Joseph Wippl
Professor of the Practice of International Relatio
International Studies
Boston University
United States of America
Biography
Joseph Wippl is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. He spent a 30 year career as an operations officer in the National Clandestine Service (NCS). Wippl has served overseas as an operations officer and operations manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid, Spain; Mexico City; Vienna, Austria; and Berlin, Germany. On assignments in CIA headquarters, he served as the Deputy Chief of Human Resources, as the Senior NCS representative to the Aldrich Ames Damage Assessment Team, as Chief of Europe Division and as the CIA’s Director of Congressional Affairs. Wippl has coordinated extensively with other members of the U.S. intelligence community. Prior to his arrival at Boston University, he occupied the Richard Helms Chair for Intelligence Collection in the NCS training program. Wippl has taught at BU since 2006, and speaks and writes widely on issues regarding intelligence.
Research Interest
Security and Intelligence
Publications
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“Spies in Love,†The Company We Keep: A husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story by Robert Baer and Dayna Baer, Winter 2011-2012
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“Tales of a Past Life,†The Reluctant Spy; My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror by John Kiriakou , The International Journal on Intelligence and Counterintelligence, September 2010
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“Intelligence Issues: 2010-2011: An Edited Collection of Significant Govermnent Documents,†Edited by Arthur S. Hulnick and Joe Wippl, University Readers, San Diego, 2011
