Operation Long Jump (German: Unternehmen Weitsprung) was an alleged German plan to simultaneously assassinate Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt at the 1943 Tehran Conference during World War II. The operation to kill the “Big Three” Allied leaders in Iran was to be led by SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny from the Waffen SS. However agents from the Soviet Union uncovered the plot before its inception and the mission was never launched.
The assassination plan has been popularized today by the Russian media with appearances in films and novels. However many historians believe that the plan never existed and in fact was part of a Soviet disinformation campaign launched first by the NKVD and later the KGB.
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