Wippl Speaks at HGARC Espionage Seminar
Joseph Wippl, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave a recent talk as part of an event examining the extensive espionage holdings at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
The April 6. 2017 event, entitled “Espionage: Double Agents & Defectors,” was part of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center’s Student Discovery Seminar.
Wippl is a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who spent a 30 year career as an operations officer in the National Clandestine Service (NCS). He discussed the activities of some of the most sinister spies ever to work both sides of the street.
Attendees had a chance to browse the primary documents and other espionage holdings included in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
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.