Expert: Russia Knew in Advance, Encouraged Citizens
to Cash Out Dollars
Dr. A. Nemets
Monday, September 17, 2001
Russian press accounts and other activities by the Russian
government this summer indicate that the Russian knew in advance
that something would happen to America, including a "financial
attack" against the U.S.
During the past three months, Russian media and officials have
encouraged citizens to cash out of U.S. dollars pending an
economic collapse there after an "attack."
Currently, the dominant view of the media is that the terrorist
actions in New York City and Washington were just a "thunder bolt
from the blue sky."
Could it be? Yes, a well organized group accomplished these
dastardly acts. But just how well organized was it?
Obviously, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney are
targeting the powers behind these terrorist groups, the states that
give them safe harbor and backing.
Sponsors of state terrorism include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Cuba, North
Korea, Sudan, and Syria.
Did you know that all of these countries have very close ties with
Russia and her military/intelligence agencies?
Could it be that the Russians actually expected this in advance and
even counted on it, discussing the possible consequences?
My suspicions were raised this July and August as I scanned and
sifted through all of Russia's major newspapers.
Considering Russia's close ties to these terrorist countries,
Russian activities need close scrutiny.
Pravda Wrote of Financial 'Attack' on U.S.
Consider the July 12, 2001 page-one report in Pravda - still
considered the establishment voice of Russia's old guard
communists who control the military and intelligence agencies.
The Pravda article was entitled "The Dollar and America Will Fall
Down on August 19? - That's the Opinion of Dr. Tatyana Koryagina,
Who Very [accurately] predicted the August Default in 1998."
This article struck me for several reasons. Major newspapers so
closely aligned with the government do not attempt to create panic
or fear in the public -- unless the government wants this information
to be publicly aired.
Also, a major newspaper would be reluctant to print a major
prediction for which it could be held accountable.
This Pravda article was published about the same time as another
strange event that took place in early July in the Russian State
Duma.
The Duma held a conference entitled "On the measures to provide
the development of Russian economy in the environment of
destabilization of the world financial system."
The chairman of the Duma Commission on Economic Politics, Dr.
Sergei Glazyev, headed the hearings.
Some prominent foreigners, including Lyndon Larouche from the
U.S. and Malaysian Ambassador in Russia, Yacha Baba, were
among the participants.
Tatyana Koryagina made a statement at the end of hearings - as a
Russian expert in the shadow economy, shadow politics and
conspirology.
She is a senior research fellow in the Institute of Macroeconomic
Researches subordinated to Russian Ministry of Economic
Development (Minekonom). The main theme of the Duma hearings
was the rapidly approaching economic crash of the U.S.
The hearings focused on preparing recommendations for
President Putin as to what Russia should to do to soften the
consequences of this coming catastrophe.
Pravda also detailed its own interview with Dr. Koryagina.
Here is an excerpt:
Question. All the participants at the hearings stated that
America is a huge financial pyramid, which will crash soon.
Still, it is hard to understand how this could happen in the
first and richest country of the world - without a war, without
missile or bomb strikes?
Koryagina: Besides bombs and missiles, there are other
kinds of weaponry, much more destructive ones. . . .
Question: Well, economic theory. But how it is possible for
you to give an exact date (for the U.S. crash) - August 19?
Koryagina: The U.S. is engaged in a mortal economic game.
The known history of civilization is merely the visible part of
the iceberg. There is a shadow economy, shadow politics
and also a shadow history, known to conspirologists. There
are (unseen) forces acting in the world, unstoppable for
(most powerful) countries and even continents.
Question: Just these forces intend to smash America on
August 19?
Koryagina: 'There are international, "super-state" and
"super-government" groups. In accordance with tradition,
the mystical and religious components play extremely
important roles in human history' One must take into
account the shadow economy, shadow politics and the
religious component, while predicting the development of
the present financial situation. Question. Still I don't
understand what could be done to this giant country [i.e., the
U.S.], whose budget is calculated in the trillions of dollars.
Koryagina: It is possible to do anything to the U.S. . . .whose
total debt has reached $26 trillion. Generally, the Western
economy is at the boiling point now. Shadow financial
actives of $300 trillion are hanging over the planet. At any
moment, they could fall on any stock exchange and cause
panic and crash. The recent crisis in Southeast Asia, which
touched Russia, was a rehearsal.
Question: . . .What is the sense of smashing just America?
Koryagina: The U.S. has been chosen as the object of
financial attack because the financial center of the planet is
located there. The effect will be maximal. The strike waves of
economic crisis will spread over the planet instantly, and will
remind us of the blast of a huge nuclear bomb.
