'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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The neo-nazis and assorted antisemetic loons have been blaming Jews for PAtton’s death for 60 years. Ditto SEcretary of Defense Forrestal and President Kennedy.
INDEED.
I hope later to post either a new thread or a significant addition to a thread about how there’s no doubt these are the Biblical END TIMES.
I don’t call this level of solid research
“pure speculation.”
Clearly another ill-informed perspective
without a clue about the true underlying forces in even recent history
pontificates and rings the tiny tinny tin-foil alert.
I know it’s Wikepedia, but they had this:
“He was a second cousin of United States Army General George S. Patton. “
This has been known since the beginning—numerous books, online articles, etc.
(Georgie Patton was a distant cousin of famed Marine General Lewis (Chesty) Puller—for you jarheads out there not up on the details of USMC History...)
See Also:
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/the-man-whokilled-general-patton/
Personally, I do not believe that FDR had prior knowledge about the attack on Pearl Harbor. And I am no FDR apologist.
It is like the JFK assination, I do not think Lyndon had anything to do with it. And I learned as a young man how Lyndon operated. He was capable of almost anything, but he did not kill Kennedy.
Somehow this needs to be worked into a Creationist thread and it would be right at home.
“General Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book”
It’s true, folks. Roosevelt, Churchill and Eisenhower had a lot to hide.
... these are ivory, only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry pearl....
you are correct sir, they were ivory, don’t know if he actually said that, but it is a great line from the movie.
Cheers
Sherman Logan: "And they lost over 100,000 men killed doing so.
As compared to 400,000 US troops dead in the entire war."
Extremely important point. Let's see if I can make it even stronger:
Your 400,000 includes ALL US personnel who died in Europe, the Pacific, accidents, disease, etc.
US Army & Air Force battle deaths were fewer than 300,000 of which around half were in Europe.
Point is, the Soviets lost almost as many just taking Berlin as the US lost in the WHOLE WAR AGAINST HITLER.
Indeed, where the US lost fewer than 200,000 in Europe, the Soviets lost over 20 million!
So anyone who says that Roosevelt, or Eisenhower (or whoever) "gave away Eastern Europe" to Stalin, has NO concept of the scales of warfare going on there.
Patton was not belted-in & was sitting crosswise on the seat conversing with another passenger. When the car struck the truck he was unable to prevent himself from being flung sideways (forward). While it was a front-end accident, for Patton it was as if he was broadsided. He not only didn't see the impact coming, he was in a poor postion to brace himself.
I also seem to recall that his head hit a locker attached to the partition between the seats. That probably contributed to the snaping of the neck. It also peeled back his scalp.
To be fair to Patton, he was an Army commander who had operational responsibilities. Puller was a battalion/regimental level officer for much of his career (which spanned WW2 & Korea as well as several Banana Wars). Puller was mostly a tactical leader & so more exposed.
The Wehrmacht used to award the Iron Cross to unit commanders as kind of a Unit Citation. Imagine what GSP's total would have been had we followed that practice?
not likely. I had xrays in the room he died in. Did not know it until I saw the plaque on the wall on the way out.
Certainly taking Berlin cost the Soviet Union many lives. But at least part of that was due to Stalin’s way of waging war. The Americans had good equipment and good planning, for the most part, and valued the lives of their troops. So they softened up the enemy, did flanking maneuvers, and so on, to preserve lives. Stalin sent his forces bulling forward as fast as possible, to capture territory and avenge himself on the Germans.
Stalin was completely indifferent to how many Russians died. In fact he killed millions of them himself in the great purges. And Soviet military leaders could be overruled by NKVD or party members who accompanied military units in the field and saw to it that they did what the Communist leadership wanted. The last word did not belong to the commanding officers, but to party members who knew little or nothing about fighting a war. Some were smart enough not to interfere, but some were not.
So, yes, more Americans would have died if we had gone further East, but probably not comparable to Russian losses. In fact, many Germans were anxious to surrender to the western allies rather than be overrun by Stalin.
As what the vet told me was "peculiar as hell", I, apparently like your father decided to carry specifics to my grave but it was your fathers use of the term 'peculiar as hell' that caused me to affirm his assessment.
Thank you. If I remember correctly, about 90% of German battle deaths were inflicted by the Red Army. The Western Front, for all its importance, was a secondary theater of the real war in Europe.
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