Remembering "Operation Wedding," the Event That Kick-Started the Movement to Free Soviet Jewry https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/history-ideas/2017/02/remembering-operation-wedding-the-event-that-kick-started-the-movement-to-free-soviet-jewry/

In June 1970, fourteen Soviet Jews who had been refused permission to emigrate tried to steal an airplane to fly themselves to freedom in the West. Led by Edouard Kuznetsov and Mark Dymshits, the group had spent months plotting their move.