Who owned the Twin Towers?

I want to know who founded the Twin Towers, because that would be the person who OWNED the Twin Towers right? Silverstein leased the towers from the owner right? So who is this person that we never hear about?

I am trying to figure out if 9-11 was a conspiracy, so I am starting at ground zero.

Who was in charge of security at the trade towers in the months leading up to 9-11 and the day of?

I am looking for figures that also have a hand in politics, military, the federal reserve, national security.

Thanks

The first place to look would be the "Port Authority of New York and New Jersey".

They hired the architect, the engineer, oversaw construction, and had control of the property until just a few months before the attack.

Welcome to the rabbit hole.

I'm not going to do all your research for you but I can tell you that Marvin Bush was involved with WTC security.

Marvin P. Bush, the president’s younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport. The company, Burns noted, was backed by KuwAm, a Kuwaiti-American investment firm on whose board Marvin Burns also served. [Utne] According to its present CEO, Barry McDaniel, the company had an ongoing contract to handle security at the World Trade Center "up to the day the buildings fell down." The company lists as government clients "the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S Air force, and the Department of Justice," in projects that "often require state-of-the-art security solutions for classified or high-risk government sites."

whatreallyhappened.com...

reply to post by WarloriousCreed


The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are the owners.

"Security" is a mixed bag. Depends on exactly what and where you mean. Generally, again, it was the Port Authority, sometimes refered to as PATH.

The WTC site was owned by THE PORT AUTHORITY OF NY AND NJ - a bi-state agency of NY & NJ which owns the regions airports, bridges and
tunnels between NY - NJ .

www.panynj.gov...

The best reference is book "CITY IN THE SKY: Rise and Fall of the World
Trade Center" by New York Times reporters Eric Lipton and Jamie Glanz

Goes into detail over the the contruction of the World Trade Center.

Port Authority has its own police force (I personally know some of them) which is resposible for security at Port Authority property

37 of them died in the building along with 47 other Port Authority personnel in the towers



There were some private security guards working for the Port Authorithy
doing check-ins at lobby and doing security at elevator sky lobbies

Several of them died at their posts helping people to escape

Esmerlin Salcedo, a 36-year-old World Trade Center security officer from the Dominican Republic and a father of four, rushed back into the WTC to save others and didn't make it out himself.

'I heard a big thump – like a construction grate hitting the ground,' said Gabriel Torres, a 29-year-old security person at the World Trade Center. 'All of the sudden, people were running all over. They told us a plane hit one of the towers.'

Francisco Cruz

On the day of the attack, Mr. Cruz was sent to 5 World Trade Center after the second hijacked plane slammed into Tower 2. He and a team of security guards were escorting firefighters through the structure to aid the evacuation.

"The security guards knew the ins and outs of the building," said Ms. Cruz. During the evacuation, Mr. Cruz telephoned his office manager, who was on a below-ground level of Tower 2, and instructed those still in the office to leave the building before it collapsed, Ms. Cruz said.

I know it is a Jewish man (Larry Silverstein) who had been Leasing them for some time and had them heavily insured just a few months before they were brought down.

Lewis Eisenberg Chairman of the New York Port Authority leased the WTC buildings for 99 years to Larry Silverstein, which built World Trade Center Building 7 in 1985 as a US government building, housing the Office of Emergency Management (OEM), Secret Service, CIA, and Security & Exchange Commission (SEC).

I have more info for you in my 'reference section' archival, I'll get back here and post it shortly...



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reply to post by GhostR1der


Ah the old Bush-did-it-and-his-brother-was-head-of-security-at-WTC
drivel

Marvin Bush was on the BOARD OF DIRECTORS for a time Before 9/11

The Board of Directors oversees the managers of a company (in theory)
and his no direct ivolvement in activities

www.911myths.com...

Debunks the usual truther crap...

Just because most companys the bored of directors has very little if anything to do with running company doesnt mean its ture in every case does it. So do you know the day to day runnings of this company? Or is it just a guess that he could have no part in anything that goes on in that security firm?

Originally posted by WarloriousCreed
I want to know who founded the Twin Towers, because that would be the person who OWNED the Twin Towers right?

The powerful people who originally lobbied for the WTC complex and the Twin Towers to be built didn't own them but relinquished ownership to the corrupt Port Authority (which had basically no oversight for years, all the way through and after 9/11, even according to NY and NJ politicians who finally introduced legislation to change that in more recent years).


