The Ghost in the Machines: Evidence of Foreknowledge
in the WTC Hard Drive Recoveries
by Michael Fury
Many are aware of the surge in put options purchased on American and United Airlines
as well as several major tenants of the WTC in the days preceding 9/11, purchases the
9/11 Commission Report waves away in a footnote on pg. 499 as having no connection
with the events of 9/11 because the unnamed "institutional investors" responsible had "no
conceivable ties to al Qaeda". More obscure, and nowhere mentioned in the Commission
Report, are the facts of the WTC computer data recovery operation undertaken in late
2001 by Convar GmbH, a German firm. Under conditions of hermetic secrecy, Convar
used its proprietary technology to salvage data from the damaged hard drives of WTC
tenants, as reported in December 2001 by Reuters and CNN.
http://www.rediff.com/money/2001/dec/17wtc.htm
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/12/20/wtc.harddrives.idg/
From the Reuters article:
"The suspicion is that inside information about the attack was used to send financial
transaction commands and authorisations in the belief that amid all the chaos the
criminals would have, at the very least, a good head start," said Convar director Peter
Henschel."
"Richard Wagner, a data retrieval expert at the company, said illegal transfers of more
than $100 million might have been made immediately before and during the
disaster."
"There is a suspicion that some people had advance knowledge of the approximate time
of the plane crashes in order to move out amounts exceeding $100 million," Wagner said.
"They thought that the records of their transactions could not be traced after the
main frames were destroyed."
"Henschel said the companies in the United States were working together with the FBI to
piece together what happened on September 11 and that he was confident the destination
of the dubious transactions would one day be tracked down."
Convar's website features two videos confirming that Convar GmbH did in fact process
the WTC hard drives. http://www.datarecovery-europe.com/ The second examines the disk
recovery process in detail, and explicitly acknowledges the transactions in question as
"secret, controversial data".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSrWE_YV90#
In the 9/10/2006 episode of the Dutch program Zembla, a Convar representative confirms
again the incriminating nature of this data, and does so in a manner that makes clear he
has recently been warned against such confirmation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh3_wWmS6lk#
The widely disseminated claim that Kroll Associates--the powerful private-intelligence
firm responsible for some elements of WTC security on 9/11--acquired Convar in June
2002 remains unsubstantiated. What can be verified is that Kroll purchased Ontrack Data
Recovery, a US-based rival of Convar with offices in Germany.
After the CNN article of December 20, the US media were stricken mute on the Convar
investigation. Of the media blackouts shrouding 9/11, none has been more absolute.
Notice that Convar, its unnamed WTC clients and the FBI possessed these data, and that
the FBI would have no reason to withhold the results of its investigation had they proven
benign or consistent with the Commission's account of the attacks.
It is worth remembering what Sibel Edmonds told Jim Hogue: "I can tell you that the
issue, on one side, boils down to money--a lot of money. and it boils down to people and
their connections with this money..." http://baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml
Consider again Wagner's inference: "They thought that the records of their transactions
could not be traced after the main frames were destroyed." The locations of the
computers in question within the towers is unknown, but if Wagner is correct, two
possibilities emerge: (1) either the "insiders" had foreknowledge of the precise impact
points of the aircraft (otherwise why assume that the main frames would be destroyed?)
or (2) they had foreknowledge of the total destruction of the towers. Upon reflection,
for numerous reasons the first possibility recedes into remote improbability. But why
would "insiders" assume the total collapse of the towers when there was no historical
precedent for such an event and the towers had been designed to survive the impact of
fuel-laden 707s at 600mph? http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/design.html
If in fact the WTC towers were demolished by explosives, incendiaries or other means,
whoever initiated these transactions should be considered suspect for complicity in those
acts.
No legitimate reason--in fact no reason whatsoever--for withholding the Convar data has
to date been offered.
