Russia / USSR

Books

• Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), editor with Ilan Berman.
• Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today (Westview, 1994), author.

Congressional testimony

• “Troubleshooting US Policy Toward Russia,” testimony before the Committee on International Relations, US House of Representatives, October 6, 1999.
• “Russian Nuclear Missile De-Targeting and the Presidential Narrative,” testimony before the National Security Research & Development Subcommittee, US House of Representatives, March 13, 1997.

Book chapters

• “Russia’s New Information War: What It’s Like and What to Do About It,” in Fred Fleitz, ed., ed., Putin’s Reset: The Bear Is Back and How America Must Respond  (Washington: Center for Security Policy, 2016).
• “Police, Secret Police, and Civil Authority,” in The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Katharina Pistor, eds. (John M. Olin Critical Issues Series / Westview, 1997).
• “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).
• “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).

Scholarly articles and papers

• “Weaponizing Ridicule,” Military Review (US Army University Press), September-October 2017.
• “Russia: Death and Resurrection of the KGB,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. XI, No. 3, June 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.
• “International Terrorism: The Communist Connection Revisited,” for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (Crossbow, 2002).
• “What Happened to the Soviet Terror Networks?” paper delivered at Hanns-Seidel Stiftung, Wildbad Kreuth, Germany, May 2001.
• “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.
• “Deception and Denial by Non-State Actors: The Case of Russian Organized Crime,” paper delivered at the National Strategy Information Center, September 1999.
• “‘Delay, Postpone, Obfuscate, Derail’ – A case study of US aid to the former USSR,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Winter 1997, with rebuttals from Ashton Carter from the US Department of Defense, and Ambassador Richard Morningstar from the US Department of State.
• “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.
• “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
• “KGB: The Perils of Arbitrary Power,” Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol. II, No. 1, December 1991.

Articles

• “America needs an in-kind deterrent to Russia’s political warfare,” Center for Security Policy Decision Brief 2018.002, July 23, 2018.
• “Here’s what Trump should tell Putin at their summit [in Helsinki],” Fox News, July 15, 2018.
• “Hillary Clinton’s Russian Ghost Stories,” Daily Caller, October 20, 2017.
• “Trump must up ante on Russian subversion in America,” Forbes, January 4, 2017.
• “WikiLeaks game can turn Kremlin fortress into glass house,” Forbes, August 16, 2016.
• “US may hand Putin an excuse to stop monitoring of Russian breeder reactors,” AMI Newswire, March 30, 2016.
• “Putin propagandists pick up ex-Pentagon PSYOPers,” AMI Newswire, February 11, 2016.
• “Ukraine’s secret weapon,” Kyiv Post (Ukraine), April 7, 2015.
• “Why did we give Putin control over our satellite launches?” Daily Caller, May 19, 2014.
• “Die-hard KGB men still plant forged documents to pollute our thinking,” Forbes, September 3, 2014.
• “Celebrating 96 years of gangster government in Russia,” Investor’s Business Daily, December 21-23, 2013.
• “A resurgent Russia challenges US as Obama fails foreign policy test,” Investor’s Business Daily, September 5, 2013.
• “Putin resorting to Cold War threats,” Insight, March 30-April 12, 2004. Download PDF: im-putin-threats-march2004
• “Russia may prove to be erstwhile ally,” Insight, June 3, 2002.
• “Cover-up deepens” of Russian lasing of US Navy officer, Insight, May 21, 2001.
• “Espionage and national security” (Robert Hanssen), Insight, April 2-9, 2001.
• “Changing the nuclear command,” Insight, February 19, 2001.
• “U.S. aid is funding Russian weapons,” Insight, January 29, 2001.
• “Ex-Clinton officials rake Russia policy,” Insight, October 30, 2000.
• “Gore wrecked Russia policy,” Insight, October 16, 2000.
• “Russia and China rooting for Gore,” Insight, October 2-9, 2000. Download PDF: Russia China Gore 2000.10.02
• “Edmond Pope may die in Russia,” Insight, September 18, 2000.
• “The Clinton team and blackmail,” Insight, June 19, 2000. Download PDF: Clinton blackmail 2000.06.19
• “Will Gore’s slips sink U.S. ships?” Insight, May 15, 2000.
• “Fixing a photo to fit a policy,” Insight, February 14, 2000.
• “Where will Putin lead Russia?” Insight, January 31, 2000.
• “Loving the Russian bomb,” Insight, December 6, 1999.
• “Red-handed lies: Clinton administration punished those who pointed out Russian organized crime,” Insight, November 8, 1999.

