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
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