WASHINGTON'S AGOG OVER CIA 'WHO'S WHO'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200840058-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: December 27, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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By EVERT CLARK
News American-Newsweek Correspondent
tt WASHINGTON, Dec. 27-Nothing is move l
prcciotis to a spy than his cover. Sometimes
f years in the making and always vulnerable
Small wonder, then; that the publication
in English of a small, red-jacketed book called 1
"Who's Who In The CIA" is sending tremors.a
throughthe U C intelligent.. ......?...,unit.
THE BOOK LACKS the Intricacy of a;
John Le Carre thriller or the dash of a,
'James Bond dossier. But its claim Is stark and
r=work on 3,000 officers of the civil and military x ight seem laughable. Included are Lyndon
Johnson, "Professor" Hubert Horatio Hum-
phrey, George Meany anda man called Smith,
-,.who is referred to only as having been an
Air Force major expelled from the USSR' in `
X964.
The CIA, while conforming to tradition and_i
. ? it considers the hook a farce. "It is definitely.,
t a Soviet operation," says one undercover, 1, source. "They released parts of It in various
countries to try to make a stir. Most of the
people in it are not, and have never been,
in the CIA."
J. 0 TO BE SURE, the book seems to 'be.,
Nothing more than a clumsy attempt to make
foreign governments believe every American
is a spy.
It is riddled with glaring errors: one man
1s listed as an active agent although he died
in an automobile accident more than three e
years ago. Employes of the State Depart--J
ent s Bureau of "Intelligence and Research i
` /rnare included although they have nothing ,
But it does contain just enough of a germ:(
of truth . fo bn discomfiting to real spies,
'I`he'cocktail-party set, in. Georgetown, Wash-
t 'ngton's 'spook-conscious residential area,
have. made a game of spotting agents' names',
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DEC 2? 1963
IIt1111t1in(ttttninnuiuinnrmninntnnnmmuuuumm~onnnartcrnK~ "THE CIA iS buying It, evelybody is,,
Imo.. ,
1 '?y , E buying it" says a salesman in Georgetowns
Cavan Rnnk Shan- which sold out its full.
sS speamng, 11; .nf1s toe 11141-a.
= r "It has even become ' sort of a social
' i included are upset because they thought
9V A- Ar c r nras? 1 Jt1 they should ? he."
the vGerman edition V a~few weeks ago and
then ,latched onto a couple of hundred;
( all vanished in a matter, of hours,'
So far, no other kook stores`havel
been able to obtain copies.
THE AUTHOR is Dr. Julius'
an East German ? journalist butt
!.' Western officials to be coiy with!
their employ. .end his admitted
Is not ' exactly a testimonial' tq
his impartiality:
JJ "North American , imperialism," ,
'he says, "takes upon itself as the
world's policeman, so to speak,;
?I to intervene against every demo.'
cratic, progressive and non-caps-i
talist devalopment all over the;
world. The socialist states, 'as his.;
tory'shows, know how to effective-i
ly defend themselves against such;
intervention." . . (
Washington, some avid ? readers;
are ? spreading t'ie word that the'
book is, actually a plant by U. 3.
Intelligence forces-an attempt to;
confuse the other side by feeding]
FOR ALL 't'I1 book's anti:'
cult to prise the stint. volume as,
suspenseful reading. . '
(..,, One East German reviewer,! <
tisrn, recommender) "Who's Who" i
because "the vglume costs $2.50
and gives about 2,500 names,
making it quite a bargain., It
j gives you 10 CIA names for. every'
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