This is a list of Soviet secret police officers and agents who have defected.
Name | Defection date | Country of defection | Comment |
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Georgiy Sergeyevich Agabekov[1] | 1930 | France | Disappeared around August, 1937. Body never recovered. |
Ignace Reiss | 1937, July | Switzerland | On September 4, 1938, Reiss was gunned down by an NKVD hit squad. |
Walter Germanovich Krivitskiy[1] | 1937, October | France | Found dead in his hotel room on Feb. 10, 1941 with a gunshot wound to the temple. Suspected foul play. |
Genrikh Samoilovich Lyushkov | 1938 | Japan | Executed by Japan in 1945, to avoid his recapture by the Soviet Union. |
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov[1] | 1938 | Canada | Authenticity of defection disputed[2] |
Lev Borisovich Helfand[1] | 1940 | Italy | |
Igor Grigoryevich Orlov | 1943 | Germany | Re-recruited as Soviet agent in 1949 |
Viktor Andreyevich Kravchenko[1][2] | 1944 | United States | Not an intelligence officer |
Anatoliy Mikhailovich Granovskiy | 1946 | Sweden | |
Petr Sergeyevich Deryabin[1][2] | 1953 | Austria | |
Nikolay Yevgenyevich Khokhlov | 1954 | West Germany | Victim of thallium poisoning in 1957. Survived.[3] |
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Rastvorov[1] | 1954 | Japan | |
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov[1][2] | 1954, April 3 | Australia | Led to the Petrov Affair in Australia.[4] |
Yevdokiya Alekseyevna Petrova | 1954, April 19 | Australia | Led to the Petrov Affair in Australia.[4] |
Reino Häyhänen | 1957 | France | Died in an automobile accident in 1961. Accident considered suspicious.[5] |
Anatoliy Mikhailovich Golitsyn[2] | 1961, December 15 | Finland | |
Bohdan Mykolayovych Stashynsky | 1961 | West Berlin | |
Yuri Vasilevich Krotkov | 1963 | United Kingdom | KGB agent, not officer |
Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko[6] | 1964, January | Switzerland | Authenticity of defection disputed[2] |
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Bezmenov[7] | 1970 | Canada | Intelligence agent, not officer |
Sergey Nikolayevich Kourdakov | 1971, September 4 | Canada | Intelligence agent, not officer |
Oleg Adolfovich Lyalin[2] | 1971 | United Kingdom | |
Imants Lešinskis[8] | 1978[9] | United States | |
Aleksei Alekseyevich Myagkov[2] | 1974 | West Berlin | |
Stanislav Aleksandrovich Levchenko[2] | 1979, October | Japan | |
Oleg Agraniants[10] | 1986 | Tunisia | |
Ilya Grigoryevich Dzhirkvelov[2] | 1980 | Switzerland | |
Viktor Ivanovich Sheymov[11] | 1980 | United States | |
Vladimir Anatolyevich Kuzichkin | 1982 | Iran | |
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky | 1985, July 19 | United Kingdom | Suspected poisoning in 2007. Survived.[12] |
Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko | 1985 | Italy | Disputed (later returned to USSR).[2] |
Igor Nikolayevich Cherpinskiy[13] | 1990 | Belgium | |
Sergey Sergeyevich Illarionov[14] | 1992 | Italy | |
Vasiliy Nikitich Mitrokhin | 1992 | Latvia | |
Viktor Alekseyevich Oshchenko[15] | 1992, July | United Kingdom | |
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Poteyev | 2010, June 26 | United States | KGB colonel, later SVR officer. Multiple assassination attempts.[16][17][18] |
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See also
- List of GRU defectors
- List of Soviet and Eastern Bloc defectors
- List of Soviet Union defections
- List of Cold War pilot defections
- Petrov Affair
References
- ^ 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
- Richelson, Jeffrey. (1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community: Fourth Edition [Book]. WestView Press, ISBN 978-0-8133-6893-1
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