This article is in two parts. The first part ‘THE SCOPE OF KNOWN INSIDER TRADING’ gives extensive evidence of pre-attack insider trading, particular huge surges in the purchases of put options on stocks that would plummet after the attack. The second part ‘CIA, THE BANKS AND THE BROKER’ gives brief resumes of a handful of key players in the history of the CIA. Ruppert ties the CIA to the insider trading in part through A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard – current Executive Director of the CIA and former chairman of the company used to place put options on UAL: the investment bank A.B. Brown