Council official later claims the US is well aware at the time that al-Qaeda agents regularly fly on Ariana Airlines. (However, US intelligence will not learn of the widespread use of forged Ariana IDs until after 9/11.)
The CIA learns of Bout’s connection to Ariana and the Taliban in 1998, but takes no action .
Much of the money for the 9/11 hijackers flows though these Sharjah, UAE, channels. There also are reports suggesting that Ariana Airlines might have been used to train Islamic militants as pilots.
2001-The hijackers had been in regular contact with two employees of a Saudi aviation firm that operated a fleet of Boeing airliners. The firm was Dallah Avco, a Saudi operator of multiple private Boeing airliners.
Congressional investigators had already linked Dallah Avco with the actual hijackers. Omar Bayoumi, a Dallah employee and operative within the Saudi Ministry of Aviation, had provided housing and basic support for three hijackers: Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and the pilot/hijacker of American 77, Hani Hanjour.
Dallah Avco is a Saudi defense firm with close ties to the Ministry of Defense and Aviation. Dallah Avco is at the heart of the 9/11 plot, through a Saudi intelligence operative named Omar al-Bayoumi.
As widely reported by EIR, al-Bayoumi was an employee of the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation in Saudi Arabia until 1994, when he moved to the San Diego, California area and was hired by Dallah Avco. Al-Bayoumi was a no-show employee at Dallah Avco, and his salary and expenses were reimbursed to Dallah by the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation.
Al-Bayoumi, and another Saudi named Osama Basnan, were Saudi intelligence operatives. From Jan. 15, 2000, the day that two of the lead 9/11 hijackers arrived at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) from Malaysia, where they had attended an al-Qaeda planning session, al-Bayoumi and Basnan were the sponsors and handlers of the terrorist duo.
Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdar were met near LAX by al-Bayoumi and Basnan, brought to San Diego, set up in an apartment co-signed by the two Saudi intelligence agents, enrolled in flight schools, and otherwise totally supported by them. For a period of time, the two future hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 lived in the same Parkwood Apartments complex in San Diego as Basnan and al-Bayoumi
Pinal had airworthy 757s and 767s parked in the spring and summer of 2001, just when the hijacker/pilots had all flown into Las Vegas and disappeared for three days at a time.
Three different sources, all pilots under government contractors, immediately pointed to a famous spook airport used by the government contractor and mercenary outfit Blackwater.
They relayed that there were frequent flight training missions being conducted in the middle of the night with military and civilian airplanes in top-secret fashion and that this particular airport had nearly one hundred airliners scattered around the field in storage.
The Pinal Airpark, owned by Evergreen International Airlines and storing Dallah Avco planes, had a curious history as a training airport for the Intelligence Community** dating back to Air America**, the alleged CIA** operation that was allegedly trafficking heroin in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
Scahill wrote that a top Intelligence Community official** appointed by Bush in June 2001 as the Director of Operations of Central Intelligence (A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard ) was closely connected to this airport’s managers, to contracts from the Intelligence Community**, to the owner of Blackwater and to several no-bid aviation-related training contractors.
Alarmingly, this same official** was the former head of the same investment firm that had enjoyed astronomical stock profits as a result of the attack.
Scahill reported that this investment firm had placed put options (a trade that predicts a stock price drop) on only two airlines in the week preceding the attack.
Those airlines were United and American, the only two airlines used in the attack. There were other rather large commodities trades on gold and oil by the firm. Obviously, if he was the contract official, and knew about the Saudi operation and tactical plan, he would know that American and United were the targeted airlines.
This temptation may have been too difficult to overcome. Alone it might be a weird coincidence, but when we start adding this to a dozen similar coincidences, we begin to see a most troubling pattern.
The Congressional Inquiry and the 911 Commission both reported that each of the pilot/hijackers who were training in Florida made separate trips to the Arizona desert from May to August of 2001.
Meanwhile, the San Diego hijackers suddenly moved to Arizona in December 2000, two days after George W. Bush was declared to be the President following the vote recount fiasco in Florida.
The tooth hanging on a chain around the neck of A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard came, according to legend, from a Great White shark that he had punched in the jaw. The shark’s picture was hung in the office of the number-three man at CIA, who was appointed executive director in March 2001, six months prior to 9/11.
Krongard was appointed after a career in which he was credited with building up one of America’s oldest and most successful investment banking firms, Alex. Brown. Imagine the possibilities for a man with complete access to secret government intelligence and endless connections in stock and commodities trading.
According to a former Blackwater executive, Buzzy Krongard and Blackwater CEO Erik Prince are “good buddies. In his book Blackwater, investigative author Jeremy Scahill reported that the first nobid contract was handed to Blackwater from CIA through Buzzy Krongard in April 2002, a $5.4 million no-bid deal to provide 20 security guards at the Kabul CIA station for six months.
Krongard stated that he talked to Prince about the contract, but couldn’t remember who called whom and “was not sure which came first, the chicken or the egg.”
Blackwater and the CIA are major players at Arizona’s Pinal Airpark, where covert training is conducted and where Boeing 757s and Boeing 767s were parked during the spring and summer of 2001.
The Blackwater CEO has his fleet of airplanes training at Pinal and now Buzzy Krongard is linked to a major worldwide investment firm. These connections come to the forefront when we consider a series of strange stock trades involving United and American airlines.
The roster of Saudi officials in the United States on September 11 included the Saudi Defense Minister, the Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Saudi Minister of Aviation and the head of Dallah Avco Group, the Saudi aviation firm that operated Boeing jetliners for the Saudi government.
This was in addition to Saudi Prince Bandar the close friend of President Bush, who was sending checks to two hijackers’ bank accounts and who was the Saudi Ambassador to the United States on 9/11.
Also, the head of two of Saudi Arabia’s holiest mosques stayed at the same hotel as the all-Saudi hijackers of AA77 – at the Marriott Residence Inn in Herndon, Virginia – on the night of September 10.
