DETALHES SUPPRESSIONES DE NEGOCIAÇÃO INSIDENTAL PENAL.
LIGUE DIRECTAMENTE NOS GRUPOS MAIS ALTOS DA CIA.
DIRETOR EXECUTIVO DA CIA "BUZZY" KRONGARD.
EMPRESA GERADA QUE MANUSEU "PUT" OPÇÕES ON UAL.
por Michael C. Ruppert.
FTW, 9 de outubro de 2001 - Embora seja uniformemente ignorado pela mídia norte-americana, existem provas abundantes e claras de que uma série de transações nos mercados financeiros indicaram a presciência específica (criminal) dos ataques de 11 de setembro no World Trade Center e no Pentágono. No caso de pelo menos uma dessas negociações - que deixou um prêmio de US $ 2,5 milhões não reclamado - a empresa usou para colocar as opções "put" & quot; no estoque da United Airlines foi, até 1998, administrado pelo homem que agora ocupa o cargo de Diretor Executivo número três na Agência Central de Inteligência. Até 1997 A. B. & quot; Buzzy & quot; Krongard tinha sido presidente do banco de investimento A. B. Castanho. A. B. Brown foi adquirido pela Banker's Trust em 1997. Krongard tornou-se, como parte da fusão, o vice-presidente do Banker's Trust-AB Brown, um dos 20 maiores bancos dos EUA nomeados pelo senador Carl Levin este ano como relacionado ao branqueamento de capitais. A última posição de Krongard no Banker's Trust (BT) foi supervisionar "relações com clientes privados". Nesta capacidade, ele teve relações práticas diretas com algumas das pessoas mais ricas do mundo em uma espécie de operação bancária especializada que foi identificada pelo Senado dos EUA e outros pesquisadores como intimamente ligados ao lavagem de dinheiro da droga.
Krongard (re?) Ingressou na CIA em 1998 como conselheiro do diretor George Tenet da CIA. Ele foi promovido para diretor executivo da CIA pelo presidente Bush em março deste ano. A BT foi adquirida pelo Deutsche Bank em 1999. A empresa combinada é o maior banco da Europa. E, como veremos, o Deutsche Bank desempenhou vários papéis fundamentais em eventos relacionados aos ataques de 11 de setembro.
O ÂMBITO DA NEGOCIAÇÃO CONHECIDA CONHECIDA.
Antes de investigar mais nessas relações, é necessário examinar as informações de informações privilegiadas que estão sendo ignoradas pela Reuters, The New York Times e outras mídias de massa. Está bem documentado que a CIA há muito acompanhou esses negócios - em tempo real - como avisos potenciais de ataques terroristas e outros movimentos econômicos contrários aos interesses dos EUA. As histórias anteriores da FTW destacaram especificamente o uso do software Promis para monitorar esses negócios.
É necessário compreender apenas dois termos financeiros fundamentais para entender o significado desses negócios, "vender curto" e "colocar opções".
& quot; Sell Short & quot; é o empréstimo de ações, vendendo-o aos preços atuais do mercado, mas não sendo necessário que realmente produza o estoque por algum tempo. Se o estoque cai precipitadamente após a entrada do contrato curto, o vendedor pode então cumprir o contrato comprando o estoque após o preço cair e concluir o contrato no preço pré-colisão. Estes contratos geralmente têm uma janela de até quatro meses.
& quot; Put Options & quot; são contratos que dão ao comprador a opção de vender ações em uma data posterior. Comprados a preços nominais de, por exemplo, US $ 1,00 por ação, são vendidos em blocos de 100 ações. Se forem exercidos, dão ao titular a opção de vender ações selecionadas em uma data futura a um preço fixado quando o contrato é emitido. Assim, por um investimento de US $ 10.000, pode ser possível amarrar 10.000 ações da United or American Airlines a US $ 100 por ação, e o vendedor da opção é então obrigado a comprá-las se a opção for executada. Se o estoque caiu para US $ 50 quando o contrato venha a matar, o titular da opção pode comprar as ações por US $ 50 e imediatamente vendê-las por US $ 100 - independentemente de onde o mercado se encontra. Uma opção de compra é o reverso de uma opção de venda, que é, de fato, uma aposta de derivativos que o preço da ação aumentará.
Uma história de 21 de setembro do Instituto de Políticas Internacionais de Israel Herzliyya para o terrorismo antiterrorista, intitulado "Black Tuesday: The World's Largs Insider Trading Scam" & quot; documentou os seguintes negócios ligados aos ataques de 11 de setembro:
- Entre os dias 6 e 7 de setembro, o Chicago Board Options Exchange viu a compra de 4.744 opções de venda da United Airlines, mas apenas 396 opções de compra. Supondo que 4.000 das opções foram compradas por pessoas com conhecimento prévio dos ataques iminentes, esses "insiders" teria lucrado quase US $ 5 milhões.
- Em 10 de setembro, 4.516 opções de venda da American Airlines foram compradas na bolsa de Chicago, em comparação com apenas 748 chamadas. Novamente, não havia notícias nesse momento para justificar esse desequilíbrio; Mais uma vez, assumindo que 4.000 destas negociações de opções representam "iniciantes", representariam um ganho de cerca de US $ 4 milhões.
- [Os níveis de opções de compra comprados acima foram mais de seis vezes maiores do que o normal.]
- Nenhuma negociação semelhante em outras companhias aéreas ocorreu na bolsa de Chicago nos dias imediatamente anteriores a terça-feira negra.
- Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & amp; Co., que ocupou 22 andares do World Trade Center, viu 2,157 de outubro as opções de venda de US $ 45 compradas nos três dias de negociação antes da terça-feira negra; Isso se compara a uma média de 27 contratos por dia antes de 6 de setembro. O preço das ações da Morgan Stanley caiu de US $ 48,90 para US $ 42,50 no rescaldo dos ataques. Supondo que 2 mil desses contratos de opções foram comprados com base no conhecimento dos ataques que se aproximavam, seus compradores poderiam ter lucrado em pelo menos US $ 1,2 milhão.
- Merrill Lynch & amp; Co., que ocupava 22 andares do World Trade Center, viu 12.215 opções de compra de US $ 45 em outubro, compradas nos quatro pregões anteriores aos ataques; O volume médio anterior dessas ações tinha sido de 252 contratos por dia [um aumento de 1200%!]. Quando as negociações foram retomadas, as ações da Merrill caíram de US $ 46,88 para US $ 41,50; assumindo que 11.000 contratos de opção foram comprados por "insiders", seu lucro teria sido de cerca de US $ 5,5 milhões.
- Reguladores europeus estão examinando trades na Alemanha Re Munich Re, Suiça Swiss Re, e AXA da França, todos os principais resseguradores com exposição ao desastre Black Tuesday. [Nota de FTW: AXA também possui mais de 25% das ações da American Airlines, fazendo com que os ataques sejam "whimmy duplo" para eles.]
Em 29 de setembro de 2001 - em uma história vital que passou despercebida pelos principais meios de comunicação - informou o San Francisco Chronicle, "quot; Os investidores ainda não coletaram mais de US $ 2,5 milhões em lucros que fizeram opções de negociação no estoque da United Airlines antes dos ataques terroristas de 11 de setembro, de acordo com uma fonte familiar com os negócios e os dados de mercado ".
& quot; O dinheiro não cobrado suscita suspeitas de que os investidores - cujas identidades e nacionalidades não tenham sido tornados públicos - tiveram conhecimento prévio das greves ". Eles não se atrevem a aparecer agora. A suspensão da negociação durante quatro dias após os ataques impossibilitou a retirada rápida e reivindicou o prêmio antes que os pesquisadores começassem a procurar.
As opções da série de outubro para a UAL Corp. foram compradas em volumes altamente incomuns três dias de negociação antes dos ataques terroristas por um desembolso total de US $ 2.070; os investidores compraram os contratos de opção, cada um representando 100 ações, por 90 centavos cada. [Isso representa 230.000 ações]. Essas opções agora estão sendo vendidas em mais de US $ 12 cada. Ainda há 2,313 denominados "colocar" opções em circulação [avaliadas em US $ 2,77 milhões e representativas de 231,300 ações] de acordo com a Options Clearinghouse Corp.
"A fonte familiar com os negócios Unidos identificou Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, o braço bancário norte-americano de investimentos do gigante alemão Deutsche Bank, como o banco de investimentos costumava comprar pelo menos algumas dessas opções & quot; Esta foi a operação gerida por Krongard até 1998.
Conforme relatado em outras notícias, o Deutsche Bank também foi o centro da atividade de informação privilegiada ligada a Munique Re. pouco antes dos ataques.
CIA, OS BANCOS E OS CORRETORES.
Compreender as inter-relações entre a CIA eo mundo bancário e corretor é fundamental para entender as implicações já assustadoras das revelações acima. Vejamos a história da CIA, Wall Street e os grandes bancos, observando alguns dos principais atores da história da CIA.
Clark Clifford - A Lei de Segurança Nacional de 1947 foi escrita por Clark Clifford, uma potência do Partido Democrata, ex-Secretário de Defesa e único conselheiro do presidente Harry Truman. Na década de 1980, como presidente da First American Bancshares, Clifford foi fundamental para obter o banco corrupto da CIA BCCI uma licença para operar nas costas americanas. Sua profissão: advogada e banqueira de Wall Street.
John Foster e Allen Dulles - Estes dois irmãos "projetados" A CIA para Clifford. Ambos foram ativos em operações de inteligência durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Allen Dulles foi o embaixador dos EUA na Suíça, onde se encontrou freqüentemente com líderes nazistas e cuidou dos investimentos dos EUA na Alemanha. John Foster passou a se tornar Secretário de Estado sob Dwight Eisenhower e Allen passou a servir como diretor da CIA sob Eisenhower e mais tarde foi demitido pela JFK. Suas profissões: parceiros dos mais poderosos - até hoje - escritório de advocacia de Wall Street, Sullivan, Cromwell.
Bill Casey - O diretor da CIA de Ronald Reagan e veterano do OSS que atuou como negociador principal durante os anos Irã-Contra foi, sob o presidente Richard Nixon, presidente da Securities and Exchange Commission. Sua profissão: advogada e corretor de bolsa de Wall Street.
David Doherty - O atual vice-presidente da Bolsa de Nova York para a execução é o conselheiro geral aposentado da Agência Central de Inteligência.
George Herbert Walker Bush - Presidente de 1989 a janeiro de 1993, também atuou como diretor da CIA por 13 meses a partir de 1976-7. Ele é agora um consultor remunerado do Grupo Carlyle, o 11º maior contratado de defesa da nação, que também compartilha investimentos conjuntos com a família Bin Laden.
A. B. & quot; Buzzy & quot; Krongard - O atual Diretor Executivo da Agência Central de Inteligência é o ex-presidente do banco de investimentos A. B. Brown e ex-vice-presidente do Banker's Trust.
