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One seeking political asylum
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defector
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In politics, a defector is a person who gives up allegiance to one state or political entity in exchange for allegiance to another. Defector may also refer to: Defector (album) , a 1980 album by Steve Hackett "Defector" (song) , a 2015 song by Muse The ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, agent noun in Latin form from defect , or else from Latin defector "revolter," agent noun from deficere (see deficient ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. one who defects.
Usage examples of defector.
According to Mother the potential KGB defector wanted to come over with a wife and a child.
Rules out the possibility of frightening off the defector before the fucker has a chance to give us his name, rank, and serial number.
Russian defector, hide nor hair of his wife or eleven year old son either.
Once over the border, the three Russians would be whisked to the Tempelhof airport in West Berlin and flown in a US Air Force cargo plane to the defector reception center in Frankfurt, Germany, and from there on to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
Berlin Base noticed an increase in radio traffic between Moscow and Karlshorst, and vice versa, eighty-five minutes before the defector and his family were due to show up at the safe house.
For starters I want the names of everyone, from fucking Bedell Smith on down, in Washington and in Berlin Base, who knew we were going to pull out a defector who claimed he could identify a Soviet mole in MI6.
If someone had whispered in Philby s ear, he might have passed on to the head of MI6 the information that the Yanks were bringing across a defector who claimed to be able to finger a Soviet mole in MI6.
He was thinking of the would-be Russian defector Vishnevsky and his wife strapped onto stretchers.
Angleton had started a dossier on Starik the first time he came across a reference to him in the serial provided by the Russian defector Krivitsky.
The Politburo needed to know, Nikita Khrushchev insisted, whether the rumors circulating in the Kremlin about there being a third English defector were based on fact or wishful thinking.
I understand motive is important so you can make judgment if I am genuine or false defector, but we are not having much time for this tonight.
Kukushkin is a genuine defector, which is extremely unlikely, he will know the answers to these questions.
The KGB lieutenant colonel who ran the defector was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in a private embassy ceremony last December.
It was an article of faith with him that all Soviet walk-ins worldwide were dispatched agents, since the Soviet mole inside the Company would have warned Moscow Centre the moment he got wind of a defection, and a genuine defector would be eliminated before he could organize the defection.
Take his list of questions: a genuine defector would not he able to answer all the questions correctly.