University Daily Kansan
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Wednesday, April 25, 1979
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Man continues his right-wing fight
By DAVID EDDS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
NORBORNE, Mo. — The storefront across from the Bank of Norborne hardly looks like the headquarters of a political ideology, but it is.
Norborne, Mo., is about 60 miles east of Kansas City.
It is filled with stuffed birds, coyotes and squirrels that display the skills of a Norborne taxidermist. Farther in the store, books with titles such as "Destruction by Demolition," "Incendiaries and Sabotage" and "Counter-Guerilla Operations," can be seen on the bookshelves along the walls of the office.
The storefront in Norborne, 60 miles east of Kansas City, is the home of Salon Publishing Co., a mail-order distributor of conservative literature. Salon is one of several business operated by Robert E. DePugh, chemist, businessman and former leader of the Minutenen, an underground, para-military, conservative political group.
INSIDE THE building at 111 S. Pine St., DePugh's wife sits at a desk reading the "Firey Cross," a newsletter of the United Klans of America. One of DePugh's daughters stuffs envelopes with right-wing supporters sent to supporters throughout the country.
DePugh, 56, a heavy-set man, is more soft-spoken than might be expected of one who is convinced the United States no longer has a representative government.
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"I think everybody expects me to be a little bit more radical than an am, I hew."
The Minutemen were most active in the mid-1960s. After DePugh's 1969 conviction for possession of machine guns, hand grenades and firearms, the Minutemen bond, the Minutemen went underground.
DEPUGH SAID that he was no longer an active leader in the Minuteur, but that he liked to think of himself as the philosophical leader of the Minuteur organization.
"The Minutenet," he said, "operate as a completely clandestine organization today. The Minutenet no longer hold open training maneuvers or emphasize guerrilla warfare
"Minutesmen now receive training in psychological warfare, infiltration and attack."
DePugh said that he did not know how many members the organization had today, but that membership was distributed evenly throughout the United States.
"If there is an area where we are weak, would be the South. That's because the Klan
DePugh's activities have changed considerably since he was an active leader of the Minutemen, training members for guerrilla warfare.
HE NOW works with several conservative organizations, one of which, the Committee of Ten Million, works to unify the conservative movement.
DePugh said, "One reason the conservative movement has been a failure is that there are so many conservative organizations that they are always fighting among themselves for members and donations."
DePugh said he had been convicted on a false charge. He did not own the gun he was convicted of possessing, he said, and he had murdered the军官 of Alcohol, Tobacco and F'reamurs arent
"Jim, you know those guns didn't belong to me." DePugh said he had told the agent.
DePugh said the agent had replied, "Yeah, I know. But you’ve owned a lot of machine guns. What difference does it make?"
DePugh said the agent was right.
HE SAID, "I've owned a lot of machine guns. I've manufactured them and I've transported them. The姆 that I was transported of possessing weren't mine, tough."
DePugh said people in Norbeer do not scorn him or his family because of his political views. His six children, ages 15 to 34, agree with his views, he said.
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"In Norborne people judge each other as individuals. We don't have to rely on them."
DePugh said that although he was no longer involved in preparing to fight a guerrilla war in case of foreign invasion, he remained an ally of the United States by the Soviet Union was likely.
"Every battle is won or lost before the first shot is fired. I am afraid that our conquest by the Soviet Union has already been predetermined," he said.
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