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Title: Controversial General Patton was murdered to cover up secret deal between U.S. and U.S.S.R., new book claims (LF POLL: Do you believe t?)
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Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... -U-S-S-R--new-book-claims.html
Published: Dec 21, 2008
Author: Tom Tipton originally) NOW somehow "Barr
Post Date: 2017-07-04 14:17:52 by Liberator
Keywords: Conspiracy, PTB-Sabotage, Patton
Views: 3756
Comments: 12
(*NOTE -- This story (another version o it) ran on July 3, 2017. The headline and story keep on changing. I have been thrown offline 6 times before posting it.) 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. 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 ivory-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." Poster Comment: Patton wasn't gonna expose "screw ups"; He was was going to expose RAW TREASON. (Same as TODAY). His credibility quotient was extremely high given the propaganda campaign that began as soon as he slapped that soldier and was REQUIRED to apologize (PC's Genesis). The Media AND Military created that "crazy loose cannon" caricature that they'd hoped would preempt any of Patton's future exposure that was said "would have ruined careers." YES -- "careers" as PROFESSIONAL TRAITORS, collaborators with Uncle Joe, Nazi-Ratline snakes, and the Commie infestation in DC and at the War Dept. Hey...Happy Independence Day, y'all! Same ol'. Patton knew the Traitors were in charge. So did Ike (but he kept his mouth shut until warning about the "Military-Industrial Complex.") JFK was going to jettison the Federal Reserve. NWO/Deep State: "Nuh-uh." Reagan was given a warning to modify his agenda. President Trump remains in grave danger -- we all know it. The Same Rats infesting The Swamp are plotting as we speak. The NWO-Creatures declaration of war is clear as their "Military Goob" is de facto the 'Deep State.' Congress provides cover. Their tactical forces are comprised of The Media as its Communications/Propaganda wing; Academe and Judiciary.Its grunts: Moslems, Illegal Mexicans, and deranged street liberals-Leftist. Would anyone else here want to add, delete or change any of my presumed chain of command or order of tactical force? Be my guess -- all suggestions are appreciated. The treason of America's globalist-elites began then and there in earnest (although one can point to FDR and claim it began there, can't they?) Q How many people will concede that general George Patton WAS indeed assassinated?? How many of you HERE believe/know it? There were technically two attempts to assassinate Patton; once as a target of the car "accident"; And when THAT didn't accomplish the Mission," of course the Russians were allowed to finish him off, poisoning him -- AS ZERO security protected this great American hero. Q: Why wasn't Patton shipped stateside so he could see the finest medical professionals? Patton's assassination truly is one of the most disgraceful chapters in US History. A cultural aside: The rueful lyrics to Dion's anthem, 'Abraham Martin and John' should have begin with, 'Anybody here...seen my old friend General Patton?' *NOTE: I have been knocked of line THREE times while attempting to post this story here at LF. And now I can NOT locate the original story link and title, but fortunately kept the copy. Coincidence?? Patton: He wasn't just gonna expose "screw ups"; He was was going to expose RAW TREASON. (Same as TODAY). His credibility quotient was extremely high given the propaganda campaign that began as soon as he slapped that soldier and was REQUIRED to apologize (PC's Genesis). The Media AND Military created that "crazy loose cannon" caracature that they'd hoped would preempt any of Patton's future exposure that was said "would have ruined careers." YES -- "careers" as PROFESSIONAL TRAITORS, collaborators with Uncle Joe, Nazi-Ratline snakes, and the Commie infestation in DC and at the War Dept. Hey...Happy Independence Day, y'all! Same ol'. Patton knew the Traitors were in charge. So did Ike (but he kept his mouth shut until warning about the "Military-Industrial Complex.") JFK was going to jettison the Federal Reserve. NWO/Deep State: "Nuh-uh." Reagan was given a warning to modify his agenda. President Trump remains in grave danger -- we all know it. The Same Rats infesting The Swamp are plotting as we speak. The NWO-Creatures declaration of war is clear as their "Military Goob" is de facto the 'Deep State.' Congress provides cover. Their tactical forces are comprised of The Media as its Communications/Propaganda wing; Academe and Judiciary.Its grunts: Moslems, Illegal Mexicans, and deranged street liberals-Leftist. Would anyone else here want to add, delete or change any of my presumed chain of command or order of tactical force? Be my guess -- all suggestions are appreciated. The treason of America's globalist-elites began then and there in earnest (although one can point to FDR and claim it began there, can't they?) Q How many people will concede that general George Patton WAS indeed assassinated?? How many of you HERE believe/know it? There were technically two attempts to assassinate Patton; once as a target of the car "accident"; And when THAT didn't accomplish the Mission," of course the Russians were allowed to finish him off, poisoning him -- AS ZERO security protected this great American hero. Q: Why wasn't Patton shipped stateside so he could see the finest medical professionals? Patton's assassination truly is one of the most disgraceful chapters in US History. A cultural aside: The rueful lyrics to Dion's anthem, 'Abraham Martin and John' should have begin with, 'Anybody here...seen my old friend General Patton?' 
