List of KGB defectors

This is a list of Soviet secret police officers and agents who have defected.

Name Defection date Country of defection Comment
Petr Mikhailovich Karpov August 1924 Weimar Germany Also known as Mikhail Georgiyevich Sumarokov
Mikhail Yakovlevich Hendler[1] April 1926 Cuba Immigrated to USA in about 1927
I. I. Kravets[2] August 1926 Iran Moved directly to France
Stefens[3][4] August 1926 France Also known as Ivan Vasilyevich Gavrilchenko
Yevgeniy Mikhailovich Kozhevnikov[5] May 1927 China Also known as Yevgeniy Pik, Hovans, Kluge
Ivan Nikitin[6] October 1927 Latvia OGPU Border Guard intelligence officer
Yevgeniy Vasilyevich Dumbadze[7][8] June 1928 France
Semen Aleksandrovich Bryantsev[9] January 1929 Weimar Germany Defection questioned
Eduard Martinovich Miller[10] March 1930 Latvia
Fedor Pavlovich Drugov[11] March 1930 Finland Immigrated to France. Redefected, February 1934
Georgiy Sergeyevich Agabekov[12][13][14] June 1930 France Real surname, Arutyunov. Disappeared around August 1937. Body never recovered.
Nikolay Ignatyevich Kiselev[15][16] June 1930 Finland Surname sometimes rendered Kiselev-Gromov
Ignace Reiss[17] July 1937 France Real name, Ignatiy Stanislavovich Poretskiy. Gunned down in Switzerland by an NKVD hit squad on 4 September 1938
Walter Germanovich Krivitskiy[12][18] October 1937 France Real name, Samuel Gershovich Ginzberg. Found dead in his hotel room on 10 February 1941 with a gunshot wound to the temple. Suspected foul play
Iosif Vulfovich Volodarsky[19] April 1938 Canada
Genrikh Samoilovich Lyushkov[20] June 1938 Japan Executed by Japan in 1945 to prevent his recapture by the Soviets
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov[12][21] July 1938 United States Real name, Leyba Lazerevich Feldbin
Lev Borisovich Helfand[12][22] July 1940 Italy United States Immigrated to the United States
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Zhigunov[23] August 1941 Germany
Ivan Georgiyevich Bessonov[24] August 1941 Germany Repatriated, executed in 1950
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Anokhin[25] September 1941 Germany Published the book "Школа Опричников" under the pen name Aleksandr Brazhnev
Ivan Matveyevich Grachev[26] September 1941 Germany
Nikolay Fedorovich Lapin[27] October 1941 Germany
Petr Vasilyevich Kashtanov[28] February 1942 Germany
Lidiya Pavlovna Yesenina[29] October 1942 Germany
Vyacheslav Pavlovich Artemyev[30] September 1943 Germany
Boris Alekseyevich Morozov[31] September 1943 Germany
Igor Grigoryevich Orlov[32] October 1943 Germany Real surname, Kopatskiy. Re-recruited as Soviet agent in 1949
Aleksandr Fedorovich Chikalov[33] November 1943 Germany Kidnapped, returned to the Soviet Union in October 1949
Gasan Artemovich Arabadzhev[34] November 1943 Germany
Viktor Andreyevich Kravchenko[12][35] April 1944 United States Not an intelligence officer
Mikhail Dmitriyevich Mondich[36] August 1945 Germany
Konstantin Dmitriyevich Volkov[37] September 1945 Turkey Offered to defect, but was caught after Kim Philby informed the NKVD
Michael Pines[38] December 1945 Austria
Sergey Naumovich Perlin[39] March 1946 Germany
Anatoliy Mikhailovich Granovskiy[40] September 1946 Sweden Resettled in Brazil; later immigrated to the United States
Aleksandr Stepanovich Kravchenko[41] June 1947 United States
Boris Ivanovich Baklanov[42] July 1947 Austria United Kingdom
Vasiliy Mikhailovich Sharandak[12][43] August 1947 Austria
(Aleksandr Nikolayevich?) Rebrov [44] 1947 Germany
