ISBN 978-3-902475-34-3 Gerd-Helmut Komossa The German Card The Hidden Game of the Secret Services A Chief of the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) Reports 216 pages, numerous black and white illustrations, 15 x 23 cm, Hardcover Price: 19.90 / sfr 35.40 The Chief of the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) reports. Memories from the world of intelligence services often have to conceal as much as they reveal. Nevertheless, Komossa's memoirs are engaging enough. The officer, who has been active in the Bundeswehr since 1956, became the Chief of the MAD under the Social Democratic Minister of Defense Georg Leber and always saw himself as a politically thinking soldier. He provides a behind-the-scenes look at the service, into the working and thought processes of those involved. The relationship with journalists and politicians is discussed, as well as the relationship with other German and foreign intelligence services. Komossa describes the...