John Deutch - Este diretor aposentado da CIA da administração Clinton atualmente fica no conselho do Citigroup, o segundo maior banco do país, que tem sido repetidamente e abertamente envolvido no lavagem documentado de dinheiro da droga. Isso inclui a compra no Citigroup em 2001 de um banco mexicano conhecido por lavagem de dinheiro com medicamentos, Banamex.
Nora Slatkin - Este diretor executivo aposentado da CIA também fica no conselho do Citibank.
Maurice "Hank" Greenburg - O CEO do seguro AIG, gerente do terceiro maior pool de investimentos de capital do mundo, foi lançado como um possível diretor da CIA em 1995. A FTW expôs a longa conexão da Greenberg e da AIG ao tráfico de drogas da CIA e operações secretas em uma série de duas partes Isso foi interrompido apenas antes dos ataques de 11 de setembro. O estoque da AIG recuperou notavelmente bem desde os ataques. Para ler essa história, vá para from thewilderness / free / ciadrugs / part_2.html.
Pergunta-se a quanta evidência condenatória é necessária para responder ao que agora é uma prova irrefutável de que a CIA sabia sobre os ataques e não os impediu. Seja lá o que o nosso governo está fazendo, seja lá o que a CIA esteja fazendo, claramente não é do interesse do povo americano, especialmente aqueles que morreram em 11 de setembro.
Opções negociadas antes do 911
Houve uma negociação muito alta em "put options" na American Airline e na United Airlines, imediatamente antes do 11 de setembro. Estes foram efetivamente jogos que os preços de suas ações caíram, o que, claro, é o que aconteceu uma vez que os ataques ocorreram. Isso mostra que os comerciantes devem ter tido conhecimento prévio do 11 de setembro.
Esta é uma história complexa, mas as reivindicações nem sempre combinam a realidade.
"Um investidor institucional único com base nos EUA sem vínculos concebíveis com a Al Qaeda comprou 95 por cento da UAL coloca em 6 de setembro como parte de uma estratégia de negociação que também incluiu a compra de 115.000 ações da americana em 10 de setembro.
Talvez o desafio mais forte para esta conclusão venha do Professor Allen M Poteshman da Universidade de Illinois em Urbana-Champaign. Ele decidiu investigar isso ainda mais, analisando dados de mercado estatisticamente para tentar avaliar os negócios # 8217; significado. O professor Poteshman aponta vários motivos para questionar o argumento de conhecimento prévio:
Apesar das opiniões expressadas pelos meios de comunicação populares, profissionais acadêmicos e profissionais do mercado de opções, há razões para questionar a determinação da evidência que os terroristas negociaram no mercado de opções antes dos ataques de 11 de setembro. Um evento que causa dúvidas sobre a evidência é o acidente de um avião da American Airlines em Nova York em 12 de novembro. De acordo com o site da OCC, três dias de negociação antes, em 7 de novembro, o índice de colocação de opções sobre ações AMR era 7.74. Com base nas declarações feitas sobre os vínculos entre a atividade de mercado de opção e o terrorismo pouco depois de 11 de setembro, teria sido tentador inferir a partir deste índice de colocação que o terrorismo provavelmente foi a causa do acidente de 12 de novembro. Posteriormente, no entanto, o terrorismo foi excluído. Embora possa ser o caso de uma proporção anormalmente grande de RLM de AMR ter sido observada por acaso no dia 7 de novembro, este evento certamente levanta a questão de saber se os rácios de apontar-se tão grandes como 7,74 são, na verdade, incomuns. Além do acidente de avião do 12 de novembro, um artigo publicado no Barron & # 8217; s em 8 de outubro (Arvedlund 2001) oferece várias razões adicionais para ser cético sobre as afirmações de que é provável que terroristas ou seus associados troquem as opções AMR e UAL antes do Ataques de 11 de setembro. Para iniciantes, o artigo observa que a negociação mais pesada das opções de AMR não ocorreu nas posições mais baratas, mais curtas, o que teria proporcionado os maiores lucros para alguém que conhecesse os próximos ataques. Além disso, um analista emitiu um & # 8220; vender & # 8221; recomendação sobre a AMR durante a semana anterior, o que pode ter levado os investidores a comprar AMR. Da mesma forma, o preço das ações da UAL recentemente declinou o suficiente para se referir a comerciantes técnicos que podem ter aumentado suas compras em compra, e as opções UAL são fortemente negociadas por instituições que cobrem suas posições de ações. Finalmente, os comerciantes que fazem mercados nas opções não aumentaram o preço de venda no momento em que as ordens chegaram, como se houvesse se acreditassem que as ordens eram baseadas em informações adversas não públicas: os fabricantes de mercado não pareciam achar que a negociação estava fora do ordinário no momento em que ocorreu.
No entanto, ele desenvolve um modelo estatístico, o que ele sugere é consistente com a presciência depois de tudo:
Os comerciantes de opções, os gerentes corporativos, os analistas de segurança, os funcionários do intercâmbio, os reguladores, os promotores, os formuladores de políticas e os usuários do público em geral têm interesse em saber se a negociação de opções incomuns ocorreu em torno de determinados eventos. Um dos principais exemplos desse evento são os ataques terroristas de 11 de setembro, e houve uma grande especulação sobre se a atividade de mercado de opções indicava que os terroristas ou seus associados trocaram nos dias que antecederam o 11 de setembro sobre o conhecimento prévio do ataques iminentes. Esta especulação, no entanto, ocorreu na ausência de uma compreensão das características relevantes da negociação do mercado de opções.
Uma questão que nos preocupa sobre isso é a falta de análise da série de más notícias entregues pela American Airlines no dia 7 de setembro, o dia de negociação antes do dia 10 de setembro, quando a negociação mais significativa ocorreu. Professor Poteshman nos disse por e-mail:
Meu estudo inclui regressões quantile que respondem pelas condições do mercado em ações específicas. Portanto, há pelo menos uma correção de primeira ordem para a notícia negativa que estava sendo lançada em 7 de setembro na AMR.
Mas você pode realmente tratar a notícia tão simplesmente? O professor Paul Zarembka apoia as afirmações, dizendo:
Poteshman encontra. essas compras [de opções no estoque da companhia aérea americana]. tinha apenas 1% de probabilidade de ocorrer de forma aleatória.
Mas nós não estamos dizendo que eles foram aleatórios, e sim que eles podem ter sido uma resposta racional para as más notícias significativas entregues no dia anterior. Poteshman está dizendo essencialmente (no que diz respeito à AMR) que as pessoas compraram demais para que isso seja explicado pelas notícias 9/7, portanto, é necessária outra explicação, mas como você pode dizer isso sem analisar a própria notícia? Afinal, se essa notícia estivesse faltando provavelmente em seis meses e # 8201; então, os índices de colocação provavelmente teriam sido ainda mais significativos, e o modelo de Poteshman apresentou ainda mais confirmação da "atividade de mercado da opção inusitada # # 8221", mas isso teria tornado a idéia da presciência mais provável? Nós não pensamos assim. Obviamente, as notícias da AMR eram menos significativas, mas ainda dizemos que você não pode julgar com precisão o significado desses negócios até que você tome em consideração.
Um único investidor institucional com base nos EUA sem vínculos concebíveis com a Al Qaeda comprou 95 por cento da UAL coloca em 6 de setembro como parte de uma estratégia de negociação que também incluiu a compra de 115 mil ações da americana em 10 de setembro. Da mesma forma, grande parte da negociação aparentemente suspeita Na América, em 10 de setembro, foi rastreada para um boletim informativo específico de negociação de opções nos Estados Unidos, enviada por fax para seus assinantes no domingo 9 de setembro, o que recomendou esses negócios.
O 6 de setembro, o UAL coloca automaticamente parece significativo, então, mesmo que apenas um investidor esteja supostamente atrás deles. Mas isso realmente significa que você pode indicar matematicamente que o investidor tinha conhecimento prévio do 11 de setembro, sem considerar as outras condições do mercado e as informações disponíveis no momento?
11 de setembro, pnha chamada.
os estoques de várias companhias aéreas estavam em curto-circuito antes do 11 de setembro?
Reclamação: nos dias imediatamente anteriores a 11 de setembro de 2001, grandes quantidades de ações na United e American Airlines foram negociadas por pessoas com antecedência dos próximos ataques do 11 de setembro.
Origens: Em 11 de setembro de 2001, quatro aviões foram seqüestrados e usados no ataque à América: o vôo 11 da American Airlines, que deixa Boston para Los Angeles, o vôo 77 da American Airlines, deixando Washington para Los Angeles, United Airlines Flight 175, deixando Boston para Los Angeles e United Airlines Flight 93 deixando Newark para San Francisco. Cada um desses aviões foi deliberadamente quebrado, matando todos a bordo e mdash; Dois nas torres do World Trade Center, um no Pentágono e um em um campo na Pensilvânia. (Somente o atraso na decolagem do vôo 93 da UA e as ações dos passageiros alertados a bordo impediram que ele se tornasse mais um instrumento de destruição, resultando em uma perda de vida ainda maior).
A operação levou anos para planejar, e os perpetradores sabiam com antecedência quais companhias aéreas seriam afetadas.
No mês anterior aos ataques de 11 de setembro de 2001 no World Trade Center e no Pentágono, a atividade de negociação incomum envolvendo ações americanas e da United Airlines foi observada por analistas de mercado que, na época, não tinham idéia do que fazer. Discrepâncias inescapas no rácio de put e call e mdash; 25 a 100 vezes normal & mdash; foram observados nas opções de ações das duas companhias aéreas. Em um caso, o sistema de comércio eletrônico de Trade Book do Bloomberg & # 8217; identificou o volume de opções na UAL (pai da United Airlines) em 16 de agosto de 2001, que foi 36 vezes maior do que o habitual.
(As opções são as apostas que o preço de um bloco de 100 partes de um estoque específico aumentará ou diminuirá em uma determinada data. & # 8220; Ponts & # 8221; são & # 8220; shorts & # 8221; & mdash; as apostas o preço da ação será cair. # 8220; Chamadas & # 8221; são apostas que o preço aumentará. Assim, aquele que tem motivos para acreditar em uma determinada empresa está prestes a sofrer uma reversão terrível de fortuna, iria comprar # 8220; coloca e # 8221 contra essa entidade & # 8217; s stock.)
Mas foi durante os últimos dias de negociação (o mercado fecha nos fins de semana) que as variações mais inusitadas na atividade ocorreram. Os dados da Bloomberg mostraram que, em 6 de setembro de 2001, na quinta-feira anterior à terça-feira negra, o volume de opções de venda em estoque da UAL era quase 100 vezes maior do que o normal: 2.000 opções versus 27 no anterior.