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[Not much is known else about Mayo A. Shattuck III's career before joining Alex. Brown & Sons at its San Francisco office... By 1991 he became president and chief operating officer at Alex. Brown, second to future Central Intelligence Agency Executive Director A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard... he served as Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown and, also serving as head of Investment Banking and Private Banking. Shattuck resigned on September 12, 2001 as head of the Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_A._Shattuck_III
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in the WTC Hard Drive Recoveries
by Michael Fury
Many are aware of the surge in put options purchased on American and United Airlines
as well as several major tenants of the WTC in the days preceding 9/11, purchases the
9/11 Commission Report waves away in a footnote on pg. 499 as having no connection
with the events of 9/11 because the unnamed "institutional investors" responsible had "no
conceivable ties to al Qaeda". More obscure, and nowhere mentioned in the Commission
Report, are the facts of the WTC computer data recovery operation undertaken in late
2001 by Convar GmbH, a German firm. Under conditions of hermetic secrecy, Convar
used its proprietary technology to salvage data from the damaged hard drives of WTC
tenants, as reported in December 2001 by Reuters and CNN.
http://www.rediff.com/money/2001/dec/17wtc.htm
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/12/20/wtc.harddrives.idg/
From the Reuters article:
"The suspicion is that inside information about the attack was used to send financial
transaction commands and authorisations in the belief that amid all the chaos the
criminals would have, at the very least, a good head start," said Convar director Peter
Henschel."
"Richard Wagner, a data retrieval expert at the company, said illegal transfers of more
than $100 million might have been made immediately before and during the
disaster."
"There is a suspicion that some people had advance knowledge of the approximate time
of the plane crashes in order to move out amounts exceeding $100 million," Wagner said.
"They thought that the records of their transactions could not be traced after the
main frames were destroyed."
"Henschel said the companies in the United States were working together with the FBI to
piece together what happened on September 11 and that he was confident the destination
of the dubious transactions would one day be tracked down."
Convar's website features two videos confirming that Convar GmbH did in fact process
the WTC hard drives. http://www.datarecovery-europe.com/ The second examines the disk
recovery process in detail, and explicitly acknowledges the transactions in question as
"secret, controversial data".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSrWE_YV90#
In the 9/10/2006 episode of the Dutch program Zembla, a Convar representative confirms
again the incriminating nature of this data, and does so in a manner that makes clear he
has recently been warned against such confirmation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh3_wWmS6lk#
The widely disseminated claim that Kroll Associates--the powerful private-intelligence
firm responsible for some elements of WTC security on 9/11--acquired Convar in June
2002 remains unsubstantiated. What can be verified is that Kroll purchased Ontrack Data
Recovery, a US-based rival of Convar with offices in Germany.
After the CNN article of December 20, the US media were stricken mute on the Convar
investigation. Of the media blackouts shrouding 9/11, none has been more absolute.
Notice that Convar, its unnamed WTC clients and the FBI possessed these data, and that
the FBI would have no reason to withhold the results of its investigation had they proven
benign or consistent with the Commission's account of the attacks.
It is worth remembering what Sibel Edmonds told Jim Hogue: "I can tell you that the
issue, on one side, boils down to money--a lot of money. and it boils down to people and
their connections with this money..." http://baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml
Consider again Wagner's inference: "They thought that the records of their transactions
could not be traced after the main frames were destroyed." The locations of the
computers in question within the towers is unknown, but if Wagner is correct, two
possibilities emerge: (1) either the "insiders" had foreknowledge of the precise impact
points of the aircraft (otherwise why assume that the main frames would be destroyed?)
or (2) they had foreknowledge of the total destruction of the towers. Upon reflection,
for numerous reasons the first possibility recedes into remote improbability. But why
would "insiders" assume the total collapse of the towers when there was no historical
precedent for such an event and the towers had been designed to survive the impact of
fuel-laden 707s at 600mph? http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/design.html
If in fact the WTC towers were demolished by explosives, incendiaries or other means,
whoever initiated these transactions should be considered suspect for complicity in those
acts.
No legitimate reason--in fact no reason whatsoever--for withholding the Convar data has
to date been offered.
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911 Insider Trading
And
Excerpts from last link:
"... the U.S. press failed to pick up the story, which clearly linked Wall Street and the U.S. intelligence community to the 9/11 attacks. Indeed, the 'New York Times' cooperated with the cover-up. George Tenet writes in his memoirs that he recruited Buzzy Krongard in 1998 to become his deputy at CIA, probably to serve as Tenet’s personal liaison to Wall Street. No surprise then, that many U.S. banks openly solicit business from Central American drug lords, arms merchants, and other shady entities. 99.9% of laundered money routinely escapes detection ...estimated that the annual total was between $500 billion and a trillion dollars... about half of which is washed into the U.S. economy, the rest into Europe.
