Posted on 03/20/2014 6:53:00 AM PDT by KeyLargo
General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book George S. Patton, America's greatest combat general of the Second World War, was assassinated after the conflict with the connivance of US leaders, according to a new book.
By Tim Shipman in Washington
20 Dec 2008
The newly unearthed diaries of a colourful assassin for the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, reveal that American spy chiefs wanted Patton dead because he was threatening to expose allied collusion with the Russians that cost American lives.
The death of General Patton in December 1945, is one of the enduring mysteries of the war era. Although he had suffered serious injuries in a car crash in Manheim, he was thought to be recovering and was on the verge of flying home.
But after a decade-long investigation, military historian Robert Wilcox claims that OSS head General "Wild Bill" Donovan ordered a highly decorated marksman called Douglas Bazata to silence Patton, who gloried in the nickname "Old Blood and Guts".
His book, "Target Patton", contains interviews with Mr Bazata, who died in 1999, and extracts from his diaries, detailing how he staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton's Cadillac and then shot the general with a low-velocity projectile, which broke his neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch.
Mr Bazata also suggested that when Patton began to recover from his injuries, US officials turned a blind eye as agents of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, poisoned the general.
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While I don’t think he was and most probably it was an accident, T wouldn’t put it past the people in power at the time (on EITHER side), I mean we literally made a deal with the devil (Stalin) to help defeat a slightly lesser satan (Hitler)...
Hey, it’s like global warming—keep repeating it and it eventually becomes true, and puts so many people to work. This author prolly dreamed it up to get some money.
69 years and counting. He hasn't been proven right yet.
BTW, any direct confrontation between USA and Russia is highly unlikely. Nobody, certainly not Putin, wants to open the nuclear surprise box.
For an alternative take on the plausibility of this theory.
https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/ConspirThx.htm
Page down.
Alternate wacko tin foil hat conspiracy theory that couldn’t possibly be true:
GEN Patton died at the 130th Station Hospital in Heidelburg from injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Mannheim.
There are a couple that make me go "hmm." The Bobby Kennedy assassination still seems hinky, and the way the Enyart photos, seized by the police and only released in 1988 after a lawsuit were allegedly stolen from the courier delivering them when his car broke down and he left them bothers me. The other one is the Martin Luther King assassination, and where a two-bit loser like Ray got the money to purchase a fake Canadian passport and flee to England (with a side trip to Lisbon) for two months.
But this one, I don't buy at all for the simply reason that if you want to kill someone, there are a lot simpler and more foolproof ways to go about it that won't be suspected. Hell, they could have put a bomb in his car and blamed on Nazi die-hards. They could have put a bomb on his plane over the Atlantic and had him do a Glenn Miller. But to stage an accident, then have a guy run up to the car with a special gun that, when placed just so, causes a broken neck, is just too Rube Goldberg. No one is going to approve that plan.
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Have had the book and exchanged emails with the author.Patton was leaving Europe for California to run for U.S. Senate then the White House to execute his publicly stated intention of finishing the job.
The author presents evidence of those involved, that it was a joint effort of Soviet intelligence and Donovan's people.
The Truman and Eisenhower administrations eschewed any "rollback" or "victory" policy, throwing in with the Kennan containment plan.
I've also read extensively on Donovan and the OSS, parrticularly with regards to the ETO. I agree, Donovan was a true patriot and idealist, but I suspect his idealism blinded him somewhat to the degree to which communist sympathizers infested the OSS (and the British SOE).
The book The Forgotten 500, which is primarily about OSS efforts to evacuate downed US fliers from the Balkans, also goes into extensive detail as to how much of eastern europe was ceded to the Soviets by their allies embedded in US the Allied intelligence and diplomatic circles.
Of course this doesn't prove whether or not Patton was assassinated, but the environment was such that the order could have gone out with Donovan being none the wiser.
Have a hard time believing it was anything
but an accident by a driver not paying attention.
That movie about Gen Pattons last days after
the accident was kinda hard to take,but very
well done.
The Soviets-Russians are well known for their CHEKA/NKVD/KGB/FSB assasinations, which cannot be dismissed as mere conspiracy theories lacking any credence. On the contrary, some of their assassinations are well documented.
In the case of General Patton, there are unconfirmed reports that Patton was murdered by a Soviet NKVD assassin just as it appeared possible Patton might actually survive the injuries and medical complications resulting from the automoble accident.
‘Kind of you to include mention of “The Forgotten 500” which I just ordered via my library.
Julia Child and her husband were in the OSS in southern China. They were lefties, but I don’t believe they were ever disloyal.
‘Sort of what Leslie Groves said to aids who were even then concerned about communists within academia: “Where do you expect me to find scientists if not in the universities?”
It's a tremendous adventure story in its own right, but if you're like me, it will really open your eyes to how much communist infiltrators in the western allied intelligence and diplomatic communities did to help shape the post-war spoils of eastern Europe to the benefit of the Soviets. I just thought it worth mentioning on this thread because some of the info in that book makes the plot to remove Patton seem much more plausible.
Ralph Epperson “The Unseen Hand” and JR Toland “The Last 100 Days” are two books that center well. There is truth, and then there is propaganda.
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