Big Intel recounts the dramatic story of the rise and Cold War heroics of the FBI and the American intelligence apparatus followed by its unfortunate slide into Marxist-influenced Deep State dysfunction as BIG INTEL became BAD INTEL.
How the Left Subverted the CIA and FBI
Once upon a time, the FBI and the CIA fought America’s enemies at home and abroad. Now they are tools of a growing police state, attacking the left’s political enemies and spying on ordinary American citizens—even parents who push back against radical public schools. How did we get here?
In this revealing and thoroughly documented book, a former operative for the CIA traces the origins of Big Intel to a loose network of Marxist academic agitators known as the Frankfurt School. Their ideology appealed to the Ivy League elites populating the CIA, but the subversion of the FBI took longer, impeded for a time by the bureau’s staunchly anti-Communist director, J. Edgar Hoover. Eventually both institutions succumbed, and today Big Intel is controlled by the cultural Marxists.
Chronicling the parasitic infiltration of the CIA and FBI, Big Intel shows how normal intelligence functions have given way to political correctness and never-ending “pride” propaganda, trapping agents in the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” house of mirrors.
Most chilling of all is the emergence of the leftist security state. Big Intel has become Bad Intel. There are hard times ahead, but if Americans remember what freedom once was, we can still defang Big Intel and return our intelligence services to the service of democracy.
About the Author
J. MICHAEL WALLER, Ph.D., is senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy and president of Georgetown Research, a political risk and private intelligence company. Waller worked for the CIA in Central America, did groundbreaking scholarship after the Soviet empire’s breakup, and taught history and methods at America’s premier intelligence schools. His work has appeared in the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, The Federalist, and the Wall Street Journal.
J. Michael Waller
Dr Waller is Senior Analyst for Strategy at the Center for Security Policy in Washington DC, and President of Georgetown Research.
For 13 years, Dr Waller held the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair in International Communication at the Institute of World Politics, a graduate school of statecraft and international affairs in Washington. He is a scholar-practitioner in the areas of strategic influence, public diplomacy, psychological operations, information operations, counter propaganda and related areas.
He was a founding editor of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, published in cooperation with the American University and Moscow State University; and of Defence Strategic Communications journal, published by NATO.
Dr Waller was a member of the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives and the US Senate, and has served as a consultant to the US Information Agency, the US Agency for International Development, the US Army, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and other agencies.
He has written for American Greatness, the American Mind, the Daily Beast, Forbes, Insight, Investor’s Business Daily, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the New York Times, Reader’s Digest, USA Today, the Washington Times and the Wall Street Journal. His books include the prizewinning Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today (Westview, 1994), which predicted the rise of a Russian gangster-state dominated by the old KGB.
His latest book is Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains (Regnery, 2024).