Letters from NYC

 

(Mike Ruppert, 49, was born in Washington, D.C. An Honors graduate of UCLA

in Political Science, he comes from a family rooted in intelligence and the

military. As an undergraduate he interned for LA Police Chief Ed Davis and

worked at 5 LAPD Divisions before graduating and becoming an officer in

1973.

 

During Mike's five plus years of active service, he received thirteen

citations and four commendations. Twice the CIA attempted to recruit Mike:

the first time just before he graduated and again after he was a highly

praised field officer and budding narcotics investigator. In 1977 he

discovered CIA bringing drugs into the U.S. through New Orleans in an

operation supervised by his then fiancée, a CIA agent. He began to speak out

and was forced out of LAPD in November 1978 after being shot at and

threatened. He has been speaking out publicly ever since. In 1981 he spoke

out about CIA and drugs inside the White House during a visit to his college

classmate Craig Fuller. Fuller later served as Chief of Staff to Vice

President Bush.

 

As a freelance writer in the 80s he was published in The Los Angeles Times.

Other stories include more than 30 on drug and alcohol dependence. Mike is a

past member of the Board of Directors of the National Council on Alcoholism

for the San Fernando Valley.

 

In 1992, after speaking with Ross Perot during the course of his

investigations, Mike served as the LA County Press Spokesman for the Perot

Presidential Campaign. This led to an appearance in the Feature Documentary

THE LAST PARTY with Robert DowneyJr., Sean Penn.

 

Mike's highly publicized confrontation with CIA Director John Deutch on

11/15/96 resulted in his being interviewed by the Intelligence Committees of

both Houses of Congress.

 

He publishes From The Wilderness magazine which deals with the effects of

illegal covert operations on our society.  FTW is read by more than 500

subscribers including professors at nine universities, 10 members of

Congress and many authors. Mike is divorced and lives in Sherman Oaks, CA.)

 

 

 

[© COPYRIGHT 2001, All Rights Reserved, Michael C. Ruppert and From The

Wilderness Publications, http://www.copvcia.com/. May be copied and distributed for

non-profit purposes only.]

 

FTW, November 2, 2001 - 1200 PST -- On October 31, the French daily Le

Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment

for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA

official - presumably the Chief of Station. The meeting, held in bin Laden's

private suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time when

he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S. embassies and this

year's attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for execution

according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued by President Bill Clinton

before leaving office in January. Yet on July 14th he was allowed to leave

Dubai on a private jet and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him

down.

 

In 1985 Oliver North - the only member of the Reagan-Bush years who doesn't

appear to have a hand in the current war - sent the Navy and commandos after

terrorists on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. In his 1991 autobiography

"Under Fire," while describing terrorist Abu Abbas, North wrote, "I used to

wonder: how many dead Americans will it take before we do something?" One

could look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden is alleged to have

killed before September 11 and ask the same question.

 

It gets worse, much worse. A more complete timeline listing crucial events

both before and after the September 11th suicide attacks, which have been

blamed on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly

suggests that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S.

government in their execution. It also makes clear that the events which

have taken place since September 11th are based upon an agenda that has

little to do with the attacks.

 

One wonders how these events could have been ignored by the major media or

treated as isolated incidents. Failing that, how could skilled news agencies

avoid being outraged, or at least even just a little suspicious?

 

1. 1998 and 2000 - Former President George H.W. Bush travels to Saudi Arabia

on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th largest defense

contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with the Saudi royal

family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal, Sept. 27,

2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No 7 - "The Best Enemies Money Can Buy," -

http://www.copvcia.com/members/carlyle.html. ]

 

2. Feb 13, 2001 - UPI Terrorism Correspondent Richard Sale - while covering

a trial of bin Laden's Al Q'aeda followers - reports that the National

Security Agency has broken bin Laden's encrypted communications. Even if

this indicates that bin Laden changed systems in February it does not mesh

with the fact that the government insists that the attacks had been planned

for years.

 

3. May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43 million in aid to

the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers who are starving

since the destruction of their opium crop in January on orders of the

Taliban regime. [Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001.]

 

4. May, 2001 - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a career covert

operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a publicized tour while

CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with

Pakistani leader General Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep

Pakistani intelligence connections and he is the recipient of the highest

civil decoration awarded by Pakistan. It would be reasonable to assume that

while in Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as "an unusually long

meeting," also met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad,

head of the ISI. [Source The Indian SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001.]

