The Hidden Hand Of The CIA, 911 And Popular Mechanics

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The Hidden Hand Of The CIA, 911 And Popular Mechanics

 

 

 

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The Hidden Hand Of The CIA,

911 And Popular Mechanics

By Christopher Bollyn

Exclusive to American Free Press

3-19-5

 

A brutal purge of the senior staff at Popular Mechanics preceded the

publication of last month's scandalous propaganda piece about 9/11.

 

Pulling the strings is the grand dame of Hearst Magazines and behind

the scene is her obscure husband a veteran propaganda expert and

former special assistant to the director of the C.I.A.

 

The Reichstag fire, a key event in German history, and the steps that

followed en suite leading to the Nazi dictatorship of Adolf Hitler,

provide remarkable precedents for what occurred in the United States

on 9/11 and since.

 

The fire that consumed the German parliament building on the night of

February 27, 1933, is widely believed, according to Encyclopedia

Britannica, to have been contrived by the newly formed Nazi government

to turn public opinion against its opponents and allow it to assume

emergency powers.

 

The day after the burning of the Reichstag, the government headed by

Adolf Hitler enacted a decree for the Protection of the People and the

State. Hitlers emergency decree dispensed with all constitutional

protection of political, personal, and property rights.

 

Likewise, a month after 9/11 the U.S. Congress passed, without even

reading, similar emergency legislation: the Bush administrations USA

PATRIOT Act of 2001. The pre-prepared massive security act's long

title is " Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate

Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. "

 

Within a month of the Reichstag fire, on March 23, 1933, the

parliament passed the Enabling Act, whereby its legislative powers

were transferred to Hitler's Reich Cabinet. This act, passed by a vote

of 444 to 94, legally sanctioned the Nazi dictatorship,

 

Another parallel is seen in the way George W. Bush and Hitler came to

power. Bush obtained the presidency in 2001 through a Supreme Court

decision after a flawed and un-counted election, while Hitler secured

the German chancellorship through elections in November 1932 in which

the Nazi Party failed to win an outright majority.

 

Hitlers propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, is thought to have let

arsonists into the parliament building through a tunnel leading from

the official residence of Hermann Gvring, Reichstag president and

Hitler's chief minister.

 

Gvring then presided over the official investigation, which blamed the

communists. In a similar manner, the Bush administration openly

opposed an independent investigation of 9/11 and fixed blame on Osama

Bin Laden and 19 Arab terrorists. Based on this official, but

unproven, explanation for 9/11 the United States has invaded and

occupied two Middle Eastern nations.

 

" DISINFORMATION AND DECEPTION " " Ninety-five percent of the work of

intelligence agencies around the world is disinformation and

deception, " Andreas von B|low, former parliamentary official

responsible for the budget for Germany's intelligence agencies, told

American Free Press in December 2001.

 

Like Nazi Germany of 1933, American newsstands today carry a

mainstream magazine dedicated to pushing the government's truth of

9/11 while viciously smearing independent researchers as extremists

who peddle fantasies and make poisonous claims.

 

The magazine pushing the government's 9/11 propaganda, Popular

Mechanics (PM), is published by the Hearst family. Its March cover

story, Debunking 9/11 Lies, has been exposed by credible researchers

to contain numerous distortions and flawed conclusions.

 

American Free Press revealed that Benjamin Chertoff, the 25-year-old

senior researcher who authored the 9/11 article, is related to Michael

Chertoff, the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

 

The PM article illustrates how a propaganda method, used by

dictatorships, is now being employed by the U.S. government:

controlling mainstream media outlets to promote its version of 9/11.

 

The actions of Michael Chertoff concerning the events of 9/11, the

non-investigation that followed, the USA PATRIOT Act, and the

propaganda being disseminated in PM, are strikingly similar to actions

attributed to the Nazi ministers Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Gvring.