The people who originally lobbied for the towers, so much that it was actually considered to name the Twin Towers after the two of them, were a prominent banker, and the governor of NY at the time.


Who were those two people?


David and Nelson Rockefeller.

The original idea for a world trade center in New York is generally credited to David Rockefeller, one of industrialist John D. Rockefeller's many grandsons. In fact, the idea was proposed soon after World War II, a decade before Rockefeller ever got involved, but he was the one who actually got the ball rolling. ...

With the help of his brother, Nelson Rockefeller, the governor of New York state at the time, David Rockefeller got The Port of New York Authority involved. The Port of New York Authority, now known as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is a government institution that heads up public projects in the New York and New Jersey port area. While the Port Authority is a public organization, it functions like a private corporation -- it charges its "customers" directly and profits from investments, rather than taking tax money.

www.howstuffworks.com...


David Rockefeller is a member of the Bilderbergs (as was his father, who introduced him to the organization), a senior member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the founder of the Trilateral Commission.


One last comment about David Rockefeller, though there is tons of "dirt" on him anyway:

In 2002 Rockefeller authored his autobiography “Memoirs” wherein, on page 405," Mr. Rockefeller writes: “For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

en.wikipedia.org...



Good question though OP.

I'm sure you're not the only person here unaware of this fact. You should also do digging into the Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Trilateral Commission if you're interested in influential people behind closed doors.

Check out the name

Larry Silverstein.

He basically collected all the insurance money.
(Insured 2 monthes prior to 911, with specific insurance for terrorist attacks lol)

Originally posted by thedman

Marvin Bush was on the BOARD OF DIRECTORS for a time Before 9/11

The Board of Directors oversees the managers of a company (in theory)
and his no direct ivolvement in activities

www.911myths.com...

Debunks the usual truther crap...

Gonna break your arm, patting yourself on the back.

You have de-bunked ...NADA

Somehow , I just can't see the Board of Directors ending their meeting , and donning overalls and jumping on top of the elevators, lol

OS people are naive.

It's called influence my friend.

Bush , Marvin and his cousin , were all over the security of those buildings,knew the people and held INFLUENCE.

S@F

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Originally posted by freebourn

Check out the name

Larry Silverstein.

He basically collected all the insurance money.
(Insured 2 monthes prior to 911, with specific insurance for terrorist attacks lol)

The insurance policy was intitiated a few months before 9/11 because that is when the lease to Silverstein was intitiated. The policy included terrorist attacks because the towers were the object of a terrorist attack in 1993. LOL

reply to post by freebourn

He basically collected all the insurance money.
(Insured 2 monthes prior to 911, with specific insurance for terrorist attacks lol)
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Reason bought insurance, which included protection against terrorism, was that the investors financing the deal REQUIRED him to buy insurance to
protect their invesment.

Does the 1993 terrorist bombing of WTC mean anything?

Silverstein originally wanted to buy LESS insurance than investors wanted

In 2001, Larry Silverstein signed a lease for the World Trade Center, together with partner investors including Westfield America (shopping center developer), GMAC Commercial Mortgage (subsidary of General Motors), and Lloyd Goldman (private investor and former owner of the Chrysler Building).[3]

GMAC agreed to lend $833 million to Silverstein, which were to be financed through mortgage-backed securities that are often bought by pension plans and institutional investors. Westfield America borrowed $100 million from UBS Warburg, to help finance its share of the World Trade Center lease.[3]

Wall Street Journal, 9/11/2008] The Port Authority had carried only $1.5 billion in insurance coverage on all its buildings, including the WTC, but Silverstein’s lenders insist on more, eventually demanding $3.55 billion in cover

Here are some of the costs incurred:

$700 million - to build the new 7 World Trade Center
$504 million to finish the interior spaces of 7 World Trade Center [12 million (per floor) * 42 leasable floors]
$1.4 billion to restore the adjacent Verizon Building, which was damaged by the collapse of WTC7

Does Gold or Silver get 'lost' in a fire?

The Comex metals trading division of the New York Mercantile Exchange in the WTC buildings kept 3,800 gold bars - weighing 12 tonnes and worth more than $100 million in vaults in the building's basement.

Comex also held almost 800,000 ounces of gold there on behalf of others (with a value of about $560,000,000). It also held more than 102 million ounces of silver (worth about $1.5 billion).

The Bank of Nova Scotia, which kept gold in the Comex vault, reported $200 million of gold lost on 9/11. Comex also held undisclosed amounts of precious metals for Chase Manhattan Bank, the Bank of New York and Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking.