Operation Red Dog was the code name of an April 27, 1981, military filibustering plot by Canadian and American citizens, largely affiliated with white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan groups, to overthrow the government of Dominica.
[5] On April 27, 1981, Droege and eight other men, including Canadian James Alexander McQuirter and American Don Black, who later founded the white nationalist website Stormfront, were arrested by federal agents in New Orleans as they prepared to board a boat supplied with automatic weapons, shotguns, rifles, handguns, dynamite, ammunition, and a black and white Nazi flag.
Klansmen Arnie Polli and Roger Dermee were paid US$3,000 to visit Dominica and make a preliminary reconnaissance.
German-Canadian neo-Nazi Martin K. Weiche was allegedly a financial backer of the plot, along with James White of Houston and L. E. Matthews of Jackson, Mississippi.
On April 27, the group, including three undercover ATF agents, met at the predetermined location, loaded the van and proceeded to a marina where local police were waiting for them.
Friends said that Kirkpatrick had extremely conservative political views, as did the former congressman, and thought the coup would prevent a communist takeover.
"[4] Perdue also testified that he used $70,000 collected from businessmen to purchase weapons, dynamite and other military equipment, and to pay for reconnaissance trips to Dominica.
I wanted to add the land mass of Dominica to that of Barbados and also to be able to undertake an industrial project of considerable size.