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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...
State Department spokesmen say the FBI is investigating unspecified "illegal activities" to determine "the extent of the compromise of security that has occurred." Bloch, who was born in Austria, is believed to have been recruited there by the Soviets at least three years ago, according to an ABC News report. Posted back to Washington, in 1988 he became director in charge of relations with the European Community and other international economic bodies for the State Department's Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs...
There, as in Vienna, Bloch had access to classified reports on the Soviet Union and sensitive cable traffic, as well as data on U.S. policy options and negotiating positions. Once in Washington, he was authorized, for example, to read the National Intelligence Daily, a compilation of intelligence reports. During a trip to Vienna earlier this year, he was allegedly videotaped handing a briefcase to a suspected Soviet agent on a city street. Bloch has been under 24-hour FBI surveillance for a number of weeks. Neighbors say that in early July they began to see men in parked cars staking...
...Bloch received the award for "his discovery of the principle of suicide inhibitors for enzymes and for an example of that principle. His discovery points the way to the rational design of therapeutic agents," a White House press release describing the achievements of the recipients...
...Bloch, who came to Harvard in 1954, was a co-recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology. He chaired the Biochemistry Department from 1968 to 1971, and retired from Harvard in 1982. From 1966-69, he chaired the biochemistry section of the National Academy of Sciences. He said his work has aided in the development of a compound that cures sleeping sickness, a fatal disease found most commonly in Africa...