• “Shot by a laser,” Reader’s Digest, October 1999. Download PDF: RD Shot by Laser 1999.10
• “The secret history of the KGB,” Insight, October 4, 1999. Download PDF: Secret History of KGB 1999.10.04
• “Gore’s embrace,” Insight, September 27, 1999. Download PDF: Gore Yeltsin 1999.09.27
• “Yeltsin keeps it all in the family” (on the rise of Putin), Insight, September 6, 1999. Download PDF: IM Rise of Putin 1999.09.06
• “How Al Gore set up Uncle Sam,” Insight, July 19, 1999. Download PDF: IM Gore US Yugoslavia 1999.07.19
• “Is new premier a usual suspect?” (Stepashin), Insight, June 14, 1999.
• “Subsidizing Russia’s nuclear scientists,” Insight, April 5-12, 1999. Download PDF: Waller subsidizing Russias nukes
• “Russian spies are alive, well,” Insight, March 8, 1999.
• “From butter to missiles” (How US aid funds Russian nuclear modernization), Washington Times, December 15, 1998.
• “Bad for Russians, worse for West: Russia’s old spymaster, Yevgeny Primakov, is its new prime minister,” Insight, October 26, 1998.
• “No nukes pointed this way? Think again,” Washington Times, July 6, 1998.
• “IMF and the Russian missiles,” Washington Times, January 23, 1998.
• “The politics of chemical weapons,” Washington Times, March 4, 1997.
• “The chemical weapons coverup,” Wall Street Journal, February 13, 1997. Download PDF: WSJ Chem Weapons Coverup 1997.02.13
• “Ignoring the danger in Eastern Europe,” Washington Times, October 22, 1996.
• “The missiles pointed at America,” Washington Times, September 24, 1996.
• “The Russian nuclear threat is not gone,” Wall Street Journal Europe, July 16, 1996. Download PDF: WSJ Russian nuke threat 1996.07.16
• “Out with the old nukes, in with the new,” Washington Times, June 10, 1996.
• “To Russia, with cash,” Reader’s Digest, June 1996. Download PDF: RD To Russia w Cash 1996
• “What Russia is really up to,” Washington Times, April 19, 1996. Download PDF: WT What Russia really up to 1996.04.19
• “Is Primakov the Kremlin’s answer?” Wall Street Journal Europe, January 22, 1996. Download PDF: WSJ Primakov Kremlim Answer 199601.22
• “Return of the old Soviet guard,” Washington Times, January 15, 1996.
• “Moscow’s chemical weapons coverup,” Wall Street Journal Europe, December 19, 1995. Download PDF: WSJ Moscow CW Coverup 1995.12.19
• “The treaties with Russia are not what they seem,” Washington Times, December 14, 1995.
• “Time to de-fund Russia’s military modernization,” Wall Street Journal Europe, June 2-3, 1995. Download PDF: WSJ Defund Rus Mil Mod 1995.06.02
• “Russia’s poisonous secret,” Reader’s Digest, October 1994.
• “Russia’s biggest ‘mafia’ is the KGB,” Wall Street Journal Europe, June 22, 1994. Download PDF: WSJ Russia Mafia KGB 1994.06.22
• “Trials of a new Russian dissident,” Wall Street Journal, February 4, 1994. Download PDF: WSJ Trials Russian Dissident 1994.02.04
• “Soviet redux: Secret weapons and poisoned justice,” Wall Street Journal Europe, February 2, 1994.
• “Delay NATO expansion – But for the right reason,” Wall Street Journal Europe, January 10, 1994. Download PDF: WSJ Delay NATO 1994.01.10
• “Yeltsin’s debt to the old KGB,” Wall Street Journal Europe, December 1, 1993. Download PDF: WSJ Yeltsin’s Debt 1993.10.01
• “The KGB lingers unreformed,” Wall Street Journal Europe, August 2, 1993. Download PDF: WSJ KGB unreformed 1993.08.02
• “Russia’s security and intelligence services today,” American Bar Association National Security Law Report, Vol. 15, No. 6, June 1993.
• “The KGB is back in business,” Wall Street Journal Europe, October 30, 1992. Download PDF: WSJ KGB back in business 1992.10.30
• “The KGB isn’t dead yet,” Wall Street Journal Europe, January 28, 1992. Download PDF:
• “New KGB spymaster, same nasty tricks,” Wall Street Journal, October 10, 1991. Download PDF: WSJ KGB spymaster 1991.10.10