In 1983, the Soviet Filming and Distribution film "43 Years of Tehran" described on screen a legend from 40 years ago. Male No. 1 is played by the handsome French uncle Alain Deron, and his other film that is more widely known to Chinese audiences is "Zorro".
This legend from 40 years ago is that at the end of 1943, during the meeting of the leaders of britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union in Tehran, the German Military Intelligence Service planned a plan to assassinate the Big Three, code-named "Operation Long Jump", which was carried out under the command of SS Special Forces Chief Skolzny. As a result of the Interception of intelligence by the Soviets, the "Operation Far Jump" conspiracy was crushed, the Tehran Conference of the Big Three was successfully held, and the second european battlefield was successfully opened. This is the story of "43 Years of Tehran".
The reality in 1943 was that the Soviets called a SS officer named Otter an alcoholic, drunk as soon as he got drunk, and talked a lot when drunk. It was he, after a drunken trip, who would have a major operation in Tehran, revealed to a Soviet spy of a Wehrmacht officer, whose real name was Paul Siebel, whose real name was Nikolai Kuznetsov. Kuznev immediately reported the information to the Soviet Union. Later, the Soviets learned of Operation Long Jump from Valtanyan.
According to the Soviets, the Germans planned to airdrop two Einsatzgruppens, each on the mission of assassinating the Big Three. They planned to arrange for people to infiltrate the Soviet Embassy and plant explosives in order to kill Stalin, who was living there during the conference. For Roosevelt and Churchill, sniper shooting was arranged on the way from the British Embassy and the American Embassy to the meeting place. However, since the first German parachutes into Iran were first monitored and then arrested, and the leaks were detected by the Germans, Skolzner ordered the cancellation of the operation.
Stalin informed Roosevelt and Churchill of the assassination plot and asked them to stay in the Soviet embassy, but the two refused, insisting on staying in their respective embassies on the other side of the city. Roosevelt's diary and the diary of a diplomat in the British delegation at the time recorded information sent by the Soviets.
But many members of the British and American delegations expressed doubts about the existence of such a plan. Because the Soviet Union was the only source of all information, The British and American intelligence agencies were completely unaware of any clues. In London, the British Wartime Cabinet Intelligence Committee assessed this and concluded that the German plan to murder the Big Three was pure nonsense, and the Soviets smashed the conspiracy, which was of course even more nonsense. The results of the analysis of the American intelligence agencies are the same as those of the British.
Not only the British and Americans, but also the Germans denied having such a plan. The first to stand up against it was Skolzner, who was known to have been in charge of the assassination. After the war, he told his interrogators that German intelligence did know that the Big Three would meet in secret in Tehran. Some people did have the idea of assassinating Churchill, but never considered Roosevelt. He had a meeting with Hitler and Walter Schlenburg of the Intelligence Service to discuss the feasibility of assassinating Churchill. He told the Führer that the idea was unrealistic, and Hitler agreed with his analysis.
In his memoirs, Skolzny wrote, "The so-called 'long-jump operation' really exists only in the imagination of a small group of people who disregard reality. He harshly denounced Soviet intelligence agencies for forging a man named Otter, too, nor of a double agent named Paul Siebel. He said there were no such people in the German intelligence agencies, inside and out. Someone consulted the archives of the Soviet intelligence agencies and found that there was no spy on the Soviet side named Nikolai Kuznetsov. The name was given to the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy during World War II.
Some German historians and prominent researchers of the Third Reich also believe that this action was a figment of the Soviet imagination. For example, Heinz, a well-known historian, expert on the Third Reich and author of the biography of Wilhelm Canalis, the director of German military intelligence during World War II, once wrote for Der Spiegel that such a plan did not exist at all.
In the years that followed, the debate over the story never stopped. The denier argues that, first of all, the German spy network in Iran was completely destroyed in 1943, when Tehran was finally chosen as the meeting, leaving only a remnant that the Germans could not have been able to carry out such a large-scale operation. Second, although the Iranian king at the time had pro-German tendencies, the situation was that the north was the Soviet sphere of influence, and the south was full of mixed British, Australian, and Indian troops. Reza Khan was forced to abdicate on 15 September, passing the throne to his eldest son Pahlavi. On the 17th, the Soviet Union and Britain declared complete control over Iran. In January 1943, the United States also landed in Iran.
But in the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, there was an enduring public enthusiasm for the story. In 2003, an author named Yuri held a press conference in Moscow for his new book, also titled 43 Years of Tehran. He said the book was based on declassified archives that described Valtanyan's role in smashing Operation Far Jump. Valtanyan did have a man, but there is no further evidence of what his role was in 1943. In 2007, Russian television produced a documentary called The Lion and the Bear' Tale, which used archives of Operation Visceral and was hosted by Churchill's granddaughter Celia Sandys.
Pavel Sudopathov, who had been director of the Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, also published his memoir Special Mission. The book refers to the atomic bomb intelligence war with the United States and the "Long Jump Program", describing the details of Kuznetsov's plot against the German official Oster. Sudoplatov claimed that Oster owed Kuznetsov a large sum of money, and Kuznetsov promised that after the Tehran operation, Oster would not only not have to pay back, but also get another sum of money and a fine Persian carpet.
Later, another Hungarian writer, rather than a Writer from the Soviet Union, the United States or Britain, wrote a book supposedly reflecting the "Far Jump Project" to assassinate the Big Three, but the impact and sales were mediocre.
The UK government's dossiers on the Tehran meeting will be declassified in 2017. But whether the declassified archives can confirm the legend of "operation long jump", British and American media and researchers said, there is no expectation.