Mae Brussell: Fritz Kraemer and Gladio

[Peter Lemkin]

Wilcox says Patton mentioned the Pilsen factories several times in his diaries and found nothing of note.

The gold was only one aspect of his knowledge of the prosecution of the war, the blunders and pandering which left 20,000 American and 20,000 British in the hands of Stalin whose enslavement of Eastern Europe was allowed by Roosevelt, Truman et al.

Eisenhower was down with all of it, and would in the aftermath of the JFK assassination remark that U.S. assassins and would-be assassins were disgruntled.

Patton would've had too much leverage on the Gladiators.

He was the only person injured when a deuce and a half T-boned his Cadillac en route to a hunt. He thereupon showed good recovery until his sudden death in his wife's rare absence from his bedside.

His public threats against the Soviet Union and Stalin were enough to unite U.S. and Soviet intelligence against him.

How could there have been a 45-year Cold War with an anticommunist general headed for a position of political power intending to defeat the enemy.

I'd not argue against any of the above, Phil. Patton, besides his troops, had G2, T2, and OSS and other such teams [large ones] traveling with his troops. Yes, the large munitions, canon and tank factory in Pilsen was a target; however, my research shows [this is yet unpublished] that the highly secret and smaller projects run by that enterprise were NOT in Pilsen, but in Pribram and a few other nearby towns - hidden underground in old mines or innocuous factory buildings - or both. I'm not sure if Patton knew all that these intelligence teams located - but likely knew the outlines and could have found out, if he wanted to. [about six months after the war ended the USA stages a highly secret mission in Czechoslovakia to recover Nazi buried 'things'. Czechoslovakia was a friendly nation at the time and discovered the mission - disguised as one to recover downed pilots - just as the American team was making its get-away; part of the team was arrested when they returned to their hotel in Prague, but the things they had dug up at night in the forests south of Prague were already in W. Berlin using a old magic trick and switching identical groups of trucks.....I have a good idea what was discovered and never returned to the Czechoslovaks.] I hope to write this all up some day - as it relates to much of what we see in the post WW2 period and Cold War to today. Bill Kelly would be interested to know that the US secret mission even had a NANA 'reporter' with them.

Yes, there is one theory that Soviet intelligence teamed up with some Americans to do in Patton - each for their own reasons. I don't dismiss it, but find it highly unlikely. There were MANY things that Patton could have been murdered for and the exact one [or ones] we don't yet know, exactly. His death was not a natural one. The man who crashed into his car, admitted he was assigned to the plot just before his death....but that admission was NOT necessary.