'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 movie and the novel it was based on long pre-dated these interviews. I think the storyteller just borrowed a tall tale for the gullible writer.
Thanks! I think I have seen it.. ya never know, huh? :-]
Rumors of this have floated for years.
This isn’t really news, just news to some people.
In the movie, the assassin used a rubber projectile which looked like a random bushing approximately two inches in diameter, propelled by gasoline vapor. Any forensics performed on the projectile would suggest a part of the vehicle.
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I don’t remember it being very good. Just memorable.
FDR died in April. Patton died in December.
Doubtful FDR was involved.
From Coast to Coast past shows...
Saturday December 13th, 2008
Assassination of General Patton
Investigative journalist Robert Wilcox provided startling new evidence that shows General George S. Patton was assassinated. According to Wilcox, the powers that be in the United States (and perhaps even in the USSR) regarded Patton as a “loose cannon.”...
Host: Ian Punnett
I think its a case of an imagination that wasn’t quite vivid enough, so that a story idea had to come from someone elses story.
I.e., this is a case of plagiarism.
This story does not surprise me in the least and I don't wear a tinfoil hat.
There are scores of stories from the past about governments behaving in a disreputable manner behind the scenes to forward their own ends. The Lusitania deal is just another example.
Sounds like an interesting story.
IIRC, the novel was The Algonquin Project which was made into the film Brass Target. I think this is the one I saw, but regardless I know I saw a film about the assassination of Patton sometime around 1980 and the assassin used a large rubber projectile to smash his spinal chord. I specifically remember the demo using a dummy, ala The Day Of The Jackel's mercury loaded hollow point 22 and a water melon.
And they lost over 100,000 men killed doing so.
As compared to 400,000 US troops dead in the entire war.
Let the Soviets have the capture of the capital of a defeated enemy. I'd rather have 100,000 live Americans.
A Patton/MacArthur ticket in ‘48
Who knows what might have been?
In the olden days, Roman Generals
also served as Emperors..
Interesting
Interesting guy.
From Wikipedia:
“Patton spoke in front of the Burbank City Hall and at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. He wore his helmet with a straight line of stars, chest full of medals, and two ivory handle trademark pistols (not pearl, as is often incorrectly asserted). “
“Not possible: FDR wouldn’t allow such a thing.”
FDR admired Patton very much. Patton was in charge of FDR’s security at Casa Blanca. FDR was dead in April and the accident occured in Dec.
1945, not 1944. In 1944 Patton was nowhere near Berlin.
Patton was stopped in 1944 because allied logistics were in trouble. It does no good to have a few divisions way out in front of everyone, out of support and with vulnerable supply lines. Its just asking for an annihilating counterattack.
And Pattons army was not on the line for the drive to Berlin in 1945, they were going south-east towards Austria and Czechoslovakia.
The article is full of questionable statements.
Not possible: FDR wouldn’t allow such a thing.”
Maybe not, but FDR was already dead in Dec. of ‘45 so he didn’t much to say about things.
1978, “Brass Target”
This is definitely the one. Identical scenario.
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