Archive - Big Intel by J Michael Waller

How J. Edgar Hoover, at age 23, rounded up foreign anarchists & communists

Excerpted from Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains.

Jul 14 •

J Michael Waller

They can take the FBI out of the J. Edgar Hoover building, but they can't take J. Edgar out of the FBI

Very disappointing start to FBI "reform"

Jul 8 •

J Michael Waller

June 2025

New life for a useless OAS building: The Trump Annex to the White House

If the OAS no longer serves the national interests, the US should annex its buildings

Jun 27 •

J Michael Waller

Today's riots as 'armed propaganda'

Notes from Carlos Marighella's 1969 Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla

Jun 11 •

J Michael Waller

How Obama kicked off the cultural revolution in CIA and FBI

Few dissented. Almost the entire intelligence establishment went along.

Jun 10 •

J Michael Waller

First time in English: French Interior Ministry's report on the Muslim Brotherhood

Report confirms years of Center for Security Policy reports

Jun 2 •

J Michael Waller

May 2025

The list: 200 diplomats, spooks & others issue 'call to action' against domestic 'enemies'

More than 200 former diplomats, intelligence officials, military officers, and other senior officials has signed a "call to action" against President…

May 20 •

J Michael Waller

Caribbean proxies of Communist China have a decision to make

My Washington Examiner commentary: This can be done the easy way or the hard way

May 11 •

J Michael Waller

April 2025

COINTELPRO and what it did right

A surprising look at the history of the FBI's most notorious program

Apr 17 •

J Michael Waller

Trump's FBI & intelligence reforms are consistent with Big Intel's ideas

It's encouraging to see a new spirit break the Deep State's forbidding ice

Apr 14 •

J Michael Waller

CIA Director Casey's alleged quote about disinformation is, itself, a falsehood

Reagan's intelligence chief never said anything about 'our disinformation program'

Apr 10 •

J Michael Waller

Foreign Propaganda, Perceptions & Policy

It's time for us to re-learn what foreign disinformation and propaganda are about

Apr 10 •

J Michael Waller

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