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Operation long jump: Hitler's Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin
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- Echoes of War
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- May 15, 2026
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- 4009
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Summary
In 1943, with Nazi Germany reeling from catastrophic defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler allegedly approved one of the most audacious assassination plots in history — a plan to kill Roosevelt, Churchill, AND Stalin simultaneously. All three Allied leaders. In one city. In one strike. Operation Long Jump, as it has come to be known, was an alleged German scheme to eliminate all three leaders in a single, devastating strike. The plan reportedly relied on a sophisticated intelligence network already embedded in Iran, a country that, despite Allied occupation, remained a hotbed of Axis sympathizers and covert operatives. German intelligence services, operating under a fractured and rivalrous Nazi security apparatus, are said to have activated assets in Tehran to support the mission — a logistical undertaking of enormous complexity in the middle of a world war. Yet the operation never came to fruition, and the reasons why remain a matter of significant historical debate. Soviet intelligence claimed credit for uncovering and dismantling the plot before it could be executed. Roosevelt, meanwhile, was persuaded to relocate from the American legation to the Soviet embassy, ostensibly for security reasons — a move that, intentionally or not, placed him squarely within the reach of NKVD surveillance and raised uncomfortable questions about Allied trust and communication security. The validity of Operation Long Jump has been questioned by historians ever since. British and American intelligence agencies expressed skepticism at the time, and the absence of corroborating German documentation makes the plot difficult to verify. Much of the evidence originates from Soviet sources, including confessions extracted by the NKVD through methods that were notoriously coercive. Historians point out…