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>This also happened on 9/11, where bets were placed against the stocks of major airline companies American and United a day before the attack. An investigation showed that in both cases a single entity and a well placed insider newsletter tipped off investors to miraculously bet against the top two airlines in USA, who took a major hit after the hijackings.
Crossing the Rubicon
9/11 INSIDER TRADING, OR: “YOU DIDN’T REALLY SEE THAT, EVEN THOUGH WE SAW IT”
Sources tell CBS News that the afternoon before the attack, alarm bells were sounding over unusual trading in the US stock options market
CBS News, September 19, 2001
‘This could very well be insider trading at the worst, most horrific, most evil use you’ve ever seen in your entire life…. It’s absolutely unprecedented to see cases of insider trading covering the entire world from Japan to the United States to North America to Europe.’
Dylan Ratigan of Bloomberg News, ABC World News
Tonight, September 20, 2001
A jump in UAL put options 90 times (not 90 percent) above normal between September 6 and September 10, and 285 times higher than average on the Thursday before the attack.
CBS News, September 26
A jump in American Airlines put options 60 times (not 60 percent) above normal on the day before the attacks.
CBS News, September 26
No similar trading occurred on any other airlines.
Bloomberg Business Report; the Institute for Counterterrorism
pg 238/9
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/F6/F693879994199D612C64EE9A4666E8EE_Crossing_The_Rubicon_Part_1.pdf