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Smedley Butler

FILE DATE 1935
CROSS-REFS 03
STATUS NEVER CLOSED
SUMMARY
"War is a racket," wrote the most decorated Marine alive. He'd have known.
FULL DOSSIER
Butler's documented record makes him the archive's most credentialed witness: two Medals of Honor, the 1934 McCormack-Dickstein testimony (committee: essential statements verified), and 'War Is a Racket' (1935), his itemized accounting of whom intervention served — 'I was a gangster for capitalism,' with country-by-country receipts. The node holds his double function: primary source for the Business Plot and author of the war-profiteering thread's founding text, both on the congressional record.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01McCormack-Dickstein record (1934-35)
02Butler, 'War Is a Racket' (1935)
CROSS-REFERENCED FILES
THE BUSINESS PLOTMILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXWAR IS A RACKET
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