Read more defection stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/13041/defection.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:02:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/57452/defector-specter-just-playing-to-pa-primary-politics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhy did Arlen Specter defect? It’s tempting to paint Specter as part of a post-Obama ideological realignment, but there’s a much more concrete explanation, Eric Kleefeld writes for Talking Points Memo: reelection. Pennsylvania is a closed-primary state, and between 150,000 and 200,000 registered Republicans switched parties to vote...http://www.newser.com/story/57452/defector-specter-just-playing-to-pa-primary-politics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 28 Apr 2009 14:47:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39704/cuban-players-ditch-us-hotel-may-plan-to-defect.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwo Cuban soccer players fled a US hotel in Virginia yesterday and may plan to defect, the Washington Post reports. Pedro Faife, 24, and Reynier Alcantara, 26, are slated to play in a World Cup qualifier tonight and have not turned themselves in to Customs—but Cuba's coach doesn't expect...http://www.newser.com/story/39704/cuban-players-ditch-us-hotel-may-plan-to-defect.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 11 Oct 2008 14:52:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/21364/navratilova-defects-again-from-worse-bush-regime.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThirty years after defecting to the US, at the height of the Cold War, tennis ace Martina Navratilova has regained her Czech citizenship, the Independent reports. The racket star became a US citizen in 1981. She plans to retain her US citizenship as well but she had some harsh criticism...http://www.newser.com/story/21364/navratilova-defects-again-from-worse-bush-regime.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 12 Mar 2008 6:53:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/13663/cia-recruited-iranian-officials-to-defect.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe CIA plotted to recruit Iranian officials to defect and managed to entice a handful to do so over the last two years, reports the Los Angeles Times . The secret program, begun in 2005, was intended to disrupt Iranian nuclear research. The primary criterion for recruitment, according to a former...http://www.newser.com/story/13663/cia-recruited-iranian-officials-to-defect.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 09 Dec 2007 6:00:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/7823/kgb-doggedly-stalked-nureyev.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHe was never interested in politics, but Rudolf Nureyev was a KGB scourge for decades after his 1961 defection. The famed ballet dancer’s colleagues were glad to see him go—‘Rudik’ was a prima donna to management and competition for fellow performers—but the state was incensed, the Telegraph reports,...http://www.newser.com/story/7823/kgb-doggedly-stalked-nureyev.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Sep 2007 20:47:27 CDT