List of KGB defectors

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
Walter Germanovich Krivitskiy[1] 1937, October France
Genrikh Samoilovich Lyushkov 1938 Japan
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
Vasiliy Mikhailovich Sharandak[1] 1947 Austria
Petr Sergeyevich Deryabin[1][2] 1953 Austria
Nikolay Yevgenyevich Khokhlov 1954 West Germany
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Rastvorov[1] 1954 Japan
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov[1][2] 1954, April 3 Australia
Yevdokiya Alekseyevna Petrova 1954, April 19 Australia
Reino Häyhänen 1957  France
Anatoliy Mikhailovich Golitsyn[2] 1961, December 15 Finland
Bohdan Mykolayovych Stashynsky 1961 West Berlin
Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko[3] 1962 Switzerland Authenticity of defection disputed[2]
Yuri Vasilevich Krotkov 1963 United Kingdom KGB agent, not officer
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Bezmenov[4] 1970 Canada Intelligence agent, not officer
Sergey Nikolayevich Kourdakov 1971, September 4 Canada Intelligence agent, not officer
Oleg Adolfovich Lyalin[2] 1971 United Kingdom
Artush Oganesyan[5] 1971 or 1972 Turkey
Imants Lešinskis[6] 1978[7] United States
Aleksey Alekseyevich Myagkov[2] 1974 West Berlin
Stanislav Aleksandrovich Levchenko[2] 1979, October Japan
Oleg Agraniants[8] 1986 Tunisia
Ilya Grigoryevich Dzhirkvelov[2] 1980 Switzerland
Viktor Ivanovich Sheymov[9] 1980 Unknown
Vladimir Anatolyevich Kuzichkin 1982 Iran
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky 1985, July 19 United Kingdom
Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko 1985 Italy Authenticity of defection disputed;
later returned to USSR.[2]
Igor Nikolayevich Cherpinskiy[10] 1990 Belgium
Sergey Sergeyevich Illarionov[11] 1992 Italy
Vasiliy Nikitich Mitrokhin 1992 Latvia
Viktor Alekseyevich Oshchenko[12] 1992, July United Kingdom
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Poteyev 2010, June 26 Belarus KGB colonel, as well as officer in the SVR

See also

References
  1. FBI, Soviet Defectors: A Study of Past Defections from Official Soviet Establishments Outside the USSR, January 1955.
  2. Knight, Amy (2004) "Defectors, Soviet Era" in Encyclopedia of Russian History
  3. Rosenbaum, Ron (2007-02-12) The Spy Who Came in From Geneva: Nosenko, the K.G.B. Defector. observer.com
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Shifting interpretations of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, Prof. Emeritus Dr. Andrew Ezergailis, retrieved 1-January-2015.
  7. Richey, Warren. "KGB defector talks about former job in 'ethnic espionage'", The Christian Science Monitor. 1984, June 14.
  8. Associated Press (June 20, 1986) Key Soviet Spy in N. Africa Defects to U.S.
  9. Sheymov, Victor (1993) Tower of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thriller, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press.
  10. Richelson, Jeffrey (January 1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community. Westview Press. pp. 337–. ISBN 978-0-8133-6893-1.
  11. Prokhorov, Dmitriy Petrovich (2005) Сколько стоит продать Родину? (What is the Cost of Betraying One's Homeland?) Moscow, OLMA-Press, pp. 463-466.
  12. Savill, Annika (1992-08-13) 'Missing' Russian spy defects to Britain. independent.co.uk.

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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