Released today: “Big Intel” explains how wokeness overtook the CIA and FBI

The CIA and FBI have become consumed by political correctness, critical theory, and wokeness.

Concerned about the trend after decades of work supporting both agencies, the Center’s Senior Analyst for Strategy, Dr. J. Michael Waller, sought to assess the damage and determine how it happened, who did it, and why.

The result was released today as Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains, published by Regnery and distributed worldwide by Simon and Schuster.

With only modest marketing on Dr. Waller’s Twitter/X page, Big Intel made Amazon’s Top 100 Bestseller list for Intelligence and Espionage in the week before release.

“Researching this book produced a lot of surprises that I had never anticipated,” Waller says, “the most startling being that today’s critical theory or cultural Marxism, the driver of DEI and wokeness, began a century ago as one of the Soviets’ earliest active measures campaigns.”

“It wasn’t even aimed at the United States, but the U.S. imported it in the 1930s and welcomed Stalinist agents and Communist Party operatives into its first foreign intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services,” Waller says. “From there, as we see with the present Harvard scandal, it penetrated American universities and credentialing institutions and, as with the rest of society, it became part of the operating systems of the CIA and FBI.”

“The very agencies responsible for defending our country against foreign influence and subversion adopted that hostile doctrine designed to undermine us from within,” according to Waller.

“The point is driven home on this very day, January 16, 2024, as national security and intelligence professionals walk off their government jobs right here in Washington to protest in solidarity with Hamas,” Waller says.

Efficient distribution

Producing Big Intel through a commercial publisher is the most inexpensive way to reach the largest possible audience. “Regnery’s excellent editors and fact-checker really improved the work and turned the manuscript around quickly,” says the author, who completed the manuscript in late October.

Big Intel is available in hardcover, e-book, and audio editions. Actor Charles Constant narrated the audiobook, as he did with the works of authors like Chris Rufo, Peter Schweizer, CIA man John Prados, Ben Shapiro, and Mark Paoletta.

Big Intel is available on Amazon in hardcover, Kindle, Audible, and CD editions; through Barnes and Noble in hardcover and e-book editions; Books-A-Million, Bookshop.org, Simon and Schuster, Target, Apple Books, and Google Play.

E-book and audio versions of Big Intel are also available at public libraries through the Libby app.