The high-minded man must care more for truth...

...than for what people think. - Aristotle, Ethics

Analysis Based on Rumors
And the devils behind the details

By J.R. Nyquist

On June 29, 2001, a senior economist at the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Tatyana Koryagina, predicted that a financial crash would occur in the United States on or after August 19, 2001. She made her prediction before a legislative hearing “on measures to ensure the development of the Russian economy under conditions of a destabilization of the world financial system.”

Koryagina cited no documents, evidence, witnesses or authorities. “My forecast is that major events will unfold,” she explained. “I have provisionally called this scenario ‘Tidal Wave XXI,’ where XXI denotes the new century, in Roman numerals.” According to Koryagina, “The main blow will be inflicted on the United States of America.” She also stated: “It will be like the explosion of the universe. And it will spread throughout all continents. Many governments will be swept away. The monetary and financial system of the world will change.” She added that those “who have a lot of money will use their greenbacks [U.S. dollars] to wallpaper the bathroom, where they’ll be able to admire the portrait of a past President of the U.S.A.”

In a July 17, 2001 interview with Pravda, Koryagina was asked how “the first and richest country in the world” [the U.S.A.] could suffer a financial crash? She replied that the U.S. was “engaged in a mortal economic game.” She then referred to “shadow politics” and unseen “forces acting in the world.” Pravda asked if these hidden forces intended to smash America on Aug. 19. Koryagina answered: “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….”

When asked about the anticipated date of Aug. 19, 2001 she admitted: “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 special importance from a religious-sensible point of view.” (This was never explained.)

The Pravda interviewer was baffled by Koryagina’s vague explanations. “I don’t understand what could be done to this giant country [the U.S.],” he insisted, “whose budget is calculated in the trillions of dollars.” Koryagina stuck to her formula. “The U.S. has been chosen as the object of financial attack because the financial center of the planet is located there,” she explained. “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.” Asked what Russian citizens should do, she said: “They should start changing their dollars for rubles. President Putin and the Russian Central Bank are already taking the necessary healthy measures.”

Here we see the entire train of Koryagina’s “analysis.” As noted previously, she cited no documents, evidence, witnesses or authorities. Yet, the Kremlin and the Russian Central Bank were already acting on the belief that something nasty was about to happen to the U.S. dollar. As we all know, a few weeks after Koryagina’s warnings, Mohammed Atta’s murderous band crashed airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing thousands of Americans and destroying more than $80 billion in property. 

 What should we conclude from all this?

President Putin and the Russian Central Bank were acting as though the dollar might collapse sometime after Aug. 19, 2001. That is exactly what Koryagina told Pravda. And this, I believe was the basis for her June 29, 2001 testimony before the State Duma. Her analysis was based on rumors within the Russian government.

Please note: Tatyana Koryagina was not the only witness to appear before the Duma on June 29, 2001. The political agitator Lyndon LaRouche also spoke that day. “The U.S.A.,” he told the Russians, “is presently bankrupt, and under any continuation of the Bush Administration’s policies, hopelessly bankrupt. In the meantime, the movement toward cooperation within continental Eurasia, already represents the cornerstone for the kind of cooperation needed to rescue … much of the world from the presently onrushing global financial, monetary and trade crisis.”

On November 25, 2001, Alexandr Nemets and Dr. Thomas Torda wrote a column for Newsmax titled “Influential Russian Says ‘Clock Ticking’ for Next Attack.” The authors refer to Geidar Dzhemal, chairman of Russia’s Islamic Committee and active member of something called “the Eurasia movement” (promoted by Putin strategist, Gleb Pavlovsky). Dzhemal said that 9/11 was the work of a “sect … whose members are blindly obedient to its leaders.” He said that the 9/11 strike was prepared “several years” in advance by high-level specialists from the secret services of an “already non-existent state.” This reminds me of something told to French Journalist Anne Navat by a Russian FSB (KGB) officer, and recorded on page 220 of her book, Chienne de Guerre: “We are supposed to serve a state that no longer exists,” said the FSB officer. “We can’t relate to any head of the government, not even Putin, who has yet to prove himself. He has a certain weight, sure, but there must be someone else behind him pulling the strings.”

Think about this for a moment. What does it mean to serve a state that no longer exists? Here is a riddle. Dzhemal hinted that “former” East Bloc specialists planned and guided the actions of Mohammed Atta on 9/11. Alluding to World War III he stated: “A scheme has been launched that is similar to an alarm clock or a torpedo.” Various attacks will be carried out against the United States, but different groups will be involved. 

A war is being prepared against America. The preparation is clandestine, involving diversionary terrorist forces directed by security services working for states that "no longer exist."  

In 1987 John Lenczowski, a specialist in President Reagan's National Security Council, listed the main themes of Soviet deception. Lenczowski stated: "Soviet strategic deception succeeds ... because of our tendencies to deceive ourselves. Thus, the best Soviet strategic deception efforts are geared toward exploiting existing Western tendencies of thought." He further stated that the "principle theme of Soviet strategic deception is to convince the West that the Soviet Union is not communist any more. There are two basic objectives that underlie this theme. The first is to encourage us to believe that Soviet global objectives are no longer ... defined by the very nature of the communist system. Instead, the Soviets would like us to believe that they are a traditional, imperial, great power."

As one devil wrote to another in C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters: "I do not think you will have much difficulty in keeping the patient in the dark. The fact that 'devils' are predominantly comic figures in the modern imagination will help you. If any faint suspicion of your existence begins to arise in his mind, suggest to him a picture of something in red tights, and persuade him that since he cannot believe in that (it is an old text book method of confusing them) he therefore cannot believe in you."

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