Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
1968
Mader, Julius. Who's Who in CIA. Berlin: J.Mader, 1968. 605 pages.
Published in East Germany, under Stasi auspices and probably with KGB assistance, this little (4
by 5.5 inches) book is nearly impossible to find. It even has a habit of disappearing from U.S.
libraries. Each of the nearly 2500 entries has a birth date and several short lines of career
information.
Mader paints with a broad brush. He admits in his introduction -- if not in his title -- that his
listings include former OSS, military intelligence (even during WW2), State Department
personnel who have done "work for CIA," FBI counterintelligence, and also the occasional
politician who sat on this or that intelligence committee. Generally when Mader includes a name,
it's merely an indication that Mader found this person interesting for one reason or another, and
further research and corroboration is needed before any conclusions can be drawn. Some of his
names, for example, appear to have been compiled by looking for the word "intelligence" in the
State Department Biographic Register.
At the same time, Mader apparently had access to some information on CIA officers that was not
publicly available. More than once a "new" CIA name has surfaced in Western media that had
been sitting in Mader's book all along. For the occasional investigator who is too experienced to
expect easy answers, this book continues to be quite useful. -- D.Brandt
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