Granada 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 counter-revolution 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.

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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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A lawyer who allegedly helped finance the foiled plot to overthrow the government of Dominica killed himself after being smeared by "a con man, a liar," a former Ku Klux Klan leader said Monday. J.W. Kirkpatrick, 61,…