A key event in the
History of Corporate Crime, the book "The Plot to Seize the White House." This book has achieved the "rare" book status. Rumor has it that copies are being bought up to erase its existence, ending its stain on reputations on rich families with embarrasing ancestery. In any case, readers will only find it in a few libraries. (Excerpts with link for purchase of the book within this post)
A recent book:
The Corporation :
The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, by
Joel Bakan , ISBN: 0743247442, has a concise synopis of the facts presented in chapter 4. Before reading this book, one should read
The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us, by Martha Stout, ISBN: 076791581X. All of history needs to be interpreted through the understanding of sociopathy.
The Plot To Seize The White House contains a few primary sources, and records links to many other primary sources, which is its archival value. The details of
the Plot itself are told here, and can be retold endlessly by others who care about this event. The story in brief is
General Smedley Butler was approached to lead a
coup d'etat to overthrow democracy in 1933 & 1934. (Reminding modern readers, 1933 was the year
Hitler assumed power in Germany.) He declined, and exposed the plot. The plotters then employed the
"OJ Simpson" theory of defense:
"if you have enough money you can get away with murder." Nobody was ever prosecuted. Important men were never arrested or grilled over facts. The newspaper sensation created by an impotent congressional investigation in 1934 and 1935 died down and the story collected dust, forgotten ever since. However, the story fits into some others, including other suppressed and buried history. In telling the story of
the Plot, Jules Archer tells also the biography of
General Smedley Butler who declined to become the
American Hitler or
Mussolini, over a fascist takeover of the
US. There are two books in one, woven together around this
Plot.
Smedley Butler's biography shows him in
Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1914, simultaneously when armed men, government troopers, were killing
American men, women and children in
Ludlow, Colorado. Also, at this same moment in time, early 1914,
Rockefellers were taking over the
Remington Arms Company. For details of the
Ludlow Massacre you need to read two books:
Buried Unsung:
Louis Tikas and the
Ludlow Massacre, by Zeese Papanikolas, ISBN: 0803287275, and
The Great Coalfield War, by
George S McGovern, ISBN: 0395136490.
Remington Arms Co. history is documented in the book:
Remington Arms in American history, by
Alden Hatch, ASIN: B0007DYPC4. These details are not important only to
The Plot To Seize The White House, but central to unravelling the
Hitler Project. Yet two more books are required to place everything in order:
Hitler's Secret Backers, by
Sidney Warburg, ISBN: 0960035869, and
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, by Antony C. Sutton, ISBN: 0945001533.
From these books a timeline can be constructed:
1929 Wall Street interests send
Hitler $10,000,000.
1931 Wall Street sends Hiltler another $15,000,000. 1933 Wall Street Sends
Hitler a final $7,000,000. (total $32,000,000.)
1933 Wall Street puts up initial $3,000,000, backed by another reserve $15,000,000, for
the Plot to Seize the White House. Up to $300,000,000 backing is promised.
...Believable?
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and
the Rise of Modern Finance, by
Ron Chernow, ISBN: 0802138292, reports that
JP Morgan was Mussolini's banker for over $500,000,000 and heavily invested in
fascist Japan by 1931.
JP Morgan has over $3 BILLION invested in
Germany by 1931.
A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of the Law Firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, by Nancy Lisagor, Frank Ipsivs, ISBN: 0688048889, reports that
John Foster Dulles and S&C law firm have $1.15 BILLION invested in
Germany by 1931. Titan :
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., by Ron Chernow, ISBN: 0679757031, reveals
the Rockefeller "method" of business, including secret takeovers, bribed officials, blatant lawbreaking, industrial spying, and philosophy "the weakest must die first". Yes,
Wall Street was behind
Hitler and Mussolini, without any doubt. All the plotter named in
Archer's book, named by Smedley Butler to congress, were fascist supporters.
Rockefellers were at war with the weak, using soldiers to kill. In 1927
Smedley's marines landed in
China at the (
Rockefeller's) Standard Oil docks, were stationed on S.O. property and protected S.O. investments. In 1914
Rockefellers and
Morgans used
Butler in
Vera Cruz to kill peons in
Mexico, just as
Rockefeller-directed government troopers gunned down
Americans at
Ludlow, Colorado, at the same moment that
Rockefeller-controlled
Remington Arms was expanding arms production even before the
Duke was shot starting
WWI. Using government troopers to quell democracy was a tradition by 1933, and fascist investments in
German continued past
Pearl Harbor. See:
Trading with the enemy: An exposé of the Nazi-American money plot, 1933-1949, by Charles Higham, ISBN: 0440090644, and
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, by Kevin Phillips, ISBN: 0670032646. This book stands alone as a mystery story, a spy story, a thriller, a history, a biography of a patriot, a record of government corruption. It also fits in with a great body of literature with pieces of information telling bits of the
history of sociopathy that killed over 200,000,000 people last century.
...
EXCERPTED From PROBE March-April 1999, (pp. 8 -12) an article by
Barbara LaMonica: The Attempted Coup against FDR"The media gave little or scant coverage to the committee's final report.
The Luce Press, which always led the charge in attacking
Roosevelt and bolstering
Fascism, ran a story called
"A Plot Without Plotters" which sought to discredit
Col Butler. He was called a "hothead". Other evidence of
Butler's unsavory character, according to
Luce, was that he had once given a speech in which he criticized
Mussolini. His advocacy of the penniless
Bonus Veterans Army was transformed into haranguing. The committee chairmen fared no better under
Luce's pen. They were accused of only seeking publicity (despite their having sought to suppress the most explosive parts of their discoveries).
