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Operation Long Jump, 1943


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    • Long Jump, Operation, 1943
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    • found: Work cat: The Nazi conspiracy, 2023:CIP galley (November 28, 1943, previous evening Soviet intelligence officials notified U.S. security of a plot to kill Roosevelt. And Churchill. And Stalin; In the 1960s, a renewed public appetite for World War II espionage stories led to several sensationalized and semifictionalized treatments of the plot; During this time, an anecdote emerged that the Nazi planners had a special name for the assassination mission: Unternehmen Weitsprung, or "Operation Long Jump." This became the officialterminology for the plot in the press and the popular literature--and still is to this day--although there's no clear evidence that this name was ever used by the Germans or anyone else at the time; Otto Skorzeny and Walter Schellenberg met with Hitler at the Wolf 's Lair in early November 1943, specifically to talk about the possibility of assassinating the Big Three in Tehran)
    • found: Operation Long Jump, 2015: page 61, etc. (Operation Long Jump was easily the most ambitious targeted killing plot of the war; The Operation Long Jump hit teams would be led by members of Skorzeny's Sonderlehrgang; The intention of Operation Long Jump had been to decapitate the Allies, to render them momentarily leaderless)
    • found: Hitler's plot to kill the Big Three, 1969:page 116 ("Operation Long Jump" (code name for the attempt on the lives of the Big Three) page 263 (in September, 1965, a brief article entitled "Operatsia Dalnii Prijok" ("Operation Long Jump") appeared in the Russian publication Ogoniok, in which the author, Alexandr Lukin, related how the Soviet secret service had discovered and foiled single-handedly the assassination plot in Tehran)
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    • 1986-02-11: new
    • 2023-02-22: revised
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