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 scenes is her obscure husband…
a veteran propaganda expert and former special assistant to the director of the C.I.A.

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.

Citizen X reveals 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 (openly) being employed by the U.S. government:
that being
the seizure of mainstream media outlets to promote the governments version of events.

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 Goehring.

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.

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,
reports 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.”

citizen x says: “hey.. at least they published the letter..right?”