The House Investigative Committee on Un-American Activities Concluded There Was Compelling Evidence of a Plot

Butler's friend Paul French was an undercover reporter for the Philadelphia record in New York Evening Post. The two men testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, disclosing all they had gathered from Maguire. Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander James Van Zant also testified stating that he had also been approached to be the dictator to leave the United States. Criminal charges were brought against no one and the collection of prominent men implicated in the plot were immediately excused from testifying. In fact, all mention of their names was scrubbed from the committee's public report.