In the week after the attack, there were at least five chartered flights with high-ranking Saudi officials that left from Las Vegas, Newark, Boston and Washington, all cities, by the way, with direct links to the hijackings. By September 24, 2001, they had all returned home to The Kingdom.
2001-Hilliard (Dekkers financier) company, Oryx, was founded by Sheik Kamal Adham – former director of Saudi intelligence, and BCCI front-man – and Adnan Khashoggi.
A colleague of Khashoggi, Amr Ibrahim “Anthony” Elgindy, according to Kenneth Breen, an assistant federal attorney, notified his Salomon Smith Barney broker to sell off stocks, predicting that a stock market crash was imminent and the index would fall to 3000, which it did.
Hilliard and Dekkers were partners with Rick Boehlke in the creation of a new airline, Florida Air, or Flair. Boehlke was also then a participant in Portland, OR., in the $340 million looting of pension funds of mostly Mafia run unions, like the Laborers Union.
Boehlke owned one of the largest holdings of freestanding retirement homes, one of which was on the opposite side of the street, and a block away from Huffman Aviation, an opulent three-story red-brick building belonging to the empire of Jackson Stephens.
The building houses Jackson Stephens’ former law firm Boone Boone & Boone, which some credit with running the town of Venice.
One local journalist explained, “I don’t think you could safely say that they run everything in town. But you could safely say they run almost everything. They exert a strong influence here, including out at the airport.”
Hilliard’s business partner in a number of airplanes was Mark Shubin, a Russian with experience in the Jamaican military, and links with the CIA and the KGB, and the Russian Mob. The offices of his company, Sky Bus Inc. were located in the same hangar as the Whittington Brother’s company, World Jet.
Mark Shubin was in business with the notorious Ken Wood, who played a large part in the Silverado Saving and Loan collapse. He was in business with Neil Bush
Peter Brewton, of the Houston Post, who broke the CIA-Mafia connection to the S&L Scandal, said that Neil Bush’s Silverado partners “all had connections to individuals or S&Ls in Texas that did business with organized crime figures or CIA operatives.”
Hilliard was also involved in the mysterious evacuation of a number of leading Saudis in the days immediately following 9/11. The Tampa Tribune reported that a twin-engine Lear jet took off two days after the September 11 attack, at a time when every other private plane in the nation was grounded due to safety concerns.
The Tribune called it “The Phantom Flight from Florida”, because the federal government denied the flight ever took place. It carried a Saudi Arabian prince, the son of that nation’s defense minister, as well as the son of a Saudi army commander, and it flew from Tampa to Lexington, Kentucky.
They flew on Wally Hilliard’s charter aircraft to private fields of military contractor Raytheon, and departed on a 747. Boarding a plane from Lexington was Prince Ahmed bin Salman, a nephew of King Fahd.
Ahmed’s father, Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, was the governor of Riyadh and member of the Sudairi clan, who had worked closely with Osama bin Laden during the Afghanistan war.
For four of the years Atta lived in Hamburg, he was a “scholarship” student at an elite international exchange program, part of a “joint venture” between the US and German governments, run by an organization with ties to figures like David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger.
The US end of the program is run out of an address at the UN Plaza in New York, by CDS International, named after Carl Duisberg, who headed the Bayer Corporation, and founded I.G. Farben.
During WW I, Duisberg devised the slave labour system later perfected by I.G. Farben, which financed the infamous Joseph Mengele, who later developed the MK-Ultra and Monarch mind-control programs.
Henry Kissinger lauded the program at a dinner celebration of the CDS International in 1987, congratulating it for its 20 years of service in keeping close business ties, not only between Germany and the US, but more also through career development programs for participants from “other countries”.
During his visit to Germany, to commemorate the Berlin Airlift, Clinton noted the US “will be working hard to expand our support” for the CDS program, which “has already given more than 10,000 German and American students the chance to visit each other’s countries.”
2001-June , the U.S. military was preparing for a “Dark Winter.” At Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs, Maryland, several Congressmen, a former CIA director, a former FBI director, government insiders and privileged members of the press met to conduct a biowarfare simulation that would precede both the September 11 attacks and the 2001 Anthrax attacks by a matter of months. It specifically simulated the deliberate introduction of smallpox to the American public by a hostile actor.
The simulation was a collaborative effort led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies (part of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security) in collaboration with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Analytic Services (ANSER) Institute for Homeland Security and the Oklahoma National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.
The concept, design and script of the simulation were created by Tara O’Toole and Thomas Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center along with Randy Larsen and Mark DeMier of ANSER.
The name for the exercise derives from a statement made by Robert Kadlec, who participated in the script created for the exercise, when he states that the lack of smallpox vaccines for the U.S. populace means that “it could be a very dark winter for America.”
Kadlec, a veteran of the George W. Bush administration and a former lobbyist for military intelligence/intelligence contractors, is now leading HHS’ Covid-19 response and led the Trump administration’s 2019 “Crimson Contagion” exercises, which simulated a crippling pandemic influenza outbreak in the U.S. that had first originated in China.
Kadlec’s professional history, shows he has a decades-old obsession with apocalyptic bioweapon attack scenarios
2001 Several war game exercises, involving both the FAA and NORAD, were being played out on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Vigilant Guardian exercise; “Amalgam Virgo,” an exercise specifically dealing with hijacked airplanes used as weapons (Amalgam 01 began in June 2001 may have ended by 9/11 but Amalgam 02 was already in the planning stages);
“Tripod II,” a biological warfare exercise mentioned by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani explains the arrival of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Urban Search and Rescue Team in New York the night before the 9/11 attacks
2001- Sep 4, Senator Phil Gramm, announced his plans to leave the Senate exactly one week prior to 9/11, . This was a very surprising announcement, as it came out of the blue, after 24 years in Congress. The balance of power, most importantly, in the Senate that time was 50/49 Democrats v. Republicans and one Independent.
