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Patton was assassinated

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Interesting read . . .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...sm-of-allied-war-leaders-claims-new-book.html

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
Last Updated: 7:16PM GMT 20 Dec 2008

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'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 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.

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 this great patriot, he's out of control and we must save him from himself and from ruining everything the allies have done.' I believe Douglas Bazata. He's a sterling guy."

Mr Bazata led an extraordinary life. He was a member of the Jedburghs, the elite unit who parachuted into France to help organise the Resistance in the run up to D-Day in 1944. He earned four purple hearts, a Distinguished Service Cross and the French Croix de Guerre three times over for his efforts.

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.

He ended his career as an aide to President Ronald Reagan's Navy Secretary John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 Commission and adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign.

Mr Wilcox also tracked down and interviewed Stephen Skubik, an officer in the Counter-Intelligence Corps of the US Army, who said he learnt that Patton was on Stalin's death list. Skubik repeatedly alerted Donovan, who simply had him sent back to the US.

"You have two strong witnesses here," Mr Wilcox said. "The evidence is that the Russians finished the job."

The scenario sounds far fetched but Mr Wilcox has assembled a compelling case that US officials had something to hide. At least five documents relating to the car accident have been removed from US archives.

The driver of the truck was whisked away to London before he could be questioned and no autopsy was performed on Patton's body.

With the help of a Cadillac expert from Detroit, Mr Wilcox has proved that the car on display in the Patton museum at Fort Knox is not the one Patton was driving.

"That is a cover-up," Mr Wilcox said.

George Patton, a dynamic controversialist who wore pearl handled revolvers on each hip and was the subject of an Oscar winning film starring George C. Scott, commanded the US 3rd Army, which cut a swathe through France after D-Day.

But his ambition to get to Berlin before Soviet forces was thwarted by supreme allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, who gave Patton's petrol supplies to the more cautious British General Bernard Montgomery.

Patton, who distrusted the Russians, believed Eisenhower wrongly prevented him closing the so-called Falaise Gap in the autumn of 1944, allowing hundreds of thousands of German troops to escape to fight again,. This led to the deaths of thousands of Americans during their winter counter-offensive that became known as the Battle of the Bulge.

In order to placate Stalin, the 3rd Army was also ordered to a halt as it reached the German border and was prevented from seizing either Berlin or Prague, moves that could have prevented Soviet domination of Eastern Europe after the war.

Mr Wilcox told The Sunday Telegraph: "Patton was going to resign from the Army. He wanted to go to war with the Russians. The administration thought he was nuts.

"He also knew secrets of the war which would have ruined careers.
I don't think Dwight Eisenhower would ever have been elected president if Patton had lived to say the things he wanted to say." Mr Wilcox added: "I think there's enough evidence here that if I were to go to a grand jury I could probably get an indictment, but perhaps not a conviction."

Charles Province, President of the George S. Patton Historical Society, said he hopes the book will lead to definitive proof of the plot being uncovered. He said: "There were a lot of people who were pretty damn glad that Patton died. He was going to really open the door on a lot of things that they screwed up over there."
 

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I have often wondered about the accident. How can a man go through a career like he did with all of the dangers and such and then get hurt in a simple accident and die?

But then we should look into the death of Audie Murphy and all of the great was heroes of our country who did not die in war or a natural death.
 

Dargo

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Patton is another complaint I have about VMI. Most people think Patton attended West Point, or United States Military Academy as it was then known. VMI didn't recognize the cognitive skills and analytical abilities of Patton as well as his unreal drive and pretty well ran him off because he couldn't perform up to standards in their mathematics division. I think he even had trouble with math at West Point and they made him take his freshman year math twice; giving him great grades his second time as they recognized his drive and genius in other areas.

I'll have to ask my son about Patton since he is home for Christmas from VMI. They study famous alum during their freshman, rat, year. He should remember that year since it wasn't that long ago. I remember him telling me about James B. Hickey, the Army colonel in charge of operation Red Dawn. It was Red Dawn that captured Saddam Hussein. Anyway, I don't recall hearing anything about Patton being assassinated except by partition between the rear seat and front seat of a 1938 Cadillac. I recall reading that it wasn't a particularly bad accident considering a 2 1/2 ton military vehicle hit them head on since it apparently was at low speed. I always thought Patton was immediately paralyzed after hitting the partition and died in the hospital a couple of weeks later with his wife present. It would also seem odd to get his chief of staff Major Gay to go along with any conspiracy. But, there again, I wasn't there.

Wasn't Patton known for openly saying that he thought "Negro" soldiers were as good as any other soldier? I thought I recall that as well as hearing that he didn’t have any sense of humor if he was part of the joke.
 

The Tourist

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This overall condition is one of my major gripes. When we need the strength and security of a soldier, then they are our heroes. When they return to their peace time lives we treat them like they are "in the way."

I never was a soldier, but I saw my boyhood college generation return. We don't treat veterans as the collaborators of the war's direction anymore, but we sure did then. And the local out-patient service area near my home is packed--and it's one of the best facilities I've come to know.

In a very real sense, I think the treatment of veterans is decided by the same set of ideals we Americans use to eat beef.

We sure do like the meat in our meals, we just don't want to see it prepared.

And so with our soldiers. We utilize the safety and the freedom, but are then horfified by the first twenty minutes of "Saving Private Ryan."

And ya' know, if I had a magic wand, one of my first miracles would be to do something for veterans.

But I haven't the faintest idea what that might be. It's a complicated issue. Someone has to go and die for my freedom.
 

Locutus

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And the JFK assassination was orderd by Castro.....or was it LBJ..... or was it the Bilderbergers..... or was it Joe Gallo...... or was it..................

I take all of these "deep dark conspiracies" :ninja: with a HUGE grain of salt !:bonk::bonk:
 
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