General Smedley Butler bares "Plot" by Fascists

Semper fidelis Generalis Smedley Butler
For the first time, I have here restored in Full Color and HD USMC General Smedley D. Butler's 1935 warning to the American public of a fascist plot by a nexus of business elites and US & Nazi military intelligence that would ultimately metastasize as the CIA
and the staggering 18 Intelligence Agencies (not including the 16+ eyes nations) headed by the ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence), the ODNI born from the de-facto corporate inversion of the CIA, albeit one to avoid liability for innumerable State Crimes Against Democracy such as the Kennedy murders, instead of the usual purpose of such a corporate restructure, which is tax avoidance.

Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire writes as follows in a 2022 Rolling Stone article on the Business Plot and the General who thwarted it:

Smedley Butler knew a coup when he smelled one. He had been involved in many himself. He had overthrown governments and protected “friendly” client ones around the world on behalf of some of the same U.S. bankers, lawyers, and businessmen apparently now looking for his help.

For 33 years and four months Butler had been a United States Marine, a veteran of nearly every overseas conflict back to the war against Spain in 1898. Respected by his peers, beloved by his men, he was known as “The Fighting Hell-Devil Marine,” “Old Gimlet Eye,” “The Leatherneck’s Friend,” and the famous “Fighting Quaker” of the Devil Dogs.

Bestselling books had been written about him. Hollywood adored him. President Roosevelt’s cousin, the late Theodore himself, was said to have called Butler “the ideal American soldier.” Over the course of his career, he had received the Army and Navy Distinguished Service medals, the French Ordre de l’Étoile Noir, and, in the distinction that would ensure his place in the Marine Corps pantheon, the Medal of Honor — twice.

Butler knew what most Americans did not: that in all those years, he and his Marines had destroyed democracies and helped put into power the Hitlers and Mussolinis of Latin America, dictators like the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo and Nicaragua’s soon-to-be leader Anastasio Somoza — men who would employ violent repression and their U.S.-created militaries to protect American investments and their own power. He had done so on behalf of moneyed interests like City Bank, J. P. Morgan, and the Wall Street financier Grayson M.P. Murphy.