Wippl in Vice: 9/11 and the CIA
Joseph Wippl, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, fundamentally changed the CIA.
Wippl made his case in a Sept. 13 article published on the news website Vice entitled “‘Blind Spots and Inefficiencies’:The CIA Before and After 9/11.”
From the text of the article:
Joseph Wippl is a 30-year CIA veteran who served both overseas and in domestic headquarters positions. When he was invited to speak to a group of agency personnel about management issues, he says he named CIA supervisors he thought were effective managers, and also named those he thought were ineffective.
“That was the last time I was asked to speak on the topic,” Wippl said. “There are always these calls for accountability, but then when real accountability takes place, they don’t like it.”
You can read the entire article here.
Wippl spent three decades 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. Learn more about him here.