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What year did Smedley Butler come forward with the Business Plot controversy?
1931
1933
1935
1937
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The Business Plot was a conspiracy in the United States in 1933 to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install a fascist government. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler was approached to lead the plot but revealed the plan to a Congressional committee. The plot gained public attention and ultimately failed, with the plot's leaders being charged with seditious conspiracy.
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