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
Georgiy Sergeyevich Agabekov^[1]	1930	France	Disappeared around August, 1937. Body never recovered.
Ignace Reiss	1937, July	Switzerland	On September 4, 1938, Reiss was gunned down by an NKVD hit squad.
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.
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov^[1]	1938	Canada	Authenticity of defection disputed^[2]
Lev Borisovich Helfand^[1]	1940	Italy
Igor Grigoryevich Orlov	1943	Germany	Re-recruited as Soviet agent in 1949
Viktor Andreyevich Kravchenko^[1]^[2]	1944	United States	Not an intelligence officer
Anatoliy Mikhailovich Granovskiy	1946	Sweden
Petr Sergeyevich Deryabin^[1]^[2]	1953	Austria
Nikolay Yevgenyevich Khokhlov	1954	West Germany	Victim of thallium poisoning in 1957. Survived.^[3]
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Rastvorov^[1]	1954	Japan
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov^[1]^[2]	1954, April 3	Australia	Led to the Petrov Affair in Australia.^[4]
Yevdokiya Alekseyevna Petrova	1954, April 19	Australia	Led to the Petrov Affair in Australia.^[4]
Reino Häyhänen	1957	France	Died in an automobile accident in 1961. Accident considered suspicious.^[5]
Anatoliy Mikhailovich Golitsyn^[2]	1961, December 15	Finland
Bohdan Mykolayovych Stashynsky	1961	West Berlin
Yuri Vasilevich Krotkov	1963	United Kingdom	KGB agent, not officer
Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko^[6]	1964, January	Switzerland	Authenticity of defection disputed^[2]
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Bezmenov^[7]	1970	Canada	Intelligence agent, not officer
Sergey Nikolayevich Kourdakov	1971, September 4	Canada	Intelligence agent, not officer
Oleg Adolfovich Lyalin^[2]	1971	United Kingdom
Imants Lešinskis^[8]	1978^[9]	United States
Aleksei Alekseyevich Myagkov^[2]	1974	West Berlin
Stanislav Aleksandrovich Levchenko^[2]	1979, October	Japan
Oleg Agraniants^[10]	1986	Tunisia
Ilya Grigoryevich Dzhirkvelov^[2]	1980	Switzerland
Viktor Ivanovich Sheymov^[11]	1980	United States
Vladimir Anatolyevich Kuzichkin	1982	Iran
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky	1985, July 19	United Kingdom	Suspected poisoning in 2007. Survived.^[12]
Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko	1985	Italy	Disputed (later returned to USSR).^[2]
Igor Nikolayevich Cherpinskiy^[13]	1990	Belgium
Sergey Sergeyevich Illarionov^[14]	1992	Italy
Vasiliy Nikitich Mitrokhin	1992	Latvia
Viktor Alekseyevich Oshchenko^[15]	1992, July	United Kingdom
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Poteyev	2010, June 26	United States	KGB colonel, later SVR officer. Multiple assassination attempts.^[16]^[17]^[18]