Secret police & spy services – J Michael Waller

Books

Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains (Regnery, 2024), author.
Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), editor with Ilan Berman.
Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today (Westview, 1994), author.

Papers, chapters & articles

“Russia: Death and Resurrection of the KGB,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. XI, No. 3, June 2004.
“Tropical Chekists: The Sandinista Secret Police Legacy in Nicaragua,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. XI, No. 3, Summer 2004.
“The Legacy of the Soviet Secret Police in the Russian Federation,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. XI, No. 3, Summer 2004.
“The Future of Intelligence in Russia,” Intelligence and National Security (UK), Spring 2000.
“Portrait of Putin’s Past,” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol. X, No. 3, January-February 2000.
“Police, Secret Police, and Civil Authority,” in The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Katharina Pistor, eds. (Westview, 1997).
“Russia’s Security Services: A Checklist for Reforms,” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol. VII, No. 1, September-October 1997.
“Primakov’s Imperial Line,” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol. VII, No. 3, January-February 1997.
“Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 4: Hearings on the Participation of the Leadership of the Soviet Armed Forces,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Summer 1996, pp. 603-622 (editor).
“Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 3: Hearings ‘About the Illegal Financial Activity of the CPSU,’” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Spring 1996, pp. 271-311 (editor).
“Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 2: Hearings ‘Concerning the Role of Repressive Organs in the Putsch of 19-21 August 1991,’” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Winter 1996, pp. 109-138 (editor).
“Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 1: Hearings ‘Concerning the Role of the Repressive Organs in the Putsch of 19-21 August 1991,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Fall 1995, pp. 411-450 (editor).
“Russia’s Great Criminal Revolution: The Role of the Security Services,” with Victor Yasmann, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (University of California at Long Beach), December 1995.
“Commonwealth of Chekists: The Former KGB Is Alive and Well in Post-Soviet Society,” in John W. Blaney, ed., The Successor States to the USSR (Congressional Quarterly, 1995).
“DGI and KGB Political Operations in the United States,” in Brian Crozier, The KGB Lawsuits (London: Claridge Press, 1995).
“Who Is Making Russian Foreign Policy?” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol V, No. 3, January-February 1995. Making RF For Pol Persp copy
“Organized Crime and the Russian State: Challenges to US-Russian Cooperation,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1994.
“Why Mutual Reduction in Intelligence Activity is a Bad Idea,” paper and presentation delivered at the Fourth International Glasnost Foundation Conference on the KGB Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Moscow), May 1994. Download PDF: waller-mutual-intel-1994
“The KGB and its ‘Successors,’” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol IV, No. 4, April-May 1994. KGB & Successors Perspective Apr-May 94 copy
“Post-Soviet Sakharovs: Renewed Persecution of Dissident Scientists and the American Response,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 1994. DEM Post Soviet Sakharovs 02-01
“Russia’s Legal Foundations for Civil Repression: Are Soviet Policies Being Reformed or Legalized?” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. I, No. 3, Summer 1993. DEM Russia Legal Found Repression 01-3
“When Will Democrats Control the Former KGB? Opportunities for Russian-US Cooperation,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 1992. DEM Dems Control KGB 01-1
“Civil Authority and the Security Organs,” in Uri Ra’anan, Keith Armes and Kate Martin, eds., Russian Populism: Now Irreversible? (St. Martin’s Press, 1992).
“KGB: The Perils of Arbitrary Power,” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol. II, No. 1, December 1991.