photo courtesy of Southern Poverty Law Center

In 1979, American Klansman Mike Perdue was introduced to German-Canadian neo-Nazi Wolfgang Droege by David Duke, Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.  That Summer, Perdue outlined a plan to overthrow the government of Grenada, and to set up profitable businesses there.  The target island was later changed to Dominica.

The plan, which was known as Operation Red Dog, eventually included a number of Canadian and American White supremacists and Klansmen.  Among those were James Alexander McQuirter, the Grand Wizard of the Canadian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan; and American Don Black, a Klansman who later founded the White nationalist website "Stormfront."

On April 27, 1981, the group was arrested by federal agents in New Orleans, Louisiana as it prepared to board a boat.  Hardware for the "invasion" included automatic weapons, shotguns, rifles, dynamite, handguns and ammunition.  The group also brought along a Nazi flag.

The plot leader, Mike Perdue, and six other men pled guilty to violation of the Neutrality Act.  Others were found guilty by a jury. 

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