Valery Ivanov

{{Short description|Soviet diplomat}}

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Valery Nikolayevich Ivanov ({{langx|ru|Валерий Николаевич Иванов}}) (born 1948){{cite book|last=Trahair|first=R. C. S.|title=Encyclopedia of Cold War espionage, spies, and secret operations|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|date=2004|pages=137|isbn=0-313-31955-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNSMrps8mpcC|access-date=2009-04-19}} was a Soviet diplomat.

As First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy to Australia, he was expelled on 22 April 1983 under suspicion of being a spy after allegedly trying to recruit Australian Labor Party member David Combe,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/12/world/around-the-world-australia-scandal-erupts-over-soviet-diplomat.html|title=Australia Scandal Erupts Over Soviet Diplomat|date=12 May 1983|work=The New York Times|access-date=2009-04-20}} see Combe-Ivanov affair.