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TIL that a secret soviet intelligence agent is primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. This might be responsible for saving the world.

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