Senator Helms, a Republican, about one month prior in August, 2001, disclosed he was leaving the Senate, which means Gramm's announcement, in party power context, was all the more significant.
What is most significant about Gramm's announcement to leave the Senate was where he went to work afterwards. Phil Gramm became vice-Chairman of UBS (Switzerland).
Enron offset debts which led to its downfall were not really debts , but profits generated from bank trading programs, which are principally conducted offshore.
Gramm was married to Wendy Gramm. She was former head of the Commodity Futures Committee, which allowed Enron to do its energy dealings unregulated (by government authority).
2001-Maurice Greenberg happens to be the owner of Kroll Inc., the firm in charge of security for the entire World Trade Center complex on 9/11. He also was chairman and chief executive officer of American International Group.
The Greenbergs were also the insurers of the Twin Towers and, on July 24, 2001, they took the precaution of having the contract reinsured by competitors.
The Greenberg owned Kroll controlled security at the World Trade Center complex through 2001 and was responsible for hiring John O'Neill, the former chief of counterterrorism for the FBI, an expert on Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda who was stopped from pursuing the USS Cole investigation, and who died on 9-11, reportedly his first day on the new job.
One of Kroll’s directors, Jerome Hauer, also had managed New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s Office of Emergency Management, which he had located on the 23rd floor of WTC 7 in 2000.
September 4-11, 2001: ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed visits Washington
Last time [his] predecessor was [in Washington], the Musharraf coup came right after on October 12, 1999
September 9, 2001: CIA Director Tenet Meets ISI Director about Bin Laden Issue
2001, September 9. In preparation for 9/11 and imminent invasion of Afghanistan Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic "Lion of Panjsher" and leader of the rebel Northern Alliance, a stridently anti-Taliban and anti-Al Qaeda rebel group was killed
September 10, 2001, 9/11 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged during a press conference that the Department of Defense could not account for $2.3 trillion of the massive Pentagon budget.
2001-9/11 At the time of the attacks, ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed is at a breakfast meeting at the Capitol with the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, The meeting is said to last at least until the second plane hits the WTC.
9/11-2001 Former President George H. W. Bush, along with former First Lady Barbara Bush, leaves Washington, DC, by private jet, bound for a speaking engagement in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Bushes spent the previous night at the White House.
They had flown to Washington the previous day to attend several meetings and a dinner. One of the meetings attended by the former president was the annual investor conference of the Carlyle Group, which was also attended by Shafig bin Laden, one of Osama bin Laden’s brothers
The Carlyle Group is a large private-equity investment firm, closely associated with officials of the Bush and Reagan administrations, and has considerable ties to Saudi oil money, including ties to the bin Laden family.
This morning it is holding its annual investor conference at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Washington, DC. Among the guests of honor is investor Shafig bin Laden, brother of Osama bin Laden.
Former President George H. W. Bush, who makes speeches on behalf of the Carlyle Group and is also senior adviser to its Asian Partners fund attended the conference the previous day, but is not there on September 11, 2001.
The Carlyle Group, based in Washington, DC, is one of the world’s largest private-equity investment firms. One of its brochures described it as investing “in niche opportunities created in industries heavily affected by changes in governmental policies.”
It is also the 11th-largest defense contractor in the US.
Since being established , it has signed up many former politicians and used their contacts and influence to promote itself.
Those on its payroll include former Secretary of State James Baker, former White House budget director Dick Darman, former British Prime Minister John Major, and former US President George H. W. Bush. Its chairman is former CIA Director Frank Carlucci.
Following 9/11, news reports revealed that Carlyle had a business relationship with Osama bin Laden’s family. According to a Carlyle executive, in 1995 the bin Ladens invested $2 million in the Carlyle Partners II fund, which includes various defense holdings.
This was a fairly small amount considering the entire fund is worth $1.3 billion. However, a foreign financier with ties to the bin Ladens claimed their overall investment with Carlyle was much larger.
Shafig bin Laden, one of Osama’s brothers, had actually been in Washington, DC, on the morning of 9/11, attending the Carlyle Group’s annual investor conference there on September 11, 2001
Former President George H. W. Bush, who is senior adviser to Carlyle Group’s Asian Partners fund, has twice met with the bin Laden family on behalf of the company . On this day though, the Carlyle Group ends its relationship with the bin Ladens, and gives them back their investment.
But the family is very well-connected, and their investment in Carlyle is hardly unusual for them. The New Yorker will note, “Much of the family’s private banking is handled by Citigroup, which is chaired by former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. The family has equity investments with Merrill Lynch and Goldman, Sachs. Among the family’s business partners is General Electric. A spokesman for Jack Welch, the chairman of G.E., says that the family threw a party for him in the nineteen-nineties in Saudi Arabia, and that Welch ‘considers them good business partners.’
One American diplomat says, ‘You talk about your global investors, it’s them. They own part of Microsoft, Boeing, and who knows what else.’”
2001-Marvin Bush joined Securacom's Board of Directors in 1993, as part of new management hired when the company separated from engineering firm Burns and Roe.
The new team was capitalized by KuwAm, the D.C.-based Kuwaiti-American investment company.
Bush also served on the Board of Directors at KuwAm, along with Mishal Yousef Saud al-Sabah, Chairman of KuwAm and also a Director on Securacom's (Stratesec's) board.
The World Trade Center and the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority -- which operates Dulles -- were two of Securacom's three biggest clients in 1996 and 1997.
Stratesec (Securacom) differs from other security companies which separate the function of consultant from that of service provider.
When, following the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey began its multi-million-dollar, multiyear revamping of security in and around the Twin Towers and Buildings 4 and 5, Securacom was among numerous contractors hired in the upgrade.
Stratesec, was one of the companies that provided security at the World Trade Center up until the day of the attacks. Notably, Stratesec also provided security at Dulles International Airport, where AA 77 took off on 9/11, and also security for United Airlines, which owned two of the other three allegedly hijacked aircraft. Bush’s brother Marvin was also on the board.
HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc., a reinsurance corporation on whose board Marvin Bush sat as director until November 2002, similarly benefits from terrorism insurance protections. (Bush's first year on the board at HCC coincided with his last year on the board at Stratesec.)
HCC, formerly Houston Casualty Company, carried some of the insurance for the World Trade Center. It posted a loss for the quarter after the attacks of Sept. 11 and dropped participation in worker's compensation as a result. Bush remained an adviser to the chairman and the Board of Directors, as well as a member of the company's investment committee.
2001-Yeslam bin Laden provided several students for training at Huffman, though he still claims to be estranged from his step-brother. More might have been known about the owner-Dekkers’ dubious history, but following 9/11, the FBI removed the files at Huffman and loaded them onto a C-130 military cargo plane at the Sarasota airport, which took off for Washington with governor Jeb Bush on board.
.2001-The covert securities used to accomplish the national security objective of ending the Cold War ended up in the vaults of the brokers in the World Trade Center, and were destroyed on September 11, 2001.
They came due for settlement and clearing on September 12.
The federal Agency investigating these bonds – The Office of Naval Intelligence – was in the section of the Pentagon that was destroyed on 9/11.
To this key group of senior National Security officials called the Vulcans, who had participated in the victory of the economic cold war in 1991, the WTC, the Pentagon, the four airliners and their occupants would became ‘collateral’ damage in the ending of the Cold War. Their deaths were required to hide the existence of the Black Eagle Trust, and the covert activities it had funded for over 50 years.
The destruction of these lives and buildings constituted a cover-up of continued lawlessness by a fraternity or brotherhood of businessmen and criminals often referred to as ‘the Enterprise’ in the 1980s, though it has remained in the shadows since.
Barrick Gold was an investment for nearly every gold bullion bank associated with the Marcos gold recovery. These banks would loan gold to Barrick, which would then sell the borrowed gold as derivatives, with the promise of replacing the borrowed gold with their gold mining operation.
The records of many of those transactions disappeared when Enron collapsed and the trading operation and all its records were taken over by UBS, another major recipient of Marcos gold.
The FBI was reportedly conducting an investigation into those transactions, and the investigation files were kept on the 23rd floor of the North Tower of the WTC.
A key player in the Marcos gold was Banker’s Trust, which was taken over by Alex Brown & Sons, after Banker’s Trust floundered financially on its Russian loans in the mid 1990s.
These Russian loans were facilitated by Enron, starting in August of 1993, and very possibly were part of the Project Hammer takeover of Soviet industry.
Alex Brown’s involvement would bring to the forefront the names of three names of individuals who would play multiple roles in this mystery: Buzz Krongard, Mayo Shattuck, and J Carter Beese.
Buzz Krongard is reported as the mentor of Beese and Shattuck from their years together at Alex Brown. Additionally, he managed the merger between Bankers Trust and Deutschebank Alex Brown.
Bankers Trust, Zurich was a key Marcos gold holder. Krongard would move on to become Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust, and Executive Director of the CIA at the time of September 11.
Mayo Shattuck would be reported to be the personal banker for Adnan Khashoggi and Edgar Bronfmann during their partnership at Barrick Gold.
He would move on to become the CEO of Deutschebank and would resign for unexplained reasons the day after September 11, and would not be at the WTC office that day when the tower collapsed.
It was his bank that was identified as the source of the illegal stock options that indicated there was insider trading taking advantage of the September 11 tragedy.
The attacks … were intended to cover-up the clearing of $240 billion dollars in securities covertly created in September 1991 to fund a covert economic war against the Soviet Union, during which ‘unknown’ western investors bought up much of the Soviet industry, with a focus on oil and gas.
The 9/11 attacks also served to derail multiple Federal investigations of crimes associated with the 1991 covert operation. Hundreds of billions of dollars of government securities had to be destroyed. A critical mass of brokers from the major government security brokerages in the Twin Towers had to be eliminated to create chaos in the government securities market.
A situation needed to be created wherein $240 billion dollars of covert securities could be electronically “cleared” without anyone asking questions – which happened when the Federal Reserve declared an emergency and invoked its “emergency powers” that very afternoon.
There were three major securities brokers in the World Trade Center: Cantor Fitzgerald, Eurobrokers and Garbon Inter Capital.
Cantor Fitzgerald was the largest securities dealer in the US and arguably the primary target. 41% of the fatalities in the Twin Towers came from Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers. 24% of the 125 fatalities in the Pentagon were from the Naval Command Centerthat housed the Office of Naval Intelligence. 29 of 30 Office of Naval Intelligence employees died.
The Naval Command Center had been moved into that newly opened section of the Pentagon only a month earlier. And in the vaults beneath the World Trade Center Towers, any certificates for bonds were destroyed.
On that fateful day, the Securities and Exchange Commission declared a national emergency, and for the first time in U.S. history, invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) easing regulatory restrictions for clearing and settling security trades for the next 15 days.
These changes would allow an estimated $240 billion in covert government securities to be cleared upon maturity without the standard regulatory controls around identification of ownership.
The two firms in the U.S. most likely to be handling the securities would be Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers – the two largest government securities firms in the U.S. The federal agency mostly involved in investigating those transactions was the Office of Naval Intelligence.
On 9/11, those same three organizations: the two largest government securities brokers and the Office of Naval Intelligence in the US took direct hits.
As one of many coincidences on 9/11, the Federal Reserve Bank was operating its information system from its remote back-up site rather than it’s downtown headquarters. The SEC and Federal Reserve system remained unfazed by the attack. All of their systems continued to operate.
The two major security trading firms had their trade data backed up on remote systems. Nevertheless, the Commission for the first time invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) and issued several orders to ease certain regulatory restrictions temporarily.
