Waller

Waller, Derek. The Pundits: British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1990.

Ferris, I&NS 7.4, comments that in the last half of the 19th century, the "Pundits" represented "a fully professional and modern intelligence service" that "was used for one task alone, the acquisition of geographical knowledge about areas beyond India's northern frontiers." Political intelligence collection was incidental to this main task, and the information gained was not trusted because it came from "natives." The story of this unit of the Survey of India is "far more a part of the history of geography than of secret intelligence in our sense of the word."

[UK/Historical/GreatGame]

Waller, Douglas. "At the Crossroads of Terror." Time, 8 Jul. 2002, 28-29.

The Counterterrorism Center (CTC) "has become the CIA's busiest outfit."

[Terrorism/02]

Waller, Douglas.

1. "The CIA's New Spies: Remaking Cloak-and-Dagger Missions in the Post-Cold-War Era." (Side-bar story: "High-Tech Spies in the Sky.") Newsweek, 12 Apr. 1993, 30-32.

2. "A Tour Through 'Hell Week': A Newsweek Correspondent Takes the CIA Spy Tests." Newsweek,12 Apr. 1993, 33.

[CIA/90s/Gen; Reform][c]

Waller, Douglas. "The CIA's Secret Army." Time, 3 Feb. 2003, 22.

The war on terrorism has put the CIA back into the business of paramilitary operations. Among other activities, members of the CIA's Special Operations Group (SOG) "have been secretly prowling the Kurdish-controlled enclave in northern Iraq, trying to organize a guerrilla force that could guide American soldiers invading from the north, hunting for targets that U.S. warplanes might bomb, setting up networks to hide U.S. pilots who might be shot down and mapping out escape routes to get them out. And they are doing the same in southern Iraq with dissident Shi'ites.... Though tiny by Pentagon standards, the SOG has swelled to several hundred officers. They are planted in Pakistan, Central Asia, North Africa and East Asia."

[CIA/00s/03/Gen; CA/Gen; MI/Iraq]

Waller, Douglas. "Coming In From The Cold: Under the Wye agreement, the CIA Embarks on a New -- and Highly Visible -- Mission in the Middle East." Time, 2 Nov. 1998. [http://www.time. com]

[CIA/90s/98/Mideast]

Waller, Douglas. "Exclusive -- Behind Enemy Lines: The First Combat Photos of Green Beret Commandos on a Secret Mission Deep Inside Iraq." Newsweek, 28 Oct. 1991, 34.

[MI/Ops/DesertStorm]

Waller, Douglas. “Inside the CIA’s Covert Forces.” Time Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2001, 33.

Johnny Micheal Spann "was part of a secretive paramilitary unit of the CIA, a special-operations group of several hundred covert commandos skilled in sabotage, collecting intelligence in war zones and training foreign guerrillas…. The SOG is divided into ground, maritime and air branches that have light arms, surveillance gear, riverboats and small planes." 

[CIA/C&C/DO; Terrorism/01/CIA]

Waller, Douglas. "The NSA Draws Fire." Time, 29 Jul. 2002, 14.

NSA "is already taking heat for being slow to analyze two cryptic messages it intercepted last Sept. 10, warning that something big was going to happen the next day." Now, "a scathing classified report" issued by the House Intelligence Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, an unclassified summary of which has been released, "has concluded that the agency is badly mismanaged,... and that resulted in its failing 'to provide tactical and strategic warning' of Sept. 11."

[NSA/02; Terrorism/02]

Waller, Douglas. "Outing Secret Jails." Time, 14 Nov. 2005, 21-22.

"At a secret briefing for U.S. Senators on Oct. 26, a senior U.S. intelligence official tells Time, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte was pointedly neutral on Vice President Dick Cheney's Capitol Hill lobbying to have the CIA exempted from legislation banning mistreatment of detainees."

[CIA/00s/05/Gen; Reform/00s/05/DNI]

Waller, Douglas. "The Soldier Spies." Time, 29 May 1995, 31.

[MI/Humint]

Waller, Douglas. "The Strange Case of the Spy in the Winnebago." Time, 13 Apr. 1998. [http://www.time.com]

"The CIA does not yet know how much damage it has suffered from [Douglas] Groat's alleged spying. Investigators do not think it is as extensive as the havoc caused by CIA mole Aldrich Ames.... But the agency's code-breaking capabilities are among its most guarded secrets.... A nation hostile to the U.S. that learned of the penetration would quickly change its codes."