Question: Did Russia's crisis of 1998 have this
religious-mystical component?
Koryagina: . . .The Russian crisis of 1998 was
preconditioned by internal factors. Yeltsin's policy enlarged
its consequences. Now we have President Putin, and this is
a good choice.
Question: What do we have to do now?
Koryagina: Recommendations, compiled by the Duma
Commission of Economic Politics after the recent Duma
hearings, offer instruction on what should be done to
escape the consequences of a world crisis inspired by a
financial catastrophe in the U.S. This document will be sent -
or has already been sent - to President Putin.
Question: What should Russian citizens do?
Koryagina: They should start changing their dollars for
rubles. President Putin and the Russian Central Bank are
already taking the necessary healthy measures. There are
high chances that after 19 August the ruble will become a
very good currency.
Question: Why 19 August and, say, not the 21st?
Koryagina: Some fluctuation in this date is possible. Serious
forces are acting against THOSE WHO ARE NOW
PREPARING THE ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES.
August, with very high probability, will bring the financial
catastrophe to the U.S. . . .The last 10 days of August have
especial importance from a religious-sensible point of view.
It is important to note this story was not an isolated one, or a cute,
human interest story as one may find occasionally on the cover of
the Wall Street Journal.
It was a serious news report, and story, discussed widely in Russia,
including on national TV programs. The thrust of the story was that
Russian officials were strongly encouraging its citizens to cash out
of the U.S. dollar.
It is also important to understand that Dr. Koryagina is one of the
leading economists in a Russian social group which, from the very
beginning, has fiercely opposed "radical economic reform" in
Russia. She is a firm supporter of President Putin.
She and her network actively support Putin, especially his foreign
policy aimed at the diminishing America's global role.
In particular, they support Putin's policy of engagement of Iran, Iraq
and other nations of concern. Dr. Koryagina herself should be
considered as an insightful, well-connected and well-informed
person.
Dr. Koryagina says much about the invisible and unstoppable
"international mystical-religious forces" preparing an attack on the
U.S.
It looks like she knows the real nature of these forces and tries to
disguise them in a "conspiratorial fog."
She is sure that such an attack or strike of some kind - sudden and
effective enough - will really take place, and will cause panic and an
ensuing crash of the U.S. financial system and the world financial
system, already unstable. However, Dr. Koryagina evidently does
not know the exact mechanism of the attack.
Duma Warned Citizens to Cash out Dollars
The hearings in the Duma, which has become a rubber stump for
President Putin, have been inspired without doubt by the Kremlin,
"taking the necessary healthy measures" in advance of a U.S.
crash and world crisis.
The Kremlin clearly is thinking how it should operate in the "new
world" after the expected U.S. crash.
It is my belief that the Kremlin provided Dr. Koryagina with a very
small part of its information on the forthcoming attack against the
U.S.
Another article on this same theme was published by Pravda on
July 17, 2001.
It was an interview with the Chairman of the Duma Commission on
Economic Politics Dr. Sergei Glazyev--indeed, one of the most
prominent Russian economists.
The article was entitled "The Dollar and the U.S. Could Fall at Any
Moment."
Dr. Glazyev, in his answers, did not mention the forces preparing
an attack on the U.S. and its financial system.
He merely discussed the forms and scales of the forthcoming
financial catastrophe in the U.S. and its consequences for Russia -
mostly, beneficial ones if the necessary measures are taken in
advance.
In particular, like Dr. Koryagina, Dr. Glazyev advised the Russian
public to change dollars for rubles and predicted that "the ruble will
become the reserve currency for Eurasia, particularly in trade with
China and India."
Third Article, More Media
Pravda published a third article on this theme on 31 July - 1 August
2001. This article was called "The Dollar and the U.S. Will Fall" and
compiled in the form of an interview with the Malaysian
Ambassador in Russia.
Other Moscow newspapers published articles of this kind also.
As a result, New York's Russian-language TV channel in early
August was forced to state that "the Moscow rumors are
ungrounded." Within a few days the public forgot all about this
story.
The tone of Moscow economists predicting the crash of the U.S.
financial-economic system is confident and somewhat delightful:
"Finally, it is going to happen!"
