Vladimir Petrov (diplomat)
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Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov was a Soviet spy who defected to Australia, the country he was deployed in, in 1954 with his wife Evdokia, in what became known as the Petrov Affair.
Vladimir Petrov in a safe house after defecting to Australia.
Petrov Affair
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The Petrov Affair was a Cold War spy incident in Australia, concerning the defection of Vladimir Petrov, a KGB officer, from the Soviet embassy in Canberra in 1954. The defection led to a Royal Commis
Vladimir Petrov (diplomat)
…14 June 1991) was a Soviet spy who defected to Australia, the country he was deployed in, in 1954 with his wife Evdokia, in what became known as the Petrov Affair. Petrov was born Afanasii Mikhailovich Shorokhov (Russian: Афанасий Миха́йлович Шорохов) on 15 February 1907 in Larikha, Russia, in what is now Tyumen…
Evdokia Petrova at Mascot Airport, Sydney, being escorted across the tarmac to a waiting plane by two armed Soviet diplomatic couriers (19 April 1954).
Campaign material used by the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) at the 1955 federal election, referencing the Petrov Affair