Em 6 e 7 de setembro de 2001, o Chicago Board Options Exchange lidou com 4.744 opções de venda da United Airlines & # 8217; estoque, traduzindo em 474.000 ações, em comparação com apenas 396 opções de compra, ou 39.600 ações. Num dia em que a proporção de colocação se chamaria normalmente de aproximadamente 1: 1 (nenhuma notícia negativa sobre o United tinha quebrado), era em vez disso 12: 1.
Em 10 de setembro de 2001, outro dia de notícias sem intercorrências, American Airlines & # 8217; O volume da opção foi de 4,516 unidades e 748 chamadas, uma proporção de 6: 1 em mais um dia em que, por direitos, essas opções deveriam ter sido negociadas até mesmo. Nenhuma outra ação aérea foi afetada; Apenas Unidos e americanos estavam em curto-circuito desta forma.
Investimentos acelerados especulando uma desaceleração no valor de Morgan Stanley e Merrill Lynch (duas empresas de investimento de Nova York gravemente danificadas pelo ataque do World Trade Center) também foram observadas.
A Comissão Nacional de Ataques Terroristas contra os Estados Unidos (também conhecida como a "Comissão # 9207") investigou esses rumores e descobriu que, embora tenha ocorrido alguma atividade comercial incomum (e inicialmente suspeita) nos dias anteriores Ao 11 de setembro, tudo era coincidentemente inócuo e não o resultado de insider trading por festas com presciência dos ataques do 11 de setembro:
As alegações altamente divulgadas de informações privilegiadas antes do 11 de setembro geralmente repousam em relatórios de atividade de negociação pre-9/11 incomum em empresas cujo estoque despencou após os ataques. Algumas negociações incomuns, de fato, ocorrem, mas cada tipo de comércio provou ter uma explicação inócua. Por exemplo, o volume de put options & mdash; instrumentos que pagam apenas quando uma ação cai no preço e mdash; surgiram nas empresas-mãe da United Airlines em 6 de setembro e da American Airlines em 10 de setembro e mdash; comércio altamente suspeito no seu rosto. No entanto, uma investigação mais aprofundada revelou que a negociação não tinha conexão com o 11 de setembro. Um único investidor institucional com base nos EUA sem vínculos concebíveis com a Al Qaeda comprou 95 por cento da UAL coloca em 6 de setembro como parte de uma estratégia de negociação que também incluiu a compra de 115 mil ações da americana em 10 de setembro. Da mesma forma, grande parte da negociação aparentemente suspeita Na América, em 10 de setembro, foi rastreada para um boletim informativo específico de negociação de opções nos Estados Unidos, enviada por fax para seus assinantes no domingo 9 de setembro, o que recomendou esses negócios. A SEC e o FBI, auxiliados por outras agências e pelo setor de valores mobiliários, dedicaram enormes recursos para investigar essa questão, inclusive garantindo a cooperação de muitos governos estrangeiros. Esses pesquisadores descobriram que o aparentemente suspeito consistentemente provou ser inócuo.
Última atualização: 11 de dezembro de 2005.
Carpenter, Dave. & # 8220; Intercâmbio de opções Probing Reports of Unusual Trading Before Attacks. & # 8221;
A Associated Press. 18 de setembro de 2001.
Escolarista, Judith. & # 8220; Probe of Wild Market Swings in Terror-Tied Stocks. & # 8221;
[Nova York] Daily News. 20 de setembro de 2001 (p.6).
Toedtman, James e Charles Zehren. & # 8220; Lucrando com o Terror? & # 8221;
Newsday. 19 de setembro de 2001 (p. W39).
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Opções negociadas antes do 911
Detalhes suprimidos de Leading de Insider Trading Criminal diretamente nos Rank mais altos da CIA & # 146; s.
FTW - 9 de outubro de 2001 e # 150; Apesar de serem uniformemente ignorados pela mídia norte-americana, há evidências abundantes e claras de que uma série de transações nos mercados financeiros indicou a presciência específica (criminal) dos ataques de 11 de setembro no World Trade Center e no Pentágono. No caso de pelo menos uma dessas negociações - que deixou um prêmio de US $ 2,5 milhões não reclamado - a empresa costumava colocar as opções de & # 147; put # 148; no estoque da United Airlines foi, até 1998, administrado pelo homem que agora ocupa o cargo de Diretor Executivo número três na Agência Central de Inteligência.
Até 1997 A. B. & # 147; Buzzy & # 148; Krongard tinha sido presidente do banco de investimento A. B. Castanho. A. B. Brown foi adquirido pelo Banker & # 146; s Trust em 1997. Krongard tornou-se, como parte da fusão, o vice-presidente do Banker & # 146; s Trust-AB Brown, um dos 20 principais bancos dos EUA nomeados pelo senador Carl Levin este ano como estar ligado ao branqueamento de capitais. A última posição da Krongard na Banker & # 146; s Trust (BT) era supervisionar & # 147; relações com clientes privados. & # 148; Nesta capacidade, ele teve relações práticas diretas com algumas das pessoas mais ricas do mundo em uma espécie de operação bancária especializada que foi identificada pelo Senado dos EUA e outros pesquisadores como intimamente ligados ao lavagem de dinheiro da droga.
O ÂMBITO DA NEGOCIAÇÃO CONHECIDA CONHECIDA.
Antes de investigar mais nessas relações, é necessário examinar as informações de informações privilegiadas que estão sendo ignoradas pela Reuters, The New York Times e outras mídias de massa. Está bem documentado que a CIA há muito acompanhou esses negócios & # 150; em tempo real & # 150; como possíveis advertências de ataques terroristas e outros movimentos econômicos contrários aos interesses dos EUA. As histórias anteriores da FTW destacaram especificamente o uso do software Promis para monitorar esses negócios.
É necessário compreender apenas dois termos financeiros fundamentais para entender o significado dessas negociações, & # 147; vender short & # 148; e & # 147; put options & # 148 ;.
& # 147; Selling Short & # 148; é o empréstimo de ações, vendendo-o aos preços atuais do mercado, mas não sendo necessário que realmente produza o estoque por algum tempo. Se o estoque cai precipitadamente após a entrada do contrato curto, o vendedor pode então cumprir o contrato comprando o estoque após o preço cair e concluir o contrato no preço pré-colisão. Estes contratos geralmente têm uma janela de até quatro meses.
& # 147; Opções de colocação, & # 148; são contratos que dão ao comprador a opção de vender ações em uma data posterior. Comprados a preços nominais de, por exemplo, US $ 1,00 por ação, são vendidos em blocos de 100 ações. Se forem exercidos, dão ao titular a opção de vender ações selecionadas em uma data futura a um preço fixado quando o contrato é emitido. Assim, por um investimento de US $ 10.000, pode ser possível amarrar 10.000 ações da United or American Airlines a US $ 100 por ação, e o vendedor da opção é então obrigado a comprá-las se a opção for executada. Se o estoque caiu para US $ 50 quando o contrato tiver vencimento, o titular da opção pode comprar as ações por US $ 50 e imediatamente vendê-las por US $ 100 e 150; independentemente de onde o mercado se encontra. Uma opção de compra é o reverso de uma opção de venda, que é, de fato, uma aposta de derivativos que o preço da ação aumentará.
Uma história de 21 de setembro do Instituto de Políticas Internacionais israelenses Herzliyya para o Contra-terrorismo, intitulado "Black Tuesday: The World's Greatest Insider Trading Scam"? # 148; documentou os seguintes negócios ligados aos ataques de 11 de setembro:
- Entre 6 e 7 de setembro, o Chicago Board Options Exchange viu compras de 4.744 opções de venda na United Airlines, mas apenas 396 opções de compra e # 133; Supondo que 4.000 das opções foram compradas por pessoas com conhecimento prévio dos ataques iminentes, estes & # 147; insiders & # 148; teria lucrado quase US $ 5 milhões.
- Em 10 de setembro, 4.516 opções de venda da American Airlines foram compradas na bolsa de Chicago, em comparação com apenas 748 chamadas. Novamente, não havia notícias nesse momento para justificar esse desequilíbrio; Novamente, assumindo que 4.000 dessas negociações de opções representam & # 147; insiders, & # 148; eles representariam um ganho de cerca de US $ 4 milhões.
- [Os níveis de opções de compra comprados acima foram mais de seis vezes maiores do que o normal.]
- Nenhuma negociação semelhante em outras companhias aéreas ocorreu na bolsa de Chicago nos dias imediatamente anteriores a terça-feira negra.
- Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & amp; Co., que ocupou 22 andares do World Trade Center, viu 2,157 de outubro as opções de venda de US $ 45 compradas nos três dias de negociação antes da terça-feira negra; Isso se compara a uma média de 27 contratos por dia antes de 6 de setembro. O preço da ação da Morgan Stanley caiu de US $ 48.90 para US $ 42,50 no pós-ataque. Supondo que 2 mil desses contratos de opções foram comprados com base no conhecimento dos ataques que se aproximavam, seus compradores poderiam ter lucrado em pelo menos US $ 1,2 milhão. Merrill Lynch & amp; Co., com sede perto das Torres Gêmeas, viu 12,215 de outubro as opções de US $ 45 compradas nos quatro dias de negociação antes dos ataques; O volume médio anterior dessas ações tinha sido de 252 contratos por dia [um aumento de 1200%!]. Quando a negociação foi retomada, as ações da Merrill caiu de US $ 46,88 para US $ 41,50; assumindo que 11.000 contratos de opção foram comprados pelo & # 147; insiders, & # 148; Seu lucro teria sido cerca de US $ 5,5 milhões.
- Os reguladores europeus estão examinando os negócios na Alemanha Re re Swiss Re, Swiss Re e AXA da França, todos os principais resseguradores com exposição ao desastre da terça-feira negra. [ FTW Note: AXA also owns more than 25% of American Airlines stock making the attacks a double whammy for them.]
On September 29, 2001 in a vital story that has gone unnoticed by the major media the San Francisco Chronicle reported, Investors have yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, according to a source familiar with the trades and market data.
The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors whose identities and nationalities have not been made public had advance knowledge of the strikes. They dont dare show up now. The suspension of trading for four days after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out quickly and claim the prize before investigators started looking.
October series options for UAL Corp. were purchased in highly unusual volumes three trading days before the terrorist attacks for a total outlay of $2,070; investors bought the option contracts, each representing 100 shares, for 90 cents each. [This represents 230,000 shares]. Those options are now selling at more than $12 each. There are still 2,313 so-called put options outstanding [valued at $2.77 million and representing 231,300 shares] according to the Options Clearinghouse Corp.
The source familiar with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options
This was the operation managed by Krongard until as recently as 1998.
As reported in other news stories, Deutsche Bank was also the hub of insider trading activity connected to Munich Re. just before the attacks.
CIA, THE BANKS AND THE BROKERS.
