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Defection of Viktor Belenko
On September 6, 1976, Lieutenant Viktor Belenko of the Soviet Air Defense Forces defected by flying his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25P "Foxbat" aircraft from near Vladivostok in the Far East of the Soviet Union to Hakodate Airport in Hokkaido Prefecture of Japan.
Formal act of defection from the Catholic Church
A formal act of defection from the Catholic Church was an externally provable juridic act of departure from the Catholic Church that existed between 1983 and 2010.New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law ed.
Martin and Mitchell defection
In September 1960, two U.S. National Security Agency cryptologists, William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, defected to the Soviet Union.
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