Soviet Defectors of the 1930s
11 Soviet intelligence or state security officers in this database defected during the 1930s. Their service backgrounds were NKVD (5), OGPU (4) and Razvedupr (3). Most of these defections took place in France (5), United States (3) and Finland (2).
11 officers, earliest defection first
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Eduard Martinovich Miller
Эдуард Мартинович Миллер
OGPU · defected 1930 · Latvia
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Fedor Pavlovich Drugov
Федор Павлович Другов
OGPU · defected 1930 · Finland
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Sobolev
Александр Александрович Соболев
Razvedupr · defected 1930 · Sweden
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Georgiy Sergeyevich Arutyunov
Георгий Сергеевич Арутюнов
OGPU · defected 1930 · France
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Nikolay Ignatyevich Kiselev
Николай Игнатьевич Киселев
OGPU · defected 1930 · Finland
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Aleksandr Grigoriyevich Graff
Алекдсандр Григрорьевич Графф
GRU · KomBrig · defected 1937 · France
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Ignatiy Stanislavovich Poretskiy
Игнатий Станиславович Порецкий (Натан Маркович Рейсс)
Razvedupr, NKVD · KomBrig · defected 1937 · France
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Samuel Gershovich Ginzberg
Самуэль Гершевич Гинзберг
Razvedupr, NKVD · KomBrig · defected 1937 · France
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Iosif Vulfovich Volodarsky
Иосиф Вульфович Володарский
NKVD · defected 1938 · Canada
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Genrikh Samoilovich Lyushkov
Генрих Самойлович Люшков
NKVD · Commissar of State Security 3 Rank · defected 1938 · Japan
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Leyba Lazerevich Feldbin
Лейба Лазерьевич Фельдбин
NKVD · General · defected 1938 · France