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Combe–Ivanov affair

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91:(ASIO) raised concerns that Combe, still closely aligned to the ALP, might be being compromised by a Soviet citizen with KGB links. Ivanov was expelled from Australia on 22 April 1983 by Prime Minister Bob Hawke. Ministers were also directed not to use Combe's lobbying services, although the reason for this was not made known to them at the time. 116:, the Special Minister of State and Vice-President of the Executive Council (and himself a former ALP National Secretary 1969-72), was forced to stand down from the Ministry on 14 July when it was revealed he had breached Cabinet security, having talked to a journalist immediately after the 21 April Cabinet decision to expel Ivanov. 119:
In December 1983, Justice Hope reported that David Combe had indeed been targeted by the Soviets, but there was no proof of intelligence breaches or of any threat to national security; and that with Ivanov’s expulsion there was no longer any reason to limit Combe’s access to ministers. Cabinet
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The so-called Combe–Ivanov affair developed out of a trip Combe and his wife made to the USSR in 1982, in the course of preparations for which they met and developed a relationship with Valery Ivanov, then the First Secretary at the Soviet Embassy in
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decided to set up a register of lobbyists. Registration would be voluntary, but unregistered lobbyists would have no access to ministers or officials.
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Mick Young returned to the Cabinet in January 1984. Combe was later appointed Australian Trade Commissioner to Canada and Hong Kong.
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was commissioned to investigate the affair but also to review the general progress of the intelligence agencies he had
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The rest of the chapter discusses "ASIO and the Combe-Ivanov affair" and "Justice Hope's Royal Commission".
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Was Your Dad a Russian Spy? The Personal Story of the Combe/Ivanov Affair.
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The Australian Security Intelligence Organization: An Unofficial History
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was an Australian political scandal of 1983. A Soviet diplomat and
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to review Australia's security and intelligence agencies.
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Index

Combes-Ivanov affair
KGB
Valery Ivanov
Australian Labor Party
David Combe
Mick Young
Robert Hope
David Combe
Australian Labor Party
Valery Ivanov
Canberra
Hawke
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
Robert Hope
inquired into
Gough Whitlam
Malcolm Fraser
Mick Young
catalogue entry
Archived
Wayback Machine
Harvey Barnett Obituary
Archived
Wayback Machine
ISBN
0-7146-3477-8
Google books
ASIO in the 1980s
"Australia Scandal Erupts Over Soviet Diplomat"
The New York Times

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