On the first day of the crisis, the SEC lifted “Rule 15c3-3: Customer Protection – Reserves and Custody of Securities.” Thus GSCC [Government Securities Clearing Corporation] was thus allowed to substitute other securities for the physical securities destroyed during the attack. “…collateral substitutions can and should be made with regard to immediately maturing collateral.”
At this point in time, the Federal Reserve and its GSCC had created a settlement environment totally void of controls and reporting – where it could substitute valid, new government securities for the mature, illegal securities, and not have to record where the original bad securities had come from, or where the new securities went – all because the paper for the primary brokers for US securities had been eliminated.
The reports published by the Federal Reserve argue that the Federal Reserve’s actions increasing the monetary supply by over $300 billion were justified to overcome operational difficulties in the financial sector.
While the Fed was reporting outstanding account balances of over $100 billion per day (while not identifying the banks involved), the Wall Street Journal reported that at one point during the week after 9/11, BoNY was publicly reported to be overdue on $100 billion in payments.
The Deutschebank, which sat inside the WTC and was totally decimated, reported no such account balance increase, and JP Morgan, the other of only two clearing banks which uses the same traders and communications hub, reported no such increase in its account balance.
No one has publicly asked: why is it that these other two banks were not seriously disrupted, while the Bank of New York – which had no structural damage – seemed unable to operate?
Certain key unknown figures in the Federal Reserve may have ‘conspired’ with key unknown figures at the Bank of New York to create a situation where $240 billion in off balance sheet securities created in 1991 as part of an official covert operation to overthrow the Soviet Union, could be cleared without publicly acknowledging their existence.
These securities, originally managed by Cantor Fitzgerald, were cleared and settled in the aftermath of September 11th through the BoNY.
The $100 billion account balance bubble reported by the Wall Street Journal as being experienced in the BoNY was tip of a three day operation, when these securities were moved from off-balance-sheet to the balance sheet.
In summary
The US dollar money supply was significantly increased in the aftermath of 9/11;
The bank at the core of the illegal money laundering by ex-Soviet criminals was the source of the increased money supply (BoNY);
The generally disseminated rationale for BoNY’s operational problems seems to have affected no other bank in a similar manner or magnitude and is inconsistent with reports on the BoNY operations in the aftermath;
A key witness who might provide insight to these issues is a statistically aberrant death;
The source of the BoNY’s $330 billion increase in assets is cloaked under the privilege of “private banking;”
The only alleged “severe” disruption to the financial systems was the Federal Reserves account balance and the securities trading fails – both systems required to hide the laundering of $240 billion in covert securities.
This is not a ‘proof’ that $240 billion was laundered, but it provides probable cause for paying serious attention.
2001-Another likely target was the El Dorado Task force, an interagency money-laundering watchdog group led by the US Customs Service and the Internal Revenue Service. At the time of 9/11, the interagency task force was based in the US Customs Office in Building Six, and was responsible for coordinating federal and state money laundering investigations.
Its location in Building Six is noteworthy, because the destruction of WTC-6 remains one of the strangest mysteries from 9/11. Aerial photos of the WTC site taken after the attack show an enormous cavity in the middle of Building Six.
The pictures are extraordinary, and raise obvious questions. The hole has been compared to a crater.
What, other than a huge explosion, could have hollowed out the core of this eight-story building?
According to the official story, WTC-6 was wrecked by falling debris during the collapse of the adjacent North Tower. But subsequent inside photos of the huge cavity fail to show any of the tell-tale exterior columns or other identifiable debris from the North Tower. Indeed, judging from the available photos, the cavity was remarkably free of any type of debris.
WTC-7? Again, several offices in the building were specifically targeted. These include the Securities and Exchange Commission on floors 11, 12 and 13, the Secret Service offices on floors 9 and 10, and the Internal Revenue Service offices on floors 24 and 25. All three agencies suffered the total loss of files and records for ongoing investigations which had been stored in WTC-7.
Although SEC officials later refused to discuss how many ongoing cases had been impacted by the attacks, the agency claimed that it lost only two weeks’ worth of computer data which had not been backed up.
But New York securities lawyers who practice before the SEC told a different story. One of them, Bill Singer, stated that a case he had pending was settled quickly because so many of the pertinent documents had been destroyed. Said Singer: “Regardless of what the regulators say, they lost a ton of files. In my opinion it was a wholesale loss of documents.”
It is quite possible that other federal offices were also targeted in WTC-7. The largest CIA facility outside of CIA headquarters at Langley was housed on the building’s 25th floor, and the Department of Defense also had offices in WTC-7.
The destruction of Building Seven thus, would have been the capstone to a covert operation of sweeping extent, which involved the targeting of government offices that were investigating financial crimes, for the purpose of destroying the documentary evidence they had accumulated, in the process killing many of the staff involved. Admittedly, such a plan would have been fiendishly clever.
Elgindy was charged of being the leader of a criminal racketeering enterprise alleged to have been short-selling and illegally manipulating stock in companies that were under criminal investigation. Among the other counts against Elgindy, he is accused of extorting shares from companies that were under criminal investigation.
Elgindy’s brother, Khaled, was linked to the Iran-Contra scandal, through his ties with Elliot Abrams, who had been Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State.
Abram’s is also a Bush-pardoned Iran-Contra war criminal. Now, via his new role in the NSC, he was working on Arab-Israeli peace initiatives. Abram’s new official title is Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs.
Abrams chaired the US Commission on International Religious Freedom; sitting on the Washington DC Human Rights Committee chaired by him was Khaled Elgindy, serving as a policy analyst.
Anthony and Khaled’s father, Ibrahim Elgindy, was reported to have founded an umbrella group of Muslim organizations in Chicago, and led a 1998 protest on behalf of Muhammad Salah, a man the US government calls a designated global terrorist. Salah confessed to Israeli authorities that he was raising money for Hamas’ suicide bombings and training cells in the US to make explosives.
One of the companies Elgindy targeted and traded was GenesisIntermedia, or GENI.
Khashoggi had started another business, called GenesisIntermedia, a telemarketing company. This was during the .com boom.
