Early Defectors Soviet Defectors, 1924–1930
This database records 18 Soviet intelligence or state security officers in the early defectors group, who defected between 1924 and 1930. Their service backgrounds were OGPU (13), Razvedupr (4) and GPU (1). Most of these defections took place in Germany (4), Finland (3) and France (3).
18 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
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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