Soviet Defectors

WWII Era Soviet Defectors, 1941–1946

This database records 58 Soviet intelligence or state security officers in the wwii era group, who defected between 1941 and 1946. Their service backgrounds were NKVD (30), GRU (16) and NKGB (7). Most of these defections took place in Germany (48), Finland (2) and Turkey (2).

58 officers, earliest defection first