China’s beachhead at Panama Canal

J Michael Waller / Insight magazine / 16 August 1999 Reporting from Balboa, Insight uncovers China’s most recent political and economic maneuverings to obtain effective control of the Panama Canal as the US leaves. [Note: When Insight magazine’s print edition was closed, the publishers shut down its online edition. The link to the original no … Read more

Subsidizing Russia’s nuclear scientists

by J Michael Waller, Insight, April 5-12, 1999. Nearly six years ago, Congress and the Clinton administration launched a visionary scheme to help the scientists and engineers designing the Soviet weapons of mass destruction to put their skills to civilian use. The goal was to prevent them from working for rogue regimes such as Iran, Iraq … Read more

Russian spies are alive, well

by J Michael Waller, Insight, March 8, 1999 Sleepers, cadre illegals, recruits, emigre agents — by whatever name they are spies and the Russian intelligence establishment has such spooks in place in the United States. Along a rural Virginia road, a Hartsdale, N.Y., photographer no sooner stops his car and tosses something into the leaves than … Read more