[R-G] Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen

[Anthony Fenton]

BBC	

The Whitehouse Coup
	
Monday 23 July  2007
	
The White House behind security bars
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a  
group of right-wing American businessmen
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The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with  
the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were  
alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America,  
(owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s  
Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the  
policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest  
ever peacetime threat to American democracy.

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