The World - News from Aug. 8, 1989

French and U.S. agents watched a suspected KGB operative transfer a travel case he had received from U.S. diplomat Felix S. Bloch to another KGB agent, the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported. Bloch allegedly passed a travel bag to a suspected KGB agent using the name Reino Gikman in Paris last May. Der Standard, attributing its report to “secret agent circles,” said that the next day, Gikman gave the bag to a man identified by the French counterespionage agency as a KGB agent. It said that agent took it out of the country. Bloch, 54, worked from 1980 to 1987 at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna and served as its No. 2 official. He was suspended by the State Department on June 22, but no charges have been filed.