Joseph W Wippl
Biographic Data
| ID | 9203722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph W Wippl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wippl |
| SIGNATURE | WIPPL J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Global Development |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Past is Always Present: Germany, 2001-2003: 9/11, Berlin, Curve Ball, Iraq
2001–2003 was a period in which decisions by the government of the United States (U.S.) at the highest political levels were made and policies enacted in the War Against Terrorism significantly dif
British Commanders’-in-Chief Mission: Andrew Long: BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War: Intelligence Collection Operations Behind Enemy Lines in East Germany , Pen and Sword Books, Havertown, PA, 2024, 21…
Andrew Long has written extensively on the Cold War, especially as the Cold War applied to Berlin and to East Germany. In this his latest book, Long has described the work of the British Commanders
Memories of the Aldrich Ames Damage Assessment Team
The espionage by Aldrich “Rick” Ames on behalf of the Soviet Union/Russia was the most devastating known penetration of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the history of the agency from 1947
Successful Case Officers: Chameleon Meets the Confessional
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh Man or Woman: Robert Baer: The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin’s Russia Hachette Books, London, 2022, 295 p., $30.00
“I Am What I Am”
Barry Broman joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) a year earlier than I did in 1972. We never met, and I never heard of him. I doubt he ever heard of me as well. He served almost exclusivel
Split Memories: Working in a Fractured Germany
Humint with Spiritual Awareness: Rolf Mowratt-Larssen: A State of Mind: Faith and the CIA Self-Published, 2020, available via Amazon.com, 381 p
Rolf Mowratt-Larssen (RML) describes his career as an operations officer in the Directorate of Operations (DO) in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and as director of intelligence at the Depart
“We Come In Peace”: Relations between CIA Personnel and Congressional Members and Their Staff
I served one year (2005) of my 35-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as the CIA’s director of congressional affairs. In addition, I served as a directorate of operations officer i
The Art of Agent Handling
All Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officers are expected to meet prospective agents; to cultivate these prospects until they are ready to be asked to serve as agents of the United States; t
Spydom’s Chiefs Evaluated
This two-volume work by several well-respected scholars on intelligence examines the performance of numerous leaders of intelligence agencies, most of whom headed intelligence bodies of government
The CIA and U.S. Diplomacy: Political vs. Professional Leadership
Both the U.S. Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Directorate of Operations are staffed by professionals. While the CIA’s overseas offices are managed by professionals o
Reform or Mere Change
In concluding The CIA and the Politics of US Intelligence Reform, Professor Brent Durbin asserts: “Students and practitioners of international relations ignore intelligence at their peril. Intellig
CIA’s Dilemma: A World Divided Between Countries With a Rule of Law and Those Without One
A History of Hidden Activities: Jan Goldman, Editor: The Central Intelligence Agency: An Encyclopedia of Covert Ops, Intelligence Gathering and Spies , Volume 1, Volume 2: Documents ABC-CLIO, Santa Ba…
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is estimated to receive a relatively small percentage of the overall Intelligence budget, while also receiving about 95 percent of the public’s attention. In f
Reasserting the Need for Expertise: John Nixon: Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein Blue Rider Press, New York, 2016, 242 p., $25
When I traveled with a senior European intelligence official to Washington, DC, immediately after Memorial Day 2003, about a month after the official cessation of hostilities with Iraq, senior Cent
The Results of Conflicted Policy: Robert L. Grenier: 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary Simon & Schuster, New York, 2015, 443 p., $28.00
Observations on Successful Espionage
In early 2015 John Brennan, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DCIA), announced a major reorganization of the CIA, presumably to conform more closely to what the U.S. political leader
A Thinker and Leader
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph W. WipplJoseph W. Wippl became Professor of the Practice at Boston University in May 2011 after serving as a Senior Lecturer in the School's Department of International Relations. During his 30-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS) he served as an operations officer and manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid; Mexico C…
The Future of American Espionage
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph W. Wippl Joseph W. Wippl became Professor of the Practice at Boston University in May 2011 after serving as a Senior Lecturer in the School's Department of International Relations. During his 30-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS) he served as an operations officer and manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid; Mexico …
The Qualities That Make a Great Collection Management Officer
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph W. WipplJoseph W. Wippl became Professor of the Practice at Boston University in May 2011 after serving as a Senior Lecturer in the School's Department of International Relations. During his 30-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS) he served as an operations officer and manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid; Mexico C…
Searching for a Traitor
Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille: Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of the Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2012, 228 p., $29.95. An old song b
Intelligence Exchange Through InterIntel
While giving a lecture to an international student body, one young student asked me “Does every country have an intelligence service?,” implying first that she was surprised that every country woul
Law and Right: Glenn L. Carle: The Interrogator: An Education Nation Books, New York, 2011, 331 p., $29.99
Within a few days after the al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 (9/11), I found myself at a vigil for its victims in Berlin, Germany, with the Cardinal-Archbishop of Berl
The Qualities That Make a Great Case Officer
A case officer for an intelligence agency, such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the United Kingdom's MI6, or Russia's SVR, or the French DGSE, or others, is expected to meet agent candi
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The CIA and Tolkachev vs. the KGB/SVR and Ames: A Comparison
Both Adolf Tolkachev and Aldrich “Rick” Ames belong in the Spies Hall of Fame. Both passed extremely valuable information to their respective opposition intelligence services. Both volunteered to s
