Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hostile surveillance" is a technique used by police to pressure a suspect by letting him know he is being watched. The FBI's investigation of Felix Bloch, the American diplomat suspected of espionage, by last week had mushroomed beyond hostility into full-blown hysteria. When Bloch and his daughter drove from suburban Chappaqua, N.Y., into Manhattan, they were followed by a posse of federal officers, news reporters, camera crews and, said Government sources, a carload of KGB agents...
Though a string of spy cases in recent years has involved naval men, embassy guards and intelligence analysts, U.S. officials could take comfort in the belief that none had implicated an American diplomat -- until now. The State Department last week confirmed that the FBI is probing whether Felix S. Bloch, a 30-year Foreign Service veteran and the No. 2 man at the U.S. embassy in Austria from 1981 to 1987, has been working...
...that massive handouts would be unproductive. During the past two decades, the regimes in Poland and Hungary entrenched themselves by using foreign loans to subsidize cheap consumer goods rather than upgrade industries. "The last thing the West should do is to forgive us our debts," says a senior Hungarian diplomat. "It would just relieve the pressure for reforms, so it would be money down the drain again...
When he arrived in Moscow last August, a Western diplomat had to choose which of two cars to buy. In the end he picked the one he liked less and that cost more. His reason: "The owner threw in one of the American maps with...
...most acrimonious of these had begun in the early 1980s with a push by the FBI to reduce the number of Soviet diplomats in the U.S. The State Department had resisted the bureau's initiative on the ground that the Soviets would retaliate by cutting the number of local Soviet employees allowed at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. That led to bitter disputes about the espionage threat posed by these local employees and about other security issues. By 1985 low- level warfare had broken out between Ambassador Hartman and security officials in Washington. "There was bad blood; there...