Lunch Lecture Series 
Author  Charlie Spillers
Discussion :  Confessions of an Undercover Agent 
Noon Thursday June 22, 2023
​Free and open to the public

​On June 22nd at noon the Old Courthouse Museum in Iuka will host a Lunch Lecture Series featuring bestselling author Charlie Spillers. Spillers currently resides in Oxford and is a former Baton Rouge Police Officer, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics regional commander, career federal prosecutor, U.S. Department of Justice Attaché for Iraq, and combat Marine.
Mr. Spillers served with the Baton Rouge Police Department for six years, working undercover as an Intelligence and Narcotics officer, infiltrating the criminal underworld. He then served 12 years with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics (MBN), with the first five years undercover, and rose to the rank of Regional Commander for all of north Mississippi.
His book, Confessions of an Undercover Agent, describes his experiences during a decade of undercover crime-fighting, exciting years filled with heart-pounding encounters and narrow escapes. Playing different roles, he infiltrated rings of burglars and safecrackers, drug trafficking groups, Dixie Mafia auto-theft rings in Northeast Mississippi, and Mafia and Mexican drug smuggling operations. During his last undercover role, smugglers delivered 3,000 pounds of marijuana to him in Houston, Texas.
He capped off a unique career by becoming a career federal prosecutor working on major drug trafficking organizations, violent street gangs, corruption, and white-collar crime. In addition, he volunteered for three tours in Iraq for the Department of Justice, serving as an attorney-advisor to the Iraq court that tried Saddam Hussein and other regime leaders.
He served as the U.S. Department of Justice Attaché for Iraq, and led a joint project to disrupt al Qaeda financing. He examined chemical warfare samples in Belgium, collaborated with the British government on a war crimes case in the High Court of England and Wales, and worked on a notorious Hezbollah commander based in Iran who orchestrated attacks against American and British forces in Iraq. Additionally, he met with the E.U. representative to discuss Saddam’s defense minister, Ali Hasan Al Majid, aka “Chemical Ali”; assisted the Italian embassy and the Vatican on Tariq Aziz, and met with Iraq’s National Security Council.
His contributions were recognized by the FBI Director, the Deputy Attorney General, the Italian Embassy, the British Ambassador, and Britain’s Minister of State for the Armed Forces.
Beyond his exceptional law enforcement career, Charlie Spillers became widely respected as an instructor in law enforcement academies and training courses for federal, state, and local officers. He was also an adjunct professor in graduate criminal justice programs and an instructor for federal prosecutors at the DOJ National Advocacy Center. As an innovator in law enforcement training programs, Mr. Spillers led the development of the groundbreaking Mississippi Highway Patrol criminal interdiction program. He organized a comprehensive air and marine drug smuggling course attended by MBN and Louisiana State Police narcotics agents and state agents from Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, and Georgia. In addition, he developed the first MBN Basic Agent Academy to be certified by the state minimum standards board.
Amazon declared his book Confessions of An Undercover Agent a #1 New Release nationwide in law enforcement memoirs, and it became required reading in criminal justice courses at two universities. He has been featured in over 180 book appearances and speaking engagements across Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana, including dozens of newspaper, magazine, and radio stations including MPB Radio state-wide. He has done TV interviews with WTVA in Tupelo, WREG in Memphis, and stations in Hattiesburg, Gulfport, Biloxi, and in Alexandria and Monroe, Louisiana. Mr. Spillers was a featured author at the Mississippi Book Festival and the state book festivals in Louisiana and Tennessee.
Mr. Spillers is also the author of Whirlwind: A Frank Marsh Novel, and is currently working on the sequel and a memoir about Iraq.

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