Hitler Tried to Assassinate Churchill, FDR, and Stalin in One Place
Perhaps no operation was more audacious or had greater consequences to the war’s outcome if it had succeeded than Long Jump.
Key Point: The assassination was scheduled to take place in Tehran.
In German it was called Operation Rösselsprung, which translates to “Long Jump.” Its goal was to kill or kidnap the Allies’ “Big Three” leaders––Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt when they met in Tehran, Iran, in November 1943. That the plan did not succeed is attributable to smart intelligence work, a drunken disclosure, and a bit of good luck.