*NEW BOOK CLAIMS GENERAL PATTON WAS ASSASSINATED
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3869117/General-George-S.-Patton-was-assassinated-to-silence-his-criticism-of-allied-war-leaders-claims-new-book.html>*
*Telegraph, UK *- 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 colorful assassin for the wartime Office of Strategic
Services, 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." . . .
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. . .
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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