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The fact that Ceppos has defected to the dark side merely fuels the fire.
When a son-in-law defected to Jordan in 1995, Saddam enticed him back to Iraq with promises of forgiveness, but then had him assassinated.
First at Harper's Bazaar , where he was a protégé of the legendary editor Carmel Snow and her equally celebrated art director Alexey Brodovitch, and then at Vogue , to which he defected, for a million-dollar contract, in 1966, Avedon's covers and spreads defined the frothy, exuberant spirit of American fashion photography in what will likely be remembered as its golden age.
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.