Teheran, January 5, 2008
UK,
Russia depict 1943 Nazi plot
A UK-Russia documentary series is to
portray the Nazi plan to assassinate the three leaders
during their WWII Teheran meeting.
'The Lion and the Bear' for release in 2008, will
portray Adolf Hitler's 'Long Jump Operation' to kill
Joseph Stalin, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston
Churchill during the Teheran summit of the allied
leaders in 1943.
The planned attempt was foiled on the eve of meeting
after Soviet Intelligence received a tip-off and ordered
under cover agent Gevork Vartanian to prevent the
assassination.
The film is a mix of documentary history, travelogue
and personal accounts and will be presented by author,
and Winston Churchill's granddaughter, Celia
Sandys.
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In
fact: Adolf Hitler secretly ordered that
Germany was never to carry out
assassinations:
 IN
an age in which the governments of the
democracies, both during World War II and in
later years, unhesitatingly attempted,
engineered, or condoned the assassination of
the inconvenient -- from General Sikorski,
Admiral Darlan, Field Marshal Rommel, and
King Boris to Fidel Castro, Patrice
Lumumba, and Salvador Allende --
we learn that Hitler, the unscrupulous
dictator, not only never resorted to the
assassination of foreign opponents, but
flatly forbade the Abwehr (Intelligence
Agency) to attempt it (in particular he
rejected Admiral Canaris's plans to
assassinate the Red Army General
Staff).
-- David
Irving, "Hitler's War"
(1977)
 NOR
was this all, for it appears that there were
deep-rooted objections to any German attempts
at assassination: when for example the German
Army General Staff had privately appealed to
[Lieutenant-General Erwin]
Lahousen's superior, Admiral
Canaris, for a sabotage attack on the
Russian military headquarters, Canaris had
visited the German General Staff's
headquarters and refused outright.
"In this connection,"
Lahousen had recorded in his diary on
February 2, 1943, "the Department Head
[Canaris] has expressly forbidden
Abwehr II [i.e., sabotage] attacks
directed against individual personages, on
principle." ...
Nor was Canaris
(right) the only one opposed to
political assassinations as a device of war,
for after German forensic experts had
determined that the apparently natural death
of King Boris of Bulgaria in August
1943 had in fact been caused by a poison,
apparently of Soviet origin,  Hitler
took the opportunity in private of commenting
that he had never understood why his enemies
sought to fight with means like these, when
he had never had an enemy statesman murdered
in his life. Hitler, of course, had most to
lose if a general war of assassination were
to be encouraged against unpopular heads of
state.
-- David Irving, Accident, The Death of
General Sikorski (London, 1967)
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