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Petrov Affair
Cold War spy incident in Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the Col. Petrov who prevented a nuclear strike in 1983, see Stanislav Petrov.
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 Commission and the resulting controversy contributed to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.
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