Tales of a Past Life: John Kiriakou with Michael Ruby: The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror , Bantam Books, New York, 2009, 192 p., $26.00
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph W. WipplJoseph W. Wippl, a retired Central Intelligence Agency operations officer, is currently a Senior Lecturer at Boston University's Department of International Relations. Prior to his arrival at Boston University as a CIA Officer-in-Residence, he held the Richard Helms Chair for Intelligence Collection in the Agency's National Clandestine Service officer training program, following a long ser…
The CMO in the CIA's National Clandestine Service
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph W. WipplJoseph W. Wippl, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, is a retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. During his thirty-year career with the Agency's National Clandestine Service (NCS) he served overseas as an operations officer and manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid; Mexico City; Vienna; and Berlin. On …
Joseph Wippl responds: A Dangle? But Why Executed
" Joseph Wippl responds: A Dangle? But Why Executed?." International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 24(2), p. 426
Spies in Love: Robert Baer and Dayna Baer : The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story Crown, New York, 2011, 305 p., $26.00
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph W. WipplJoseph W. Wippl became Professor of the Practice at Boston University in May 2011 after serving as a Senior Lecturer in the school's Department of International Relations. During his thirty-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS), he served as an operations officer and manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid; Mex…
Intelligence Exchange Through InterIntel
While giving a lecture to an international student body, one young student asked me “Does every country have an intelligence service?,” implying first that she was surprised that every country woul
Law and Right: Glenn L. Carle: The Interrogator: An Education Nation Books, New York, 2011, 331 p., $29.99
Within a few days after the al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 (9/11), I found myself at a vigil for its victims in Berlin, Germany, with the Cardinal-Archbishop of Berl
The Qualities That Make a Great Case Officer
A case officer for an intelligence agency, such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the United Kingdom's MI6, or Russia's SVR, or the French DGSE, or others, is expected to meet agent candi
Searching for a Traitor
Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille: Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of the Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2012, 228 p., $29.95. An old song b
The Future of American Espionage
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph W. Wippl Joseph W. Wippl became Professor of the Practice at Boston University in May 2011 after serving as a Senior Lecturer in the School's Department of International Relations. During his 30-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS) he served as an operations officer and manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid; Mexico …
The Qualities That Make a Great Collection Management Officer
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph W. WipplJoseph W. Wippl became Professor of the Practice at Boston University in May 2011 after serving as a Senior Lecturer in the School's Department of International Relations. During his 30-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS) he served as an operations officer and manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid; Mexico C…
A Thinker and Leader
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph W. WipplJoseph W. Wippl became Professor of the Practice at Boston University in May 2011 after serving as a Senior Lecturer in the School's Department of International Relations. During his 30-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS) he served as an operations officer and manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid; Mexico C…
The Results of Conflicted Policy: Robert L. Grenier: 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary Simon & Schuster, New York, 2015, 443 p., $28.00
Observations on Successful Espionage
In early 2015 John Brennan, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DCIA), announced a major reorganization of the CIA, presumably to conform more closely to what the U.S. political leader
A History of Hidden Activities: Jan Goldman, Editor: The Central Intelligence Agency: An Encyclopedia of Covert Ops, Intelligence Gathering and Spies , Volume 1, Volume 2: Documents ABC-CLIO, Santa Ba…
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is estimated to receive a relatively small percentage of the overall Intelligence budget, while also receiving about 95 percent of the public’s attention. In f
Reasserting the Need for Expertise: John Nixon: Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein Blue Rider Press, New York, 2016, 242 p., $25
When I traveled with a senior European intelligence official to Washington, DC, immediately after Memorial Day 2003, about a month after the official cessation of hostilities with Iraq, senior Cent
Reform or Mere Change
In concluding The CIA and the Politics of US Intelligence Reform, Professor Brent Durbin asserts: “Students and practitioners of international relations ignore intelligence at their peril. Intellig
CIA’s Dilemma: A World Divided Between Countries With a Rule of Law and Those Without One
The Art of Agent Handling
All Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officers are expected to meet prospective agents; to cultivate these prospects until they are ready to be asked to serve as agents of the United States; t
Spydom’s Chiefs Evaluated
This two-volume work by several well-respected scholars on intelligence examines the performance of numerous leaders of intelligence agencies, most of whom headed intelligence bodies of government
The CIA and U.S. Diplomacy: Political vs. Professional Leadership
Both the U.S. Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Directorate of Operations are staffed by professionals. While the CIA’s overseas offices are managed by professionals o
“We Come In Peace”: Relations between CIA Personnel and Congressional Members and Their Staff
I served one year (2005) of my 35-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as the CIA’s director of congressional affairs. In addition, I served as a directorate of operations officer i
“I Am What I Am”
Barry Broman joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) a year earlier than I did in 1972. We never met, and I never heard of him. I doubt he ever heard of me as well. He served almost exclusivel
Split Memories: Working in a Fractured Germany
Humint with Spiritual Awareness: Rolf Mowratt-Larssen: A State of Mind: Faith and the CIA Self-Published, 2020, available via Amazon.com, 381 p
Rolf Mowratt-Larssen (RML) describes his career as an operations officer in the Directorate of Operations (DO) in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and as director of intelligence at the Depart
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