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1945. Deputy head of the NKVD in Istanbul, Turkey; contacted the British Istanbul consulate about defection, was arrested by the Soviets and disappeared forever (possibly executed) Valeri Tihonovitch Minakov. Russia. 1945. Escaped from Siberia across the Bering Sea in a small boat with his 6-year-old son Oleg.
Walter Germanovich Krivitskiy [1] 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.
George Balanchine. Mikhail Baryshnikov. Boris Bazhanov. Ludmila Belousova. Yuri Bezmenov. Efim Bogoljubow. Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
Occupation (s) Author, KGB operative (formerly) Known for. Soviet KGB defector. Anatoliy Mikhaylovich Golitsyn CBE (Russian: Анатолий Михайлович Голицын; 25 August 1926 – 29 December 2008) [1] was a Soviet KGB defector and author of two books about the long-term deception strategy of the KGB leadership. He was born in ...
This is an incomplete list of Western Bloc intelligence agents, military personnel, scientists, politicians, diplomats, and other prominent people who defected to Eastern Bloc or non-aligned countries during the Cold War and after.
According to the historian of the Soviet state security organs Boris Volodarsky, after Stashynsky was released from prison, he underwent plastic surgery. Bohdan Stashynsky and Inge Stashinsky were given new identities and provided asylum by South Africa in 1984, where they live under false names to this day, although this version is questioned ...
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Order of the Red Star. Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko (Russian: Виталий Сергеевич Юрченко; born May 2, 1936) is a former high-ranking KGB disinformation officer in the Soviet Union. After 25 years of service in the KGB, he defected to the United States during an assignment in Rome on August 1, 1985, arriving the following ...