List of KGB defectors

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description

File:Aleksei Myagkov 1977.jpg
Aleksei Myagkov in 1977

This is a list of Soviet secret police officers and agents who have defected.

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

See also

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Knight, Amy (2004) "Defectors, Soviet Era" in Encyclopedia of Russian History
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  4. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  5. ↑ The New York Times [1]
  6. ↑ Rosenbaum, Ron (2007-02-12) The Spy Who Came in From Geneva: Nosenko, the K.G.B. Defector. observer.com
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ↑ Shifting interpretations of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, Prof. Emeritus Dr. Andrew Ezergailis, retrieved 1-January-2015.
  9. ↑ Richey, Warren. "KGB defector talks about former job in 'ethnic espionage'", The Christian Science Monitor. 1984, June 14.
  10. ↑ Associated Press (June 20, 1986) Key Soviet Spy in N. Africa Defects to U.S.
  11. ↑ Sheymov, Victor (1993) Tower of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thriller, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press.
  12. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  13. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  14. ↑ Prokhorov, Dmitriy Petrovich (2005) Сколько стоит продать Родину? (What is the Cost of Betraying One's Homeland?) Moscow, OLMA-Press, pp. 463-466.
  15. ↑ Savill, Annika (1992-08-13) 'Missing' Russian spy defects to Britain. independent.co.uk.
  16. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  17. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  18. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Further reading

  • Richelson, Jeffrey. (1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community: Fourth Edition [Book]. WestView Press, Template:ISBN
Retrieved from "http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=List_of_KGB_defectors&oldid=7153056"