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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 late 1980s and early 1990s.
The incident took place during the Ogaden War. Throughout the 1980s and early 90s (up to 1991), several Ethiopian pilots defected with their planes to Sudan and Yemen. On 26 May 1991, the pilots of seven Mi-8s, an L-39, two An-12s, three MiG-23s, three Mi-24s and three Mi-35s defected from Ethiopia to Djibouti after the fall of the Mengistu ...
This is an incomplete list of Western Bloc intelligence agents, military personnel, scientists, politicians, diplomats, and other prominent people who defected to the Eastern Bloc or non-aligned countries during the Cold War and after.
Name Defection date Country of defection Comment Georgiy Sergeyevich Agabekov [1]: 1930 France: Disappeared around August 1937. Body never recovered Ignace Reiss
List of Soviet and Eastern Bloc defectors (1924-1991) List of Cold War pilot defections; List of KGB defectors This page was last edited on 10 ...
Riehle, Kevin P. "The Defector Balance Sheet: Westbound Versus Eastbound Intelligence Defectors from 1945 to 1965." International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 33.1 (2020): 68-96. Riehle, Kevin P. "Early Cold War evolution of British and US defector policy and practice" [dead link ]. Cold War History 19.3 (2019): 343-361 ...
List of American and British defectors in the Korean War; North Korean defectors; South Korean defectors; Other defectors to North Korea. List of American and British defectors in the Korean War: the 21 Americans and 1 Briton who refused repatriation during Operation Big Switch in 1953 (in order to remain in China)
Pages in category "Soviet defectors" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *