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Soviet defector Chebotarev shows risks and motives in exile
The article surveys Soviet defectors like Antonoli Chebotarev and Oleg Lyalin, detailing motives from betrayal of favored status to moral crisis. It explains how defectors are identified, processed by Western embassies and the CIA, and how families back home suffer, with cases of people vanishing under new identities or facing pressure from the KGB.
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Antonoli Chebotarev
West
UPI
Europe
KGB
U.S
United States
Russia
Svetlana Stalina
Stalin
New Delhi
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington
America
West Germany
Chebotarev
NATO
Anatoli Fedoseyev
Paris
Fedoseyev
Britain
Sussex County
Oleg Lyalin
London
Lyalin
Langley
Dzerzhinsky Square