Big Intel testimonials
“Big Intel is a brilliant analysis of a serious issue facing our country.” Thomas J. Baker, former FBI special agent. Author, The Fall of the FBI: How A Once Great Agency Became a Threat to Democracy.
“Michael Waller earned well-deserved credibility as a scholar-investigator of the counterintelligence and intelligence craft with his Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today …. Now Waller has turned his scholarly focus on the security bureaucracies closer to home: the U.S. intelligence community. The self-referential counterintelligence/intelligence bureaucracies are not confined merely to the eastern marches of Western civilization.” John J. Dziak, a former senior intelligence official, U.S. Department of Defense. Author, Chekisty: A History of the KGB.
“At about the same time that I met Michael Waller, I went to CIA Director Bill Casey, with a plan to counter the communists’ scheme to disrupt American intelligence. He loved the plan and urged me not to brief CIA because, he said, ‘they would mess it up.’ Michael Waller had good advice about CIA from good sources and has written a book to help readers understand what has happened to our intelligence agencies.” Michael Ledeen
“After decades of our agencies and bureaus abusing power to politicize intelligence and meddle in American politics and U.S. presidential elections, the reputation of the U.S. intelligence community has sunk to a new low. In Big Intel, Dr. Waller provides a fascinating and detailed analysis of the fall of America’s intelligence Services and how they might be salvaged to protect American security and freedom.” Fred Fleitz, former National Security Council chief of staff and former CIA analyst.
“In his ambitious new book Big Intel, J. Michael Waller takes on these large questions, examining the historic performance of U.S. federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, most significantly the FBI and CIA, in battling the subtle forces that have for decades eaten away at the country’s institutions and traditional values. … Waller knows his stuff.” Philip A. Linderman, former career diplomat, United States Department of State.
“Every American concerned about the dismal state of the nation’s intelligence agencies should read J. Michael Waller’s riveting book, Big Intel. A fine writer with extensive experience in information warfare and foreign subversion, Waller explores the origins of the nation’s increasingly suicidal self-image and sinking global influence.” Juliana Geran Pilon, City Journal.
“It’s the worst strategic intelligence disaster in American history - the CIA and FBI’s decades of failure to detect and defend the country against a relentless Kremlin active measures campaign that survived the Soviet collapse and took on a life of its own. Waller chronicles how the Communist enemy spawned cultural Marxism and critical theory, and how that alien worldview has corrupted the entire American intelligence community.” Peter Schweizer, President, American Accountability Institute.
”Well researched and accessible, this timely account is not just for historians and intellectuals, but for all Americans who want to know the real story behind the extreme leftward drift of our institutions, particularly those organized to prevent that very foundational shift from occurring. Why the primary organizations Americans have relied on to lead us away from this country-ending path - the CIA and the FBI - have failed in this regard is Waller’s great subject. Dr. Waller argues that we still have time to stop them. The Communists, radical left, and enemies of America will hate it.” Phillip Jennings, retired U.S. intelligence operative and Marine officer.
“If you’ve got a nagging feeling America is being systematically dismentled and destroyed by obscure forces from within, J. Michael Waller’s book shows this is indeed what is happening. And the attack is far along. Based on his historian’s eye and his own long experience taking on Marxists over decades, Waller lays out the hundred-year, multigenerational Marxist effort to destroy America’s capitalist and Judeo-Christian foundations. His is a frightening book but a necessary one.” Grant Newsham, author of When China Attacks: A Warning to America.
“Spellbinding. Provocative. Essential. We are at war, and the enemy long ago made its way inside the wire. We are betrayed at the highest levels, and the fate of the republic hangs in the balance.” Sam Faddis, retired senior CIA operations officer.
“Mike Waller takes us on a deep dive into the reasons behind how the once testosterone-laden, mission-oriented FBI and CIA have morphed over the years into ineffective, bloated, unfocused government bureaucracies. He begins with their origins under J. Edgar Hoover and ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan and shows how what he calls ‘insidious Kremlin active measures’ evidenced by the Venona intercepts of Soviet coded messages, and continuing Communist influence have served to bring down so many of our institutions, including the FBI and CIA.” F. W. Rustmann, Jr., retired CIA clandestine services officer and author of the popular spy trilogy The Case Officer, Plausible Denial, and False Flag.
“Waller takes you step-by-step through the historical circumstances that allowed the ideological capture of the Deep State’s most powerful weapons: U.S. foreign and domestic intelligence agencies. His personal connections to critical players on the timeline will make you wonder if you picked up a Ludlum or Clancy novel.” Kyle Seraphin, former FBI special agent.
“Like real Wizards of Oz, the FBI and CIA have amassed and weaponized unthinkable powers against the American people hidden behind the facade of serving the national interest. Mike Waller pulls the curtain back to show how great and terrible these agencies have truly become.” Stephen Friend, former FBI special agent, and author of True Blue: My Journey from Beat Cop to Suspended FBI Whistleblower.
”What if you combined the dark, anti-human politics of the academic left with the unfettered power and impenetrable secrecy of the national security state? You’d have pretty much what we have now, which is the end of America as we know it. Mike Waller explains how we got there in this wise book.” Tucker Carlson.