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Charles McMahon and Darwin Judge

McMahon and Judge were members of the Marine Security Guard (MSG) Battalion at the US Embassy, Saigon and were providing security for the DAO Compound, adjacent to Tân Sơn Nhứt Airport, Saigon.

Melomane

Melomane was invited to play in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, in September 2006 by the US Embassy in Russia to support the Russian release of their third album Glaciers, on the Russian record label Soyuz Music.

Petr Lébl

He met the US ambassador Luers and attended parties organized by the US embassy, where he met John Updike, Edward Albee and William Styron.


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7th Special Operations Squadron

Through aggressive Office of Defense coordination at the US Embassy in Raba, the cooperation of Royal Moroccan Air Force officials at the Air Staff and Kenitra Air Base, and the persistence of 7th SOS planners, we were once again flying Combat Talons through the Atlas mountains.

Alfredo M. Santos

He received the Certificate of Honor from US Ambassador Henry A. Byroade in simple ceremonies held at the US Embassy, Roxas Boulevard, Manila on April 14, 1973.

AmCham Finland

Natasha Seeley, AmCham's first Managing Director, Heikki Jaatinen of Hannes Snellman, Will Cardwell, today of AaltoES, Mark Sutton of 3M, and Teppo Rantanen of Deloitte gathered at the US Embassy on the invitation of Commercial Counselor Robert Peaslee to draft a charter for a new organization.

Bacha bazi

Afghan interior minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar requested that the US military assume control over DynCorp training centers in response, but the US embassy claimed that this was not "legally possible under the DynCorp contract".

Bahrain Centre for Human Rights

According to US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks the US ambassador to Bahrain, Adam Ereli, in 2010 noted that human rights organisations including Freedom House and Human Rights Watch relied too much on Rajab and the BCHR for their information on Bahrain.

Barbara J. Stephenson

Barbara J. Stephenson is the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in London, and is acting as Charge d'Affaires following the departure of Ambassador Louis Susman.

Cageprisoners

By November 2010, The Guardian reported that US embassy cables in the Wikileaks showed then-U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, Cynthia Stroum, praising Begg for his campaign to persuade European nations to take in Guantanamo detainees for resettlement.

Clay Huffman

Clay also sent three major works to the US Embassy in Nairobi.

Corruption in Papua New Guinea

The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) has become “ineffective, corrupt and often abusive” according to a leaked diplomatic cable from the US Embassy in Port Moresby.

Cyprus lunar sample displays

The plaque display with the Apollo 17 "moon rock" and the Cyprus flag were kept at the US embassy in Nicosia for protection during the tumultuous events of the 1974 coup d'état (Turkish invasion).

Embassy of the United States, Sarajevo

In the month following al Qaeda's bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 American intelligence analysts became concerned that Arab immigrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina planned to attack the US Embassy in Sarajevo.

Foundation for Self Sufficiency in Central America

FSSCA builds relationships between the Coordinadora and international organizations such as USAID, the US Embassy, the American Jewish World Service, the Overbrook Foundation, the Shefa Fund, the Communitas Charitable Trust.

From a Whisper

From A Whisper is based on the real events surrounding the August 7 bomb attacks on the US Embassy in Nairobi in 1998.

Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart

Lady Sybil Marjorie Cuffe (1879–1943), married (1) 30 April 1901 William Bayard Cutting (Jnr.) (1878- 1910 of tuberculosis), son of William Bayard Cutting and then secretary to the US embassy to the Court of St. James's, by whom she had one daughter Iris Origo (1902–1988).

Jack Gosnell

He has served as a Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs at the US Embassy in Beijing, China, as US Consul General in St. Petersburg, Russia and as Counselor for Science and Technology at the US Embassy in Moscow.

Matthew Zeller

Zeller was instrumental in rallying public support to pressure the US Embassy in Kabul to grant a US visa to his former interpreter in Kabul, Janis Shinwari, as part of the Afghan Allies Protection Act.

Robert C. Ames

He rose to become the CIA's chief analyst for the area and was killed in the suicide bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut, 18 April 1983.

The Dust Busters

In 2010, they received special invitation from the US Embassy in Sofia to represent American folk music at the Bourgas International Folklore Festival and also be showcased at the Apollonia Festival of the Arts in Sozopol.