Simas Pečiulionis[45] April 1948 Germany
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Mikheyev[46] August 1948 Germany
Boris Kupriyanovich Gurzhiev[47] November 1948 Germany
Georgiy Ivanovich Samusev[48] December 1948 Germany
Olga Yakovlevna Bentsianovskaya[49] February 1949 Germany United Kingdom
Rafail Illych Goldfarb[50] July 1949 Germany
Nikolay Ivanovich Bondarev[51] July 1949 Germany
Ivan Matveyevich Grigoryev[52] October 1949 Germany
Georgiy Vasilyevich Salimanov[53] May 1950 Germany
Viktor Aleksandrovich Dubkov[54] November 1952 Germany Captured on the battlefield in 1943; withheld his intelligence affiliation until 1952
Grigoriy Stepanovich Burlutskiy[55] June 1953 Afghanistan Immigrated to Germany
Grigoriy Fedorovich Pavlov[56] August 1953 Norway
Yevgeniy Vladimirovich Brik[57] November 1953 Canada
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Rastvorov[12][58] January 1954 Japan Brought to the United States
Petr Sergeyevich Deryabin[12][35][59] February 1954 Austria Brought to the United States
Nikolay Yevgenyevich Khokhlov[60] February 1954 West Germany Immigrated to the United States. Victim of thallium poisoning in 1957. Survived[61]
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov[12][35][62] 3 April 1954 Australia Real name, Afanasiy Mikhailovich Shorokhov. Led to the Petrov Affair in Australia[63]
Yevdokiya Alekseyevna Petrova[64] 19 April 1954 Australia Real name, Yevdokia Alexeyevna Kartseva. Led to the Petrov Affair in Australia[63]
Lars Edvin Lindström[65] August 1954 Sweden
Reino Häyhänen 1957 France Died in a York, PA hospital.[66] Rumors of his death in a suspicious auto accident are erroneous.
Anatoliy Mikhailovich Golitsyn[35] 15 December 1961 Finland
Bohdan Mykolayovych Stashynsky 1961 West Berlin
Yuri Vasilevich Krotkov 1963 United Kingdom KGB agent, not an officer
Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko[67] January 1964 Switzerland Authenticity of defection disputed[35]
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Bezmenov[68] 1970 Canada Intelligence agent, not an officer
Sergey Nikolayevich Kourdakov 4 September 1971 Canada Intelligence agent, not an officer
Oleg Adolfovich Lyalin[35] 1971 United Kingdom
Imants Lešinskis[69] 1978[70] United States
Aleksei Alekseyevich Myagkov[35] 1974 West Berlin
Stanislav Aleksandrovich Levchenko[35] 1979, October Japan
Oleg Agraniants[71] 1986 Tunisia
Ilya Grigoryevich Dzhirkvelov[35] 1980 Switzerland
Viktor Ivanovich Sheymov[72] 1980 United States
Vladimir Anatolyevich Kuzichkin 1982 Iran
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky 19 July 1985 United Kingdom Suspected poisoning in 2007. Survived[73]
Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko 1985 Italy Disputed (later returned to USSR)[35]
Igor Nikolayevich Cherpinskiy[74] 1990 Belgium
Sergey Sergeyevich Illarionov[75] 1992 Italy
Vasiliy Nikitich Mitrokhin 1992 Latvia
Viktor Alekseyevich Oshchenko[76] July 1992 United Kingdom
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Poteyev 26 June 2010 United States KGB colonel, later SVR officer. Multiple assassination attempts[77][78][79]

See also

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Further reading

  • Richelson, Jeffrey. (1999). The U.S. Intelligence Community: Fourth Edition [Book]. WestView Press, ISBN 978-0-8133-6893-1
  • Riehle, Kevin. (2020). Soviet Defectors: Revelations of Renegade Intelligence Officers 1924-1954. Edinburgh University Press ISBN 978-1-4744-6723-0
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