List of KGB defectors

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

See also

References

  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. ^ "Meeting with past (Russian)". Archived from the original on 27 July 2006. Retrieved 19 November 2006.
  4. ^ a b "Petrov Affair". Defining Moments. National Museum of Australia. 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
  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. ^ Gray, Sadie (6 April 2010). "Double agent Gordievsky claims he was poisoned by the Kremlin". The Independent. London. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
  13. ^ Richelson, Jeffrey (January 1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community. Westview Press. pp. 337–. ISBN 978-0-8133-6893-1.
  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. ^ "More of Kremlin's Opponents Are Ending Up Dead". The New York Times. September 13, 2018.
  17. ^ "The attempted assassination of a Russian spy defector". Newsnight. October 2, 2018 – via YouTube.
  18. ^ "Russia Sought to Kill Defector in Florida". New York Times. June 19, 2023.

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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