In a footnote buried on page 499, the 9/11 Commission Report alludes to Mayo Shattuck III’s [co-head of investment banking in January, 2001, overseeing Deutsche Bank’s 400 brokers...] likely role in purchasing the United Airlines put options just prior to 9/11: "A single US-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95% of the UAL puts on September 6 [2001] as part of a strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10"...the results are “consistent with investors trading on advance knowledge of the attacks.”[25]
[Not much is known else about Mayo A. Shattuck III's career before joining Alex. Brown & Sons at its San Francisco office... By 1991 he became president and chief operating officer at Alex. Brown, second to future Central Intelligence Agency Executive Director A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard... he served as Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown and, also serving as head of Investment Banking and Private Banking. Shattuck resigned on September 12, 2001 as head of the Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_A._Shattuck_III
Molly Shattuck, of Baltimore, MD, is one of Fox’s “Secret Millionaires.” Molly Shattuck is married to Mayo Shattuck III… she, a Corporate Center Director for Sylvan Learning Systems and as a Marketing Associate for Alex. Brown & Sons, Inc http://www.kpth.com/Global/story.asp?S=9523811
Molly Shattuck, a Baltimore Ravens cheerleader, 15 years older than the team's average, and the only mom (of 5), has already worked on Capitol Hill … other of her goals to achieve: climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, going on a polar bear expedition…
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/18/eveningnews/main953536.shtml ]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/18/eveningnews/main953536.shtml ]
The
second paper, by the Swiss Banking Institute, reached the same
conclusion.[26] ... that there is “credible circumstantial evidence to
support the insider trading claim.”[27]
[25] Allen M. Poteshman, “Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001,” The Journal of Business, 2006, vol. 79, no. 4, http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/503645
[26] Marc Chesney, et al, “Detecting Informed Trading Activities in the Options Markets,” Social Sciences Research Network, 13 January 2010, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1522157
[27] Wing-Keung Wong, et al, “Was there Abnormal Trading in the S&P 500 Index Options Prior to the September 11 Attacks?,” Social Sciences Research Network, April 2010, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1588523
"... the commission makes no mention in its footnote of the 36 other companies identified by the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] in its insider trading probe. What about the pre-9/11 surge in call options for Raytheon, for instance, or the spike in put options for the behemoth Morgan Stanley, which had offices in WTC 2? The 9/11 Commission Report offers not one word of explanation about any of this [Bloomberg News, October 3, 2001. The list included stocks of American, United, Continental, Northwest, Southwest and US Airways airlines, as well as Martin, Boeing, Lockheed Martin Corp., AIG, American Express Corp, American International Group, AMR Corporation, Axa SA, Bank of America Corp, Bank of New York Corp, Bank One Corp, Cigna Group, CNA Financial, Carnival Corp, Chubb Group, John Hancock Financial Services, Hercules Inc, L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc., LTV Corporation, Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc., MetLife, Progressive Corp., General Motors, Raytheon, W.R. Grace, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., Lone Star Technologies, American Express, the Citigroup Inc. ,Royal & Sun Alliance, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Vornado Reality Trust, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Co., XL Capital Ltd., and Bear Stearns].
"Indeed, if the trading was truly “innocuous,” as the report states, then why did the SEC muzzle potential whistleblowers by deputizing everyone involved with its investigation? The likely answer is that so many players on Wall Street were involved that the SEC could not risk an open process, for fear of exposing the unthinkable... the SEC ultimately named no names. All of which hints at the true and frightening extent of criminal activity on Wall Street in the days and hours before 9/11" "...Wirt Walker III, a distant cousin to then-President G.W. Bush. Yet, incredibly, in a mind-boggling example of criminal malfeasance... The FBI did not conduct a single interview."
