It is hard to believe that Patton's accident and death did not involve foul play. But much of the evidence from that time vanished.
Thompson's account in Wilcox is emblematic of someone who was both an apparatchik type and someone who had something big to hide about the Patton matter, and whose account in Wilcox was patently false throughout. He also died suddenly under suspicious circumstances.
Bazata's account, although confused, inconsistent, and tormented, makes little sense as an attempt to make money or get back at someone in particular.
The account in The Haunted Wood regarding the OSS demonstrates just how much the agency, and Donovan in particular, had come under the sway of the Soviets, to the point that OSS was a veritable vassal agency especially in Eastern Europe, and that giving over Eastern Europe to Soviet control had been agreed long before the end of the war by FDR.
In my view, all this made silencing Patton even though he had been relieved of command which itself was largely the work of Soviet influencers in the FDR admin as well as FDR's own leftist leanings, before he could return to the states as a private citizen and anti Soviet political figure, a truly urgent matter for the Soviets.
Churchill, at least, had the great virtue of never having displayed or kidded himself that he was Stalin's or the Bolsheviks' close friend and ideological ally. FDR was unabashed about being and seeming both.
He acted on it decisively by agreeing to give
Stalin Eastern Europe, at a time and under circumstances when the Allies could easily have taken control rather than the Soviets. Patton begged Eisenhower to act, passages which I have cited in the past.
The relevant passages in The Haunted Wood make plain that the stage was already being set through joint covert operations in eastern Europe for the Soviets to smoothly assume control.
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