defection
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This was almost hilariously tawdry, but MI5 was beguiled by Lyalin’s many disclosures about KGB operatives in London, made as a way to prove that he was not faking his defection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The defection, just four months on from May's Senedd election, has raised fresh questions about the electoral process where voters were required to back a party rather than an individual.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
The defection was approved with the necessary two thirds majority.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Mr. Rogers thinks some of these voters are ripe for defection: “The African-American community of Michigan has felt a little bit abandoned” by the Democratic Party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
After his defection to the South, Lee told me he had used his contacts in the North to smuggle out thirty-four people to freedom.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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