Episode Details

Michael Wayne grew up in Mississippi, attended the Naval Academy, left after his father died, built a career in business and investments while running a hedge fund for fifteen years, spent twenty-five years as a clandestine CIA contractor operating across some of the most sensitive and most dangerous missions available — and then went to Ukraine after the 2022 Russian invasion to organize humanitarian aid, evacuate women and children from combat zones, train Ukrainian soldiers, and deliver equipment to the front line before discovering widespread corruption tied to Ukraine aid that he says reached powerful US politicians. In this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, he shares what twenty-five years as a CIA contractor actually looked like from the inside, what changed after 9/11 in the intelligence world, what the Ukraine work actually involved, what the corruption he discovered actually implicated, and what the DOJ prosecution that followed his decision to push back against that corruption actually produced — including a wire fraud conviction, a federal prison sentence at FPC Montgomery, and what he believes was a deliberate government effort to make him a convicted felon before he could become a whistleblower.

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#TrueCrime #espionage #cia #prisonstory

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Connect with Michael Wayne:

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Website: https://officialmichaelwayne.com/

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Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick:

https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en

https://ianbick.com/

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro and Guest Introduction

01:31 Family and Entrepreneurship

05:00 The Call to the Naval Academy

12:42 The Challenges of the Naval Academy

15:17 Leaving Annapolis After Two Years

17:51 The Tragic Loss of His Father

21:41 The Funeral and a Call from the Captain

24:23 Choosing Family Over Country

28:55 Rethinking Leaving Annapolis

31:14 The Plan to Return Falls Apart

36:24 The Decision to Stay Out of the Military

37:57 Mississippi State and Running the Family Business

41:17 Sponsor Break: Cash App Security

44:27 College Life and Degrees

55:36 Buying Properties and Developing a Strategy

01:00:20 Moving to Atlanta and Sports Betting

01:03:30 The Unexpected Call from an Agency

01:08:40 The First Interview for a CIA Contractor

01:14:40 The Path to Becoming a Contractor

01:19:03 Interviews and the Training Invitation

01:24:05 Paramilitary Training and Selection

01:29:07 Understanding Classification and Compartmentalization

01:34:55 The Intensity of the Initial Training

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