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 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.
#1 BryanP said
“So where do you get “justifiably” out of this?”
I sort of wondered that myself.
Read the effen article….It was feared Patton was poised to attack the Russians and continue WWII.
Why not? The CIA killed Kennedy. And Wellstone. But they couldn’t kill Castro.
We have basically a single source here who died 9 years ago? Sounds more like the draft of a fiction novel.
How many rogue generals have taken armies off to war in violation of Presidential intent?
Wheres the Dumbass Meter?
# 3 Newman said, “Read the effen article….It was feared Patton was poised to attack the Russians and continue WWII.”
Except, Patton had ZERO ability to launch an attack on anyone…
And then Wild Bill Donovan out-source Red intelligence to Reinhart Galen. ah, the humor of history.
I love the quote “I believe Douglas Bazata. He’s a sterling guy.”
High praise for a guy that staged an auto accident and then shot the victim in the neck. A sterling guy, indeed.
I guess these people are silly enough to think no one saw that movie 20 odd years ago.
That is a great picture of Patton. Is that Omar Bradley on the left (next to the dog)?
If this story is true, can we quite glorifying WWII and using it to justify each and every war since?
How id the NKVD get near him to “poision” him? I can see where the Military thought Patton was ready to go at it with the “Russkies” next, but this seems too much. I think!
# 10 Ron Larson said, “Is that Omar Bradley on the left (next to the dog)?”
No, not sure who it is.
he was threatening to expose allied collusion with the Russians that cost American lives.
What collusion are they referring to?
I know we sent Stalin a lot of east block people who fought for the Germans, ensuring their death, but that is not American lives.
And yeah, the ‘justifiably’ should were some of these bloggers are coming from.
#5 bobbo said “Wheres the Dumbass Meter?”
It got overloaded and broke back in 2000 when they tested Dumbya with it as part of the inauguration ritual.
#3 Newman said
“Read the effen article….It was feared Patton was poised to attack the Russians and continue WWII.”
Are you so sure that would have been a “bad” thing? At least we knew how (and were willing) to win a war back then!
http://judicial-inc.biz/patton_murder.htm
Follow the link and use critical Thinking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
Where is the BS meter????
No I killed Patton and then time-travelled to be on the grassy knoll and then zipped ahead to kill VP Jerry Seinfeld before he poisoned President Trump!
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Same old stuff…
Problem is, General Patton was right.
Wasn’t he? Now we will have to do it all over again someday.
It wasn’t a secret that Patton thought that the Russians were the enemy, and that once the German army surrendered, he thought it would be a good idea to re-arm them, turn them east, and push the Russians back to Russia.
But Patton was also a soldier, and if he had been given a direct order by either the President or Eisenhower, to keep his mouth shut and retire – he would have followed the order.
He was in line to headup the Majestic Programme, until his rival(s) for the postion “eliminated” him….
#18 Cursor_
>>and then zipped ahead to kill VP Jerry
>>Seinfeld
Thank you! THANK YOU!! Society thanks you!!
Any way to get rid of that self-important drudge of a puffed-up “comedian” peacock is fine by me. I just wish we hadn’t had to wait until he moved into the Naval Observatory for it to happen.
This sullies the dignity of a great warrior and American patriot. Patton’s weakness was his supreme self confidence – which others thought as arrogance. He stood corrected by his superiors but he held no malice, no resentment, no regrets.
Newman wrote: “Read the effen article….It was feared Patton was poised to attack the Russians and continue WWII.”
Ok Let’s….
“Patton was going to resign from the Army. He wanted to go to war with the Russians. The administration thought he was nuts.”
He had long wanted to keep the war going take the USSR out of play and he wasn’t quiet about it. He thought they would become our next big enemy. And he was right.
But I’ve never read anything that would even hint that he was going to go off the reservation and try to invade them on his on. (This article included.)
They should exhume the body and see if he was poisoned. They could still tell. He is buried at the American Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm, Luxembourg.
Is that George C. Scott in the background aping like Patton. Sure looks like him.
#10
This photo was taken by a U.S. Army photographer in Europe after D-day, in 1944 or early 1945. It shows US 3rd Army Commander Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. in his 3 star uniform and helmet surrounded by his staff of one and two star generals. At his feet is his English Bull Terrier “William the Conqueror” (usually called Willie).
“Only a New Orleans pimp would carry a pearl-handled gun.” – George S. Patton
(his revolvers were ivory-handled)
As a follow-up to my comment #25, this is from the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg website:
“Exhumation: Exhumation is only possible if requested within a few years after interment, and must be authorized by the Ministry of Health and the commune owning the cemetery. If the remains are to be buried in another commune in Luxembourg, that commune has to agree as well. The exhumation has to be supervised by officials as designated by the Ministry of Health. Interments at the American cemetery in Luxembourg are permanent; it is not possible to repatriate the remains.”
Nice catch Otter(#28).
#4
Actually, evidence has come to light recently that it was Castro that engineered Kennedy’s death by helping an insane Oswald do what he wanted to do anyway for them.
If the article is to be believed, Patton’s greatest weapon was the dirt he had on Eisenhower and the Allied collusion with Stalin. I don’t buy #17’s tin foil hat link but it is not a stretch to think that Patton had dirt on Eisenhower. I bet the real fear wasn’t that Patton would intentionally say something to hurt Eisenhower but that he’d blow his top and do it accidentally.