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Numerous notable Eastern Bloc citizens defected to non-Eastern Bloc countries. [10] The following list of Eastern Bloc defectors contains notable defectors from East Germany, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Albania before those countries' conversions from Communist states in the early 1990s.
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.
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.
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 ...
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Yuri Nosenko. Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Носенко; October 30, 1927 – August 23, 2008) [1] was a putative KGB officer who ostensibly defected to the United States in 1964. Controversy arose as to whether or not he was a KGB " plant," and he was held in detention by the CIA for over three years.
Genrikh Samoilovich Lyushkov (Russian: Генрих Самойлович Люшков; 1900 – 19 August 1945) was an officer in the Soviet secret police and its highest-ranking defector. A high-ranking officer of the NKVD, he played a role in perpetrating Stalin's Great Purge. When, in 1938, he suspected he would soon fall victim to the purge ...