Big Intel

Big Intel: How the FBI and the CIA Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains by J. Michael Waller, Regency Publishing, 2024. 

Comparison of Hoover and Donovan

Much of the book contrasts J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation’s and Wild Bill Donovan’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Hoover was rabidly anti-Communist and few Communist spies infiltrated the FBI. In contrast, Wild Bill Donovan was less particular about the political sympathies of the people he hired. Consequently, many Communist spies infiltrated the CIA.

Bill Casey

The author reported directly to Bill Casey, because Casey did not trust the CIA, the organization that he headed.

Yuri Bezmenov

The Soviet defector Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov described to American officials the Soviet’s project to ideologically subvert the citizens of the United States. 

Frankfurt School

There was a meeting in 1922 at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow to set up the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. It is informally called the Frankfurt School. Attendees included:

• Feliks Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka

• Ruth Eisler Fischer, Austrian Communist

• Hungarian Communist György Lukács, who worked for Béla Kun

• Prussian Communist Willi Münzenberg, propaganda chief for Comintern