Soviet Defectors

Early Cold War Soviet Defectors, 1947–1951

This database records 25 Soviet intelligence or state security officers in the early cold war group, who defected between 1943 and 1951. Their service backgrounds were MGB (13), NKVD (4) and MVD (4). Most of these defections took place in Germany (17), Austria (5) and Hungary (2).

25 officers, earliest defection first