Valery Nikolayevich Ivanov (russian: Валерий Николаевич Иванов) (born 1948) was a

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diplomat. As First Secretary of the

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, he was expelled on 22 April 1983 under suspicion of being a spy after allegedly trying to recruit

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member

David Combe Harvey David Mathew Combe (26 April 1943 – 21 September 2019) was National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), a political consultant and lobbyist, an Australian Trade Commissioner, a Senior Vice-President International of Southco ...

, see Combe-Ivanov affair.

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1948 births Soviet diplomats KGB officers Living people Combe–Ivanov affair {{Russia-diplomat-stub