The New York Times showed an astonishing lack of interest. Reference to the alleged coup was relegated to two paragraphs at the bottom of page five. However, not every newspaper discounted the plot. The independent
Philadelphia Record ran a cartoon showing big business pointing to a soapbox
Communist as the threat, while
General Butler marches in with evidence revealing armed
Fascists hiding beneath a banker's coat. References to the alleged conspiracy disappeared from the press. Nevertheless, individual reporters did attempt to pursue the story.
Paul Comley French of the Philadelphia Record and investigative journalist
John Spivak went to the
Justice Department. They asked why no one implicated was ever questioned; and since
MacGuire had perjured himself, did they intend to file criminal prosecution?
The Justice Department indicated it had no plans to carry matters any further at the moment.
MacGuire, the only man who could have testified against the rest, died soon after of complications from pneumonia. His physician claimed his death was partly due to the stress of the charges made by
Butler. Grayson M.-P. Murphy, the Morgan banker and treasurer of the
American Liberty League, died soon after."After all the cover-up by deletion and omission for the committee's report and the continuation of the efforts of the press to deny and make light of the coup, it can be no surprise that the effects of the Fascist power centers and the schemes of the Fascists still haunt the
American Political landscape.
"
Aftermath And Beyond"
Although the coup never materialized, the unrelenting propaganda attack against
Roosevelt and the
New Deal reforms continued, spearheaded by the
American Liberty League.
The League listed as its main contributors
the Du Pont family, representatives of
the Morgan interests,
Robert Sterling Clark, the Pew Family (Sun Oil) and Rockefeller Associates. Its treasurer was Grayson M.-P. Murphy, MacGuire's immediate boss.
The League itself was ostensibly dedicated to the virtues of
the Constitution, individual freedom and free market capitalism. But it claimed all
New Deal reforms were inspired by
Communists within
the Roosevelt administration. In the election of 1936,
the League spent twice as much money as
the Republican Party in trying to defeat
Roosevelt. Although the League disbanded after
Roosevelt won his second term, it spawned a series of extreme right-wing groups and paramilitary bands which constituted a network that endured through the 1960s, and whose descendants are with us today. Their propaganda was
anti-Communist and
anti-Semitic; their tactic was violence. Some groups which
the League financed were
the Sentinels of the Republic (which labeled
the New Deal "
Jewish Communism"), the
Minutemen and the Minutewomen. Another group,
the Southern Committee to
Uphold the Constitution, was associated with
the Silver Shirt Squad of the
American Storm Troopers. The goals of this organization, headed by a
Texas oil magnate, were to create a mass movement of whites in
the South to dilute
Roosevelt's Dixie vote, and to stir up anti-black racism in order to attack organizing drives by the unions from the North. Significantly, these same hate sentiments were being stirred up against
JFK, and for the same reasons. These groups formed the dark underside to
the League, which tried to present a polite public face. But some industrialists, like
Henry Ford, had no qualms about explicitness.
American Fascist groups hawked his
anti-Semitic tracts like "
The international Jew."
The main function of these hate groups was to enforce the will of right-wing corporate
America, seeking to regain the political power it lost in the 1932 election. On the grassroots level, this intention translated into supporting the efforts of management to stop workers from unionizing. The most glaring example of this was the struggle at the
General Motors plants. (
General Motors was owned by the DuPonts). The Du Ponts employed the Black Legion, a sort of Northern Klux Klux Klan, which would terrorize workers, bomb union halls, and torture and murder organizers. The Legion was organized into arson squads, execution squads, and
anti-Communist squads. Discipline within its own ranks was maintained with the weapons of torture or death and was strictly enforced.
The LaFollette Committee found that the
Legion had penetrated police departments, high government offices, and the
Michigan Republican Party. 
These groups also acted as intelligence networks. They infiltrated unions, leftwing groups, and universities, and sold their information to industry. One example of such an intelligence agency was the
American Vigilant Intelligence Federation, headquartered in
Chicago and operated by
Harry Jung. Jung later relocated to
New Orleans where he was an associate
of Guy Banister, who also hailed from
Chicago. Banister's Detective Agency was spying for right-wing businesses as well. Some believe it may have been
Jung's hotel in
New Orleans that the famous
Congress of Freedom meeting took place in the Spring of 1963. At this meeting, with
Edwin Walker and
Joseph Milteer in attendance, a police informant reported there was talk of murdering national leaders.
In the Thirties, corporate
America's fear of government regulation threatened by
Roosevelt's New Deal, ("Socialism" in their minds), gave them a reason to embrace
Fascism. It justified their financing of paramilitary hate groups to carry out violent, anti-government and anti-union campaigns exploiting the vehicles of racism,
anti-Semitism and
anti-Communism. By the Sixties these groups had become entrenched in the grassroots landscape. The institutionalization of the military industrial complex and the national security state, with which corporate
America would meld, developed after World War II and its aftermath. The DuPonts, as well as other industrialists, implicated in the attempted coup against
FDR played a major role in these developments."
... more at:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/plot/ From "
the Plot to Seize the White House"
