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Big Intel is Dr. J. Michael Waller’s publication about security and intelligence, and the defense of American founding principles and Western civilization.
It began in early 2024, following the release of Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains.
With an enthusiastic amount of public interest - Big Intel reached deep into the popular commercial market, for 9 weeks the #1 Amazon bestseller in new titles on intelligence & espionage, and among only about a dozen nonfiction titles on the ever-shrinking book section in every Costco store - Big Intel Substack soon launched.
There’s going to be a lot of new material, recovery of a lot of old material not on the Web or not properly analyzed, and more than a few surprises. A lot of it esoteric but useful. Not always tidy and orderly. Always with a purpose.
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Dr. Waller has had an unusual life, often around but never fully part of the American intelligence community. As he described for the first time in Big Intel the book, he got his start under the great CIA Director William J. Casey, working in Central America with the Nicaraguan Contras to overthrow the Sandinista regime, and collecting intelligence on Soviet support for regional Communist insurgencies. There’s more, but we’ll save it for later.
Here’s his bio at the Center for Security Policy.
Waller as a college student with the Contras in Nicaragua, 1984. This poster is from his appearance that year at Wake Forest University.
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