Understanding the interrelationships between CIA and the banking and brokerage world is critical to grasping the already frightening implications of the above revelations. Lets look at the history of CIA, Wall Street and the big banks by looking at some of the key players in CIAs history.
Clark Clifford The National Security Act of 1947 was written by Clark Clifford, a Democratic Party powerhouse, former Secretary of Defense, and one-time advisor to President Harry Truman. In the 1980s, as Chairman of First American Bancshares, Clifford was instrumental in getting the corrupt CIA drug bank BCCI a license to operate on American shores. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and banker.
John Foster and Allen Dulles These two brothers designed the CIA for Clifford. Both were active in intelligence operations during WW II. Allen Dulles was the U. S. Ambassador to Switzerland where he met frequently with Nazi leaders and looked after U. S. investments in Germany. John Foster went on to become Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower and Allen went on to serve as CIA Director under Eisenhower and was later fired by JFK. Their professions: partners in the most powerful - to this day - Wall Street law firm of Sullivan, Cromwell.
Bill Casey Ronald Reagans CIA Director and OSS veteran who served as chief wrangler during the Iran-Contra years was, under President Richard Nixon, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and stockbroker.
David Doherty - The current Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange for enforcement is the retired General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency.
George Herbert Walker Bush President from 1989 to January 1993, also served as CIA Director for 13 months from 1976-7. He is now a paid consultant to the Carlyle Group, the 11 th largest defense contractor in the nation, which also shares joint investments with the bin Laden family.
A. B. Buzzy Krongard The current Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is the former Chairman of the investment bank A. B. Brown and former Vice Chairman of Bankers Trust.
John Deutch - This retired CIA Director from the Clinton Administration currently sits on the board at Citigroup, the nations second largest bank, which has been repeatedly and overtly involved in the documented laundering of drug money. This includes Citigroups 2001 purchase of a Mexican bank known to launder drug money, Banamex.
Nora Slatkin This retired CIA Executive Director also sits on Citibanks board.
Maurice Hank Greenburg The CEO of AIG insurance, manager of the third largest capital investment pool in the world, was floated as a possible CIA Director in 1995. FTW exposed Greenbergs and AIGs long connection to CIA drug trafficking and covert operations in a two-part series that was interrupted just prior to the attacks of September 11. AIGs stock has bounced back remarkably well since the attacks. To read that story, please go to copvcia/stories/part_2.html .
One wonders how much damning evidence is necessary to respond to what is now irrefutable proof that CIA knew about the attacks and did not stop them. Whatever our government is doing, whatever the CIA is doing, it is clearly NOT in the interests of the American people, especially those who died on September 11.
[© COPYRIGHT, 2001, Michael C. Ruppert and FTW Publications, copvcia . Todos os direitos reservados. & # 150; May be reprinted or distributed for non-profit purposes only.]
Commander in Chief.
Back Off Bin Ladens.
The Bushes and the Carlyle Group.
How Bush and other ex-politic os profit from connections and access.
What doesn't he want Americans to know?
The sanctions have loopholes our vice president made millions from.
Opções de colocação.
betting against United and American Airlines before 9/11.
One of the 9/11 scandals is the "put options" placed on United and American airlines stock values the week before 9/11 by someone trying to make a buck on the tragedy.
This was BIG NEWS in the world financial press in the weeks after the attacks, with numerous articles in mainstream media speculating that Osama had just made the sickest stock trade in history. However, most of the articles didn't mention that the Stock Markets are monitored in real time (among other reasons, it could provide intelligence about these types of threats). It is unlikely that someone perpetrating a major crime such as 9/11 would provide evidence of their planning such as the stock trades on United and American airlines, since it would draw serious scrutiny and probably disrupt plans for the atrocity (assuming the atrocity wasn't tacitly given the green light in order to provide the pretext for the Homeland Security police state and the seizure of the Middle East oil fields).
A few weeks later, From the Wilderness, published by Michael Ruppert, linked the put options on the affected airlines (and a few other companies, located in the towers) to A. B. Brown, a firm formerly headed by the Executive Director of the CIA (the number three position).
The stories about the put options suddenly disappeared from the media, and now only the underground press, largely on the web, talks about them. To date, there has not been any public investigation by the government of who placed the stock trades (A B Brown was merely one of the firms used, the identities of the traders is not publicly known).
When the 9/11 Commission report was released in 2004, it was available as a PDF download. The first thing I searched for was mention of the pre-9/11 stock trades on United and American airlines. The Commission report explained it was not significant, since the traders did not have connections to al-Qaeda. The report did not discuss if the traders had connections to the CIA.
Lars Schall.
independent German journalist tracking the details of 9/11 insider trading.
AN ASIA TIMES ONLINE EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION.
Insider trading 9/11 . the facts laid bare.
There can be no dispute that speculative trade in put options - where a party bets that a stock will drop abruptly in value - spiked in the days around September 11, 2001 - even if the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the 9/11 Commission will not say so. More than a few people must have had advance warning of the terror attacks, and they cashed in to the tune of millions of dollars.
Understanding Special Operations.
Understanding The Secret Team.
an interview with Fletcher Prouty.
A stock broker called me from Washington a few days before the Bay of Pigs was planned to take place and said, "Colonel Prouty -- he just happened to know me, he didn't know my job, but he said -- Colonel, can you give me any explanation why, all of a sudden, people from the Pentagon are calling me buying sugar stock?" Sugar stock had dropped to pennies, because Castro had boycotted American sugar down there and the companies had lost a lot of money. But, all of a sudden, people who knew about the prospect of the invasion were buying sugar stock $10,000, $20,000 at a time, and sugar stock demand was going up well before the Bay of Pigs landing. They were running it as a commercial venture.
Follow the Money? God forbid.
Why was the cashing out of billions of dollars just before the 9/11 attacks never investigated?
They Made a Killing.
Did people who knew about secret, CIA-led coups use that information to game the stock market?
Posted Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008.
Mystery of terror `insider dealers'
by Chris Blackhurst, The Independent, 14 October 2001.
Share speculators have failed to collect $2.5m (£1.7m) in profits made from the fall in the share price of United Airlines after the 11 September World Trade Centre attacks.
The fact that the money is unclaimed more than a month later has re-awakened investigators' interest in a story dismissed as coincidence.
It may be that investors who were able to predict the share price crash so skilfully are reluctant to be seen profiting from tragedy. But investigators now wonder whether there is a more sinister explanation.
The authorities are examining the possibility that if they knew what was coming, traders were intent on taking their profits immediately, before regulators had woken up to any possible scam. But investors failed to foresee that the first response of the US stock markets to the disaster was to suspend all trading for four days, thereby denying them the chance of cashing in their profits.
Further details of the futures trades that netted such huge gains in the wake of the hijackings have been disclosed. To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the "put" options -- where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall -- on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by "Buzzy" Krongard, now executive director of the CIA.
Until 1997, Mr Krongard was chairman of Alex Brown Inc, America's oldest investment banking firm. Alex Brown was acquired by Bankers Trust, which in turn was bought by Deutsche Bank. His last post before resigning to take his senior role in the CIA was to head Bankers Trust -- Alex Brown's private client business, dealing with the accounts and investments of wealthy customers around the world.
There is no suggestion that Mr Krongard had advance knowledge of the attacks.
Between 6 and 7 September, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 "put" option contracts in UAL versus 396 call options -- where a speculator bets on a price rising. Holders of the put options would have netted a profit of $5m (3.3m) once the carrier's share price dived after 11 September. On 10 September, more trading in Chicago saw the purchase of 4,516 put options in American Airlines, the other airline involved in the hijackings. This compares with a mere 748 call options in American purchased that day. Investigators cannot help but notice that no other airlines saw such trading in their put options.
It was not just airlines that were targeted by remarkably canny investors. One of the biggest occupants of the World Trade Centre was Morgan Stanley, the investment bank. In the first week of September, an average of 27 put option contracts was bought each day in its shares. The total for the three days before the attacks was 2,157. Merrill Lynch, anotherWTC tenant, saw 12,215 put options bought in the four days before the attacks, when the previous days had seen averages of 252 contracts a day.
Direitos autorais e cópia; 2001 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd.
Reprinted for Fair Use Only.
the 9/11 Commission's explanation.
from Nic in New York:
On the insider trading, the alibi:
A single U. S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 as part of a trading strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10.
Ah. "No conceivable ties to al-Qaeda" equated with "no advance knowledge."
The assumption is that foreknowledge could come only through an al-Qaeda connection.
No mention of stories from London, Frankfurt, Tokyo et al. or of trades in anything other than UAL and AAR put options (WTC tenants, reinvestors).
What about the uncollected $2.5 million? Who was the "small airline" responsible for the puts purchased in London?
Al Qaeda has been alleged to have used a variety of illegitimate means, particularly drug trafficking and conflict diamonds, to finance itself. While the drug trade was a source of income for the Taliban, it did not serve the same purpose for al Qaeda, and there is no reliable evidence that Bin Ladin was involved in or made his money through drug trafficking.128 Similarly, we have seen no persuasive evidence that al Qaeda funded itself by trading in African conflict diamonds.129 There also have been claims that al Qaeda financed itself through manipulation of the stock market based on its advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. Exhaustive investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI, and other agencies have uncovered no evidence that anyone with advance knowledge of the attacks profited through securities transactions.130. Highly publicized allegations of insider trading in advance of 9/11 generally rest on reports of unusual pre-9/11 trading activity in companies whose stock plummeted after the attacks. Some unusual trading did in fact occur, but each such trade proved to have an innocuous explanation. For example, the volume of put options - investments that pay off only when a stock drops in price-surged in the parent companies of United Airlines on September 6 and American Airlines on September 10-highly suspicious trading on its face. Yet, further investigation has revealed that the trading had no connection with 9/11. A single U. S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 as part of a trading strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10. Similarly, much of the seemingly suspicious trading in American on September 10 was traced to a specific U. S.-based options trading newsletter, faxed to its subscribers on Sunday, September 9, which recommended these trades. These examples typify the evidence examined by the investigation. The SEC and the FBI, aided by other agencies and the securities industry, devoted enormous resources to investigating this issue, including securing the cooperation of many foreign governments. These investigators have found that the apparently suspicious consistently proved innocuous. Joseph Cella interview (Sept. 16,2003; May 7,2004; May 10-11,2004); FBI briefing (Aug.15,2003); SEC memo, Division of Enforcement to SEC Chair and Commissioners,"Pre-September 11,2001 Trading Review," May 15,2002; Ken Breen interview (Apr.23,2004); Ed G. interview (Feb.3,2004).
Mike Ruppert describes 9/11 insider trading.
several articles on the insider trading scandals.
SUPPRESSED DETAILS OF CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADING LEAD DIRECTLY INTO THE CIA's HIGHEST RANKS.
CIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR "BUZZY" KRONGARD MANAGED FIRM THAT HANDLED "PUT" OPTIONS ON UAL.