"Peter Henschel told CNN that "unusually large sums of money, perhaps more than $100 million, were rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded"...someone made the story (and the evidence) go away. [31]
[31] Michael Fury, “The Ghost in the Machines: Evidence of Foreknowledge in the WTC Hard Drive Recoveries,” Journal of 9/11 Studies, December 2008. Posted at
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/GhostWTC.pdf
“...about five minutes before the attack the entire Deutsche Bank computer system had been taken over by something external that no one in the office recognized, and every file was downloaded at lightning speed to an unknown location” [32]
[32] Michael Ruppert, Crossing the Rubicon,(New Society Publishers, 2004), p. 244.
[25] Allen M. Poteshman, “Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001,” The Journal of Business, 2006, vol. 79, no. 4, http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/503645
[26] Marc Chesney, et al, “Detecting Informed Trading Activities in the Options Markets,” Social Sciences Research Network, 13 January 2010, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1522157
[27] Wing-Keung Wong, et al, “Was there Abnormal Trading in the S&P 500 Index Options Prior to the September 11 Attacks?,” Social Sciences Research Network, April 2010, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1588523
"... the commission makes no mention in its footnote of the 36 other companies identified by the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] in its insider trading probe. What about the pre-9/11 surge in call options for Raytheon, for instance, or the spike in put options for the behemoth Morgan Stanley, which had offices in WTC 2? The 9/11 Commission Report offers not one word of explanation about any of this [Bloomberg News, October 3, 2001. The list included stocks of American, United, Continental, Northwest, Southwest and US Airways airlines, as well as Martin, Boeing, Lockheed Martin Corp., AIG, American Express Corp, American International Group, AMR Corporation, Axa SA, Bank of America Corp, Bank of New York Corp, Bank One Corp, Cigna Group, CNA Financial, Carnival Corp, Chubb Group, John Hancock Financial Services, Hercules Inc, L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc., LTV Corporation, Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc., MetLife, Progressive Corp., General Motors, Raytheon, W.R. Grace, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., Lone Star Technologies, American Express, the Citigroup Inc. ,Royal & Sun Alliance, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Vornado Reality Trust, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Co., XL Capital Ltd., and Bear Stearns].
"Indeed, if the trading was truly “innocuous,” as the report states, then why did the SEC muzzle potential whistleblowers by deputizing everyone involved with its investigation? The likely answer is that so many players on Wall Street were involved that the SEC could not risk an open process, for fear of exposing the unthinkable... the SEC ultimately named no names. All of which hints at the true and frightening extent of criminal activity on Wall Street in the days and hours before 9/11" "...Wirt Walker III, a distant cousin to then-President G.W. Bush. Yet, incredibly, in a mind-boggling example of criminal malfeasance... The FBI did not conduct a single interview."
"Peter Henschel told CNN that "unusually large sums of money, perhaps more than $100 million, were rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded"...someone made the story (and the evidence) go away. [31]
[31] Michael Fury, “The Ghost in the Machines: Evidence of Foreknowledge in the WTC Hard Drive Recoveries,” Journal of 9/11 Studies, December 2008. Posted at
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/GhostWTC.pdf
“...about five minutes before the attack the entire Deutsche Bank computer system had been taken over by something external that no one in the office recognized, and every file was downloaded at lightning speed to an unknown location” [32]
[32] Michael Ruppert, Crossing the Rubicon,(New Society Publishers, 2004), p. 244.
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Michael C. Ruppert wrote:
"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..."
Sounds familiar?: The cocaine laden's gray matter of G. W. Bush, Violated SEC Insider Trading Law Four Times, Not Once. His lawyer ran the SEC investigation on late Harken Report and his father's gave the SEC clearance of wrongdoing during Bush Presidency...
al-Cokeda. Iran-Contra II. How the 9/11 flight schools were being used for narcotics trafficing to finance black operations like 9/11 which was covered up by labeling the drug dealers, terrorists. The drug import just continued after 9/11 as if nothing happened and were involved in the biggest cocaine shipment ever... Learn about drug planes being used also for illegal CIA rendition, the (hidden) owner of the flight school committing insider trading on 9/11, scams with non-existing companies which miraculously produce DC-9s... (In dedication of the top anti-terrorism expert of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John O'Neill: Who killed John O'Neill? by a Progressive Independent) [Note: Those secretive organizations may as well continue co-financing their crooked secretive black projects through smuggling illicit drugs using those near-invisible advanced aerial aircraft worldwide... who's gonna stop them?]
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