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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 ...
Puddington, Arch (2003), Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, University Press of Kentucky, ISBN 0-8131-9045-2; Roberts, Geoffrey (2006), Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-11204-1
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
Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-754687-1. Tromly, Benjamin. "Ambivalent heroes: Russian defectors and American power in the early Cold War" [dead link ]. Intelligence and National Security 33.5 (2018): 642-658.
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 ...
During the Cold War, there were many defections by pilots and aircrews. In addition to pilots defecting of their own volition, there were Western efforts to encourage defections, beginning with the US Operation Moolah aimed at encouraging MiG-15 pilots in North Korea to defect.
List of Cold War pilot defections; List of Cuban football players who have defected to the United States; I. List of Iranian defectors; K. List of KGB defectors;