Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...prove what was in the briefcase. "While the Soviets have the documents, we're stuck with suspicions," said one. Almost every major spy conviction depends heavily on the suspect's cooperation. The New York Times reported that Bloch told the FBI he was working for "many years" for the KGB and had received "a lot of money," but he refused to talk further about specific acts of espionage...
...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 for the KGB...
...years Soviet officials feared that accurate maps and city guides would be a boon to spies and saboteurs and, as a result, were highly selective in their cartography. The notorious Dzerzhinsky Square headquarters of the KGB was nowhere to be found on most Soviet-made maps. And out in the countryside, rivers, villages and mountains moved with each new edition...
...acre mountain retreat, purchased with royalties from Western publications of his works, the author of such books as Cancer Ward and The First Circle gradually disappeared from headlines and public view. Admiring pilgrims hoping for a glimpse of the 1970 Nobel laureate -- as well as suspected KGB snoops -- were discouraged by the natives and by an impressive security system ringing the enclosure...