List of KGB defectors
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This is a list of KGB agents who have defected.
File:Aleksei Myagkov 1977.jpg
Aleksei Myagkov in 1977
| Name | Defection date | Country of defection | Comment |
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| Georges Agabekov | 1930 |  France |
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| Yuri Bezmenov[1] | 1970 |  Canada |
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| Igor Cherpinski[2] | |||
| Peter Deryabin[3] | 1953 |  Austria |
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| Ilya Dzhirkvelov[3] | 1980 |  Switzerland |
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| Anatoliy Golitsyn[3] | 1961, December 15 |  Finland |
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| Oleg Gordievsky | 1985, July 19 |  United Kingdom |
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| Sergei Illarionov[2] | 1992[citation needed] |  Italy |
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| Sergei Kourdakov | 1971, September 4 | Canada |
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| Viktor Kravchenko[3] | 1944 | ||
| Walter Krivitsky | 1937, October | France |
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| Stanislav Levchenko[3] | 1979, October |  Japan |
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| Oleg Lyalin[3] | 1971 | United Kingdom |
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| Vasili Mitrokhin | 1992 |  Latvia |
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| Aleksei Myagkov[3] | 1974 |  West Berlin |
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| Yuri Nosenko[4] | 1962 | Switzerland |
Authenticity of defection disputed[3] |
| Viktor Oshchenko[citation needed] | 1992, July | United Kingdom |
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| Alexander Orlov | 1938 |  Canada |
Authenticity of defection disputed[3] |
| Vladimir Petrov and Evdokia Petrov [3] | 1954, April 3 |  Australia |
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| Vitaly Yurchenko | 1985 | Italy |
Authenticity of defection disputed; later returned to USSR.[3] |
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
- ↑ 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
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- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Knight, Amy (2004) "Defectors, Soviet Era" in Encyclopedia of Russian History
- ↑ Rosenbaum, Ron (2007-02-12) The Spy Who Came in From Geneva: Nosenko, the K.G.B. Defector. observer.com
Further reading
- Richelson, Jeffrey. (1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community: Fourth Edition [Book]. WestView Press, ISBN 978-0-8133-6893-1
