- female, deceased (1963)
- Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908-November 18, 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. In 1945 she defected...
- male
- Khidir Hamza is an Iraqi scientist who worked for Saddam Hussein's nuclear programme in the 1980s and early 1990s. Following the Gulf War, he went...
- male, 73 years old
- Vitaly Yurchenko (b. 1936) was a KGB agent in the Soviet Union. In 1985, after twenty-five years of service in the KGB, he defected to the United...
- male, 48 years old
- Igor Nikolayevich Larionov is a retired Russian ice hockey player. Along with Viacheslav Fetisov, he was instrumental in breaking the barrier that...
- male
- Munir Redfa (1934 - 2000) was an Iraqi Fighter Pilot, of Iraqi-Assyrian origin who defected to Israel in 1966 by flying a MiG 21 belonging to the...
- male, deceased (1996)
- William John Christopher Vassall was a British civil servant who, under pressure of blackmail, spied for the Soviet Union. In World War II, Vassall...
- male
- No Kum-Sok (later Kenneth Rowe) (born c. 1932) was a lieutenant in the North Korean Air Force during the Korean War who defected to South Korea. In...
- male, 64 years old
- Rainer Rupp (born 1945 in Saarlouis, Germany) was a top spy who worked under the pseudonyms Mosel and later Topas for the GDR in the NATO...
- female
- Lee Soon Ok is a prominent defector from North Korea, now living in South Korea. After escaping with her son via China to South Korea, she...
- male, deceased (1975)
- Józef Światło was a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Public Security of Poland (deputy director of 10th Department). After the death of Sta...
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