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Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ( 1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988 ) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union.
In 1976, a defecting Soviet pilot named Viktor Belenko flew his plane into the civilian airport in Hakodate.
1962: Rudolf Nureyev makes his American debut with the Chicago Opera Ballet shortly after defecting from the Soviet Union
His first job there was to escort a defecting Soviet Admiral from Cairo to Sweden.
Anatoly surprises everyone by suddenly defecting from the Soviet Union.
Official Soviet figures claim approximately 1, 000 rebels were killed, 2, 000 wounded, and between 2, 300 to 6, 528 captured, with 6, 000 to 8, 000 defecting to Finland, while the Red Army lost 527 killed and 3285 wounded.
She and her children traveled by ship to Europe, planning on defecting to the Soviet embassy in Paris and reside in the Soviet Union.
However, Soviet players defecting to North America was strictly discouraged at the time and his request was met with great resistance.
A Cage of Ice, for example, involves a London physician who accompanies a hand-picked team of adventurers on a snowmobile journey across the Arctic to rescue a defecting Soviet scientist.
As Soviet players began defecting to the NHL, many cases of extortion began surfacing that the Russian mafia was targeting the players ' families still living in Russia.
Both DSRVs were featured in Tom Clancy's book, The Hunt for Red October, as part of a scheme to seize a defecting Soviet submarine, and one featured in the film adaptation.
She was assigned to assist Boris Turgenov in the assassination of Professor Anton Vanko for defecting from the Soviet Union, which served as her first mission in the United States.
On September 2, 1939, the day after Hitler's invasion of Poland and less than a fortnight after the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact was signed, Assistant Secretary of State and Roosevelt's adviser on internal security Adolf Berle had a meeting, arranged by journalist Isaac Don Levine, with defecting Soviet agent Whittaker Chambers.
On November 7, 1945, defecting Soviet espionage courier Elizabeth Bentley told investigators of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) that in late 1942 or early 1943 she learned from Soviet spies Nathan Gregory Silvermaster and Ludwig Ullmann that one source of the government documents they were photographing and passing on to her and NKVD spymaster Jacob Golos was Harry Dexter White.
Walter Germanovich Krivitsky ( Ва ́ льтер Ге ́ рманович Криви ́ цкий ; June 28, 1899 – February 10, 1941 ) was a Soviet intelligence officer who revealed plans of signing Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact before defecting weeks before the outbreak of World War II.
Alongside the Supreme Soviets, he attacked the Soviet Super-Soldiers for defecting from the Soviet Union.
It has been said that his not defecting, and the limited travelling allowed under the Soviet Regime were to blame.
He believes Tanner could turn the Soviet spies into defecting.
Petrov states in his memoirs ( ghost written by Michael Thwaites ) that his reasoning for defecting lay not in an imminent fear of being executed, but in his disillusionment with the Soviet system and his own experiences and knowledge of the terror and human suffering inflicted on the Soviet people by their government.

defecting and military
The NTC has been in negotiations with Algeria and Niger, neighboring countries to which members of the government and defecting military commanders have fled, attempting to secure the arrest and extradition of Al-Saadi Gaddafi and others.
Zhang He began his military career when the Yellow Turban Rebellion erupted in 184 and subsequently served under Han Fu and Yuan Shao before defecting to Cao Cao during the Battle of Guandu.
With the EPR and police defecting, a large number of para military units were needed to police the country.
Klíma told Davidson he would not consider defecting until he had completed his military duty ( so as not to be labeled a deserter ) in 1985.

defecting and officer
At the commencement of the novel, Karl Riemeck – his last and best double agent, a high-ranking East German political officer – is shot dead at the last moment whilst defecting to West Berlin.

defecting and has
The Tumen has been used for years by North Korean refugees defecting across the Chinese border.
John Biggs-Davison, MP, in his Foreword to Robert Copping's second book on the history of the club, stated that " by its principles club has kept alive true Tory beliefs and held within its ranks many who contemplated defecting from the Conservative and Unionist Party ".
McCullough takes a somewhat different interpretation of the events, and has Caesar shunning Labienus, instead of Labienus defecting to Pompey.
However, from the 1990s onwards, the HFL has been a victim of its own success, with various teams defecting to other leagues.
Ivanov's clown friend, Anatoly ( Elya Baskin ), who has talked of little else but defecting, is intimidated into canceling his plan, and Vladimir, who had opposed the scheme as reckless and foolhardy suddenly decides to do it.
On 25 April 2005, during the run-up to the 2005 general election, he announced he would be defecting to the Liberal Democrats, ironically the successor party to the SDP, citing the invasion of Iraq of which he has been a long-term critic, university tuition fees and anti-terrorism laws as reasons for his defection and Blair's " scorn for liberal Britain ".
Among his claimed disservices, Bure has singled out his arrival in North America after defecting from Russia, in which it took the Canucks organization several weeks to get in contact with him in Los Angeles.
Sometimes an experienced card just has slightly better stats ; sometimes it is greatly changed ( e. g. Sheriff Coleman becoming Harrowed and defecting from the Agency and Law Dogs to work with the Texas Rangers ); occasionally, some stats are notably worse ( e. g. Howard Findley, the original leader of Sweetrock, went insane ).
He has initially fought on the Russian side in the First Chechen War before defecting to the group of Dokka Umarov.
Unbeknownst to StateSec, Harkness has no intention of truly defecting, and after fooling his assigned watchdogs, hacks into the security and communication systems, eventually disabling them and causing massive explosions in the boat bays.
Veritas has no representation in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, although its members have served in both the European Parliament and the London Assembly, having been elected as UKIP members and defecting upon Veritas ' formation.
This led to the Raw color-commentator Paul Heyman leaving the announcer's booth and declared that Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) has joined the invasion and stated that the invasion has been taken to the extreme, leading to some WWF and WCW wrestlers ( including Lance Storm, Rhyno, The Dudley Boyz, and Tazz ) defecting to ECW.

defecting and brought
The British superhuman project " Maximan " had been developed from technology brought by defecting Nazi scientists in World War II, and the Nazis had developed it from knowledge given to them by the Lloigor.

defecting and war
A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.
When the war broke out between Vytautas and his Muscovite son-in-law in 1408, Švitrigaila cast his lot with the latter, surrendering all the Severian towns to the Russian army and defecting to Moscow.
With the outcome of the war no longer in doubt, large numbers of communist and socialist political prisoners began applying for the " Dirlewanger " in the hope of defecting to the Soviets.
One of them is a defecting Japanese government official Imoguchi, and he is believed to hold a secret that could end the war faster.

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