Deatherage was the founder of a later version of the Knights of the White Camellia and the American Nationalist Confederation, the latter being an attempt to unify dozens of racist, fascist, and antisemitic groups nationwide.
At the conference, Deatherage had called the United States the greatest Jew ridden country on earth, and requested support to overthrow the federal government and install a Nazi-like regime.
[4] Deatherage was an important player in domestic and international anti-Jewish circles in the 1930s and 1940s, including collaboration with the Welt-Dienst/World-Service propaganda agency headed by German Ulrich Fleischhauer.
As part of this plan, he attempted to unify dozens of racist, fascist, and antisemitic groups nationwide into a united front known as the American Nationalist Confederation.
Ingalls was in contact with San Francisco consul Manfred Freiherr von Killinger, while Deatherage had raised $25,000 for weapons, with promises of more from Leslie Fry.
"[9] According to documents found in one of Allen's briefcases in April 1938, Deatherage, Leslie Fry, and Vladimir Kositsin (another White Russian fascist emigrant) had discussed the possibility of recruiting U.S. Army General George Van Horn Moseley into the plot.
[11] In 1933, shortly after Hitler took power, Allen, Bund member Hermann Schwinn, and two other Nazis traveled to Mexico to help Mexican General Nicolás Rodríguez Carrasco organize the Gold Shirts, a group modeled after the Sturmabteilung.
However, Southern Rhodesian parliament member Henry Hamilton Beamish, a Nazi sympathizer who founded the Britons, had written an introduction letter on behalf of Allen and urged him to make contact with Arcand.
[11] Deatherage also testified in front of the Un-American Activities Committee regarding Dudley Pierrepont Gilbert and James Campbell's falsified accusation of a conspiracy between Harmonie Club members to set into motion a Jewish communist revolution.
[16] In November 1952, Deatherage was living in Baltimore when he wrote to J. Edgar Hoover alleging ties between Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, referring to Tom Clark as a "Texas pussywillow".