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Con­tin­u­ing the analy­sis of the 9/11/2001 ter­ror­ist blitzkrieg, this pro­gram ana­lyzes the sus­pi­cious stock mar­ket action in the days pre­ced­ing the attacks.

1. The pro­gram begins with dis­cus­sion of allegedly sus­pi­cious insider trad­ing in the stocks of the par­ent com­pa­nies of United Air Lines and Amer­i­can Air Lines in the days imme­di­ately pre­ced­ing the attack. (“Air­line Stock Deals Under U.S. Probe” by Chris­t­ian Berthelsen; San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; 9/18/2001; pp. A1-A9.)

2. Activ­ity in the trad­ing of United’s stock was 25 times its nor­mal level accord­ing to Options Clear­ing­house Cor­po­ra­tion. (Ibid.; p. A9.)

3. Two online bro­ker­age com­pa­nies (TD Water­house and NFS, a sub­sidiary of Fidelity of Boston) are assist­ing with the inves­ti­ga­tion. (“Bro­kers Help Probe” by Chris­t­ian Berthelsen; San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; 9/21/2001; pp. B1-B4.)

4. The Chicago Board Options Exchange is help­ing with the deal. (“New Scrutiny of Air­lines Options Deals” by Chris­t­ian Berthelsen; San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; 9/19/2001; pp. D1—D3.)

5. Next, the pro­gram high­lights a rumor of allegedly sus­pi­cious action in the stock of a com­pany con­trolled by Can­tor Fitzger­ald, a bond firm that was dev­as­tated in the attack. (“Pos­si­bly Sus­pi­cious Trad­ing Alerts U.S., Ger­man Offi­cials” by Floyd Nor­ris and Edmund L. Andrews [New York Times]; San Jose Mer­cury News; 9/17/2001; p. 4C.)

6. Some Ger­man ana­lysts believe that trad­ing of stock in big insur­ance com­pa­nies was sus­pi­cious as well. (Idem.)

7. In addi­tion to the trans­ac­tions noted above, Ger­man mar­ket ana­lysts detected what they believed to be unusual and note­wor­thy action in oil and gold options. (“Sus­pi­cious Trad­ing Seen in Attacks” by William Droz­diak [Wash­ing­ton Post]; San Jose Mer­cury News; 9/23/2001; p. 4A.)

8. An analy­sis by the San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle found that short sell­ing in the stocks of United and Amer­i­can Air Lines “out­paced the rise in short sell­ing for all stocks on the New York Stock Exchange—or other major air­line stocks as a group on the Big Board.” (“Data Shows Heavy Airline—Stock Short Sell­ing” by Chris­t­ian Berthelsen; San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; 9/22/2001; pp. C1—C2.)

9. The air­line indus­try found itself fac­ing a severe cri­sis as a result of sig­nif­i­cant changes in insur­ance cov­er­age in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. (“Air­line Chaos Looms as Insur­ers Can­cel War Cover” by the inter­na­tional staff; Finan­cial Times; 9/21/2001; p. 1.)

10. Most of the sec­ond half of the broad­cast con­sists of analy­sis of a book that high­lights stock mar­ket manip­u­la­tion in con­nec­tion with the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy.

11. A rare 1967 text dis­cusses a group of hard­ened inter­na­tional crim­i­nals of German/Argentine back­ground, who allegedly used sophis­ti­cated mind con­trol tech­niques to assas­si­nate Pres­i­dent Kennedy and col­lapse the com­modi­ties mar­ket on the same day. (Were We Con­trolled? by Lin­coln Lawrence; Copy­right 1967 [HC]; Uni­ver­sity Books, Inc.; ISBN 67–15098; pp. 21–23.)

12. The delib­er­ately arranged coin­ci­dence of these two events is believed to have earned the group a half-billion dollars—in 1963, that was worth a lot more than it is today. (Idem.) “The Group” described in the account bears a strong resem­blance to the Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion fre­quently dis­cussed in these programs.

13. Uti­liz­ing the tech­nique of R.H.I.C./E.D.O.M., the per­pe­tra­tors manip­u­lated Anthony (Tino) De Ange­lis, owner of the Allied Crude Veg­etable Oil Refin­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, order to scan­dal­ize the com­modi­ties mar­ket. (Ibid.; pp. 105–106.)

14. Allied was selected because its col­lapse would affect more than fifty banks and because of its con­nec­tion to the Bunge cor­po­ra­tion, an Argen­tine based com­modi­ties trad­ing firm that was among the most impor­tant in the world. (Ibid.; pp. 107–108.)

15. Next, the pro­gram delin­eates a “grain caper” in which between three and five mil­lion dol­lars was net­ted by the con­spir­a­tors. It is believed that this sum con­sti­tuted the “walk­ing around” money by the con­spir­a­tors. (Ibid.; p. 117.)

16. The broad­cast then sets forth details about the Bunge Cor­po­ra­tion, the pow­er­ful com­modi­ties firm that pos­sessed an ultra-modern com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­work that was essen­tial for the split-second finan­cial manip­u­la­tions nec­es­sary to effect the con­spir­acy. (Ibid.; pp. 118–121.)

17. Fol­low­ing dis­cus­sion of Were We Con­trolled, the pro­gram high­lights the fate of the per­son­al­i­ties who brought the story into print. The book was writ­ten by radio per­son­al­ity Art Ford, who was used as a “cutout” by “”Lin­coln Lawrence” (a nom de plume.) (The Man Who Knew Too Much by Dick Rus­sell; Copy­right 1992 [HC]; Car­roll & Graf; ISBN 0–88184-900–6; p. 676.)

18. Mar­tin Scheiman, the lawyer used by “Lawrence” to pay out roy­al­ties was found shot in the head after the book was pub­lished (a sup­posed sui­cide.) (Ibid.; p. 677.) Damon Run­yon Jr., who wrote the story up in an unpub­lished arti­cle for the National Enquirer also allegedly com­mit­ted sui­cide by jump­ing off a bridge. (Idem.)

19. Researcher Mary Fer­rell believed a sim­i­larly grim fate ulti­mately befell “Lawrence” and that Art Ford also felt his life to be in dan­ger. (Ibid.; pp. 677–678.)

20. Next, the pro­gram dis­cusses appar­ent links between the Bin Laden orga­ni­za­tion and an under­world milieu in Ciu­dad del Este—an area where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet. (“Paraguay Out­post Seen as Hard­liner Hide­out” by Thomas Catan; Finan­cial Times; 9/21/2001; p. 8.)

21. Finally, the pro­gram con­cludes with an arti­cle about the Repub­li­cans’ block­ing of a bill intro­duced by the Clin­ton admin­is­tra­tion that would have traced the Bin Laden finan­cial con­duits. (“Road­blocks Cited In Efforts to Trace Bin Laden’s Money” by Tim Weiner and David Cay John­ston; New York Times ; 9/20/2001; pp. A1-B2.)