CIA official, author John H. Waller, 81
Posted: Sunday, November 7th, 2004 11:00 amJohn H. Waller, a former high-ranking official in the CIA who also wrote a half-dozen books on espionage and other topics, died of complications from pneumonia Nov. 4. He was 81.
Waller was a historian who wrote full time after retiring from the CIA as its inspector general in 1980.
Perhaps best known among his writings was “Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War,” published by Random House in 1990. … Read full obituary
