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| renegade; turntail; defector (North Korean defectors typically received a great deal of media attention in the past. 4uzhoj); deserter; turncoat; rat; changeling; transfuge; cat in the pan (ssn); cat-in-the-pan (ssn); fugitive; turncloak (KZTengiz) | |||
| switcher | |||
| bolter | |||
| cross-over (I. Havkin) | |||
| walk-in (а person who comes voluntarily to an intellegence gathering organization to offer information. felog) | |||
| line-crosser; border crosser; frontier crosser; line runner | |||
| flip-flopper (Andrey Truhachev); party-switcher (из одной политической партии в другую, он же "тушка" Lavrin) | |||
| rogue element (Taras) | |||
| sell out (Alexey Lebedev) | |||
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| transfer | |||
| перебежчик: 19 phrases in 6 subjects |
| General | 8 |
| Idiomatic | 1 |
| Intelligence and security services | 1 |
| Law | 1 |
| Military | 7 |
| Music | 1 |