Revealed: Hitler's Secret Plan to Assassinate Winston Churchill, FDR and Stalin

Thanks for reminding us PO1 Tony Holland about the top secret "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.
Perhaps no operation was more audacious or had greater consequences to the war’s outcome if it had succeeded than Long Jump. Former Soviet Lieutenant General and KGB intelligence officer Vadim Kirpichenko said, “The first secret report that this act was being planned came from Soviet intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov, who learnt about it during a conversation with SS-Sturmbannführer Ulrich von Ortel. Ortel was the chief of the sabotage group in Copenhagen, which was preparing the operation. While drunk, the senior German counterintelligence officer blurted out that preparations were underway to assassinate the Big Three. Later the Soviet Union and Britain discovered other facts confirming that preparations had been made to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt.”

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Thanks for the read. While the article brings up the point that the Soviets may have fabricated the story of as plot to get FDR in accommodations where he could be spied on, you would think that any post war memoirs by Skorzeny would have shed light on it either way.
The US also mulled over plots to kill Hitler, including one where a team dressed as SS guards would be infiltrated in to the Wolf's Lair and take him out with a sniper. It was deemed as too high of a risk with little chance of Success to carry out. By Early 1945 the Allies came to the conclusion that Hitler himself was the biggest "fly in the ointment" of the Nazi war Machine. Killing him would only result in a more competent foe.

Great history share Tony.