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To: lurqer who wrote (41758)	4/8/2004 6:47:17 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (4) of 89467

investorshub.com 'The Coup Attempt of 1934'" In observation of the 70th Anniversary of the event, this program recounts the 1935 fascist coup attempt in the United States. Appalled at President Roosevelt's New Deal, powerful industrialists and financiers grouped around the Morgan industrial and financial interests attempted to recruit World War I veterans into an army of insurrection. The goal of the conspirators was the overthrow of the American Democracy and the institution of a fascist government. Because they selected Marine Corps General Smedly Butler to lead the coup, the attempt was foiled. Although a critic of Roosevelt, Butler, (a two time winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor) betrayed the coup plotters to the President. Following a badly attenuated Congressional investigation by the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, the matter was laid to rest. It is worth noting that proof of the plot was concrete and well-documented, but none of the plotters was imprisoned, because the conpirators were among the most powerful and prestigious industrial and financial magnates in the country. Program highlights include: The role of General Douglas MacArthur in the conspiratorial process leading up to the coup attempt; MacArthur's relationship to the House of Morgan; the role of the Du Ponts in the coup preparations; Remington Arms' agreement to provide weapons to the conspirators; the sympathy of key General Motors executives for the coup attempt; the profound sympathy on the part of the conspirators for Hitler and Mussolini; the critical aid given by the coup plotters' associated business interests to the Third Reich; the domestic fascist organizations organized and financed by some of the conspirators and the businesses that they ran; the mainstream press cover-up of the story and its significance.

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