Defector

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Examples

Page nameDescription
Ken AlibekSoviet biological warfare administrative management expert who defected to the United States.
Ahmad BehbahaniFormer Iranian spook who defected to Turkey
Yuri BezmenovKGB defector
Seweryn BialerPolish defector to the US working the anti-communist circuit. Single Bilderberger academic.
Peter DeriabinKGB officer who defected to the United States in 1954.
Anatoli Golitsyn
Oleg GordievskyKGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London, and was a double agent, providing information to the British MI6 from 1974 to 1985.
Victor Kravchenko
Walter KrivitskyA spook and defector
Ryszard KuklińskiRyszard Jerzy Kukliński was a Polish colonel and Cold War spy for NATO.
Vladimir KuzichkinSoviet KGB officer who defected to the Tehran Station of the British secret intelligence service in 1982.
Stanislav LunevThe highest-ranking GRU officer to defect from Russia to the United States.
Oleg LyalinSoviet agent who defected from the KGB.
Georgi MarkovA Bulgarian dissident writer who assassinated in 1978
Lawrence Martin-BittmanCzechoslovak defector who became professor of disinformation at Boston University.
Vasili MitrokhinKGB defector forming basis of possible British intelligence disinformation operation the Mitrokhin archive.
Yuri NosenkoSoviet KGB defector who ended up being tortured in secret CIA prison.
Yeonmi Park
Vladimir PasechnikSenior Soviet biologist and maker of biological weapons who defected to the United Kingdom in 1989. May have been killed by British deep state in 2001.
Vasily ProzorovEx-employee of the SBU who defected to Russia. Assassinated with car bomb in 2024.
Leamsy SalazarHugo Chavez bodyguard in the years before his death
Arkady ShevchenkoSoviet diplomat, the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect to the West.
Viktor SuvorovFormer Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army, as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects.
Ali TrekiLibyan diplomat in Muammar Gaddafi's government, later a senior official at the UN.
Sergei TretyakovRussian SVR (foreign intelligence) officer, who defected to the United States in 2000.
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-JanabiIraqi defector purported to be the source of the lies about Saddam Hussein's WMDs.
Jan ŠejnaThe second highest-ranked officer to ever defect to the West from the Eastern Bloc.

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Yuri Nosenko“The highlight of the event came when we entered an auditorium and saw a man onstage wearing a wig, a fake beard and mustache, and makeup designed to alter the angles of his face — either for his own protection or to heighten the Reagan-era theatrics, we couldn’t be sure. He was introduced as Yuri Nosenko, a defector from the KGB. Nosenko proceeded to regale us with tales of the wicked and bellicose Soviet Union, whose details coincidentally matched almost every talking point in the latest edition of Soviet Military Power. This was exciting stuff. For the better part of a week, we had been the recipients of dull presentations from DIA staff. Now we were listening to an actual acolyte of evil, whose indictment included not only the military elite but also the common people, and we soaked it up.
Nosenko, in other words, had been dead wrong....I should have been even more skeptical about my own government’s motivations for showcasing Nosenko.”
Yuri Nosenko
Scott Ritter
2017
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