| The Defectors Committee decided that Al Mashat probably did not qualify as a defector. |
| As a cub reporter, he was there with his microphone in 1954 as the USSR Commissar's tried to force the wife of defector Vladimir Petrov to return to Moscow. |
| In 1978, Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov was killed in London, stabbed by a poisoned umbrella point wielded by an unknown secret agent. |
| It is unclear whether Ahmed is related to Manaf Tlass the most high-profile defector so far. |
| Each prisoner or defector was literally milked for every scrap of information the intelligence community wanted, or needed. |
| If one defects and the other cooperates, then the defector goes free while the cooperator receives a harsh sentence. |