They are not only discussing the future, they are evidently trying to
issue a self-fulfilling prophecy transforming this future into the
present. This is because the prospects described in the above
articles are extremely attractive for the Russian elite for the
following reasons:
a) It will become possible to pay off Russia's huge foreign debts
with devalued dollars; it would be really easy enough if oil prices
jumped to $100 per barrel or more.
b) Russia would become really equal among a weakened G-8
group of nations.
c) Investment conditions in Russia would become really attractive -
in comparison to the bleak global background. Russia could
become the goal of huge foreign investment.
d) If the U.S. military might is undermined (and it might be, if the
financial system collapses), Russia will regain its control over the
former Soviet republics, spread it to the Balkans and will reacquire
its former super-empire status.
Such a prize, such a temptation for the criminal Russian "elite"!
One small push, and such great booty! While reading these
articles, it is almost possible to visualize how they are licking their
lips with excitement.
So, those in Moscow had very serious reasons not to share
information with the U.S. about the coming attack on the latter - if
they indeed had such information.
Very likely, they did, and the maximum amount of information was
concentrated in the Kremlin. According to numerous statements
published by prominent U.S. economists after the tragedy, the time
and places of the attacks were chosen--more precisely, pretty well
calculated, as if the terrorists or those backing them had tried to do
their best to undermine the U.S. financial system and political
system and to cause a financial-economic crisis in the U.S.
There is some evidence that one jet, a TWA plane at JFK Airport,
did not take off and perhaps another crash was thwarted. Was it
intended for the New York Stock Exchange?
"It wasn't a healthy economy to begin with, and this could be just
enough to push us into a mild recession and render a blow to
consumer confidence," one of these economists told the UPI.
He continued: "There has been a complete disruption of passenger
flights. Besides the airline industry, tourism, retail and the shipping
sectors will feel the negative effects of Tuesday's attack. Tougher
security measures now in place at the nation's airports will increase
shipping and travel expenses that will be passed along to the
consumer."
And the consumer confidence index, low already, declined
additionally.
However, those in Moscow very probably waited for much greater
effects.
Remarkably, immediately after the events in New York and
Washington -- at approximately 6 P.M. Moscow time -- the dollar
exchange rate in Moscow street exchanges fell from 29 rubles to
15-20 rubles--as if the Moscow financial experts had awaited the
strikes or expected greater panic and collapse.
It is important to note that such a great fluctuation in the exchange
rate happened in no other world capital. The next day, the dollar in
Moscow gradually returned to its previous exchange rate.
A network of terrorists groups -- mostly in the U.S. and Middle East
-- were merely the fingers implementing the terrorist strikes.
After all, Arab terrorists groups are supported by rogue nations
--Libya, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan.
These countries are "hands."
U.S. Needs to Look at Source
Now, if the U.S. and NATO forces carry out retaliatory strikes on
Afghanistan, the "hands" will be punished.
And where is the body, the heart of the beast?
And who provides the advanced military technology--including that
needed for "special actions"--to these nations of concern? Who
supports them in the UN? After all, who demonstrates daily the
desire to diminish or undermine America's global influence?
Moscow and Beijing. And Moscow, probably, is even more evil and
impudent. Let us think about the Moscow rulers.
Yes, of course, Putin immediately sent condolences to President
Bush and the American people.
It should be taken into account here that, in September 1999 Putin
consummately used the apartment explosions in Moscow and
Volgodonsk (KGB-organized actions, in the opinion of most of the
Russian media and in the opinion of the author) to gain supreme
power in Russia.
Now the Kremlin is making statements about a "joint struggle
against world terrorism," about "the ties between the actions in
New York and the actions in Moscow in September 1999."
Indeed, these are probably closely tied to one another, and the
same forces are remaining behind the actions in New York and in
Moscow. But what is the real name of these forces? The
investigation should go to the bottom of the barrel and provide the
proper answer.
Editor's note: NewsMax columnist, Col. Stanislav Lunev, has
warned of Russia's plans against the U.S. NewsMax has just
published his audiotape set calle "CIA Files." Click here for more
info.
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INTELLIGENT AGENCIES IN THE U.S. KNEW OF ATTACK THE DAY BEFORE
The day before terrorists struck the United States, its intelligence
agencies detected discussions between Osama bin Laden's lieutenants of an
impending "big attack," a senior administration official says.
The official said in an interview that the detection was not discovered
until days after the Sept. 11 assault on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon. The time lapse is typical of intelligence analyses, in which
computers sift through loads of that day's collection to find valuable
material.
The detection explains, the source said, why President Bush increasingly
pointed the finger of blame at bin Laden in the days following the kamikaze
attacks. The source said the discussions were between bin Laden supporters in
the United States and senior members of bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist
organization.
