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Public attention to Canada’s racist movement swells in the aftermath of events like Charlottesville and the Quebec City mosque attack, but it has long been there, lingering in places like Stormfront, run by former Klansman Don Black By Stewart Bell Global News Posted August 20, 2017 11:29 am On the Canada section of the U.S. white nationalist Internet forum Stormfront, you can buy “Not Muslim/Jewish” buttons as well as t-shirts that read, “Stop Immigration Now” and “It’s Read more [...]

Grenada was the target.  The aim was to overthrow the revolution led by the New Jewel Movement and to return the ousted tyrant, Eric Gairy, to power.  Mercenary leader Michael Perdue of Houston, Texas, began plotting his counterrevolution as soon as he read published accounts of the revolution in the spring of 1979.  First he sought out Gairy, met him in San Diego, and put forward this proposition:  for a price, Perdue would overturn Maurice Bishop's government and reinstate Gairy as prime minister.  Gairy agreed and told Perdue to proceed. Read more [...]

Ever since the first details of the Klan/Nazi coup plot were revealed to the public last April there has heen considerable speculation as to the identities of the mercenary group's backers.  In May the Toronto Globe and Mail reported that "law enforcement authorities in Canada and the United States believe as many as 80 people may have been behind the venture."  Later, during a federal grand Jury investigation in New Orleans, a U.S. investigator told the Birmingham News, "There were probably 40 names or more mentioned before the grand jury."  The Houston Post reported that the grand jury had "a list of at least 12 unindicted co-conspirators who are believed to have financed the venture." Read more [...]

In our first installment we showed that this advertisement from the March 1981 Soldier of Fortune recruited potential mercenaries for Franklin Joseph Camper’s training school. Camper was aware of the Dominica plot but declined to participate. In July, Camper’s training school received considerable play in the press – feature stories with photographs in the Washington Star, the Christian Science Monitor, the Huntsvilte Times, and hundreds of other papers via Associated Press. Nearly all the free advertising for mercenary training in the U.S. was promoting Frank Camper, it seemed. Read more [...]

ROSEAU, Dominica, Dec. 19 -- A dozen gunmen stormed police headquarters and the main prison today in an unsuccessful coup attempt that left three people dead and nine wounded in this Caribbean island nation.  The former head of the army was arrested after the attacks, which were mounted to seize stockpiled arms at the police station and free a former Prime Minister from prison. Read more [...]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Defense lawyers said Monday the star witness against two alleged financiers in the abortive plot to invade Dominica was trying to lie his way out of a stiffer prison sentence.  The attack on admitted ringleader Michael Perdue's credibility came during opening arguments in the trial of Lodrich E. Matthews Jr., SA, of Florence, Miss., and James C. White, 30, of Lakeland, La.  Perdue, of Houston, has said Matthews gave him about $12,800 and White $45,000 to help finance Read more [...]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal grand jury indicted two businessmen Thursday on charges of financing a mercenary group's aborted attempt to overthrow the island government of Dominica. L.E. Matthews of Florence, Miss., and James C. White of Longview, Texas, were charged with conspiracy and violation of the federal Neutrality Act. THE INDICTMENTS were issued just hours after a Ku Klux Klan leader and two others with Klan connections -- all granted immunity from prosecution -- testified Read more [...]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Seven men who pleaded guilty in connection with an aborted plot to overthrow the government of the Caribbean island of Dominica were Wednesday jailed for up to three years.  Michael Perdue, the --- ----- ringleader of the plot, Wolfgang Droege, Robert Williams, Pritchard Williams, Barnett Watch--, and Christopher Bully Anderson were sentenced to three years each. Larry Lloyd jacklin and George Taylor Malvaney, in their early 20s the group's youngest offenders, were ordered Read more [...]

"The Bayou of Pigs," FBI agents called the fiasco.  Armed with assorted rifles and handguns, a motley crew of neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen set off last week to invade the Caribbean island of Dominica.  On D Day they piled into a rented van in New Orleans and set off for a rendezvous with a yacht bound for Dominica and glory.  But as things turned out, their driver was a Federal agent.  When they reached their point of embarkation, an FBI SWAT team jerked open the van door and seized them. Read more [...]

NEW ORLEANS (API) -- With boxes of high-powered rifles and military gear stacked nearby, a Houston man testified he hatched a plot to invade the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica after discarding a ''bloody" plan to take over nearby Grenada. Michael Perdue. 32, the admitted ringleader of the bizarre scheme, told a U.S. District Court jury Tuesday that his invasion plans were prompted by his quest for money and power.  He admitted telling lies to recruit a nine-member band of makeshift Read more [...]