July 31, 2003

• Stalin "plotted to kill John Wayne"

  
  

   

  
  
  
  
  
  

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  LONDON (Reuters) - "Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was so outraged at the anti-communism of film star John Wayne that he plotted to have him murdered, according to a new biography of the American icon."
  

  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  

  "In the first attempt, two Russian assassins posing as FBI agents tried to kill Wayne -- born Marion Morrison on May 26, 1907 -- in his office at Warner Brothers studios in Hollywood."

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