Who's That Again?

The book is seductively titled Who's Who in the CIA, but, alas, that turns out to be largely a cover--and little else. The work of East Germany's Dr. Julius Mader, 40, the author of several other, widely unnoticed exposes of Western intelligence operations, Who's Who is a pocket-size, 600-page directory that lists more than 3,000 Americans who supposedly work for the CIA. "My book," says Mader, "blows the lid off the American secret service."

Well, not quite. Would you believe Lyndon Johnson? Hubert Humphrey? Dean Rusk? Robert McNamara? Defense Secretary Clark Clifford? A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany? They are all in Who's Who. So is Composer Leroy Anderson (The Syncopated Clock) who was, to be sure, a U.S. military intelligence captain in World War II and Korea. So are Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Bruce Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News and Phil Santora of the New York Daily News, not to mention Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, L.B.J.'s former press secretary. On the list too are Arthur Schlesinger and HEW ex-Secretary John Gardner, Viet Nam Negotiator Cyrus Vance and Presidential Aide Walt Whitman Rostow.

Some of the entries suggest that Spook-Spotter Mader is a bit out-of-date. He has Dr. Peter Howard Selz as curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a post he left three years ago for the University of California. He lists William Henry Hylan as a CBS network vice president; Hylan went to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1963 and has been there ever since. August Heckscher appears as a writer on the New York Herald Tribune; Heckscher, now New York City parks commissioner, left the Trib in 1956, and the newspaper closed down two years ago.

In case his readers have corrections or additions to offer, Mader has included a blank page that can be torn out and mailed to an East Berlin post office. But one page will hardly suffice.

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