Felix Bloch’s Career and Contemporary Events

Bloch’s
Location
and Title

East Germany
Economic
Officer

Vienna
Economic
Counselor

Vienna
DCM

Vienna
Acting
Ambassador

Vienna
DCM

Washington
Senior
Executive
Seminar

Washington
European
Bureau Dir.,
Pol. & Eco.
Policy

U.S. Government Policy Issues and Decisions

Brezhnev “Detente” Period

East-West trade increases

Orenburg Gas Pipeline Project

Mutual Balanced Force Reduction talks in Vienna (MBFR)

US-Soviet Trade and Economic Council suspended

Afghanistan sanctions (grain and high technology embargo)

US-USSR Joint Commercial Commission suspended

Siberian gas pipeline project (’81)

Versailles Summit (’82)

Siberian pipeline equipment sanctions lifted (November 1982)

INF deployments

START negotiations

U.S. decisions on reactions to Afghanistan and Iran hostage crisis

COCOM HLM (April 1983)

Int’l. Energy Agency agreement (May 1983)

Williamsburg Summit (1983)

NATO ministerial on East-West issues

London Economic Summit

Bonn Economic Summit

VAX case (DEC); tech transfer (1983)

US-Soviet Trade and Economic Council reinstated

US-USSR Joint Commercial Commission reinstated

Overthrow of Senior Interdepartmental Group International Economic Policy (April 1985)

Gorbachev launches Glasnost and Perestroika

Controls on oil and gas exploration and production dropped (January 1986)

Administration battle over S.812: controls on capital flows to Eastern bloc (fall 1985)

Toshiba case (1987)

Tokyo Economic Summit (1986)

Venice Economic Summit (1987)

OECD ministerials

U.S. decision to subsidize Soviet wheat sales

Toronto Economic Summit (1988)

OECD Ministerials

Secy Verity trip to Moscow/USTEC meetings regarding joint ventures (April 1988)

Pressures at COCOM to relax export controls and streamline control list

Soviet entry into European bond market (January-July 1988)

First Soviet trade fair in U.S.

Whitehead trips to Eastern Europe

State downplays concern over untied loans to Soviet bloc

No Administration response to 3 Congressional resolutions on credit flows to Soviet bloc

National Strategy Reviews for President Bush (Feb.-June 1989)

Relaxations of export controls: policy of “No exceptions” lifted

Paris Economic Summit preparations

Bush meeting in Brussels with EC: Bloch on delegation (May ’89)

OECD ministerials (Paris): Bloch on delegation (May ’89)

CSCE talks in Vienna: Basket 3, Human rights (January 1989)

U.S. drops opposition to conference in Moscow

CSCE talks in Vienna (February 1989)

East-West Economics conference agreed to

Bush-Gorbachev “Summit” in New York

Embassy efforts to fund International Institute for Applied
Analysis–alleged KGB front (1985)

PFIAB review of embassy security: Bloch consulted (1985)

Technology theft: major diversion cases through Austria; no cooperation
from embassy (1983-86)

Summits between Reagan and Gorbachev (1985-1988)

Dates

1974-1980

1980-1983

1983-June 1985

June 1985-
April 1986

April 1986-
July 1987

July 1987-
July 1988

July 1988-
June 1989

Center for Security Policy

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