 

5. July, 2001 - Three American officials: Tom Simmons (former U.S.

Ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former Assistant Secretary of

State for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren (former State Department

expert on South Asia), meet with Taliban representatives in Berlin and tell

them that the U.S. is planning military strikes against Afghanistan in

October. Also present are Russian and German intelligence officers who

confirm the threat. [Source: The Guardian, September 22, 2001; the BBC,

September 18, 2001.]

 

6. Summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain's The Guardian,

correspondent David Leigh reported that, "U.S. department of defense

official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January. The Guardian's

Felicity Lawrence established that US Rangers were also training special

troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and Uzbek

special troops were training in Alaska and Montana."

 

7. Summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI Chief General Mahmud (see above)

orders an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, who was according

to the FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings. Mahmud recently

resigned after the transfer was disclosed in India and confirmed by the FBI.

[Source: The Times of India, October 11, 2001.]

 

8. June 2001 - German intelligence, the BND, warns the CIA and Israel that

Middle Eastern terrorists are "planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use

as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture."

[Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 2001.]

 

9. Summer 2001 - An Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to warn of an

imminent attack on the World Trade Center in the week of September 9th.

German police confirm the calls but state that the U.S. Secret Service would

not reveal any further information. [Source: German news agency "online.ie",

September 14, 2001.]

 

10. August 2001 - The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked to bin Laden in

Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that the man is a key member of

bin Laden's network and the FBI learns that he has been taking flying

lessons. At the time of his arrest the man is in possession of technical

information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source: Reuters,

September 13.]

 

11. Summer 2001 - Russian intelligence notifies the CIA that 25 terrorist

pilots have been specifically training for suicide missions. This is

reported in the Russian press and news stories are translated for FTW by a

retired CIA officer.

 

12. July 4-14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden receives treatments for kidney disease

at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA official who returns

to CIA headquarters on July 15th. [Source: Le Figaro, October 31st, 2001.]

 

13. August 2001 - Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian

intelligence to warn the U.S. government "in the strongest possible terms"

of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings. [Source: MS-NBC

interview with Putin, September 15.]

 

14. August/September, 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops nearly

900 points in the three weeks prior to the attack. A major stock market

crash is imminent.

 

15. Sept. 3-10, 2001 - MS-NBC reports on September 16 that a caller to a

Cayman Islands radio talk show gave several warnings of an imminent attack

on the U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior to 9/11.

 

16. September 1-10, 2001 - 25,000 British troops and the largest British

Armada since the Falkland Islands War, part of Operation "Essential

Harvest," are pre-positioned in Oman, the closest point on the Arabian

Peninsula to Pakistan. At the same time two U.S. carrier battle groups

arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani coast. Also

at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than 23,000 NATO troops

in Egypt for Operation "Bright Star." All of these forces are in place

before the first plane hits the World Trade Center. [Sources: The Guardian,

CNN, FOX, The Observer, International Law Professor Francis Boyle, the

University of Illinois.]

 

17. September 6-7, 2001 - 4,744 put options (a speculation that the stock

will go down) are purchased on United Air Lines stock as opposed to only 396

call options (speculation that the stock will go up). This is a dramatic and

abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many of the UAL puts are

purchased through Deutschebank/AB Brown, a firm managed until 1998 by the

current Executive Director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard. [Source: The

Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism,

http://www.ict.org.il/, September 21; The New York Times; The Wall Street

Journal.]

 

18.  September 10, 2001 - 4,516 put options are purchased on American

Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: ICT - above]

 

19. September 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines show any similar trading

patterns to those experienced by UAL and American. The put option purchases

on both airlines were 600% above normal. This at a time when Reuters

(September 10) issues a business report stating, "Airline stocks may be

poised to take off."

