“As it turned out Bazata, who had suffered a stroke and was, after a professional lifetime of silence, willing to talk, told me to my surprise that it was he who had been ordered to kill Patton. The order had come from OSS head, “Wild Bill” Donovan, and he had set up the accident with an NKVD agent, the Soviet spy agency...”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/the_mysterious_death_of_gen_george_s_patton.html
same donovan who “they” wanted to make a gen in USMC WWII, until USMC rebelled, the the oss idea came next and took form...somewhere in my evans f carlson (raiders) writings...
Dick G
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“Okay, we want to kill Patton, and here’s the best plan we can come up with: stage a car accident, run up to the car and, making sure none of the other uninjured passengers are looking, push a special gizmo up against him that will break his neck without leaving a mark. Then, all we have to do is wait for him to die of pneumonia in a week or two. It’s perfect.”
Patton may have been killed, but color me skeptical about Bazata:
After the war he became a celebrated artist who enjoyed the patronage of Princess Grace of Monaco and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
He was friends with Salvador Dali, who painted a portrait of Bazata as Don Quixote.
Not exactly the best references.