Wippl on WCVB News: State Department Travel Warning
Joseph Wippl, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on a travel warning issued by the U.S. State Department to Americans visiting Europe this summer about the potential for terrorist attacks.
Wippl, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, was interviewed for a May 31, 2016 segment on WCVB Channel 5 entitled “State Department Warns Summer’s Europe-Bound Americans About Terror Risks.”
From the segment:
It’s one of those things in which if something were to happen, in a way the government is able to protect itself by saying we warned you, there was a warning out there. There’s a possibility that terrorists could get themselves organized to engage in attack, but the security services in Europe are generally very good.
A great majority of them are prevented. One hundred percent prevention isn’t going to happen there and it’s not going to happen in the U.S. either.
You can watch the entire segment here.
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. Learn more about him here.