Financial Event
The U.S. is caught manipulating European and American stock markets; a worldwide financial meltdown results from the news being made public.
As part of the Plan, the heads of the CIA had been covertly selling black market U.S. arms for money; first, to support the rebels under their control, but soon to finance speculative investments that would directly enrich the members of the cabal. Unable to go to Congress for support, they "laundered" the money through a series of holding companies buying stocks on the European and Asian Exchanges. This aroused the suspicions of the European Union, which after several years of careful investigation by Interpol (the EU's equivalent of the FBI) formally charged the government of the U.S. with stock manipulation and money laundering. This led to the World Stock Market Crash of ‘94, a worldwide financial meltdown resulting from the news going public.