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After Jack Warner and other moguls pledged $5,000 each, Warner convinced thirty of his employees to collectively donate another $2,600. Lewis’s operation would thwart assassination and sabotage plots, including one to kill many Hollywood figures. Nazi groups would never achieve success in prewar Los Angeles, thanks to Lewis and his spies, who were
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Oddly enough, the fiercely libertarian Koch family owed part of its fortune to two of history’s most infamous dictators, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. The family patriarch, Fred Chase Koch, founder of the family oil business, developed lucrative business relationships with both of their regimes in the 1930s.
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cold-blooded need for control.
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