Walker Gargagliano is the chief research assistant of Russian Programs under Dr. Savranskaya. He joined the Archive in 2024 under funding from Carnegie and specializes in Russian and Asia-Pacific military studies. He oversees the READD-RADD Collection and its documents from the Volkogonov Collection, Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI), Russian State Archive (GARF), Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and the Gorbachev Foundation. He has also worked closely in the creation of the Taubman Collection and published the 1924, 1925, and 1926 document sets on the NSA’s Russia page. He is currently working on building the Strobe Talbott Collection and transcripts of all of President Putin’s conversations with Presidents Bush and Obama.
His articles have appeared in the Journal of Strategic Studies and the Naval War College Review, and in online media has been featured in the Asia Times and the Trevor Dupuy Institute blog. His most recent work is a posting on Baltic partisan resistance against Soviet rule for the National Security Archive. Beyond the Archive he currently serves as a postgraduate fellow with the Trevor Dupuy Institute.
Gargagliano holds an M.A. in History from George Washington University where he concentrated on NATO and Russian studies. Prior to joining the Archive, he worked as a research assistant at the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center and as a Teaching Assistant for GWU’s Department of History.