Michael C. Ruppert.
FTW, October 9, 2001 - Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U. S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the "put options" 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. Until 1997 A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A. B. Brown. A. B. Brown was acquired by Banker's Trust in 1997. Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker's Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U. S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering. Krongard's last position at Banker's Trust (BT) was to oversee "private client relations." In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U. S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money.
Krongard (re?) joined the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George Tenet. He was promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this year. 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. .
(note: most publications refuse to touch this material, one need not defend Larry Flynt's other publications to understand the importance of this interview - no nudity on that page, it is "G" rated)
Krongard and Blackwater.
This story was on the New York Times website on Saturday, November 17, 2007:
State IG's Brother Quits Blackwater.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Published: November 17, 2007.
Filed at 5:34 a. m. ET.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- The brother of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard quit as an adviser to Blackwater Worldwide on Friday, two days after the relationship with the security contractor was sharply criticized by a congressional oversight committee.
Erik Prince, Blackwater's top executive, said the conflict-of-interest questions raised by the connection prompted Alvin ''Buzzy'' Krongard to submit his resignation.
''I have reluctantly accepted it,'' Prince said in a statement.
It's unclear whether the move will salvage Howard Krongard's damaged credibility and career, however. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee plans to meet in December to determine if Howard Krongard testified truthfully about his brother.
Alvin Krongard never received any payment for his work on Blackwater's advisory board, which only met once, Prince said.
Prince said there are no allegations of impropriety against Alvin Krongard for his membership on Blackwater's board, a group recently created to help the North Carolina-based security company plan future business activities.
Blackwater is a major State Department contractor and the subject of ongoing federal investigations. One of those is examining whether Blackwater guards violated use-of-force rules during a Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqis dead.
Prince said there is no evidence that Howard Krongard's ability to perform his oversight duties was compromised by Alvin Krongard's relationship with Blackwater.
''The publicized allegation of an 'apparent conflict of interest' against his brother Howard, with whom Buzzy has not been close for years, is just that, an allegation,'' Prince's statement said.
Alvin Krongard's departure from Blackwater's board comes two days after the connection was made public during a hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In sworn testimony Wednesday, Howard Krongard was asked by Democratic members of the committee about his brother's ties to Blackwater, and he angrily said there weren't any.
But when confronted by committee members with evidence Alvin Krongard had joined the board, Howard Krongard called his brother during a hearing break and was told he attended a Blackwater advisory board meeting in Williamsburg, Va., on Monday and Tuesday. Before that conversation, Howard Krongard said he was not aware of the link.
Howard Krongard then told the committee he was recusing himself from any inquires related to Blackwater.
On Thursday, however, Alvin Krongard challenged Howard Krongard's version of events. According to the oversight committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., Alvin Krongard called the committee and said he had told his brother well before Wednesday's hearing about his decision to become a strategic adviser to Blackwater.
In a move that further escalated the differences, Howard Krongard's attorney on Friday sent Waxman a copy of notes she said Howard Krongard took during an Oct. 31 conversation with his brother. The call was initiated by Howard Krongard and lasted 10 minutes, said attorney Barbara Van Gelder.
''No financial interest whatsoever,'' the notes read, referring to Alvin Krongard's explanation of his status with Blackwater. ''Was on short list for advisory board but not taking it.''
In a side note to himself on the same page, Howard Krongard wrote, ''Why would anybody go on the board now?''
Asked to reconcile the conflicting versions, Van Gelder called the situation ''he said, he said.''
''These discrepancies between the testimony of Howard Krongard and the information from Buzzy Krongard raise questions about the truthfulness of Howard Krongard's testimony,'' Waxman said in a memo delivered Friday to committee members.
The union that represents U. S. diplomats on Friday repeated its call for Krongard to step down.
''We still believe he should step aside temporarily until this issue has been fully resolved by the appropriate bodies,'' said John Naland, president of the American Foreign Service Association.
Waxman said he plans to invite the Krongard brothers to testify at the December hearing.
If both appear, it's likely to be a chilly reunion. They speak rarely.
Alvin Krongard contacted the committee after receiving a letter from Waxman seeking information about his connections to Blackwater and any communication he may have had with Howard Krongard about the company.
Alvin Krongard said he was watching his brother testify on television and heard him say there was no Blackwater connection.
''You could have blown me over,'' Alvin Krongard told the committee, according to Waxman's memo.
Alvin Krongard recounted for the committee the conversation he had with his brother prior to the hearing.
'''He asked me whether I had any financial interest or any ties to Blackwater, and so I told him 'I'm going on their board,''' Alvin Krongard told the committee, according to Waxman's memo. ''He responded by saying, 'Why would you do that?' and 'Are you sure that's a good idea?'''
It was his decision to make, Alvin Krongard told his brother, and ''we just differed on that,'' according to Waxman's memo.
Van Gelder, Howard Krongard's attorney, asked Waxman not to hold the December hearing.
''There is no legitimate legislative purpose to be gained by publicly pitting two brothers against each other,'' she said in a letter to Waxman.
The role of the advisory board is to offer ''leadership advice'' on the paths Blackwater should take to expand its business, according to the company. Prince invited Alvin Krongard to join the board in July.
Expenses for attending board meetings would be covered and board members would receive a $3,500 honorarium for each meeting attended. The money could be paid to them or to a charity of their choice.
In addition to recusing himself from matters related to Blackwater, Howard Krongard also said he is no longer involved in corruption investigations related to the flawed construction of the U. S. Embassy in Baghdad, a $600 million project that is beset by logistical delays and security concerns.
Associated Press writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report.
U. S. Suggests, Without Proof, Stock Adviser Knew of 9/11.
By ALEX BERENSON.
Published: May 25, 2002.
A San Diego stock adviser who is accused of bribing an F. B.I. agent to give him confidential government information may have had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal prosecutor said yesterday. But a judge disregarded that contention and the adviser's lawyer called the allegation ludicrous.
In a court hearing in San Diego, Kenneth Breen, an assistant United States attorney, said the adviser, Amr Ibrahim Elgindy, tried to sell $300,000 in stock on the afternoon of Sept. 10 and told his broker that the stock market would soon plunge. ''Perhaps Mr. Elgindy had preknowledge of Sept. 11, and rather than report it he attempted to profit from it,'' Mr. Breen said.
Mr. Breen, coordinator of the stock market unit of a government task force set up to investigate financing for terrorist groups, offered no other evidence that Mr. Elgindy had prior knowledge of the attacks.
A lawyer for Mr. Elgindy said the allegation appeared to be motivated by the fact that Mr. Elgindy is Muslim and was born in Egypt. Senior F. B.I. officials also said they had no evidence that Mr. Elgindy had prior knowledge of the attacks.
In the hearing yesterday, Mr. Breen asked Judge John A. Houston of Federal District Court in San Diego to hold Mr. Elgindy without bond. Mr. Elgindy, also known as Tony Elgindy and Anthony Pacific, recently moved $700,000 to Lebanon and is a serious flight risk, Mr. Breen said.
Judge Houston disregarded Mr. Breen's claims about Mr. Elgindy and Sept. 11. But the judge said there was enough other evidence that Mr. Elgindy might flee to justify detaining him at least until a June 6 hearing to determine whether he should be moved to New York for a trial.
Jeanne Geren Knight, a lawyer for Mr. Elgindy, said after the hearing that Mr. Breen's allegations were ludicrous and untrue. ''The government, for lack of factual evidence, has decided to smear my client with terrorist innuendoes,'' Ms. Knight said. ''This is smacking of racial profiling.''
Mr. Elgindy and four other people, including one current and one former F. B.I. agent, were charged Wednesday with using confidential government information to manipulate stock prices and extort money from companies. Jeffrey A. Royer, who was an F. B.I. agent before joining Mr. Elgindy's stock advisory firm in December, accepted $30,000 from a partner of Mr. Elgindy's in exchange for providing Mr. Elgindy with information about current criminal investigations of companies, prosecutors allege.
Mr. Elgindy and his partner, Derrick W. Cleveland, sold short the shares of companies that they learned were under investigation, according to the indictment. (Short sellers borrow shares and sell them, hoping to buy them back later at a lower price and pocket the difference.) Then Mr. Elgindy publicized the negative information on two Web sites he ran, hoping that the companies' stocks would fall, prosecutors say.
At the hearing yesterday, Mr. Breen said that on the afternoon of Sept. 10, Mr. Elgindy contacted his broker at Salomon Smith Barney and asked him to sell $300,000 in stock in his children's trust funds. During the Sept. 10 conversation, Mr. Elgindy predicted that the Dow Jones industrial average, which at the time stood at about 9,600, would soon crash to below 3,000, Mr. Breen said. Mr. Elgindy was unable to sell the stock before markets closed Sept. 10, and it was instead sold Sept. 18, the first day that markets reopened for trading after the attacks, Mr. Breen said.
The Salomon Smith Barney broker contacted the F. B.I. after the attacks to report the conversation, Mr. Breen said. He did not identify the broker. A spokesman for Salomon Smith Barney confirmed that Mr. Elgindy was a client but said that Salomon did not comment on matters relating to its clients.
Mr. Elgindy also transferred more than $700,000 to Lebanon in the months after the attacks, Mr. Breen said. When F. B.I. agents raided Mr. Elgindy's home outside San Diego on Wednesday, Mr. Breen said, they found $43,000 in cash, as well as a loose diamond and faxes indicating that Mr. Elgindy had been tipped about the raid and had given his wife a power of attorney to liquidate his assets.
Ms. Knight, Mr. Elgindy's lawyer, denied that Mr. Elgindy had any prior knowledge of the attacks.
Mr. Elgindy's wife is from Louisiana, Ms. Knight said, adding that his mother was a pediatrician and his father a professor. ''Tony isn't political at all,'' she said. ''He's a capitalist. He's not going to move to a third world country.''
Senior law enforcement officials said yesterday that investigators had no hard evidence that Mr. Elgindy had advance information about the Sept. 11 attacks. So far, they have not found anyone who had prior knowledge of the attacks, they said. But they said the investigation into why Mr. Elgindy tried to sell the shares in his children's trust accounts before Sept. 11 had raised questions that had not been fully answered.
Mr. Elgindy has been an active supporter of Muslim causes. In 1999, he arranged to bring 30 Muslim refugees from Kosovo to the United States, according to The Daily Herald of Chicago.
Mr. Elgindy said the violence in Kosovo, Serbia's southern province, appalled him, comparing it to the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado. ''Take Columbine, have it occur five times a day for a year, and that's Kosovo,'' Mr. Elgindy told The Daily Herald.
