Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 16:16:49 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: M-G: How to spot a spook, CIA officers


Jay wrote the below, on 15.02.

Spook-spotting, a not unimportant exercise, I hold.

Of even more interest than how to spot this kind of
spoooks which you're mentioning here is how to spot
the ones camouflaged as "Marxists" - remember the
"Quispe"mo, for instance!

Rolf M.

>>From Name Base URL: http://www.pir.org/
>Country Search: Peru, from 1977 - 1996
>
>U.S. State Department. Biographic Register 1977. 363 pages.
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>     The Biographic Register is an alphabetical listing of alleged State
>Department employees, with about 40 names per page. Each entry gives a
>birth date, a chronological list of foreign postings during the person's
>career, and a history of the person's job titles and government ranking. 
>
>     John D. Marks, a former State Department employee, made the Register
>famous in his article "How to Spot a Spook" in Washington Monthly,
>November 1974. It turns out that CIA officers posted abroad under State
>Department cover tend to drop in and out of this annual publication with
>certain characteristics in their listings. Because this was so useful, the
>1974 edition was the last one distributed to the public. We went through a
>1977 "limited official use" edition (the latest we can get our hands on),
>and then the unclassified 1973 and 1969 editions. Out of these we ended up
>with a total of almost 3400 names. About half are CIA officers, while the
>rest are either with the State Department and at some point in their
>career may have specialized in intelligence, or were with AID's Office of
>Public Safety. (Before Congress phased it out in 1974, OPS was used by the
>CIA for official cover.) We already had most of the CIA names, but the
>Registers gave us better posting data for our nifty country graphs. The
>classification of this Register is a loss for human rights researchers
>everywhere. 
>                                                      -- D.Brandt
>
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