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Apple has run into this problem in recent years, as Mac users have defected to Windows because fewer and fewer companies are writing Mac-compatible versions of their programs.
He defected and became a star informant for the United States.
"The letter that led to Mr. Vulterin's dismissal is believed to have followed leaks from within the BIS revealing a successful MI6 operation in which Iraq's leading spymaster in the region defected to the West," the newspaper said.
North Korea's ambassador to Egypt defected to the United States.
All this information was contained in "the Mitrokhin archive"--a vast haul of documents smuggled out of Russia by Vasili Mitrokhin, 77, a former KGB archivist who defected to Britain in 1992.