A DIRECTORY THAT ASKED ITS READERS TO BECOME INFORMANTS.

Mader, Julius (1910–2000), editor

Who's Who in CIA: A Biographical Reference Work on 3,000 Officers of the Civil and Military Branches of the Secret Services of the USA in 120 Countries [1968 First English Edition]

Berlin: Published by Julius Mader, 1968.

THE 1968 EAST GERMAN DIRECTORY THAT ATTEMPTED TO NAME AMERICA'S INTELLIGENCE NETWORK. 
Published in East Berlin in 1968, Who's Who in CIA was an extraordinary Cold War undertaking: a pocket-sized directory purporting to identify approximately 3,000 Americans associated with the CIA, State Department, military intelligence, and related organizations operating in 120 countries. The entries provide combinations of birth dates, military service, government employment, languages, overseas postings, and alleged intelligence affiliations. Contemporary CIA material itself described the book as a biographical reference work identifying some 3,000 American civilian and military personnel.

INTELLIGENCE MAPPED AND NAMED.
Beyond its alphabetical biographical directory, the volume contains a geographical index and six folding organizational diagrams depicting the structure of American intelligence organizations, including the CIA, State Department's Office of Intelligence Research, NSA, military intelligence, FBI, and organizations represented as CIA covers. Bibliographic records confirm the English edition at 604 pages and its publication by Mader in Berlin in 1968.

Perhaps the book's most unusual feature is found at the rear: two detachable forms inviting readers to submit corrections and the names and addresses of additional suspected American intelligence officers directly to Mader. Both forms remain present and unused in this copy.

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: POCKET-SIZED INTELLIGENCE REFERENCE: Small hardcover, approximately 15 cm tall. Red textured boards lettered in white on the front. 7–604, [1] pages, including geographical index. Illustrated with six folding organizational diagrams, including:
+++ Structure and Organization of the American Intelligence Services
+++ Office of Intelligence Research, Department of State
+++ Military Intelligence Headquarters of the USA
+++ National Security Agency
+++ Federal Bureau of Investigation
+++ System of several cover organizations used by the CIA

Two perforated detachable reporting forms are bound at the rear. Original color-printed dust jacket in blue, red, white, and black.

CONDITION: Very Good in a Fair dust jacket. Binding remains firm and square. Red textured boards are clean and bright with strong white cover lettering, showing a small area of surface abrasion near the lower front board. Text block is sound and complete. Pages are uniformly age-toned, as expected for the inexpensive paper stock used in the production, with no significant internal defects noted. The six folding diagrams are present and intact, and the two detachable reporting forms at the rear remain unused.

The original dust jacket is worn with surface loss and abrasion to the front panel, additional rubbing and soiling, edge wear, and a small loss along the upper edge of the rear panel.

COMPLETE WITH THE REPORTING FORMS.
Both detachable forms intended for readers to report additional suspected CIA or other United States intelligence personnel remain bound in and unused. The forms ask for the individual's name, address, and reason for being considered prominent and direct the information to Mader's Berlin address. Their survival is particularly desirable because they reveal that the book was conceived not simply as a static directory but as an expandable intelligence-gathering project.

COLD WAR SIGNIFICANCE — INTELLIGENCE, EXPOSURE, AND PROPAGANDA.
Who's Who in CIA belongs to the shadow world where publishing, intelligence gathering, propaganda, and Cold War political warfare intersected. Mader was an East German journalist, and the directory was produced in East Berlin while presenting itself as an independently compiled reference work. Later accounts have connected its production with East European intelligence services and characterized it as part of the Soviet-bloc campaign against American intelligence operations.

AN EAST GERMAN WEAPON IN THE INFORMATION WAR.
The entries should not be treated as uniformly reliable identifications of CIA personnel. The book mixed publicly available biographical and diplomatic information with assertions of intelligence affiliation, creating a document whose historical importance lies as much in how information was assembled and weaponized as in the accuracy of individual entries.

THE CIA WAS PAYING ATTENTION.
The book was not merely an obscure East German curiosity. Declassified CIA records preserve contemporary material discussing it, and in March 1970 the CIA's Office of Legislative Counsel recorded a request from House Armed Services Committee staff for copies of Mader's Who's Who in CIA and Yellow List: Where is the CIA.

SUBJECTS: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, United States intelligence services, Cold War, East Germany, espionage, counterintelligence, intelligence officers, National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, military intelligence, State Department, Soviet bloc, propaganda, active measures, reference works, political propaganda.

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