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In 1934, Marine Corps General Smedley Butler (one of very few soldiers to be awarded the Medal of Honor twice), alerted members of Congress to a plot being hatched by a group of wealthy businessmen, who he claimed were planning on creating a fascist organization composed of disaffected WWI veterans and use it to overthrow the government. It was known as the Business Plot.

Was the plot real? Or was the whole thing just a hoax?
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