Pardee School Faculty Speak at Intelligence Seminar
Several faculty members from the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University spoke as part of the “Intelligence Seminar Series: Non-Official Cover and Influence Operations,” on October 18, 2017. The event was hosted with cooperation from the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
Erik Goldstein, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, introduced the four presentations at the seminar and moderated question-and-answer discussions with the speakers.
Joseph Wippl, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School, delivered the first presentation of the seminar on “What is Non-Official Cover?” 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.
John D. Woodward, Jr., Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School, delivered the second presentation entitled “NOC, NOC: Who’s There?: The Future of Non-Official Cover.” Woodward is a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who, during his twenty-year CIA career, served as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington D.C., East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East.
Amb. Vesko Garcevic, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Pardee School, delivered the third presentation of the seminar entitled “Russia’s Influence in the Balkans: From Soft Power to the Coup Attempt in Montenegro.” Amb. Garcevic served as the Ambassador of Montenegro in Brussels (NATO) and Vienna (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe – OSCE). He was Montenegrin Ambassador to Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History at the Pardee School, delivered the fourth and final presentation of the seminar on “Soviet Use of ‘Dangle’ and Provokatsia Operations: The Early Years.” Lukes is the recipient of the Central Intelligence Agency Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Literature on Intelligence. Professor of International Relations & History.