Waffle House Diaries

Wayne Smith grew up in Lindale, Georgia, graduated from the University of Georgia, and spent a thirty-year career with what is now the Drug Enforcement Administration, generally known as DEA. He served in the Atlanta District office, then at the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), before transferring to open an office in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he retired in 1999. During those thirty years he was on temporary assignments in San Francisco, Puerto Rico, Columbia, and Bolivia.