These citizens are now routinely taken to a large militia shack constructed on the street corner near the embassy several months ago (with militiamen often employing "considerable force" to prevent them from entering the embassy. according to Stoessel). His April 1 protest to the Soviet government accomplished nothing. On the morning of May 29. seven days after Stoessels telegram to Washington. a 30yearold medical laboratory technician named Mikhail Ilyitch Parkansky approached the embassy with an invitation from consular officials. In March. a request for him and his family to emigrate to Dallas. Texas (home of his brother). had been denied and he lost his job. Now he was intercepted outside the embassy by militiamen and taken to their booth.
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