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Word: counterplots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minutemen's founder Robert Bolivar DePugh, 42, who runs the national headquarters in tiny (pop.: 965) Norborne, Mo., disclaimed any involvement with the New York fiasco. "If they were members of the Minutemen, they were working independently," he said, adding that the affair might really have been "a counterplot, .perhaps Government-inspired" to discredit his organization. He added: "I have urged our people not to own weapons." In fact, DePugh and two other men were scheduled to go on trial this week in Kansas City, Mo., on charges of possessing and reactivating machine guns in violation of the National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: Sunday Patriots | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...plot to keep them out of the peace arrangements; at one point, Truman called the whole operation off to smooth the Bear's ruffled fur. Nazi changes of command kept eliminating generals who were sympathetic to Sunrise and replacing them with generals who were not. From Berlin, a counterplot by Himmler, designed only to steal the play away from Wolff, threatened to retire Sunrise to the limbo of lost causes. The generals of the various Nazi commands in Italy fought among themselves over the issue of a negotiated peace, and Wehrmacht tanks once even leveled their guns on Wolff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aid from the Enemy | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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