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Reprinted from NewsMax

Expert: Russia Knew in Advance, Encouraged Citizens to Cash Out Dollars 

     Dr. Alexandr 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, dicussed 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 particularly, 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 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. 


Dr.  Nemets is a consultant to Science Applications International Corp. 
(SAIC) and American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC).  An expert in
Chinese-Russian strategic-military alliance development, he has spent
the last several years researching Chinese and Russian economic and
military issues.  Dr.  Nemets worked from 1986-92 at the Presidium of
Russian Academy of Sciences.  He immigrated to the United States in
December 1994. 


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