Monday, December 22, 2008

Silencing Old Blood and Guts

Bazata ... 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... 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. [Bazata] confessed to me that he had caused the accident, that he was ordered to do so by Wild Bill Donovan. Holy shit.

5 comments:

Mr roT said...

This rumor has been going around since the day after. Cui bono? If the answer is the Russkies and other pinkos, then anything is believable.
For it to have been one of our guys, then why not do in MacArthur that way in the 50s?

Sounds like BS but BS that will never die.

Arelcao Akleos said...

Of course, with the penetration of our military and "intelligence" services by the NKVD during WWII, it may well have been that there were soviet agents helping this within our ranks. It would have made sense to have done so.
However, it's all horsehooey now. Now, the Soviet agents just run for office in a Progressive state.

Tecumseh said...

That the Russkies had something (quite a lot, in fact) with Patton's demise is well-known, and pretty much accepted wisdom (even the movie hints at it, though rather coyly). What's new here is the assertion that the OSS had a hand, too. And this is not mere hearsay, but rather, confession from the gunman himself.

As for MacArthur, the spat with Truman was just too public, and he was just so well known and adored, no way an "accident" could have happened without a hue and a cry of monster proportions. But Patton kicked the bucket right after the end of WWII, in Germany, at a time when his star was dimming (after all, he was just one of many generals), and he had much, much less influence than MacArthur had as big poombah in Japan right after the war, and then in Korea after he kicked commie ass, and wanted to nuke the Red Chinese when they crossed the Yalu River.

It's a long story, boys -- we should spend a few hours in front of some Tawny port, or single malt, or something good, and reminisce about the good ole days from just before we came to be.

Mr roT said...

Patton was not just one of many generals, AI. He wass super famous and a publicity hound. Everyone knew him, more than a Bradley or a Donovan (who?).

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