The stock was the best performer in 2000 despite losses of more than $17 million on just $229,000 revenue....A well known financial commentator, Courtney Smith, helped push this stock on CNBC, Bloomberg, and elsewhere, for a tiny $1.1 million fee.
Having pushed the stock from $1 a share all the way up to $17, Khashoggi paid off some brokers to borrow his stock and lend it to Deutsche Bank Canada to the tune of $130 million. Despite having internet revenues of less than half a million.
Under this scheme, Deutsche borrows the stock and pays Khashoggi the value of the shares.
After the stock crashed, GenesisIntermedia went belly up and Khashoggi made out like a Saudi oil tycoon. Deutsche Bank and a few securities companies were left holding the baby. Khashoggi made the $130 million disappear
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil suit in 2003 against individuals in scams involving GenisisIntermedia, which included Iran-Contra arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, but also stock-fraud artist Rafi Khan, the Toronto branch of Deustche Bank Securities, the Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE), and Thomas Brooks, a broker who can’t seem to account for shares loaned from Native Nations Securities.
Other than Adnan Khashoggi, ties between Iran-Contra conspirators and GENI included its director, Michael Roy Fugler, who was an integral part of Barry Seal’s organization. Apparently, it was Fugler’s job to set-up the front companies for Seal’s drug proceeds.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is claiming that the clearing firm of MJK was defrauded when millions of dollars outstanding on Native Nations Securities’ borrowed GENI shares could not be collected.
Native Nations Securities, a New Jersey firm, was run by Valerie Red-Horse, office manager for junk-bond king Michael Milken of Drexel, Burnham, Lambert, a junk-bond securities company with Mafia associates, and high-ranking political connections in New York State.
Drexel, Burnham, Lambert is connected to the Drexel Company, itself– according to FBI investigator Richard Taus – part of the K-Team which was involved in the Iran-Contra operation.
2001-The Enron Corporation was collapsing and this was formally announced in late 2001 amidst allegations of fraudulent accounting. They hired Kroll Zolfo Cooper to handle its chapter 11 proceedings. Many SEC and FBI records on Enron were likely lost in the WTC7 collapse
American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the 95th and 96th floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. Both floors were occupied by Marsh & McLennan, one of the world’s largest insurance brokerages, with ties to the private intelligence firm Kroll Associates, which held the security contract at the World Trade Center.
Marsh & McLennan had recently installed software that enabled fraudulent trading in the hours before, and possibly during, the 9/11 attacks. It would be used to electronically connect Marsh to AIG and its major business partners via Internet portals, for the purpose of creating ‘paperless transactions’ and expediting revenue and renewal cycles.”
The CEO of Marsh & McLennan on 9/11 was Jeffrey Greenberg, son of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, owner of AIG, the world’s largest insurance conglomerate (or second largest, depending on the source).
Greenberg’s other son, Evan, was CEO of Ace Limited, another large insurance company. Maurice Greenberg had been a director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank for many years, and in 1994-95 served as its chairman.
Greenberg was also vice-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, which sponsored his 1996 report, “Making Intelligence Smarter: The future of U.S. Intelligence.” As a result of that report, Senator Arlen Specter floated Greenberg’s name as a candidate for the directorship of the CIA.
Paul Bremers office was located in the South Tower above where the second plane (UAL175) hit. However, like other top Marsh & McLennan executives, Bremer failed to show up for work that morning. Instead, Bremer went on national television and was one of the first to point the finger at Osama bin Laden. Bremer called for “the most severe military response
In 2003, Bremer would be appointed administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq to level the Iraqi state to the ground and oversee the theft of almost a trillion dollars intended for its reconstruction.
In mid-October 2001, The Independent (UK) reported that, “To the embarrassment of investigators, it has….emerged that the a firm (Alex Brown) headed until 1998 by Alvin ‘Buzzy’ Krongard, now executive director of the CIA bought many of the ‘put’ options (where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall) on United Airlines stock
Alex Brown was acquired by Bankers Trust in 1997, which, in turn, was purchased by Deutsche Bank in 1999. Krongard’s last job at Alex Brown -Bankers Trust was to oversee “private client relations.” This means that Krongard personally arranged confidential transactions and transfers for the bank’s unnamed wealthy clientele.
After “Buzzy” Krongard’s departure to the CIA, his successor at Alex Brown -Bankers Trust was his former deputy Mayo Shattuck III, who had worked at the bank for many years. In 1997, Shattuck helped Krongard engineer the merger with Banker’s Trust, and he stayed on after Deutsche Bank acquired Bankers Trust – Alex Brown in 1999
According to the New York Times, Mayo Shattuck III “was made co-head of investment banking in January [2001], overseeing Deutsche Bank’s 400 brokers who cater to wealthy clients.” It is curious that Shattuck resigned immediately after the 9/11 attacks.
Deutsche Banks headquarters at the Bankers Trust Building was also destroyed on 9/11
Deutsche’s forty-floor Manhattan headquarters which had been the offices of BankersTrust—was right next to the World Trade Center. When the plane flew into the South Tower, some 1,500 windows were shattered in Deutsche’s building. When the towers fell,flying metal and concrete ripped a deep,fifteen story gash in the side of the building.What used to be its entrance was now a smoldering heap of wreckage, withshards of the World Trade Center’s grill-like facade embedded in the walls. Miraculously, only one Deutsche employee died.
The New York Stock Exchange reopened a week after 9/11, and on October 3, Deutsche’s shares debuted, trading under the ticker symbol DB.I
The building was beyond repair. But because it was filled with dangerous levels of mercury,asbestos, toxic mold, and other nasty stuff, there was no way to dismantle it without spreading more poison in Lower Manhattan.
So the shell of the doomed tower was draped in a veil of dark webbing, an enormous tombstone towering over the hallowed GroundZero.There it sat for years ,a ghostly,impenetrable reminder of 9/11
2001-There was sharp upsurge in purchases of put options on both United and American Airlines. A put option is a contract that allows the holder to sell a stock at a set price during a specified time period, which can reap huge profits should the stock plummet.
