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This is a list of Soviet secret police officers and agents who have defected.
Name
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Defection date
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Country of defection
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Comment
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Georgiy Sergeyevich Agabekov[1]
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1930
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France
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Disappeared around August, 1937. Body never recovered.
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Ignace Reiss
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1937, July
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Switzerland
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On September 4, 1938, Reiss was gunned down by an NKVD hit squad.
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Walter Germanovich Krivitskiy[1]
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1937, October
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France
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Found dead in his hotel room on Feb. 10, 1941 with a gunshot wound to the temple. Suspected foul play.
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Genrikh Samoilovich Lyushkov
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1938
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Japan
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Executed by Japan in 1945, to avoid his recapture by the Soviet Union.
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov[1]
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1938
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Canada
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Authenticity of defection disputed[2]
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Lev Borisovich Helfand[1]
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1940
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Italy
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Igor Grigoryevich Orlov
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1943
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Germany
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Re-recruited as Soviet agent in 1949
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Viktor Andreyevich Kravchenko[1][2]
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1944
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United States
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Not an intelligence officer
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Anatoliy Mikhailovich Granovskiy
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1946
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Sweden
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Petr Sergeyevich Deryabin[1][2]
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1953
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Austria
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Nikolay Yevgenyevich Khokhlov
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1954
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West Germany
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Victim of thallium poisoning in 1957. Survived.[3]
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Yuriy Aleksandrovich Rastvorov[1]
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1954
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Japan
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Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov[1][2]
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1954, April 3
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Australia
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Led to the Petrov Affair in Australia.[4]
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Yevdokiya Alekseyevna Petrova
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1954, April 19
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Australia
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Led to the Petrov Affair in Australia.[4]
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Reino Häyhänen
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1957
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France
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Died in an automobile accident in 1961. Accident considered suspicious.[5]
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Anatoliy Mikhailovich Golitsyn[2]
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1961, December 15
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Finland
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Bohdan Mykolayovych Stashynsky
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1961
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West Berlin
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Yuri Vasilevich Krotkov
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1963
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United Kingdom
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KGB agent, not officer
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Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko[6]
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1964, January
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Switzerland
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Authenticity of defection disputed[2]
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Yuriy Aleksandrovich Bezmenov[7]
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1970
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Canada
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Intelligence agent, not officer
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Sergey Nikolayevich Kourdakov
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1971, September 4
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Canada
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Intelligence agent, not officer
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Oleg Adolfovich Lyalin[2]
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1971
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United Kingdom
|
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Imants Lešinskis[8]
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1978[9]
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United States
|
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Aleksei Alekseyevich Myagkov[2]
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1974
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West Berlin
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Stanislav Aleksandrovich Levchenko[2]
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1979, October
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Japan
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Oleg Agraniants[10]
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1986
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Tunisia
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Ilya Grigoryevich Dzhirkvelov[2]
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1980
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Switzerland
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Viktor Ivanovich Sheymov[11]
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1980
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United States
|
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Vladimir Anatolyevich Kuzichkin
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1982
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Iran
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Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky
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1985, July 19
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United Kingdom
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Suspected poisoning in 2007. Survived.[12]
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Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko
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1985
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Italy
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Disputed (later returned to USSR).[2]
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Igor Nikolayevich Cherpinskiy[13]
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1990
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Belgium
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Sergey Sergeyevich Illarionov[14]
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1992
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Italy
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Vasiliy Nikitich Mitrokhin
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1992
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Latvia
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Viktor Alekseyevich Oshchenko[15]
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1992, July
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United Kingdom
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Aleksandr Nikolayevich Poteyev
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2010, June 26
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United States
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KGB colonel, later SVR officer. Multiple assassination attempts.[16][17][18]
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h FBI, Soviet Defectors: A Study of Past Defections from Official Soviet Establishments Outside the USSR, January 1955.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Knight, Amy (2004) "Defectors, Soviet Era" in Encyclopedia of Russian History
- ^ "Meeting with past (Russian)". Archived from the original on 27 July 2006. Retrieved 19 November 2006.
- ^ a b "Petrov Affair". Defining Moments. National Museum of Australia. 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
- ^ New York Times[1]
- ^ Rosenbaum, Ron (2007-02-12) The Spy Who Came in From Geneva: Nosenko, the K.G.B. Defector. observer.com
- ^ Bezmenov, Yuri; Griffin, G. Edward. (1984). Soviet Subversion of the Free Press: A Conversation with Yuri Bezmenov [Videotape]. Westlake Village, CA: American Media. OCLC [45810551] – Soviet subversion of the free press: a conversation with Yuri Bezmenov
- ^ Shifting interpretations of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, Prof. Emeritus Dr. Andrew Ezergailis, retrieved 1-January-2015.
- ^ Richey, Warren. "KGB defector talks about former job in 'ethnic espionage'", The Christian Science Monitor. 1984, June 14.
- ^ Associated Press (June 20, 1986) Key Soviet Spy in N. Africa Defects to U.S.
- ^ Sheymov, Victor (1993) Tower of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thriller, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press.
- ^ Gray, Sadie (6 April 2010). "Double agent Gordievsky claims he was poisoned by the Kremlin". The Independent. London. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
- ^ Richelson, Jeffrey (January 1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community. Westview Press. pp. 337–. ISBN 978-0-8133-6893-1.
- ^ Prokhorov, Dmitriy Petrovich (2005) Сколько стоит продать Родину? (What is the Cost of Betraying One's Homeland?) Moscow, OLMA-Press, pp. 463-466.
- ^ Savill, Annika (1992-08-13) 'Missing' Russian spy defects to Britain. independent.co.uk.
- ^ "More of Kremlin's Opponents Are Ending Up Dead". The New York Times. September 13, 2018.
- ^ "The attempted assassination of a Russian spy defector". Newsnight. October 2, 2018 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Russia Sought to Kill Defector in Florida". New York Times. June 19, 2023.
Further reading[edit]
- Richelson, Jeffrey. (1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community: Fourth Edition [Book]. WestView Press, ISBN 978-0-8133-6893-1