Yenne - Operation Long Jump: Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Greatest Assassination Plot in History

OPERATION LONG JUMP

Copyright 2015 by Bill Yenne

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Yenne, Bill, 1949- author.

Operation Long Jump: Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the greatest assassina-tion plot in history / Bill Yenne.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Operation Long Jump. 2. World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Germany. 3. Conspiracies--Iran--Tehran--History--20th century. 4. Conspiracies--Germany--History--20th century. 5. Teheran Conference (1943: Tehran, Iran) 6. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. 7. Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953. 8. Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965. I. Title.

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Contents

DMITRI VASILEVICH ARKADIEV: the NKVD man who coordinated Soviet logistics for the Tehran Conference

GENERAL HENRY HAP ARNOLD: the commanding general of the USAAF, and a participant in the Tehran Conference

ELYESA BAZNA: a German asset in Turkey, called Cicero because the intelligence he provided spoke so eloquently

LAVRENTY BERIA: head of the Soviet NKVD and a probable participant in the Tehran Conference, though he kept to the shadows

CHIP BOHLEN: the first secretary at the American embassy in Moscow and Roosevelts translator in Tehran

GENERAL ALAN BROOKE: chief of the British General Staff, and a participant in the Tehran Conference

READER BULLARD: the veteran foreign service man who was the British ambassador to Iran

ADMIRAL WILHELM CANARIS: the head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence organization

KHALIL CHAPAT: a French-Iranian high school teacher and a fixture of the expat community in Tehran

WINSTON CHURCHILL: the Prime Minister of Great Britain and one of the targets of Operation Long Jump

GENERAL DONALD CONNOLLY: the engineer who headed the U.S. Armys Persian Gulf Command

ADMIRAL ANDREW CUNNINGHAM: chief of the Royal Naval Staff, and a participant in the Tehran Conference

JAMES DOWNWARD: an agent of the U.S. Office of War Information in Tehran

PERCY DOWNWARD: a covert agent of the British SOE operating in Tehran

LOUIS GOETHE DREYFUS: the veteran foreign service man who was the American ambassador to Iran

MISBAH EBTEHAJ: a practitioner of Pahlevani, a form of Iranian martial arts and someone who seemed to know everyone in Tehran

ANTHONY EDEN: foreign minister of the United Kingdom, and a participant in the Tehran Conference

ERWIN ETTEL: the veteran foreign service man and loyal Nazi who was the prewar German ambassador to Iran

PETER FERGUSON: an American adventurer and OSS man who hatched a scheme to thwart Long Jump

ROMAN GAMOTHA: an agent on the ground in Iran of the German SD spy agency

GEORG ALEXANDER HANSEN: the chief of the Abwehr counterintelligence component

AVERELL HARRIMAN: the American ambassador to the Soviet Union, and a participant in the Tehran Conference

STURMBANNFHRER RUDOLF VON HOLTEN-PFLUG: an aggressive and ambitious SS officer and a Long Jump team leader

HARRY HOPKINS: special assistant to President Roosevelt, and a participant in the Tehran Conference

GENERAL PATRICK HURLEY: Roosevelts personal troubleshooter in Russia and the Middle East, and a participant in the Tehran Conference

OBERGRUPPENFHRER ERNST KALTENBRUNNER: the head of the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) domestic and foreign intelligence agency

ARCHIBALD CLARK KERR: the British ambassador to the Soviet Union, a participant in the Tehran Conference

NASR KHAN: the warlord leader of the powerful Qashqai, a nomadic people who saw the Germans as liberators

ADMIRAL ERNEST KING: United States Chief of Naval Operations, a participant in the Tehran Conference

DANIEL KOMISSAROV: a Farsi-speaking translator and key figure within the Soviet embassy in Tehran

IDA KOVALSKA: a well-educated Polish refugee, part of the expat community in Tehran, and a confidante of spies

NIKOLAI IVANOVICH KUZNETSOV: a legendary NKVD double agent specializing in covert operations

ADMIRAL WILLIAM LEAHY: Roosevelts military chief of staff, also the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a participant in the Tehran Conference

GEORGE LENCZOWSKI: the press attach at the Polish embassy in Tehran

FITZROY MACLEAN: a legendary soldier of fortune and British covert operations master

GENERAL GEORGE MARSHALL: Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, and a participant in the Tehran Conference

MIKHAIL MAXIMOV: the Soviet ambassador to Iran, he replaced Andrei Smirnov in 1943

FRANZ MAYR: the longest-serving agent of the German SD spy network on the ground in Iran

ADMIRAL ROSS MCINTIRE: Roosevelts doctor

ERNST MERSER: a Swiss double agent operating for the SIS and the Abwehr in Tehran under cover as a businessman, he became the central figure in Operation Long Jump

ARTHUR MILLSPAUGH: the American fiscal genius who became Administrator General of Finances of Iran

VYACHESLAV MOLOTOV: the Soviet foreign commissar, and a participant in the Tehran Conference

SYDNEY MORRELL: a British Security Coordination agent under cover as a public affairs man

HABIBULLAH NOBAKHT: a pro-German Iranian politician, he gave aid and comfort to German spies

STURMBANNFHRER WINIFRED OBERG: the handler of German spies in the Middle East for the SD

STURMBANNFHRER HANS ULRICH VON ORTEL: an SS hit man, clever and aggressive, but he talked too much

MOHAMMAD REZA PAHLAVI: the timid son of Reza Shah who grew up to be a despot

HAROLD PETERS: an agent of the U.S. Office of War Information operating in Tehran

WANDA POLLACK: a young Polish refugee who was taken in by Ernst Merser, and who was to play an unwitting pivotal role in the Long Jump story

PAUL POURBAIX: a Belgian NKVD informant and a fixture of the Tehran expat community

MICHAEL FRANCIS REILLY: the head of the Secret Service White House Detail and Roosevelts bodyguard

LIEUTENANT (JG) BILL RIGDON: the U.S. Navy officer who was Roosevelts personal secretary at the Tehran conference

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT: the President of the United States and one of the targets of Operation Long Jump

BRIGADEFHRER WALTHER FRIEDRICH SCHELLENBERG: the head of SD-Ausland, the foreign espionage wing of the SD