As the U.S. military buildup continued yesterday in preparation for air
strikes on bin Laden's adopted home of Afghanistan, the Bush administration
has brought on board significant allies in its campaign against global
terrorism.
Military sources said Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, two former Soviet
republics on Afghanistan's northern border, have agreed secretly to allow
American special-operations troops to launch raids from their soil.
The U.S. Air Force is now operating Predator unmanned reconnaissance
planes in the region. The RQ-1 Predator relays instantaneous images via a
satellite link. It is being used over Afghanistan to locate military targets
and possible bin Laden hide-outs.
Bush spoke to Uzbek President Islam A. Karimov on Wednesday in the
administration's drive to build an international coalition against terrorism.
The two Central Asian countries have a strong motive for helping the
United States dislodge the Taliban from power. The extremist Islamic rulers
of Afghanistan reportedly have tried to spur a militant Muslim uprising in
both neighboring states.
Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan on the south and east, has agreed to
let American warplanes use its airspace. This means fighter-bombers on Navy
carriers in the Arabian Sea would have a direct route to targets in
Afghanistan.
The Predator flies up to 140 mph and below 25,000 feet. Several were
shot down during NATO's air assaults on Yugoslavia in 1999. This summer, a
Predator failed to return from a spy mission over southern Iraq amid
Baghdad's claims it had downed an American plane. A Pentagon official said at the
time that, "The whole idea is to use them in high-risk areas. If you lose it, you don't
lose a pilot."
Officials also said that around Sept. 11, Afghanistan ordered the
scattering of heavy military weapons, such as MiG jet fighters and tanks.
"They are not where they used to be," said an official. "They moved them up
into the hills."
The Pentagon yesterday continued to direct what could be the largest
deployment of weapons to the Persian Gulf region area since the 1991 war with
Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has signed deployment orders for
about 150 Air Force aircraft. The package includes heavy B-52 and B-1
bombers, F-15, F-16 and F-117 fighters, aerial refuelers, E-3 AWACs
radar-surveillance aircraft and cargo planes.
The Pentagon will not say where the planes will be based. Most will
likely go to airfields in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, where American
warplanes are stationed year-round. Some may launch their bombing runs from
Central Asian countries. Two Navy carriers, the Carl Vinson and Enterprise,
are in the region. Two others, the Theodore Roosevelt and Kitty Hawk, have
been deployed and may join the other two in waters near Afghanistan.
The Army is also moving ground troops in the form of special-operations
soldiers. These will include elite Rangers, Green Berets and Delta Force
commandos.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is starting to spend some of the billions of
dollars in emergency funds approved by Congress. On the shopping list: new
stocks of precision-guided munitions and improved surveillance equipment.
Together, the systems would be used to locate and kill suspected terrorists.
The deployment is adding up to a combined air-special operations war
against the Taliban and bin Laden's terrorist network. The only way the
Taliban militia seems able to defuse an attack at this point is to meet Mr.
Bush's demands to turn over bin Laden and other terrorists. The Taliban
yesterday rejected the president's demands.
The U.S. alliance with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan means that a decade of
forging military-to-military contacts with the Central Asian nations has paid
off for Washington. In 1995, Uzbekistan and the United States signed an
agreement to conduct joint military exercises. The former Soviet republic
has hosted Army commandos who advised the country's 80,000-strong armed
forces. In 1999, 16 Uzbek officers from the 65th Special Operations Battalion
visited Fort Campbell, Ky., and Fort Bragg, N.C., home of U.S. Army Special
Operations Command.
The Uzbeks received instruction about close-quarter battle, sniper fire,
mountaineering, water operations, paratroop jumps, and using the 9 mm pistol.
Military sources say no final battle plan has been approved. But the
ongoing deployments signal the Pentagon plans to infiltrate Afghanistan with
special-operations soldiers. Working in small teams and armed with the latest
intelligence, the commandos would try to take down the Taliban militia of
about 30,000 one fighter at a time. Backed by air strikes, the U.S. soldiers would
also seek and destroy bin Laden encampments, with the hope of encountering the
prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks that killed over 6,500 people, most of them
civilians. "We'll make it so he can't spend the night in the same place twice,"
said one official.
Unlike the Soviet Union, which spent the 1980s trying to occupy
Afghanistan and then retreated in disgrace, the United States will strike,
then move back to base, officials said. And, unlike the Russians, the
American troops will be backed by advanced surveillance equipment that can
find pockets of Taliban militia. The U.S. Army commandos have another
advantage: they train, and are equipped, to fight at night. "Night is day to us,"
said a military source. "And night is night to everyone else."
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