 

While Chertoff is the czar of DHS, he is not sovereign at PM or Hearst

Magazines, its corporate parent. The president of Hearst Magazines,

one of the world's largest publishers of monthly magazines with 18

U.S. titles and more than 100 international editions, is Cathleen P.

Black, a 60-year old native of Chicago.

 

Black oversees the publication of 175 titles around the world

including Cosmopolitan, Harpers Bazaar, Town & Country, Esquire, Good

Housekeeping, and Popular Mechanics. Black is a former president and

publisher of USA Today. In 1983, Black was made president of the new

newspaper published by Gannett. The following year she was made

publisher and soon became a member of Gannetts board of directors.

 

Despite her efforts, her biography reads, USA Today did not show an

operating profit in the eight years that Black was there. The

newspaper's non-profitability notwithstanding, Gannett paid Black

$600,000 a year for her efforts. USA Today reportedly had a

circulation of 1.8 million when Black left in 1991. USA Today is often

given away free of charge.

 

Black left USA Today to become president and chief executive of the

nascent Newspaper Association of America (NAA), formed on June 1,

1992. She then became the leading spokesperson and lobbyist for the

nation's newspaper industry. Black's position at the NAA carried

" considerable political heft, "

 

Paul Farhi of The Washington Post wrote, " given that the 1,400 members

of her organization control the nations editorial pages. In 1995,

for an annual salary reported to be " in excess of $1 million, " Black

was hired by Hearst Corp. to head its magazine division.

 

Named by Fortune magazine as one of the Most Powerful Women in

American Business, Black sits on the boards of Hearst Corp., the

Advertising Council, IBM, and Coca-Cola. She is also a member of the

Council on Foreign Relations. It is often said that USA Today is

controlled by the CIA, which, like the paper, is based in McLean,

Virginia. The little-known fact that Black is married to Thomas E.

Harvey, an obscure lawyer who became a White House Fellow in 1977 and

served as special assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence

(DCI), provides substance to these rumors. Black's corporate biography

does not mention her husband.

 

President Jimmy Carter made Harvey a White House Fellow in May 1977.

" In that capacity, " Harvey's biography reads, he " served as special

assistant to the Director of the C.I.A. Following that he held senior

appointed positions within the Department of Defense. "

 

The DCI at the time was Stansfield Turner, who had replaced George

H.W. Bush. Prior to serving the CIA, Harvey worked at the New York

law office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. The international law

firm, co-founded by Morris Hadley, a 1916 member of Yale University's

secret society Skull & Bones, has ties to the CIA and lists William H.

Webster, DCI from 1987-1991, as a senior partner. Webster also serves

on the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

 

In the 1980s, Harvey served as General Counsel and Congressional

Liaison of the U.S. Information Agency, the former external propaganda

arm of the U.S. government. Harvey also served as Deputy Assistant

Secretary for the Army and Navy. In 1992, Harvey was personnel

director for the Bush-Quayle 92 Campaign. Calls to the offices of

Black and Harvey for the purpose of this article went unanswered.

 

THE COUP AT POPULAR MECHANICS In the months leading up to the

Chertoff article in PM, a brutal take-over occurred at the magazine.

In September 2004, Joe Oldham, the magazines former editor-in-chief

was replaced by James B. Meigs, who came to PM with a deputy, Jerry

Beilinson, from National Geographic Adventure. In October, a new

creative director replaced PMs 21-year veteran who was given ninety

minutes to clear out of his office.

 

A former senior editor at PM, who is forbidden from openly discussing

the coup at PM, told AFP that the former creative director was

abruptly told to leave and given severance pay of two weeks wages for

every year spent at PM. Three or four people have been similarly

dismissed every month since, he said. He said he was astounded that

the coup at PM had not been reported in the mainstream media.

 

PM has long been a supporter of the U.S. military. The magazine ran a

full page ad in support of the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan in May

2003.

 

Since the purge last September, however, PM readers have noticed that

government propaganda has replaced scientific writing. A letter to the

editor in the current issue says, I think you guys are just another

tool in the governments propaganda machine. Finis