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