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Harry H. Semmes,
Portrait of Patton
(Paperback Library, 1964).
Ronald Seth,
The Executioners: The Story of SMERSH
(New York: Hawthorne Books, 1967).
Thomas Parrish, The Simon And Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978).
Harris R. Smith,
OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency
, (Berkeley: University of California, 1972).
Strategic Services Unit,
War Report of the O.S.S.
(prepared by History Project, Strategic Services Unit (successor to the OSS), published by Walker Publishing Co., Wash., D.C., 1976).
Thomas F. Troy,
Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency
, Volume Two; CIA Intelligence Institute, 1975, declassified version, obtained from CIA website
Unstated,
History of the Counter Intelligence Corps
(30 vols., uncensored, April 1960 United States Army Intelligence, Fort Holabird, Baltimore 19, MD, accessed at NARA, College Park).
Nancy Wake, Nancy;
The Autobiography of the Woman the Gestapo Called ‘The White Mouse’
(Melbourne: Sun Books, 1986).
Charles Whiting,
Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory 1944
(New York: Sarpedon, 1996).
Earl F. Ziemke,
The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany 1944-1946
(Washington DC: Army Historical Series, Center of Military History, 1975).
ARTICLES
:
Robert S. Allen, “Patton’s Secret: ‘I am Going to Resign From the Army,”’
Army 21
(June 1971): pp. 29-33.
Anonymously authored 2000 treatise entitled
Belarusian Nazi during the World War II and their work for the Cold War
. It discusses Nazi collaborators from Belarus, a country formerly under Soviet domination, and their use by the US after the war, especially by the CIA. It is on the net at
www.geocities.com/dudar2000/Bcc.htm?200532
and the author says it is taken primarily from
The Belarus Secret
by John Loftus.
Anonymously authored 1964 CIA memorandum prepared for the Warren Commission investigating President Kennedy’s assassination. It is titled, “Soviet Use of Assassination and Kidnapping,” obtained at NARA, College Park, from the CIA CD available from computers on the third floor library—A4
Robert L. Benson, “The Venona Story,” NSA website.
Joy Billington, “Douglas Bazata—A Many-Faceted Man,”
The Sunday Star and Daily News
, Wash., D.C., September 17, 1972.
Jeffrey Burds, “Ethnicity, Memory, and Violence: Reflections on Special Problems in Soviet & East European Archives,” an article in “Archives, Documentation, and the Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar, 2000-200l,” University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, forthcoming November 2005.
George Fowler, “Patton and Son,” an interview with Maj. Gen. George S. Patton discussing his father, the famed World War II commander:
The Barnes Review
, January 1995.
——————-, “Patton: A ‘New Realism’,”
The Barnes Review
, January 1999.
Pat Hammond, “Ex-Agent: Patton’s Death No Accident,” (Manchester)
New Hampshire Sunday News
, January 9, 1994.
Andrew S. Harding, “Two General Apart: Patton and Eisenhower,” Senior Thesis for Manchester College found on
MilitaryHistoryOnline.com
.
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, “In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage,”
Insight Book Review
, October 10, 2003.
Peter Kirsanow, “Patton & Preferences II: Competence is colorless,”
National Review
Online, February 11, 2004.
Robert D. Novak, “Stalin’s Agents,” The Schwarz Report, reprint from
The Weekly Standard
, December 25, 2000, pp.40-42.
Eric Pace, “Douglas DeWitt Bazata, Artist And O.S.S. Officer, Dies at 88,” August 22, 1999,
New York Times.
Michael E. Parrish, “Soviet Espionage and the Cold War,”
Diplomatic History
, Volume 25, Issue 1, found on
www.politcalreviewnet.com
—A31 (its in my “Donovan Communist Sympathies” file.
Martin Price, “Who Killed Patton?,”
The Spotlight
, October 15, 1979.
Rorin M. Platt, “Red Care or Red Menace?,”
News & Observer
(Raleigh, NC)
January 31, 1999.
Ronald Radosh, “Redhanded: Venona comes to PBS,”
Weekly Standard
, February 4, 2002.
Stephen J. Skubik, “A German synagogue 39 years later,”
The Keene (New Hampshire) Sentinel
, July 6, 1984.
“The Press and General Patton,” Patton Society Research Library.
Jeffrey St. John,,”Reflections of a Fighting Father,” Patton Society Research Library, 1985.
NOTES
Chapter One: The Last Ride
1
With Korea, Vietnam, and their aftermath factored in.
2
Woodring had been driving Patton for a few months.
3
He believed in reincarnation and that he had fought in major battles in previous lives before. See
The Unknown Patton
, 247-259, for a poem he wrote, “Through a Glass, Darkly,” telling of his past warrior lives. It begins, “Through the travail of the ages, Midst the pomp and toil of war, Have I fought and strove and perished, Countless times upon this star....”
4
Hammelburg, Germany. His son-in-law was Lt. Col. John Waters. Richard Baron, Abraham Baum, & Richard Goldhurst,
Raid!: The Untold Story of Patton’s Secret Mission
(Dell Publishing: Random House), 1981.
5
Ladislas Farago,
The Last Days of Patton
(Berkley, 1981), 31.
6
Francis Sanza, interview by the author, July, 2005.
7
Patton diaries, August 18 and August 27, 1945. Library of Congress.
8
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin,
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
(Basic Books, 1999), 147- 148. It describes how FDR and Stalin laughed together at a “scowling” Winston, making fun of him, who then had to join in. FDR said he and Stalin were “like brothers.”
9
As evidenced by many of the social programs of Roosevelt’s “New Deal” policies, such as government-subsidized jobs and Social Security. Roosevelt’s two-term vice president and secretary of commerce, Henry Wallace was a socialist champion of the Soviet Union and ran for president against Democrats in 1948 on the Progressive ticket.
