Talk:List of KGB defectors

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August 2008[edit]

This topic has been started as a seed article since it is a lengthy and convuluted period of world history and there doesn't appear to be anything directly addressing this subject on Wikipedia. If there is then please remove this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gkochanowsky (talk • contribs) 15:07, 10 August 2008

Update 2012[edit]

This list is very incomplete; it should be merged with Eastern and Russian defectors or completed. Moreover, the true defection of Yuri Nosenko, in my opinion, is no longer disputed by the Intelligence community and certainly not by the students and scholars of this topic. Philipegalite (talk) 22:07, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander Orlov was a true defector in that he left the USSR never to return and was Stalin's enemy. The FBI thought he was cooperating, but the fact is he did not revealed Soviet state and intelligence secrets, and so did not fully cooperate with the CIA or the FBI, but took advantage of the hospitality extended him by this country. See the books Deadly Illusions (1993) by John Costello and Oleg Tsarev, based on the transiently opened KGB files, and Alexander Orlov: The FBI's KGB General (2002) by former FBI agent Edward Gazur; and the in-line article "The Astounding Case of Soviet Defection Deception" by Dr. Miguel A. Faria Jr (Oct. 31, 2003) http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/30/164415.shtml Philipegalite (talk) 23:00, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]