Mr. Elgindy's father and brother are also active in Arab and Muslim causes. His father, Ibrahim Elgindy, founded an umbrella group of Muslim organizations in Chicago and led a 1998 protest on behalf of Muhammad A. Salah, whose assets were seized that year after the United States government linked Mr. Salah to Hamas, the radical Palestinian group. Mr. Elgindy's brother, Khaled, has worked for several Arab political groups.
Neither Ibrahim Elgindy nor Khaled Elgindy has ever been linked to terrorism. Khaled Elgindy did not return calls yesterday. Ibrahim Elgindy could not be reached for comment.
Mr. Elgindy himself publicly criticized the Sept. 11 attacks. In a press release that day, his company, Pacific Equity Investigations, said, ''We must seek, find, apprehend and destroy those who are responsible for this terrorist attack.''
Two days later, Mr. Elgindy put out another press release, saying that he had forwarded to the F. B.I. and the Securities and Exchange Commission ''many Internet posts and messages that may have relevance on this tragedy and the capture of the responsible parties behind it.'' He also asked that investors refrain from selling short the stocks of any United States companies or the United States dollar.
Mr. Elgindy sold the shares in his children's trusts five days later.
Options trading before 911
Options The Days Prior To 911?
Can You Amplify On This Comment, Please?
By Walter J. Burien, Jr.
12-30-3 Gentlemen: Can we all unite on a single task: finding out who placed the orders for the "put" options in the days immediately before 9/11? Discussions I've had in the enclosed e-mail seem to indicate this information is available and not protected by financial disclosure restrictions. Please examine the enclosed and brainstorm how we can get this information into the public sphere. It could be the thread to unravel the mystery. Discovering the names of those who apparently had prior knowledge of 9/11 as indicated by their "savvy" bets on the fortunes of United and American airlines are a necessary first step toward interrogating these individuals to find out where they got their information, something the law enforcement community should be doing but obviously isn't. Best wishes, John Kaminski REPLY FROM.
Detalhes suprimidos de Leading de Insider Trading Criminal diretamente nos Rank mais altos da CIA & # 146; s.
FTW - 9 de outubro de 2001 e # 150; Apesar de serem uniformemente ignorados pela mídia norte-americana, há evidências abundantes e claras de que uma série de transações nos mercados financeiros indicou a presciência específica (criminal) dos ataques de 11 de setembro no World Trade Center e no Pentágono. No caso de pelo menos uma dessas negociações - que deixou um prêmio de US $ 2,5 milhões não reclamado - a empresa costumava colocar as opções de & # 147; put # 148; no estoque da United Airlines foi, até 1998, administrado pelo homem que agora ocupa o cargo de Diretor Executivo número três na Agência Central de Inteligência.
Até 1997 A. B. & # 147; Buzzy & # 148; Krongard tinha sido presidente do banco de investimento A. B. Castanho. A. B. Brown foi adquirido pelo Banker & # 146; s Trust em 1997. Krongard tornou-se, como parte da fusão, o vice-presidente do Banker & # 146; s Trust-AB Brown, um dos 20 principais bancos dos EUA nomeados pelo senador Carl Levin este ano como estar ligado ao branqueamento de capitais. A última posição da Krongard na Banker & # 146; s Trust (BT) era supervisionar & # 147; relações com clientes privados. & # 148; Nesta capacidade, ele teve relações práticas diretas com algumas das pessoas mais ricas do mundo em uma espécie de operação bancária especializada que foi identificada pelo Senado dos EUA e outros pesquisadores como intimamente ligados ao lavagem de dinheiro da droga.
O ÂMBITO DA NEGOCIAÇÃO CONHECIDA CONHECIDA.
Antes de investigar mais nessas relações, é necessário examinar as informações de informações privilegiadas que estão sendo ignoradas pela Reuters, The New York Times e outras mídias de massa. Está bem documentado que a CIA há muito acompanhou esses negócios & # 150; em tempo real & # 150; como possíveis advertências de ataques terroristas e outros movimentos econômicos contrários aos interesses dos EUA. As histórias anteriores da FTW destacaram especificamente o uso do software Promis para monitorar esses negócios.
É necessário compreender apenas dois termos financeiros fundamentais para entender o significado dessas negociações, & # 147; vender short & # 148; e & # 147; put options & # 148 ;.
& # 147; Selling Short & # 148; é o empréstimo de ações, vendendo-o aos preços atuais do mercado, mas não sendo necessário que realmente produza o estoque por algum tempo. Se o estoque cai precipitadamente após a entrada do contrato curto, o vendedor pode então cumprir o contrato comprando o estoque após o preço cair e concluir o contrato no preço pré-colisão. Estes contratos geralmente têm uma janela de até quatro meses.
& # 147; Opções de colocação, & # 148; são contratos que dão ao comprador a opção de vender ações em uma data posterior. Comprados a preços nominais de, por exemplo, US $ 1,00 por ação, são vendidos em blocos de 100 ações. Se forem exercidos, dão ao titular a opção de vender ações selecionadas em uma data futura a um preço fixado quando o contrato é emitido. Assim, por um investimento de US $ 10.000, pode ser possível amarrar 10.000 ações da United or American Airlines a US $ 100 por ação, e o vendedor da opção é então obrigado a comprá-las se a opção for executada. Se o estoque caiu para US $ 50 quando o contrato tiver vencimento, o titular da opção pode comprar as ações por US $ 50 e imediatamente vendê-las por US $ 100 e 150; independentemente de onde o mercado se encontra. Uma opção de compra é o reverso de uma opção de venda, que é, de fato, uma aposta de derivativos que o preço da ação aumentará.
Uma história de 21 de setembro do Instituto de Políticas Internacionais israelenses Herzliyya para o Contra-terrorismo, intitulado "Black Tuesday: The World's Greatest Insider Trading Scam"? # 148; documentou os seguintes negócios ligados aos ataques de 11 de setembro:
- Entre 6 e 7 de setembro, o Chicago Board Options Exchange viu compras de 4.744 opções de venda na United Airlines, mas apenas 396 opções de compra e # 133; Supondo que 4.000 das opções foram compradas por pessoas com conhecimento prévio dos ataques iminentes, estes & # 147; insiders & # 148; teria lucrado quase US $ 5 milhões.
- Em 10 de setembro, 4.516 opções de venda da American Airlines foram compradas na bolsa de Chicago, em comparação com apenas 748 chamadas. Novamente, não havia notícias nesse momento para justificar esse desequilíbrio; Novamente, assumindo que 4.000 dessas negociações de opções representam & # 147; insiders, & # 148; eles representariam um ganho de cerca de US $ 4 milhões.
- [Os níveis de opções de compra comprados acima foram mais de seis vezes maiores do que o normal.]
- Nenhuma negociação semelhante em outras companhias aéreas ocorreu na bolsa de Chicago nos dias imediatamente anteriores a terça-feira negra.
- Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & amp; Co., que ocupou 22 andares do World Trade Center, viu 2,157 de outubro as opções de venda de US $ 45 compradas nos três dias de negociação antes da terça-feira negra; Isso se compara a uma média de 27 contratos por dia antes de 6 de setembro. O preço da ação da Morgan Stanley caiu de US $ 48.90 para US $ 42,50 no pós-ataque. Supondo que 2 mil desses contratos de opções foram comprados com base no conhecimento dos ataques que se aproximavam, seus compradores poderiam ter lucrado em pelo menos US $ 1,2 milhão. Merrill Lynch & amp; Co., com sede perto das Torres Gêmeas, viu 12,215 de outubro as opções de US $ 45 compradas nos quatro dias de negociação antes dos ataques; O volume médio anterior dessas ações tinha sido de 252 contratos por dia [um aumento de 1200%!]. Quando a negociação foi retomada, as ações da Merrill caiu de US $ 46,88 para US $ 41,50; assumindo que 11.000 contratos de opção foram comprados pelo & # 147; insiders, & # 148; Seu lucro teria sido cerca de US $ 5,5 milhões.
- Os reguladores europeus estão examinando os negócios na Alemanha Re re Swiss Re, Swiss Re e AXA da França, todos os principais resseguradores com exposição ao desastre da terça-feira negra. [ FTW Note: AXA also owns more than 25% of American Airlines stock making the attacks a double whammy for them.]
On September 29, 2001 in a vital story that has gone unnoticed by the major media the San Francisco Chronicle reported, Investors have yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, according to a source familiar with the trades and market data.
The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors whose identities and nationalities have not been made public had advance knowledge of the strikes. They dont dare show up now. The suspension of trading for four days after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out quickly and claim the prize before investigators started looking.
October series options for UAL Corp. were purchased in highly unusual volumes three trading days before the terrorist attacks for a total outlay of $2,070; investors bought the option contracts, each representing 100 shares, for 90 cents each. [This represents 230,000 shares]. Those options are now selling at more than $12 each. There are still 2,313 so-called put options outstanding [valued at $2.77 million and representing 231,300 shares] according to the Options Clearinghouse Corp.
The source familiar with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options This was the operation managed by Krongard until as recently as 1998.
As reported in other news stories, Deutsche Bank was also the hub of insider trading activity connected to Munich Re. just before the attacks.
CIA, THE BANKS AND THE BROKERS.
Understanding the interrelationships between CIA and the banking and brokerage world is critical to grasping the already frightening implications of the above revelations. Lets look at the history of CIA, Wall Street and the big banks by looking at some of the key players in CIAs history.
Clark Clifford The National Security Act of 1947 was written by Clark Clifford, a Democratic Party powerhouse, former Secretary of Defense, and one-time advisor to President Harry Truman. In the 1980s, as Chairman of First American Bancshares, Clifford was instrumental in getting the corrupt CIA drug bank BCCI a license to operate on American shores. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and banker.
John Foster and Allen Dulles These two brothers designed the CIA for Clifford. Both were active in intelligence operations during WW II. Allen Dulles was the U. S. Ambassador to Switzerland where he met frequently with Nazi leaders and looked after U. S. investments in Germany. John Foster went on to become Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower and Allen went on to serve as CIA Director under Eisenhower and was later fired by JFK. Their professions: partners in the most powerful - to this day - Wall Street law firm of Sullivan, Cromwell.
Bill Casey Ronald Reagans CIA Director and OSS veteran who served as chief wrangler during the Iran-Contra years was, under President Richard Nixon, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His profession: Wall Street lawyer and stockbroker.
David Doherty - The current Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange for enforcement is the retired General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency.
George Herbert Walker Bush President from 1989 to January 1993, also served as CIA Director for 13 months from 1976-7. He is now a paid consultant to the Carlyle Group, the 11 th largest defense contractor in the nation, which also shares joint investments with the bin Laden family.
A. B. Buzzy Krongard The current Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is the former Chairman of the investment bank A. B. Brown and former Vice Chairman of Bankers Trust.
John Deutch - This retired CIA Director from the Clinton Administration currently sits on the board at Citigroup, the nations second largest bank, which has been repeatedly and overtly involved in the documented laundering of drug money. This includes Citigroups 2001 purchase of a Mexican bank known to launder drug money, Banamex.