10
Patton diaries, August 8, 1945.
11
James D. Sanders, Mark A. Sauter, & R. Cort Kirkwood.
Soldiers of Misfortune
(National Press Books, 1992); Barrett Tillman, “Whatever Happened to Harley Hall,”
Tailhook
, summer 1999.
12
Particularly those from Eastern Bloc countries under Russian rule.
13
Patton diaries, August 29, 1945.
14
Robert S. Allen, “Patton’s Secret: ‘I am Going to Resign From the Army,”’
Army 21
(June 1971): 29-33. Allen served with Patton.
15
Patton diaries, May 6 and August 27, 1945.
Chapter Two: A Curious Crash
1
Mason King, “Gumshoe family ducks cloak-and-dagger stereotypes,”
Indianapolis Business Journal
, September 30, 1996.
2
Ladislas Farago,
Patton: Ordeal and Triumph
(Dell, 1970).
3
Ladislas Farago, Omar Bradley, Francis Ford Coppola, & Edmund North.
Patton
, directed by Franklin Schaffner. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 1970.
4
Ladislas Farago & William Luce.
The Last Days of Patton,
directed by Delbert Mann. Entertainment Partners, 1986.
5
Ladislas Farago,
The Last Days of Patton
(Berkley, 1985).
6
Ibid.
7
Ibid.
8
Nick Longworth interview by the author, Fall, 1996.
9
Ibid.
Chapter Three: The Jedburgh
1
Ben Parnel,
Carpetbaggers: America’s Secret War in Europe
(Austin: Eakin Press, 1993).
2
Robert R. Kehoe, “Jed Team Frederick 1944: An Allied Team with the French Resistance,” CIA Archive, (
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/docs/v42i5a03p.htm
).
3
Col. Aaron Bank,
From OSS to Green Berets: The Birth of Special Forces
(Presidio Press, 1986); Col. Aaron Bank & E. M. Nathanson,
Knight’s Cross
(Birch Lane Press, 1993).
4
In later years Bazata would refer to himself as “one of Donovan’s original 38.” Gordon Chaplin, “I Learned to Keep a Secret,”
Potomac
magazine,
Washington Post
, June 6, 1976.
5
Occidental records, among others, show that he captained both the football and baseball teams, was a star at track, and was voted Southern California “Athlete of the Year” in 1903, a fact repeated in his
New York Times
obituary October 1, 1951.
6
Written in a formerly “secret” OSS “Interviewer’s Report,” dated “19 Feb 45” and signed by “John A Kneipp, 1Lt., MC, AUS.” Douglas Bazata’s CIA file.
7
Douglas Bazata, interviews by the author, September, 1996.
8
Ibid.
9
Douglas Bazata’s FBI file.
10
Now in the possession of the author with copies distributed to others for safe-keeping.
11
Ibid.
12
Douglas Bazata to “Xistian” not further identified, 16th July, probably, but not for certain, 1974.
13
The marines didn’t have an official champion. The designation was simply agreed upon by officials involved in the various fights.
14
According to his letters and diaries. Chicago papers confirm that Baer, Sharkey and Johnson were at the fair and exhibitions were fought.
15
The injury is attested to in his Veteran’s Administration records and was viewed by the author.
16
A May 9, 1942 story in the
Washington Post
tells how “eyes popped” as he scored 298 hits out of a possible 300 at a firing demonstration at Ft. Meade, Md.
17
Bernard Knox,
Essays Ancient and Modern
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).
18
Ibid.; William Colby,
Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA
(Simon & Schuster, 1978), 35.
19
Marie-Pierre Bazata, interview by the author, September 1996.
20
Lt. Col. H.W. Fuller, U.S.M.C. R., Douglas Bazata CIA file.
21
In all, Bazata gave me over 35 diaries. Some have hundreds of handwritten pages. In my system of filing, I call them “Ledgers.” This came from Ledger 11, pages 7-8. In a private letter addressed to “Cher Rochard” (not otherwise identified) and dated “30 August 1980”—one of many letters he also gave to the author—he wrote the same claim more succinctly: “I first went into the USA professional killing trade via the Marines.”
22
See Adm. Freeman’s biography (
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/
cfreeman. htm). He died in 1969.
23
Carpetbaggers
; Lt. Col Will Irwin,
The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces
(France 1944) contain details of the mission, as does Thomas L. Ensminger’s Carpetbagger website at (
http://home.comcast.net/~801492bg.historian/MainMenu.htm
). Used to recreate the mission was Bazata’s own OSS after-action report, The U.S. National Archives; and George Millar,
Maquis: The French Resistance at War
(first published in Great Britain by William Heinemann, 1945).
24
This exceptionally low figure comes from two letters written by Bazata which include details of the drop. One is addressed to a “Jack S,” not otherwise identified, and dated “3 Mar ’79.” The other is from the last page of a three page letter unfortunately separated from its first two pages and identified only by “June 21st” on the top.
25
Carpetbaggers
, 69-70.
26
Two letters by Bazata about the jump dated “3 Mar 79” and “June 21.” Bazata indicates this happened as he hit a telephone or electric wire close to the ground.
27
Douglas Bazata to Bill Colby, December 15—probably written in the 1970s. Bazata and Colby had a deep relationship that hit rocky ground in their later years. Colby mentions Bazata fondly in his 1978 autobiography,
Honorable Men.
28
Bazata letter, December 15.
29
CEDRIC daily summaries, U.S. National Archives.
30
Maquis
, 316.
31
The fact that Bazata used it to treat his wound is in a 16 December 1944 OSS medical report about him.

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