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Before Ames, there was Edward Lee Howard, a CIA officer who had been slated to go to Moscow but was fired instead for drug use and petty theft.
May 17, 1984 · The body was identified as that of George Weisz, the farm's owner - and, according to reports, one of the CIA's most important spies for 30 years.
Aug 11, 2001 · CIA has quietly reinstated senior couonterintelligence officer who spent 18 months under FBI investigation as suspected Russian spy, offering no formal apology but, in effect, admitting it made...
One of the author's prime suspects is George Weisz, a naturalized U.S. citizen who emigrated from Hungary in 1932. Weisz joined the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) in 1949, continued on at the CIA when the OPC was folded into the agency, and worked in the clandestine service until his retirement.
In November 1982, Maryland State Troopers found his body in his car in the garage of his farmhouse, dead from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. His longtime girlfriend had recently ended their relationship, and a suicide note was found. It appeared open and shut.
Felix Bloch, former Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, was one of the highest ranking Foreign Service Officers ever to be suspected of espionage. He later claimed that the encounter was an innocent exchange of postage stamps between two fellow collectors.
Jul 30, 1989 · The man who took the briefcase was known as an officer of the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency. The man who gave it to him, officials say, was Bloch.
