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In his autobiography Fulcrum: A Top Gun Pilot's Escape from the Soviet Empire (ISBN 0-446-51648-1), Zuyev reported that the USSR quickly did a deal with the Turkish government upon his defection, and the MiG-29 was returned to the Soviet Union. According to Zuyev himself, the first words he said as he stepped out of the cockpit after his ...
Viktor Belenko moved to the US, was debriefed extensively by the CIA and US military, learned English, and gradually adapted to life in the US. The story of his life in the Soviet Union, his defection and his early time in the US was written by John Barron in the book MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko, published in 1980. Belenko ...
Viktor Belenko's military ID. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Russian: Виктор Иванович Беленко; February 15, 1947 – September 24, 2023) was a Russian-born American aerospace engineer and Soviet pilot who defected in 1976 to the West while flying his MiG-25 "Foxbat" jet interceptor and landed in Hakodate, Japan.
Soon after the formation of the Soviet Union, emigration restrictions were put in place to keep citizens from leaving the various republics of the USSR, [1] though some defections still occurred. During and after World War II , similar restrictions were put in place in non-Soviet countries of the Eastern Bloc , [ 2 ] which consisted of the ...
Soviet Union. Died: June 10, 2001 (aged 39) ... 2001) was a Soviet pilot who defected to the United States with his MiG-29 on May 20, 1989. ...
List of Cold War pilot defections; List of KGB defectors This page was last edited on 10 ...
Soviet Union Arnold Lockshin: Biochemist: United States: 1986: Soviet Union Wang Xijue: Airline pilot: Taiwan: 1986: China [200] Wade E. Roberts: United States Army: United States: 1987: Soviet Union [201] [202] Stig Bergling: Swedish Security Service: Sweden: 1987: Soviet Union via Finland [203] Theodore Branch: Radio announcer: United States ...
A Soviet defection would provide vital intelligence and demonstrate the Soviet Union was an active participant in the war. UN forces would also have the opportunity to test the MiG-15s capabilities and establish procedures against the MiG-15's technical advantages over the F-86 Sabre.