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FOREIGN RICHES STILL A MYSTERY
Patton's Third Army, in April 1945, discovered German treasure hidden in a salt mine near Merkers. One huge vault contained nearly 250 tons of gold, 2.7 billion Reichmarks, millions in foreign currencies and priceless objects. The treasure was transferred to allied authorities in Frankfurt.
In June 1945, part of the German gold reserve was found stashed in a cave in the Einsiedel Mountainside. The find was kept secret until the “Guiness Book of World Records,” thirty years later, reported that 728 gold bars and six sacks of money from this cache vanished.
The plot thickens. The team investigating the theft perished in a fire. Civilians who tipped off military police vanished. General George S. Patton died from injuries sustained in a minor auto accident. No autopsy was performed.
Patton's staff car was inching across railroad tracks when a slow-moving GI truck swerved into his huge 1938 Cadillac limousine, creasing its front fender. Neither General Hobart “Hap” Gay, who sat beside Patton, nor Patton's driver, Pfc. Horace Woodring, received a scratch. T/5 Robert L. Thompson, driver of the truck, was not detained, and simply vanished.
Former OSS (Office of Strategic Services; forerunner of the CIA) agent Douglas Bazata told the Washington Star that he was given $10,000 to “put him down”. He claims he did not assassinate Patton, but was told how it was done by a fellow spook credited for the deed. Polygraph tests taken by Bazata gave no evidence of lying.
Another aspect to this mystery has been ignored. What became of the fortune that was turned over to allied authorities? None of it was deposited into the U.S. Treasury.
Russell Stepanchak
Columbia, PA
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