Thursday, January 12, 2012

The Russian Spy Who 'Saved' Churchill, Stalin And Roosevelt From Assassination

Target: The 'Big Three' allied wartime leaders Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference in December 1943

Russian Spy Who 'Saved' Churchill, Stalin And Roosevelt From Assassination Dies, Aged 87 -- Daily Mail

A legendary Russian spy who foiled a Nazi plot to assassinate Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt has died aged 87, the former KGB announced yesterday.

Gevork Andreyevich Vartanyan, codenamed Amir, ensured the safety of the three leaders by exposing a plot to kill them at the historic 1943 Tehran conference of the 'Big Three' Allies.

He was just 19 at the time but he led a group of young Soviet agents to disrupt a German plot codenamed Operation Long Jump to wipe out the leaders of Britain, the USSR and the US.

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My Comment: Of course the Russian government is lauding this spy's accomplishments .... but I wonder how many British agents working in the former Soviet Union were exposed by him, and how many of them ended up with a bullet in the head.

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