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The Canadian embassy in Cuba never closed nor did the Cuban embassy in Canada.

Tsipras has visited the Russian embassy many times and has flown to Moscow a couple times as well.

My visa expires 2 years from issuance but can be renewed (from an embassy outside the US).

In past mass expulsions, the British government has expelled 20 or 30 spies from the Russian Embassy in London.

We tailed everyone who stepped out of the Soviet embassy for most of the Cold War.

Assange was denied asylum in France, continues living in the Ecuador embassy in the UK.

Couldn't the embassy provide a large public WiFi hotspot to the nearby Cuban residents?

Your actual covert operatives will never interact with the embassy in a detectable/obvious way.

If he had done it on US soil though (perhaps in front of the US embassy) there could have been an actual dilemma.

The 'Interests Section' was essentially an embassy in everything but name.

Twenty years of oppression under the pro-US Shah led to a revolution led by Khomeni and they unsurprisingly hit the embassy where it all started.

You pay, you get the letter in a week, you have to pop over to an embassy outside Vietnam, for example in Cambodia to pick it up.

It is fully expected that foreign countries know about (and extensively surveil) your "official cover" embassy staff intelligence officers.

"Defected to Finland" means walked in to the Beijing Embassy of Finland, I guess.

But apparently the place wasn't abandoned: "the reopening of the embassy on the Malecón waterfront in Havana, previously used as an interests section, a limited diplomatic outpost, ".

The problem is that embassies usually are protected spaces where the host country police cannot intervene, the embassy personnel is under diplomatic immunity and the "worst" punishment the host country can deliver is declaring the offender a "persona non grata", but this is a diplomatic affront of the highest severity itself.

Their alias is as members of the British Embassy, or other diplomatic status mission.