Nora Slatkin This retired CIA Executive Director also sits on Citibanks board.
Maurice Hank Greenburg The CEO of AIG insurance, manager of the third largest capital investment pool in the world, was floated as a possible CIA Director in 1995. FTW exposed Greenbergs and AIGs long connection to CIA drug trafficking and covert operations in a two-part series that was interrupted just prior to the attacks of September 11. AIGs stock has bounced back remarkably well since the attacks. To read that story, please go to copvcia/stories/part_2.html .
One wonders how much damning evidence is necessary to respond to what is now irrefutable proof that CIA knew about the attacks and did not stop them. Whatever our government is doing, whatever the CIA is doing, it is clearly NOT in the interests of the American people, especially those who died on September 11.
[© COPYRIGHT, 2001, Michael C. Ruppert and FTW Publications, copvcia . Todos os direitos reservados. & # 150; May be reprinted or distributed for non-profit purposes only.]
Commander in Chief.
Back Off Bin Ladens.
The Bushes and the Carlyle Group.
How Bush and other ex-politic os profit from connections and access.
What doesn't he want Americans to know?
The sanctions have loopholes our vice president made millions from.
Opções de colocação.
betting against United and American Airlines before 9/11.
One of the 9/11 scandals is the "put options" placed on United and American airlines stock values the week before 9/11 by someone trying to make a buck on the tragedy.
This was BIG NEWS in the world financial press in the weeks after the attacks, with numerous articles in mainstream media speculating that Osama had just made the sickest stock trade in history. However, most of the articles didn't mention that the Stock Markets are monitored in real time (among other reasons, it could provide intelligence about these types of threats). It is unlikely that someone perpetrating a major crime such as 9/11 would provide evidence of their planning such as the stock trades on United and American airlines, since it would draw serious scrutiny and probably disrupt plans for the atrocity (assuming the atrocity wasn't tacitly given the green light in order to provide the pretext for the Homeland Security police state and the seizure of the Middle East oil fields).
A few weeks later, From the Wilderness, published by Michael Ruppert, linked the put options on the affected airlines (and a few other companies, located in the towers) to A. B. Brown, a firm formerly headed by the Executive Director of the CIA (the number three position).
The stories about the put options suddenly disappeared from the media, and now only the underground press, largely on the web, talks about them. To date, there has not been any public investigation by the government of who placed the stock trades (A B Brown was merely one of the firms used, the identities of the traders is not publicly known).
When the 9/11 Commission report was released in 2004, it was available as a PDF download. The first thing I searched for was mention of the pre-9/11 stock trades on United and American airlines. The Commission report explained it was not significant, since the traders did not have connections to al-Qaeda. The report did not discuss if the traders had connections to the CIA.
Lars Schall.
independent German journalist tracking the details of 9/11 insider trading.
AN ASIA TIMES ONLINE EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION.
Insider trading 9/11 . the facts laid bare.
There can be no dispute that speculative trade in put options - where a party bets that a stock will drop abruptly in value - spiked in the days around September 11, 2001 - even if the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the 9/11 Commission will not say so. More than a few people must have had advance warning of the terror attacks, and they cashed in to the tune of millions of dollars.
Understanding Special Operations.
Understanding The Secret Team.
an interview with Fletcher Prouty.
A stock broker called me from Washington a few days before the Bay of Pigs was planned to take place and said, "Colonel Prouty -- he just happened to know me, he didn't know my job, but he said -- Colonel, can you give me any explanation why, all of a sudden, people from the Pentagon are calling me buying sugar stock?" Sugar stock had dropped to pennies, because Castro had boycotted American sugar down there and the companies had lost a lot of money. But, all of a sudden, people who knew about the prospect of the invasion were buying sugar stock $10,000, $20,000 at a time, and sugar stock demand was going up well before the Bay of Pigs landing. They were running it as a commercial venture.
Follow the Money? God forbid.
Why was the cashing out of billions of dollars just before the 9/11 attacks never investigated?
They Made a Killing.
Did people who knew about secret, CIA-led coups use that information to game the stock market?
Posted Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008.
Mystery of terror `insider dealers'
by Chris Blackhurst, The Independent, 14 October 2001.
Share speculators have failed to collect $2.5m (£1.7m) in profits made from the fall in the share price of United Airlines after the 11 September World Trade Centre attacks.
The fact that the money is unclaimed more than a month later has re-awakened investigators' interest in a story dismissed as coincidence.
It may be that investors who were able to predict the share price crash so skilfully are reluctant to be seen profiting from tragedy. But investigators now wonder whether there is a more sinister explanation.
The authorities are examining the possibility that if they knew what was coming, traders were intent on taking their profits immediately, before regulators had woken up to any possible scam. But investors failed to foresee that the first response of the US stock markets to the disaster was to suspend all trading for four days, thereby denying them the chance of cashing in their profits.
Further details of the futures trades that netted such huge gains in the wake of the hijackings have been disclosed. To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the "put" options -- where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall -- on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by "Buzzy" Krongard, now executive director of the CIA.
Until 1997, Mr Krongard was chairman of Alex Brown Inc, America's oldest investment banking firm. Alex Brown was acquired by Bankers Trust, which in turn was bought by Deutsche Bank. His last post before resigning to take his senior role in the CIA was to head Bankers Trust -- Alex Brown's private client business, dealing with the accounts and investments of wealthy customers around the world.
There is no suggestion that Mr Krongard had advance knowledge of the attacks.
Between 6 and 7 September, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 "put" option contracts in UAL versus 396 call options -- where a speculator bets on a price rising. Holders of the put options would have netted a profit of $5m (3.3m) once the carrier's share price dived after 11 September. On 10 September, more trading in Chicago saw the purchase of 4,516 put options in American Airlines, the other airline involved in the hijackings. This compares with a mere 748 call options in American purchased that day. Investigators cannot help but notice that no other airlines saw such trading in their put options.
It was not just airlines that were targeted by remarkably canny investors. One of the biggest occupants of the World Trade Centre was Morgan Stanley, the investment bank. In the first week of September, an average of 27 put option contracts was bought each day in its shares. The total for the three days before the attacks was 2,157. Merrill Lynch, anotherWTC tenant, saw 12,215 put options bought in the four days before the attacks, when the previous days had seen averages of 252 contracts a day.
Direitos autorais e cópia; 2001 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd.
Reprinted for Fair Use Only.
the 9/11 Commission's explanation.
from Nic in New York:
On the insider trading, the alibi:
A single U. S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 as part of a trading strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10.
Ah. "No conceivable ties to al-Qaeda" equated with "no advance knowledge."
The assumption is that foreknowledge could come only through an al-Qaeda connection.
No mention of stories from London, Frankfurt, Tokyo et al. or of trades in anything other than UAL and AAR put options (WTC tenants, reinvestors).
What about the uncollected $2.5 million? Who was the "small airline" responsible for the puts purchased in London?
Al Qaeda has been alleged to have used a variety of illegitimate means, particularly drug trafficking and conflict diamonds, to finance itself. While the drug trade was a source of income for the Taliban, it did not serve the same purpose for al Qaeda, and there is no reliable evidence that Bin Ladin was involved in or made his money through drug trafficking.128 Similarly, we have seen no persuasive evidence that al Qaeda funded itself by trading in African conflict diamonds.129 There also have been claims that al Qaeda financed itself through manipulation of the stock market based on its advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. Exhaustive investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI, and other agencies have uncovered no evidence that anyone with advance knowledge of the attacks profited through securities transactions.130. Highly publicized allegations of insider trading in advance of 9/11 generally rest on reports of unusual pre-9/11 trading activity in companies whose stock plummeted after the attacks. Some unusual trading did in fact occur, but each such trade proved to have an innocuous explanation. For example, the volume of put options - investments that pay off only when a stock drops in price-surged in the parent companies of United Airlines on September 6 and American Airlines on September 10-highly suspicious trading on its face. Yet, further investigation has revealed that the trading had no connection with 9/11. A single U. S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 as part of a trading strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10. Similarly, much of the seemingly suspicious trading in American on September 10 was traced to a specific U. S.-based options trading newsletter, faxed to its subscribers on Sunday, September 9, which recommended these trades. These examples typify the evidence examined by the investigation. The SEC and the FBI, aided by other agencies and the securities industry, devoted enormous resources to investigating this issue, including securing the cooperation of many foreign governments. These investigators have found that the apparently suspicious consistently proved innocuous. Joseph Cella interview (Sept. 16,2003; May 7,2004; May 10-11,2004); FBI briefing (Aug.15,2003); SEC memo, Division of Enforcement to SEC Chair and Commissioners,"Pre-September 11,2001 Trading Review," May 15,2002; Ken Breen interview (Apr.23,2004); Ed G. interview (Feb.3,2004).
Mike Ruppert describes 9/11 insider trading.
several articles on the insider trading scandals.
SUPPRESSED DETAILS OF CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADING LEAD DIRECTLY INTO THE CIA's HIGHEST RANKS.
CIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR "BUZZY" KRONGARD MANAGED FIRM THAT HANDLED "PUT" OPTIONS ON UAL.
Michael C. Ruppert.
FTW, October 9, 2001 - Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U. S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the "put options" 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. Until 1997 A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A. B. Brown. A. B. Brown was acquired by Banker's Trust in 1997. Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker's Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U. S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering. Krongard's last position at Banker's Trust (BT) was to oversee "private client relations." In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U. S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money.
Krongard (re?) joined the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George Tenet. He was promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this year. 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. .
(note: most publications refuse to touch this material, one need not defend Larry Flynt's other publications to understand the importance of this interview - no nudity on that page, it is "G" rated)
Krongard and Blackwater.
This story was on the New York Times website on Saturday, November 17, 2007:
State IG's Brother Quits Blackwater.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Published: November 17, 2007.
Filed at 5:34 a. m. ET.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- The brother of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard quit as an adviser to Blackwater Worldwide on Friday, two days after the relationship with the security contractor was sharply criticized by a congressional oversight committee.
Erik Prince, Blackwater's top executive, said the conflict-of-interest questions raised by the connection prompted Alvin ''Buzzy'' Krongard to submit his resignation.
''I have reluctantly accepted it,'' Prince said in a statement.
It's unclear whether the move will salvage Howard Krongard's damaged credibility and career, however. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee plans to meet in December to determine if Howard Krongard testified truthfully about his brother.
Alvin Krongard never received any payment for his work on Blackwater's advisory board, which only met once, Prince said.
Prince said there are no allegations of impropriety against Alvin Krongard for his membership on Blackwater's board, a group recently created to help the North Carolina-based security company plan future business activities.
Blackwater is a major State Department contractor and the subject of ongoing federal investigations. One of those is examining whether Blackwater guards violated use-of-force rules during a Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqis dead.