The uptick had occurred in the days prior to 9/11. Sources on Wall Street told CBS that they had never before seen that kind of trading imbalance. The only airlines affected were United and American, the two involved in the attack. American Airlines stock dropped 39% in a single day. United Airlines stock fell even more, a whopping 44%.
A story posted on October 1, 2001, the New York Times cited experts who attributed the spike in put options for United and American Airlines as most likely due to a slumping airline industry.
George Tenet writes in his memoirs that in February 1998 he recruited Buzzy Krongard to become his Councilor, in which capacity Krongard probably served as Tenet’s personal liaison to Wall Street. Krongard’s known ties to the CIA, however, go back at least as far as 1992.
In the mid-1990s Krongard had served as a consultant to CIA director James Woolsey. Then he returned to finance and was named chairman of America’s oldest investment banking firm, Alex Brown and Sons, Inc., which in 1997 merged with Bankers Trust. In 1999, BT Alex Brown was in turn acquired by Deutsche Bank, the firm that placed the UAL put options.
What about the pre-9/11 surge in call options for Raytheon, for instance, or the spike in put options for the behemoth Morgan Stanley, which had offices in the South Tower?
And what of the Greenbergs insurance firm, Marsh & McLennan (also on the list, along with AIG), whose offices in the North Tower took the full impact of American Airlines Flight 11, and which also saw the second highest spike in pre-9/11 put option activity, second only to United Airlines?
The data shows that all of the 9/11-related put options were exercised, meaning that pay-outs occurred for each and every stock option. This was also confirmed by no less than Joseph Cella, the SEC official who headed up the SEC insider trading probe.
The trader was none other than Wirt Walker III, a distant cousin to then-President G.W. Bush. Several days before 9/11, Walker and his wife Sally purchased 56,000 shares of stock in Stratesec, one of the companies that provided security at the World Trade Center up until the day of the attacks.
Notably, Stratesec also provided security at Dulles International Airport, where AA 77 took off on 9/11, and also security for United Airlines, which owned two of the other three allegedly hijacked aircraft. At the time, Walker was a director of Stratesec.
Although in 2001 the US insurance industry as a whole suffered through one of its worst years on record, AIG’s immense profitability continued and hardly lost a beat.
Whereas the rest of the industry paid out some $40 billion in insurance settlements as a result of the 9/11 attacks, AIG reported a handsome $5.36 billion profit for the year; which was only a slight decline from the $5.64 billion profit AIG posted in 2000.
Even subtracting Marsh & McLennan’s $126 million in losses, the Greenberg family beat the trends in 2001.
2001- Shortly before introducing Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton to C. Boyden Gray one week after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and asking Gray “to become the John Adams of the INSLAW case” and represent INSLAW simply because it was the right thing to do, Murphy said something to Hamilton that Hamilton now suspects may have been an allusion to the use of the NSA bank surveillance version of PROMIS to launder money.
In September 2001, Murphy, who had served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Bush during the first term of the Reagan Administration when the PROMIS misappropriations began, told Hamilton that it was his “hunch” that there was still another use of PROMIS that INSLAW had not yet discovered and that it :
“involves something so seriously wrong that money alone cannot cure the problem,”
Admiral Murphy passed away suddenly several days later on September 21, 2001.
Bill Hamilton later mentioned that the “other” use of PROMIS may have involved laundering money.
(Imo - Another dangerous use was using it to gain control of government by blackmail from information acquired from PROMIS/PRISM)
2001 September 20
The President appoints Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge to the new cabinet-level post of director of the Office of Homeland Security. Governor Ridge will coordinate the efforts of more than forty federal agencies to secure the United States against future terrorist attacks.
2001 October 7
, President George W. Bush announced that the United States had begun military action in Afghanistan. The military operation was code-named Enduring Freedom.
By mid-March 2002, the Taliban had been removed from power, and the Al Qaeda network in Afghanistan was severely damaged.
2001-DARPA was sponsoring a surveillance program to collect data on U.S. citizens without their knowledge or consent by using their medical records. The ostensible purpose of that program was to develop algorithms that could detect a bioweapons attack based on real-time data input.
The Bio-Event Advanced Leading Indicator Recognition Technology, or Bio-ALIRT, is at the heart of what Dark Winter co-author, Dr. Tara O’Toole, calls the “information supply chain.”
2001-Robert Stevens died from anthrax on October 4, 2001. Stevens was a photo editor for The Sun, a supermarket tabloid housed in the AMI office building in Florida. According to media reports, the Florida anthrax letters carried a postal paper trail showing it was sent to the National Enquirer at it's former address, but then got forwarded to the American Media, Inc., office in Boca Raton.
The AMI offices housed both the National Enquirer and The Sun.
National Enquirer had run photos of George Bush's daughter, Jenna, falling down drunk. Four to six months before 911, these tabloids were having a field day with publishing photos of Bush's daughters and their drunken escapades; papa Bush wasn't too happy.
Anthrax was sent to Democratic Senators Leahy and Senator Majority leader Tom Daschle, who were dragging their feet on the Patriot Act. Both Senators reversed their foot dragging after these mailings, and the Act passed. 9/11 and anthrax attacks killed many Americans.
———-2001-Also like the WMD, and Libby, Judith Miller was called upon to spread the word by her daily scaring articles, and she publishes a book titled "Germs..." on Oct. 2, 2001. This was about 10 days after the first mailings, which were one week after 9/11.
———Army Secretary Thomas E. White, who left Enron in May 2001, gets appointed by the Pentagon Interim Department of Defense Executive Agent for Homeland Security, one day after her book is published,
——-2004-About a week prior to Thomas E. White leaving the position as Army Secretary, David Rustine buys the American Media building in Florida, the former headquarters of the National Enquirer also in Florida, which sustained an Anthrax attack.
