Wippl Publishes Book Review in Journal of Intelligence
Joseph Wippl, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, wrote a book review that will be published in an upcoming edition of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
“The Results of Conflicted Policy” is slated for inclusion in the journal’s Volume 29, Issue 1, due in 2016. It was released online in November.
In the article, Wippl reviews the 2015 book 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Story by Robert L. Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani intelligence, Grenier launched the “southern campaign,” orchestrating the final defeat of the Taliban and Hamid Karzai’s rise to power in 88 chaotic days.
From the text of Wippl’s article:
The major element in 88 Days to Kandahar is the Central Intelligence Agency’s conduct of the war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban after the World Trade Center attacks on 11 September 2001 (9=11). Robert (Bob) Grenier, CIA Station Chief in Islamabad, Pakistan, found himself in the center of a hurricane on that day. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had directed the 9 = 11 attacks from his safe haven in Afghanistan. An expert in the area of South Asia due to previous tours as a National
Intelligence Officer for the Middle East and South Asia, as well as a senior officer in the Agency’s Non-Proliferation Center, Grenier was as qualified as anyone could be to lead a large part of the American intelligence effort against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
You can read the entire article here.
During his 30-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS), Wippl served as an operations officer and manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid; Mexico City; Vienna; and Berlin. Prior to his arrival at Boston University as a CIA Officer in Residence, he occupied the Richard Helms Chair for Intelligence Collection in the NCS training program. Learn more about him here.