"General George S. Patton assassinated?" Topic

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.

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.

Didn't I see this plot in the day of the Jackal?

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Thanks Hornswoggler.

The real crime is that a 1000 years from now this is going to be required reading in history classes.

Quite mad. MacArthur was more dangerous and stood a real chance of the Presidency and 'they' did not behead him.

Kill Patton and get found out and that's a treason charge!! Who, high up is going to take that chance.

Wasn't this a movie where George Kennedy played Patton and John Cassevetes played the assian who shot Patton with a rubber disk AKA hockey puck?

That'd be "The Brass Target",G.B..

Sounds like revisionist poop to me.

It was Martians. Martians are always responsible for bad stuff.

Was it anywhere near a grassy knoll, by any chance?

With black helicopters hovering over it, and saucers flying CAP over them.

Definitely Martians…in fact Zombie Vampire Knights Templar Martians at that.

I blame the French.They are the root cause of all misery in Europe. If they didn't cook well and make great wines; well you know. They were behind Patton's assassination because he was obsessed with the cordon rouge rather than the cordon bleu. Zut alors! ;)
Rod Robertson

MacArthur was more dangerous and stood a real chance of the Presidency and 'they' did not behead him.

Perhaps 'they' did not, but 'Give 'em hell Harry' sure
did…politically, at least…

Didn't Max van Sydow shot him?

Was he assassinated by a cyborg from the future?

No, Lee Harvey Oswald and his extraterrestrial friends did it to help Elvis.

"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."
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so there's not really much evidence.

All fits in i suspect with a certain world pov- no coincidence that if you google the name Bazata you see the likes of 'StormFront' (not a weather related site) 'Whiteswillwin' (not a site about laundry wars) and various other knuckle draggers esp Holocaust revisionists who are all especially fixated on Bazata being Jewish and describe the OSS as a terrorist organisation – presumably for having the temerity to attack the Master Race with those nice uniforms they had. Given Patton's quoted views on Jews I guess its not surprising that such groups act like they do.

Hitler did it…

Sounds like revisionist poop to me.

Lol!

"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Aren't all historians revisionists?

> No, Lee Harvey Oswald and his extraterrestrial friends did it to help Elvis.

We all know that Kennedy shot himself (or did he miss every time, I forget)

Actually there are at least three Assassination theories I've seen in the last 20 years.

1.) NKVD feared Patton and America now with the bomb. Given Patton's call to re-arm the Germans and make Barbarossa II a reality they figured the easiest way out was assassination. However, we know this can not be true because if you have ever seen an actual Russian assassination they are bloody as hell as they don't care about collateral damage. :-) Ok, there was the one time they used a ricin tipped umbrella and the other time they used radioactive isotopes. I give it a 10% chance of being remotely true.

2.) The Nazis wanted him dead. Sure. Why not? He grabbed them by the nose and kicked them in the ass. Revenge is a good motive for assassination. 15% chance.

3.) OSS did it. The low velocity shot is what ruins this story entirely. Patton was conscious for days. He would have said something. Total rubbish. The only assassination being done here is character assassination! 0%

4.) Invent your own. Shell shocked vets did it! Monty's ADC did it! God Almighty got sick of the blaspheming and HE did it!

How was McArthur more dangerous during WWII? The problems he had came to fruition in Korea and disregarding presidential orders. I don't know of problems during WWII and I seriously doubt Truman would have put up with any.

By the way, McArthur was right regarding Korea. Not with nuclear weapons but with taking the fight to the Chinese. 1MM plus "volunteers" and we did nothing other than fight the Chinese on the peninsula.

Patton had his nose thumped by the powers that be. He was right about employing former Nazis in reconstruction. Just as in Italy, it was impossible to find competent administrators who weren't former Fascists.

What Patton never learned is that senior General positions in the Army have as much to do with politics as they do with leadership. Nothing has changed by the way, the most competent leaders aren't necessarily the ones at the Lt. General positions and higher. A prime example was the issuing of black berets allegedly motivated by a General who never earned the right to wear one prior to his changing the rules. Illogical and dumb decision. Hell, most Green Berets only wear them when they have to. NOT the preferred headwear at all.

The idea of assassinating with a weapon that could keep him alive for days is totally preposterous!
Why, that is as ludicrous as giving Hitler drugs to make his voice squeaky, or Castro something to make his beard fall out! Totally unbelievable.

My Great uncle claimed he was a medic and attended to Patton after he was shot by a sniper. All those at the site were rounded up and held until they signed papers saying they would not disclose the real cause of death. His service record shows he was in the area of the car crash when it happened. He also claims that Patton was buried overseas to prevent any exhumation of the body. It was a closed casket funeral. The reason for the coverup was the fear that the Russians had assassinated him and disclosure would start another war in Europe. Patton died at the scene and it took 12 days to come up with a cover story and make sure they had everyone on the same page.At least that's what he claimed back in the 50's.

Patton had a reputation for being outspoken – you would think that in the 12 days before he died in hospital, he might have mentioned something about being shot – at least to his wife who flew in from the US to be with him. Unless of course you think she was an NKVD agent…

If I cant earn a black one, I will just issue one. I hated that.

I just dont see how Patton was that important. Big risk, for what gain? And it is not like Patton was in a position to do a lot on his own.

And if it was a hit, it was a very poor one. I would have thought the Soviets where a lot better at getting people than that.

Just cant make it make sense.

Owen