March 13th, 1962 |
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Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff,
presents a proposal to secretary of defense
Robert McNamara, Named
Operation Northwoods.
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The document proposed staging terrorist attacks in and around Guantanamo Bay, to provide a pretext for military intervention in Cuba. |
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| December 1st, 1984 | |
A remote-controlled Boeing 720 takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, and is crash landed by NASA for fuel research. |
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| August, 1997 | |
The cover of FEMA’s “Emergency Response to Terrorism” depicts the World Trade Center in crosshairs. |
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| September, 2000 | |
The Project for a New American Century, a neo-conservative think tank whose members include Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush and Paul Wolfowitz, releases their report entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.” In it, they declare that “the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.” (Page 50-51) |
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| October 24th, 2000 | |
The
Pentagon conducts the first of two training exercises called
MASCAL, which simulates a Boeing 757 crashing into the building.
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Charles Burlingame,
an ex-Navy F4 pilot who worked in the Pentagon, participates in this
exercise before retiring to take a job at American Airlines, where, less
than a year later,
his Boeing 757 allegedly crashes into the building. |
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| July 24th, 2001 | |
Larry A. Silverstein, who already owned World Trade Center 7, signs a $3.2 billion dollar, 99-year lease on the entire World Trade Center complex, six weeks before 9-11. |
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| September 6th, 2001 | |
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A put option is a bet that a stock will fall. That day, the put options were more than four times its daily average. |
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Bomb sniffing dogs
are pulled from the World Trade Center, and security guards end two-weeks of 12 hour shifts. |
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| September 7th, 2001 | |
27,294 put options are placed on
Boeing’s stock, more than five times the daily average. |
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September 10th, 2001 |
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4,516 put options are placed on American Airlines, almost 11 times its daily average. |
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Newsweek reports that a number of top Pentagon brass cancel their flight plans for the next morning. |
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San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a phone call warning him not to fly the next morning. Pacifica Radio later reveals that this phone call came directly from National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice. |
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| September 11th, 2001 | |
The National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, VA, is
preparing for a exercise in which a small corporate jet crashes into their building. |
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NORAD is in the middle of a number of military exercises.
The first, “Vigilant Guardian”, is described as “an exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to North American Air Defense outposts nationwide”, and “an air defense exercise simulating an attack on the United States.” The second, “Northern Vigilance”, moved fighter jets to Canada and Alaska to fight off an imaginary Russian fleet. |
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Three F-16s from Washington D.C.’s National Guard at Andrews Air Force Base, 15 miles from the Pentagon,
are flown 180 nautical miles away for a training mission in North Carolina. |
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This left 14 fighter jets to
protect the entire United States. |
from Loose Change 2nd Edition |
