These included the American Peace Committee, an activist group organized by the Communist Party, USA(CPUSA).

[4] These last meetings were funded by a coalition anti-fascist organizations, among them the non-partisan International Committee of the Red Cross, and the CPUSA-led American-Russian Institute and Russian War Relief.

[10] In 2011 the consulate bought new headstones, for a total of $20,000, for Russian sailors who died fighting a fire in San Francisco in 1863.

[18] In 1984, a United States government report indicated that there may have been approximately 50 Soviet spies operating out of the San Francisco Consulate, primarily targeting Silicon Valley.

[18][20] Russian diplomats based out of the consulate were reportedly mapping where underground nodes connected to the national fiber-optic communication network.