[SpyCases/U.S./Groat]

Waller, Douglas. "Why the Sky Spies Missed the Desert Blasts." Time, 25 May 1998, 40.

"With the Administration convinced that India had no plans to explode a nuclear device, the satellites were snapping photos of Pokhran only one every six to 24 hours," rather than the potential 24-hour coverage.

[CIA/90s/98/IndiaNukes][c]

Waller, Douglas C. The Commandos: The Inside Story of America's Secret Soldiers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

For Surveillant 3.6, this is an "excellent review of the role of Special Forces." The author "insists that the Special Forces are too politically sensitive to be left in the military's hands.... Highly recommended."

McCombie, Parameters, Autumn 1995, says that Waller's is "a creditable and timely account of the training and employment" of special operations forces. The author provides chapters on "Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, 20th Special Operations Squadron, and the Delta Force."

[MI/SpecialOps]

Waller, J. Michael. Fighting the War of Ideas Like a Real War: Messages to Defeat the Terrorists. Washington, DC: Institute of World Politics Press, 2007. [http://jmw.typepad.com/political_warfare/files/war_of_ideas_download_070404.pdf]

[Terrorism/00s]

Waller, J. Michael. "The KGB and Its Successors." Perspective 4, no. 4 (Apr.-May 1994). [http://www.bu.edu/iscip/vol4/Waller.html]

"Bureaucratic reshufflings and name changes since the Soviet collapse have brought little real reform" to the KGB. "President Yel'tsin's strategy has been to preserve the chekist structures but to dilute their ability to act against him by dividing them into five major organizations and by transferring some units to other ministries.... What appears to be emerging is a huge parastatal system dominated by the former KGB, the nomenklatura, and organized crime.... The chekists today hold most of the major levers of power in Russia."

[Russia/90s]

Waller, J. Michael. "The KGB Legacy in Russia." Problems of Post-Communism 42, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1995): 3-10.

[Russia/90s]

Waller, J. Michael. "Organized Crime and the Russian State: Challenges to U.S.-Russian Cooperation." Demokratizatsiya: Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 2, no. 3 (Summer 1994): 364-383.

Calder: "Urges caution ... in the association between United States intelligence and law enforcement agencies and similar Russian organizations in order ... to avoid embarassment through possible support of a criminal gang."

[Russia/90s]

Waller, J. Michael. "Russian Spies Are Alive, Well." Insight, 15. no, 9 (8 Mar. 1999). [http:// www.insightmag.com]

"Even ... after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Moscow continued ... to penetrate Western societies with highly trained, long-term espionage officers and agents.... These spies are known as 'illegals' or 'sleepers' -- highly trained intelligence officers posted abroad to live illegally, that is, without the legal cover of an embassy or other government entity that would give them diplomatic immunity in case of arrest....

"[Illegals] are among Russia's most expensive and long-term espionage assets, going to extreme lengths to spy on their target countries, even if it means burrowing in for years and raising their Western-born children as next-generation spies."

[Russia/99]

Waller, J. Michael.

1. "Russia's Security and Intelligence Services Today." National Security Law Report 15, no. 6 (Jun. 1993): 1-2, 5.

Reprinted in Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 9, no. 4 (Oct. 1993), pp. 7-8.

2. "Russia's Security Services: A Checklist for Reform." Perspective 8, no. 1 (Sep.-Oct. 1997). [http://web.bu.edu/ISCIP/content/vol8/Waller.html]

3. Soviet Empire: The KGB in Russia Today. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994.

To Legvold, FA 74.3, this is "a valuable book ... [that] explores in great detail the failed effort to remake the massive bureaucracies of the security police in both the Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras.... Far from [being] transformed or restaffed, they remain essentially as before and available to a strong-arm leader."

Robinson, Political Studies 44.5, says that "Waller makes his case strongly.... The notion that the organizational culture of 'Chekism' is at the heart of the lack of reform in the post-Soviet intelligence services is, however, strained on occasion.... But overall the books makes for interesting reading."

[Russia/90s]

Waller, J. Michael, and Victor J. Yasmann. "Russia's Great Criminal Revolution: The Role of the Security Services." Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 11, no. 4 (Nov. 1995): 276-297.

The authors review the organization structure and activities of the Russian intelligence services. They conclude that the sevices are part of the problem in post-Soviet Russia.

[Russia/90s]

Waller, John H.

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