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DWN50 - 20020726 - DARWIN, AUSTRALIA : (FILER) Picture dated 19 April 1954 shows former Soviet spy Evdokia Petrov (C) being "escorted" across the tarmac to a waiting plane at Darwin Airport by two armed Russian diplomatic couriers during the Cold War. Evdokia later joined her husband Vladimir Petrov in requesting political asylum in Australia after he defected while stationed at the Soviet embassy in Canberra. Evdokia has died, aged 88, in Melbourne, 19 July 2002 where she had lived in hiding for 48 years. EPA PHOTO NATIONAL ARCHIVES