Mader,J. CIA-Operation Hindu Kush. 1988
Mader, Julius. CIA-Operation Hindu Kush: Geheimdienstaktivitaeten im
unerklaerten Krieg der USA gegen Afghanistan. Berlin: Militaerverlag
der DDR, 1988. 96 pages.
This booklet is one of the last of the genre of publications from the
Eastern Bloc that names alleged CIA agents. Most of the others were available
in English translation from Progress Publishers in Moscow, or written in
English by CP-aligned journalists in India. Dr. Julius Mader, based in East
Berlin, had Stasi if not KGB connections, so most Western authors who cite
him are quick to add that they consider him unreliable. In the 1960s Mader
compiled almost 2500 names of alleged CIA agents (see the annotation for
"Who's Who in CIA"), and wrote two books on Reinhard Gehlen.
Since our German is rusty, we only put in the 93 names from his six-
page appendix, which is a compilation of CIA agents in Afghanistan from 1947
to 1988. Nearly all of them have been published in previous sources, from
Mader's own "Who's Who" and several Indian books, to U.S. sources such as
the "Dirty Work" volumes and CounterSpy magazine. Mader suggests that his
broad definition of "CIA" includes any agency that cooperates with them:
Agency for International Development, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty,
International Cooperation Administration, the U.S. Information Agency, etc.
His listings include the years the person spent in Afghanistan, the birth
date (when available), and a few words on the person's position or title.
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