Soviet Defectors of the 1920s
13 Soviet intelligence or state security officers in this database defected during the 1920s. Their service backgrounds were OGPU (9), Razvedupr (3) and GPU (1). Most of these defections took place in Germany (4), France (2) and Finland (1).
13 officers, earliest defection first
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Petr Mikhailovich Karpov
Петр Михайлович Карпов
GPU · defected 1924 · Germany
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Aleksandr Yanovich Sipelgas
Александр Янович Сипельгас
Razvedupr · defected 1924 · Finland
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Vladimir Stepanovich Nesterovich
Владимир Степанович Нестерович
Razvedupr · KomBrig · defected 1925 · Germany
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Ignatiy Leonovich Dzevaltovskiy
Игнатий Львович Дзевалтовский
Razvedupr · defected 1925 · Poland
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Mikhail Yakovlevich Hendler
Михаил Яковлевич Гендлер
OGPU · defected 1926 · Cuba
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I. I. Kravets
И. И. Кравец
OGPU · defected 1926 · Persia
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Stefens
OGPU · defected 1926 · France
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Yevgeniy Mikhailovich Kozhevnikov
Евгений Михайлович Кожевников
OGPU · Captain · defected 1927 · China
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Ivan Nikitin
Иван Никитин
OGPU · defected 1927 · Latvia
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Yevgeniy Vasiliyevich Dumbadze
Евгений Васильевич Думбадзе
OGPU · defected 1928 · France
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Unidentified OGPU officer (United States, 1929)
OGPU · defected 1929 · United States
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Unidentified OGPU officer (Germany, 1929)
OGPU · defected 1929 · Germany
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Semen Aleksandrovich Bryantsev
Семен Александрович Брянцев
OGPU · defected 1929 · Germany