"Rustine bought it for $40,000 in title under his firm, Crown Co. Crown which in turn was bought subsequently by another of his firms, Bio-ONE.
“Rustine planned to destroy 4.5 million pictures — including a photo of Elvis Presley in his coffin — along with 305,000 pounds of other materials that have all been kept in sealed storage since the attacks. Several photographers objected, and Rustine agreed to decontaminate the items
——-2004 Giuliani forms a company with the SAME (Bio-ONE.) name (though different company). Sabre Technical Services, which decontaminated two post offices and the Hart Senate Building after other anthrax attacks in 2001, joined Giuliani Partners to create Bio-ONE.”
Rudy announces that he wants to lease the facilities at the American Media building, but has to first decontaminate it, i.e., destroy the anthrax, or more apropos, in context, the evidence.
However, a party who owned a box of photographs which was thought to harbor Anthrax too, would not allow it to be decontaminated.
Of all the hundreds of thousands of buildings in America to lease, he picked out the only one sealed off because of anthrax, and then changed his mind about leasing it, when he could not access ALL of the anthrax.
———2007 After the American Media building in Boca Raton was given a green-light regarding anthrax in 2007, Rudy on Larry King, announced his Presidential ambitions.
Who completed the work on the American Media building? Marcor
Marcor was the first contractor to arrive for the 9/11 World Trade Center forensic recovery effort at Fresh Kill Landfill, and was the last to leave the scene. Marcor worked closely with the New York City police department..."
What are the odds that Marcor, out of hundreds of thousands of contractors, would be the first and last on the scene of 9/11, and ALSO be the firm that would destroy all of the anthrax evidence in the American Media building?
Public records show Rustine later sold the building for $9.29 million in May 2007″.And this unexplainably exorbitant profit was made not too long before the Florida market went bust…
2001 October 17
The Capital shuts down amidst an Anthrax scare. Persons in Florida and New York have already tested positive for the frequently fatal bacteria. Bush calls for $1.5 billion to fight bioterrorism.
2001- President George W. Bush’s signed the Patriot Act, which would give the National Security Agency broad authority to extract and mine search-log data.
President Bush said on October 26, 2001, the day he signed the act into law. “The American people need to know that we’re collecting a lot of information and we’re spending a great deal of time trying to gather as much intelligence as we possibly can, to chase down every lead, to run down every hint so that we can keep America safe. And it’s happening.”
2001- NSA engineers built Mainway , supposedly after September 11, 2001. Vice President Dick Cheney’s office had drafted orders, signed by President George W. Bush. The assignment, forbidden by statute, was to track telephone calls made and received by Americans on American soil.
Mainway came to life alongside Stellarwind, the domestic surveillance program created by Cheney. Stellarwind defined the operation; Mainway was a tool to carry it out.
When NSA director Mike Hayden received the execution order on October 4, 2001 for “the vice president’s special program,” NSA engineers assembled a system within a matter of days.
On Columbus Day, October 8, Hayden briefed them on their new jobs in a specially compartmented new operation. That day he called it Starburst. The Stellarwind cryptonym replaced it soon afterward.
During the same holiday weekend, Hayden dispatched personnel from Special Source Operations to negotiate the secret purchase of telephone data in bulk from companies including AT&T and Verizon. The price would surpass $102 million in the coming five years.
Stellarwind was designated as ECI, “exceptionally controlled information,” the most closely held classification of all. From his West Wing office, Cheney ordered that Stellarwind be concealed from the judges of the FISA Court and from members of the intelligence committees in Congress.
Mainway soon became the NSA’s most important tool for mapping social networks—an anchor of what the agency called Large Access Exploitation. “
Metadata was the key to the NSA’s plan to “identify, track, store, manipulate and update relationships” across all forms of intercepted content.
In their first mission statement, planners gave the project the unironic name “the Big Awesome Graph.” Inevitably it acquired a breezy acronym, “the BAG.”
Mainway, or the Mainway Precomputed Contact Chaining Service, is an analytic tool for contact chaining..
Former NSA deputy director John C. Inglis testified to Congress in 2013 that NSA analysts typically “go out two or three hops” when they chain through the call database.
For context, data scientists estimated decades ago that it would take no more than six hops to trace a path between any two people on Earth. Their finding made its way into popular culture in Six Degrees of Separation, the play by John Guare
Only 22 top officials, according to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, had authority to order a contact chain to be built from data in Mainway’s FISA partitions.
(Ok , but the orders can be broadly defined to cover multiple people/groups of many thousands or more)
2000’s Tor had come out of a joint US Navy–DARPA military project in the early 2000s and continued to rely on a series of federal contracts after it was spun off into a private nonprofit. This funding came from the Pentagon, the State Department, and at least one organization that derived from the CIA.
2001-American scientists were developing a sensor system for the detection of anthrax and botulinum toxin called BASIS (Biological Aerosol Sentry and Information Systems). The results of the tests conducted on this new sensor system showed that it was highly prone to generating false positives and was, therefore, worthless beyond the ability to “induce the very panic and social disruption it is intended to thwart“, according to the Livermore Laboratory, which nevertheless marketed BASIS as a tool to “guard the air we breathe.”
BASIS had returned two positive results for the deadly neurotoxin at the White House. BASIS had lived up to its reputation as a great panic-inducing mechanism when the supposed botulinum toxin hits were determined to have been false positives.
This led to George W. Bush’s subsequent deployment of the system in thirty cities throughout the country under the auspices of the newly-minted Department of Homeland Security as part of a program called Bio-Watch.
BASIS relies on the CDC’s Laboratory Response Network (LRN) to identify the biological agents trapped by its sensors. The Bio-Watch program is plagued by bureaucratic and logistical problems, which further undermine any potential public health benefits.
2001-December 2
The Enron Corporation files for Chapter Eleven bankruptcy protection, the largest bankruptcy case in American history.