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This is a list of KGB officers and agents who have defected.
Aleksei Myagkov in 1977
| Name
|
Defection date
|
Country of defection
|
Comment
|
| Georgiy Sergeyevich Agabekov[1]
|
1930
|
 France
|
|
| Oleg Agraniants[2]
|
1986
|
 Tunisia
|
| Yuriy Aleksandrovich Bezmenov[3]
|
1970
|
 Canada
|
Intelligence agent, not officer
|
| Igor Nikolayevich Cherpinskiy[4]
|
1990
|
 Belgium
|
| Petr Sergeyevich Deryabin[1][5]
|
1953
|
 Austria
|
| Ilya Grigoryevich Dzhirkvelov[5]
|
1980
|
 Switzerland
|
| Anatoliy Mikhailovich Golitsyn[5]
|
1961, December 15
|
 Finland
|
| Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky
|
1985, July 19
|
 United Kingdom
|
| Anatoliy Mikhailovich Granovskiy
|
1946
|
 Sweden
|
| Reino Häyhänen
|
1957
|
 United States
|
| Lev Borisovich Helfand[1]
|
1940
|
 Italy
|
| Sergey Sergeyevich Illarionov[6]
|
1992
|
Italy
|
| Nikolay Yevgenyevich Khokhlov
|
1954
|
 Germany
|
| Sergey Nikolayevich Kourdakov
|
1971, September 4
|
Canada
|
Intelligence agent, not officer
|
| Viktor Andreyevich Kravchenko[1][5]
|
1944
|
United States
|
Not an intelligence officer
|
| Walter Germanovich Krivitskiy[1]
|
1937, October
|
France
|
| Yuri Vasilevich Krotkov
|
1963
|
United Kingdom
|
KGB agent, not officer
|
| Vladimir Anatolyevich Kuzichkin
|
1982
|
 Iran
|
| Stanislav Aleksandrovich Levchenko[5]
|
1979, October
|
 Japan
|
| Oleg Adolfovich Lyalin[5]
|
1971
|
United Kingdom
|
| Genrikh Samoilovich Lyushkov
|
1938
|
Japan
|
| Vasiliy Nikitich Mitrokhin
|
1992
|
 Latvia
|
| Aleksey Alekseyevich Myagkov[5]
|
1974
|
West Berlin
|
| Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko[7]
|
1962
|
Switzerland
|
Authenticity of defection disputed[5]
|
| Artush Oganesyan[8]
|
1971 or 1972
|
 Turkey
|
| Viktor Alekseyevich Oshchenko[9]
|
1992, July
|
United Kingdom
|
| Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov[1]
|
1938
|
 Canada
|
Authenticity of defection disputed[5]
|
| Igor Grigoryevich Orlov
|
1943
|
 Germany
|
Re-recruited as Soviet agent in 1949
|
| Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov[1][5]
|
1954, April 3
|
 Australia
|
| Yevdokiya Alekseyevna Petrova
|
1954, April 19
|
Australia
|
| Yuriy Aleksandrovich Rastvorov[1]
|
1954
|
Japan
|
| Vasiliy Mikhailovich Sharandak[1]
|
1947
|
Austria
|
| Viktor Ivanovich Sheymov[10]
|
1980
|
| Bohdan Mykolayovych Stashynsky
|
1961
|
West Berlin
|
| Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko
|
1985
|
Italy
|
Authenticity of defection disputed;
later returned to USSR.[5]
|
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i FBI, Soviet Defectors: A Study of Past Defections from Official Soviet Establishments Outside the USSR, January 1955.
- ^ Associated Press (June 20, 1986) Key Soviet Spy in N. Africa Defects to U.S.
- ^ 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
- ^ Richelson, Jeffrey (January 1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community. Westview Press. pp. 337–. ISBN 978-0-8133-6893-1.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Knight, Amy (2004) "Defectors, Soviet Era" in Encyclopedia of Russian History
- ^ Prokhorov, Dmitriy Petrovich (2005) Сколько стоит продать Родину? (What is the Cost of Betraying One's Homeland?) Moscow, OLMA-Press, pp. 463-466.
- ^ Rosenbaum, Ron (2007-02-12) The Spy Who Came in From Geneva: Nosenko, the K.G.B. Defector. observer.com
- ^ Cleveland C. Cram (October 1993), Of Moles and Molehunters: A Review of Counterintelligence Literature, 1977-92 (PDF), The Center for the Study of Intelligence, p. 55
- ^ Savill, Annika (1992-08-13) 'Missing' Russian spy defects to Britain. independent.co.uk.
- ^ Sheymov, Victor (1993) Tower of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thriller, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press.
Further reading
- Richelson, Jeffrey. (1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community: Fourth Edition [Book]. WestView Press, ISBN 978-0-8133-6893-1
