'We've got a terrible situation with this great patriot, he's out of control and we must save him from himself'.
The OSS head General did not trust Patton
Posted on 12/20/2008 6:04:53 PM PST by bruinbirdman
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 Russians that cost American lives.
'We've got a terrible situation with this great patriot, he's out of control and we must save him from himself'.
The OSS head General did not trust Patton
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.
Mr Wilcox told The Sunday Telegraph that when he spoke to Mr Bazata: "He was struggling with himself, all these killings he had done. He confessed to me that he had caused the accident, that he was ordered to do so by Wild Bill Donovan.
"Donovan told him: 'We've got a terrible situation with
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I am not that conspiracy minded, however, I think there is more to GSP's demise than will ever be known and I would lay odds if anything was, the Sovs had a big hand in it. I bet it tore him up spending his last hours laid up instead of being on a battlefield.
If I have to go to war, I want a Patton type in charge. There don't seem to be many around.
No, you are right, he did not root out the commies in our government. And there were others who were also guilty or ignorant of that threat.
He was a soldier early in his life and recognized for his bravery.
He was also a judge before WWII, and hammered out the Central Arizona Project. (Water rights agreement for the Western states) I became aware of this while I lived in NM. Had friends who were involved in water rights law there.
Rommel & Patton, similar duties, similar fates?
Just finished a long book series about the OSS written by Griffin called ‘Men At War’. Highly recommended. Judging by what other things Donovan did, this isn't a surprise.
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Heroes-Men-War-Novel/dp/0515123293/ref=rcx_ser_title?ie=UTF8&s=books
“Interesting fact: Beatrice Patton had gone out to dinner when the end came. When she came back, he was gone. Patton supposedly died alone.”
A nurse was sitting with him and she sensed he was dead and then called the doctors and Beatrice who were in the hospital mess hall.
My father died in 1960 but the lectures that he gave me when I traveled with him, He was a salesman for Lever Brothers, gave me a life long interest in the subject of Communist influence in America.
I won't start on my Grandfathers views on FDR, First Dictator of the United States. I had a good up bringing.
Thanks for that tale and opinion.
yitbos
“I won’t start on my Grandfathers views on FDR, First Dictator of the United States. I had a good up bringing.”
Donovan would have done what he was told to. Consider who was C-in-C at the time. Truman would ultimately be accountable for Patton’s criticism of entertaining communist interests.
I’m increasingly convinced . . .
that the blokes who insist that it’s all been
. . .
a modern version of bread and circuses . . . to keep us distracted while they set up the global satanic government . . . are quite correct.
ALL the players were bit puppets . . . bit players . . .
some more overtly evil and complicit than others. All hand-picked . . . all directed, orchestrated from under the table, behind closed doors . . .
Yes, let's go dust for prints!
Perhaps we could locate the Volkswagens that the junked vehicles were turned into and spray them with Luminol.
That’s why my Grandfather hated him, too. My Grandfather graduated from Law School in 1904 and was well versed and considered an authority on Constitutional Law. Our Grandfathers definately would have been on the same side.
It IS a plot from a spy novel.
Can’t remember which one, but it begins with Patton’s accident, which the assassin then follows up with a low-velocity, large diameter rubber bullet to the head — precisely what this report claims
Mine graduated from what is now BYU in 1906, there seems to have been a consensus.
Mine graduated from the University of Colorado in 1904. Those old gentlemen would be besides themselves today. Maybe they met each other at one time.
Thought it was Max Von Sydow with a rubber bullet, to steal Nazi gold.
It was Col. Mustard, in the hospital, with a lead pipe.
yitbos
Patton also believed he had been reincarnated as a warrior many times throughout history:
General George S. Patton - died December 21, 1945
General David Petraeus - born November 7, 1952
Well...?
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