PoliticalChic
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So.....let's review:
Stalin wanted to be sure that a man with Patton's understanding of the aims of the communists were eliminated.
Roosevelt did everything he could to please Stalin.
Donovan did everything he could to please Roosevelt.
Bazata did everything he could to please Donovan.
10. " In 1979, OSS Jedburgh Douglas Bazata made the astounding assertion that he was part of a hit team that lay in wait for Patton's limousine.
He claimed that after the crash, he fired a low-velocity projectile into the back of Patton's neck in order to snap it. When Patton did not die immediately, Bazata said, the general was murdered in the hospital by NKVD agents using an odorless poison.
Bazata also swore that Wild Bill Donovan paid him ten thousand dollars plus another eight hundred dollars in expenses for his role in Patton's death.
.... Bazata held to his story.
On September 25, 1979, he described Patton's assassination to four hundred and fifty former OSS agents gathered for a reunion at the Washington Hilton.
Bazata was held in high esteem by members of the OSS. No less than William Colby, a former OSS agent who went on to become head of the Central Intelligence Agency, made a point of depicting Bazata's heroism in the 1978 book Honorable Men. [http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/22/w...azata-artist-and-oss-officer-dies-at-88.html]
Bazata's obituary in the New York Times on August 22, 1999, was specific in recounting his work behind enemy lines in France. However, for three decades after the general died, Bazata remained silent about his alleged role in Patton's death. These quotes come from a letter he wrote to a friend on August 2, 1975. He later confirmed these claims in a 1979 article in Spotlight magazine."
O'Reilly, "Op. Cit." chapter 26.
Stalin wanted to be sure that a man with Patton's understanding of the aims of the communists were eliminated.
Roosevelt did everything he could to please Stalin.
Donovan did everything he could to please Roosevelt.
Bazata did everything he could to please Donovan.
10. " In 1979, OSS Jedburgh Douglas Bazata made the astounding assertion that he was part of a hit team that lay in wait for Patton's limousine.
He claimed that after the crash, he fired a low-velocity projectile into the back of Patton's neck in order to snap it. When Patton did not die immediately, Bazata said, the general was murdered in the hospital by NKVD agents using an odorless poison.
Bazata also swore that Wild Bill Donovan paid him ten thousand dollars plus another eight hundred dollars in expenses for his role in Patton's death.
.... Bazata held to his story.
On September 25, 1979, he described Patton's assassination to four hundred and fifty former OSS agents gathered for a reunion at the Washington Hilton.
Bazata was held in high esteem by members of the OSS. No less than William Colby, a former OSS agent who went on to become head of the Central Intelligence Agency, made a point of depicting Bazata's heroism in the 1978 book Honorable Men. [http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/22/w...azata-artist-and-oss-officer-dies-at-88.html]
Bazata's obituary in the New York Times on August 22, 1999, was specific in recounting his work behind enemy lines in France. However, for three decades after the general died, Bazata remained silent about his alleged role in Patton's death. These quotes come from a letter he wrote to a friend on August 2, 1975. He later confirmed these claims in a 1979 article in Spotlight magazine."
O'Reilly, "Op. Cit." chapter 26.