Prince said there is no evidence that Howard Krongard's ability to perform his oversight duties was compromised by Alvin Krongard's relationship with Blackwater.
''The publicized allegation of an 'apparent conflict of interest' against his brother Howard, with whom Buzzy has not been close for years, is just that, an allegation,'' Prince's statement said.
Alvin Krongard's departure from Blackwater's board comes two days after the connection was made public during a hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In sworn testimony Wednesday, Howard Krongard was asked by Democratic members of the committee about his brother's ties to Blackwater, and he angrily said there weren't any.
But when confronted by committee members with evidence Alvin Krongard had joined the board, Howard Krongard called his brother during a hearing break and was told he attended a Blackwater advisory board meeting in Williamsburg, Va., on Monday and Tuesday. Before that conversation, Howard Krongard said he was not aware of the link.
Howard Krongard then told the committee he was recusing himself from any inquires related to Blackwater.
On Thursday, however, Alvin Krongard challenged Howard Krongard's version of events. According to the oversight committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., Alvin Krongard called the committee and said he had told his brother well before Wednesday's hearing about his decision to become a strategic adviser to Blackwater.
In a move that further escalated the differences, Howard Krongard's attorney on Friday sent Waxman a copy of notes she said Howard Krongard took during an Oct. 31 conversation with his brother. The call was initiated by Howard Krongard and lasted 10 minutes, said attorney Barbara Van Gelder.
''No financial interest whatsoever,'' the notes read, referring to Alvin Krongard's explanation of his status with Blackwater. ''Was on short list for advisory board but not taking it.''
In a side note to himself on the same page, Howard Krongard wrote, ''Why would anybody go on the board now?''
Asked to reconcile the conflicting versions, Van Gelder called the situation ''he said, he said.''
''These discrepancies between the testimony of Howard Krongard and the information from Buzzy Krongard raise questions about the truthfulness of Howard Krongard's testimony,'' Waxman said in a memo delivered Friday to committee members.
The union that represents U. S. diplomats on Friday repeated its call for Krongard to step down.
''We still believe he should step aside temporarily until this issue has been fully resolved by the appropriate bodies,'' said John Naland, president of the American Foreign Service Association.
Waxman said he plans to invite the Krongard brothers to testify at the December hearing.
If both appear, it's likely to be a chilly reunion. They speak rarely.
Alvin Krongard contacted the committee after receiving a letter from Waxman seeking information about his connections to Blackwater and any communication he may have had with Howard Krongard about the company.
Alvin Krongard said he was watching his brother testify on television and heard him say there was no Blackwater connection.
''You could have blown me over,'' Alvin Krongard told the committee, according to Waxman's memo.
Alvin Krongard recounted for the committee the conversation he had with his brother prior to the hearing.
'''He asked me whether I had any financial interest or any ties to Blackwater, and so I told him 'I'm going on their board,''' Alvin Krongard told the committee, according to Waxman's memo. ''He responded by saying, 'Why would you do that?' and 'Are you sure that's a good idea?'''
It was his decision to make, Alvin Krongard told his brother, and ''we just differed on that,'' according to Waxman's memo.
Van Gelder, Howard Krongard's attorney, asked Waxman not to hold the December hearing.
''There is no legitimate legislative purpose to be gained by publicly pitting two brothers against each other,'' she said in a letter to Waxman.
The role of the advisory board is to offer ''leadership advice'' on the paths Blackwater should take to expand its business, according to the company. Prince invited Alvin Krongard to join the board in July.
Expenses for attending board meetings would be covered and board members would receive a $3,500 honorarium for each meeting attended. The money could be paid to them or to a charity of their choice.
In addition to recusing himself from matters related to Blackwater, Howard Krongard also said he is no longer involved in corruption investigations related to the flawed construction of the U. S. Embassy in Baghdad, a $600 million project that is beset by logistical delays and security concerns.
Associated Press writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report.
U. S. Suggests, Without Proof, Stock Adviser Knew of 9/11.
By ALEX BERENSON.
Published: May 25, 2002.
A San Diego stock adviser who is accused of bribing an F. B.I. agent to give him confidential government information may have had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal prosecutor said yesterday. But a judge disregarded that contention and the adviser's lawyer called the allegation ludicrous.
In a court hearing in San Diego, Kenneth Breen, an assistant United States attorney, said the adviser, Amr Ibrahim Elgindy, tried to sell $300,000 in stock on the afternoon of Sept. 10 and told his broker that the stock market would soon plunge. ''Perhaps Mr. Elgindy had preknowledge of Sept. 11, and rather than report it he attempted to profit from it,'' Mr. Breen said.
Mr. Breen, coordinator of the stock market unit of a government task force set up to investigate financing for terrorist groups, offered no other evidence that Mr. Elgindy had prior knowledge of the attacks.
A lawyer for Mr. Elgindy said the allegation appeared to be motivated by the fact that Mr. Elgindy is Muslim and was born in Egypt. Senior F. B.I. officials also said they had no evidence that Mr. Elgindy had prior knowledge of the attacks.
In the hearing yesterday, Mr. Breen asked Judge John A. Houston of Federal District Court in San Diego to hold Mr. Elgindy without bond. Mr. Elgindy, also known as Tony Elgindy and Anthony Pacific, recently moved $700,000 to Lebanon and is a serious flight risk, Mr. Breen said.
Judge Houston disregarded Mr. Breen's claims about Mr. Elgindy and Sept. 11. But the judge said there was enough other evidence that Mr. Elgindy might flee to justify detaining him at least until a June 6 hearing to determine whether he should be moved to New York for a trial.
Jeanne Geren Knight, a lawyer for Mr. Elgindy, said after the hearing that Mr. Breen's allegations were ludicrous and untrue. ''The government, for lack of factual evidence, has decided to smear my client with terrorist innuendoes,'' Ms. Knight said. ''This is smacking of racial profiling.''
Mr. Elgindy and four other people, including one current and one former F. B.I. agent, were charged Wednesday with using confidential government information to manipulate stock prices and extort money from companies. Jeffrey A. Royer, who was an F. B.I. agent before joining Mr. Elgindy's stock advisory firm in December, accepted $30,000 from a partner of Mr. Elgindy's in exchange for providing Mr. Elgindy with information about current criminal investigations of companies, prosecutors allege.
Mr. Elgindy and his partner, Derrick W. Cleveland, sold short the shares of companies that they learned were under investigation, according to the indictment. (Short sellers borrow shares and sell them, hoping to buy them back later at a lower price and pocket the difference.) Then Mr. Elgindy publicized the negative information on two Web sites he ran, hoping that the companies' stocks would fall, prosecutors say.
At the hearing yesterday, Mr. Breen said that on the afternoon of Sept. 10, Mr. Elgindy contacted his broker at Salomon Smith Barney and asked him to sell $300,000 in stock in his children's trust funds. During the Sept. 10 conversation, Mr. Elgindy predicted that the Dow Jones industrial average, which at the time stood at about 9,600, would soon crash to below 3,000, Mr. Breen said. Mr. Elgindy was unable to sell the stock before markets closed Sept. 10, and it was instead sold Sept. 18, the first day that markets reopened for trading after the attacks, Mr. Breen said.
The Salomon Smith Barney broker contacted the F. B.I. after the attacks to report the conversation, Mr. Breen said. He did not identify the broker. A spokesman for Salomon Smith Barney confirmed that Mr. Elgindy was a client but said that Salomon did not comment on matters relating to its clients.
Mr. Elgindy also transferred more than $700,000 to Lebanon in the months after the attacks, Mr. Breen said. When F. B.I. agents raided Mr. Elgindy's home outside San Diego on Wednesday, Mr. Breen said, they found $43,000 in cash, as well as a loose diamond and faxes indicating that Mr. Elgindy had been tipped about the raid and had given his wife a power of attorney to liquidate his assets.
Ms. Knight, Mr. Elgindy's lawyer, denied that Mr. Elgindy had any prior knowledge of the attacks.
Mr. Elgindy's wife is from Louisiana, Ms. Knight said, adding that his mother was a pediatrician and his father a professor. ''Tony isn't political at all,'' she said. ''He's a capitalist. He's not going to move to a third world country.''
Senior law enforcement officials said yesterday that investigators had no hard evidence that Mr. Elgindy had advance information about the Sept. 11 attacks. So far, they have not found anyone who had prior knowledge of the attacks, they said. But they said the investigation into why Mr. Elgindy tried to sell the shares in his children's trust accounts before Sept. 11 had raised questions that had not been fully answered.
Mr. Elgindy has been an active supporter of Muslim causes. In 1999, he arranged to bring 30 Muslim refugees from Kosovo to the United States, according to The Daily Herald of Chicago.
Mr. Elgindy said the violence in Kosovo, Serbia's southern province, appalled him, comparing it to the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado. ''Take Columbine, have it occur five times a day for a year, and that's Kosovo,'' Mr. Elgindy told The Daily Herald.
Mr. Elgindy's father and brother are also active in Arab and Muslim causes. His father, Ibrahim Elgindy, founded an umbrella group of Muslim organizations in Chicago and led a 1998 protest on behalf of Muhammad A. Salah, whose assets were seized that year after the United States government linked Mr. Salah to Hamas, the radical Palestinian group. Mr. Elgindy's brother, Khaled, has worked for several Arab political groups.
Neither Ibrahim Elgindy nor Khaled Elgindy has ever been linked to terrorism. Khaled Elgindy did not return calls yesterday. Ibrahim Elgindy could not be reached for comment.
Mr. Elgindy himself publicly criticized the Sept. 11 attacks. In a press release that day, his company, Pacific Equity Investigations, said, ''We must seek, find, apprehend and destroy those who are responsible for this terrorist attack.''
Two days later, Mr. Elgindy put out another press release, saying that he had forwarded to the F. B.I. and the Securities and Exchange Commission ''many Internet posts and messages that may have relevance on this tragedy and the capture of the responsible parties behind it.'' He also asked that investors refrain from selling short the stocks of any United States companies or the United States dollar.
Mr. Elgindy sold the shares in his children's trusts five days later.
Options trading before 911
Options The Days Prior To 911?
Can You Amplify On This Comment, Please?
By Walter J. Burien, Jr.
12-30-3 Gentlemen: Can we all unite on a single task: finding out who placed the orders for the "put" options in the days immediately before 9/11? Discussions I've had in the enclosed e-mail seem to indicate this information is available and not protected by financial disclosure restrictions. Please examine the enclosed and brainstorm how we can get this information into the public sphere. It could be the thread to unravel the mystery. Discovering the names of those who apparently had prior knowledge of 9/11 as indicated by their "savvy" bets on the fortunes of United and American airlines are a necessary first step toward interrogating these individuals to find out where they got their information, something the law enforcement community should be doing but obviously isn't. Best wishes, John Kaminski REPLY FROM.
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