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Operation Red Dog (1981) On this day in 1981, nine white supremacists, including Stormfront founder Don Black and Canadian neo-Nazi Wolfgang Droege, were arrested by federal agents as they...

Operation Red Dog (1981)

Mon Apr 27, 1981

Image: Weapons confiscated from the "Bayou of Pigs" conspirators

On this day in 1981, nine white supremacists, including Stormfront founder Don Black and Canadian neo-nazi Wolfgang Droege, were arrested by federal agents as they attempted to initiate an armed coup on the island country Dominica.

The plan was to restore former Dominican Prime Minister Patrick John back to power and profit from capitalist enterprise in the country. The conspirators were arrested in New Orleans as they prepared to board a boat with automatic weapons, shotguns, rifles, handguns, dynamite, ammunition, and a black and white Nazi flag.

The plan was titled "Operation Red Dog", however the incident was mocked in the press as the "Bayou of Pigs". Mike Perdue and six other men pled guilty to violation of the Neutrality Act while two others were found guilty by a jury. The men received three-year prison sentences.

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