 

20. September 6-10, 2001 - Highly abnormal levels of put options are

purchased in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re(insurance) which owns 25%

of American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies are directly

impacted by the September 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above; FTW, Vol. IV,

No.7, October 18, 2001, http://www.copvcia.com/members/oct152001.html. ]

 

21. It has been documented that the CIA, the Israeli Mossad and many other

intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real time using highly

advanced programs reported to be descended from Promis software. This is to

alert national intelligence services of just such kinds of attacks. Promis

was reported, as recently as June, 2001 to be in Osama bin Laden's

possession and, as a result of recent stories by FOX, both the FBI and the

Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S. intelligence gathering

through at least this summer. This would confirm that CIA had additional

advance warning of imminent attacks. [Sources: The Washington Times,  June

15, 2001; FOX News, October 16, 2001; FTW, October  26, 2001, -

http://www.copvcia.com/members/magic_carpet.html; FTW, Vol. IV, No.6, Sept.

18, 2001 - http://www.copvcia.com/members/sept1801.html; FTW, Vol. 3, No 7,

9/30/00 - www.copvcia.com/stories/may_2001/052401_promis.html.

 

22. September 11, 2001 - Gen Mahmud of the ISI (see above), friend of

Mohammed Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the Taliban. [Source:

MS-NBC, Oct. 7.]

 

23. September 11, 2001, For 35 minutes, from 8:15 AM until 9:05 AM, with it

widely known within the FAA and the military that four planes have been

simultaneously hijacked and taken off course, no one notifies the President

of the United States. It is not until 9:30 that any Air Force planes are

scrambled to intercept, but by then it is too late. This means that the

National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before scrambling aircraft,

even though it was known that four simultaneous hijackings had occurred - an

event that has never happened in history. [Sources: CNN, ABC, MS-NBC, The

Los Angeles Times, The New York Times.]

 

24. September 13, 2001 - China is admitted to the World Trade Organization

quickly, after 15 years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source: The New York

Times, Sept. 30, 2001.]

 

25. September 15, 2001 - The New York Times reports that Mayo Shattuck III

has resigned, effective immediately, as head of the Alex (A.B) Brown unit of

Deutschebank.

 

26. September 29, 2001 - The San Francisco Chronicle reports that $2.5

million in put options on American Airlines and United Airlines are

unclaimed. This is likely the result of the suspension in trading on the

NYSE after the attacks which gave the Securities and Exchange Commission

time to be waiting when the owners showed up to redeem their put options.

 

27. October 10, 2001 - The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post reports

that U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on the Pakistani oil

minister. A previously abandoned Unocal pipeline from Turkmenistan, across

Afghanistan, to the Pakistani coast, for the purpose of selling oil and gas

to China, is now back on the table "in view of recent geopolitical

developments."

 

28. Mid October, 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average, after having

suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its pre-attack losses.

Although still weak, and vulnerable to negative earnings reports, a crash

has been averted by a massive infusion of government spending on defense

programs, subsidies for "affected" industries and planned tax cuts for

corporations.

 

 Now, let's go back to the October 31 story by Le Figaro - the one that has

Osama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai this June.

 

The story says that, "Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama Bin Laden

received visits from many family members [There goes the story that he's a

black sheep!] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities of status. During this

time the local representative of the CIA was seen by many people taking the

elevator and going to bin Laden's room.

 

"Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his friends about having

visited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative sources, this CIA agent

visited CIA headquarters on July 15tth, the day after bin Laden's departure

for Quetta

 

"According to various Arab diplomatic sources and French intelligence

itself, precise information was communicated to the CIA concerning terrorist

attacks aimed at American interests in the world, including its own

territory."

 

"Extremely bothered, they [American intelligence officers in a meeting with

French intelligence officers] requested from their French peers exact

details about the Algerian activists [connected to bin Laden through Dubai

banking institutions], without explaining the exact nature of their inquiry.

When asked the question, "What do you fear in the coming days?' the

Americans responded with incomprehensible silence."

 

"On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain plans that had been

put together between the CIA and its "Islamic friends" over the years. The

meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with 'a certain American

policy.'"

 

Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed with hospital staff

that bin Laden had been there as reported, stories printed on November 1

contained quotes from hospital staff that these reports were untrue. On

November 1, as reported by the Ananova press agency, the CIA flatly denied

that any meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama bin Laden at any time.

 

In the most ironic twist of all, FTW has learned that Le Figaro is owned by

the Carlyle Group, the American defense contractor which employs George Bush

Sr., and which had as investors - until they sold their stake on October 26

- the bin Laden family.

 

Who do you believe? In coming stories FTW will prove to you that this war,

which according to Dick Cheney, may not end in out lifetimes, has been in

the works for at least four years.

 

Mike Ruppert

 

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