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Somebody(s) Did NOT want me to post this story. SIX times I found myself tossed off-line. I don't wanna hear, "Oh, you're imagining things!" from Statists. Shove it. The monitoring of the citizenry is out of hand; one need ONLY watch what was done to a PRESIDENT ELECT. The original story I was going to post ran July 3, 2017. Subsequent stories and headlines changed THREE times during the interim I'd been off line, then online momentarily.
It seems strange that people would be trying, today in 2017, to prevent a discussion of a death that happened 74 years ago. Patton's generation is completely gone, and the generation of the people he commanded is mostly gone. The USSR is gone. As far as grand strategy goes, it is certainly true that Patton wanted to drive much more aggressively straight into Germany. Eisenhower and FDR and Churchill all preferred a slower advance on a broad front, consolidating everything as they went forward. The reason is fairly obvious, though it is rarely stated. Patton's approach may have wreathed Patton, the 3rd Army and the United States in great glory, but at the cost of a tremendous number of American lives. Punching a salient very deep into German lines had failed in Market Garden, with the loss of the British Airborne. Patton was aggressive, and could well have penetrated very deep into Germany - but what if he were cut off? If he were cut off the whole Allied line would have had to move forward, broadly, to relieve him. As it was the Western Allies were moving forward on a broad front as fast as they could. If Patton were cut off, the Soviets did not, for their part, HAVE TO keep up the steady pressure on Berlin. They COULD HAVE swung South instead, into the Balkans, into Greece, sweeping through Yugoslavia, approaching Italy. As it was, the Soviet heavy forces pounding relentlessly on the Germans in a direct lunge for Berlin forced the Germans to concentrate forces there, but the Germans would not have sent forces to defend the Balkans. Take the Soviet pressure off as the Soviets swept south for easy pickings in the Balkans, and the Western Allies would have faced the German forces alone. It would have been easier to cut off Patton and force the West into a very bloody meatgrinder. The Western Allies, and particularly Ike, FDR and Truman, and Churchill, all agreed that the best strategy was the European version of the Anaconda Plan of the 1860s: strangle the Third Reich with steady pressure from all directions. Also, the Western Allies were more than willing to let the Soviets bear the brunt of the casualties digging out Berlin. Patton's plan would have had the US soldiers bearing those casualties. And why, exactly? To prevent the Soviets from getting their piece of Germany? Eastern Europe was going to go under Soviet domination no matter what, and the Soviets worked reasonably with the Western Allies as far as occupation zones. The Russians took Vienna, but they didn't stay. Nor did the Soviets occupy Yugoslavia. We were allies, not enemies. Patton's dream of attacking the USSR was insane. For what purpose would all of those American lives have been shed? To give the Americans an Eastern European empire? We did not care enough about Europe in 1940 to go over and fight when FRANCE was occupied and London was bombed. Why, then, all of a sudden, in 1945, develop a pining to fly the US flag over the Pripet Marshes? Pure imperialist insanity, nothing more. Patton wanted that war. FDR didn't. Truman didn't. Ike didn't. The American people didn't. No solder or airman in his right mind wanted it. Ike's broad front strategy was very effective. It secured Western Europe with comparatively light American (and Allies) casualties. The one time he let himself be led astray was by the British in Market Garden, and that disaster taught the Allies that a narrow breakthrough was not the way to end the war. The way we did it worked, for sure. Patton's way was a roll of the dice, at the risk of a huge number of American lives, for WHAT? That Brandenburg and West Prussia were under Soviet occupation was preferable to losing 100,000 American lives to grab it first. If the Russians want the grey boggy plains of East Germany, who cares? Really? Is THAT worth killing so many American boys over? No, it wasn't. Fortunately, sane heads prevailed. Patton was good at what he was asked to do. He was a good operational commander. He was a bad grand strategist - his approach would have been very costly in American lives. Ike's conservative approach sought certain victory with minimal Western casualties. And it succeeded.
I am not a battle historian, but the above paragraph in the OP caught my eye. If true, it would tend to cast doubt on the version of events that Vicompte13 posted. In answer to Liberator's poll quesiton: Yes, I believe he was assassinated via a high level plot. He was making a lot of noise about continuing into Russia to overthrow the communist regime. That was making people on both sides edgy. I recall quite a bit of discussion of this on FR nearly 20 years ago.
Thanks for your answer and opine on whether Patton was taken out. As to Vic's revisionism (dunno whose source he used), I assume it was BRADLEY and Commander X who stupidly and sloppily mired US troops down in the dumb trap known as The Battle of the Bulge. Patton RELIEVED those guys while covering SOMEBODY'S azz. If not for Patton's Army, hundreds of thouands of Americans are butchered.
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#7. To: Vicomte13, Liberator (#4)
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.
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