{"id":11542,"date":"2014-08-16T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T01:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=11542"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:22:06","slug":"joseph-wippl-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2014\/08\/16\/joseph-wippl-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"“Ich h\u00e4tte ihn weggeschickt” says Prof. Joseph Wippl"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early 2000s,\u00a0Joseph T. Wippl\u00a0<\/a>was the Berlin section chief for the CIA. Today he is a professor of the practice of intelligence studies at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies.<\/p>\n

As relations between the US and Germany became tense this summer after revelations that American agents had recruited at least one German foreign intelligence officer, Joe Wippl’s opinion mattered on the future of US intelligence relations with Germany, and more broadly, with Europe.<\/p>\n

The highly regarded German national news weekly\u00a0Die Zeit<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(July 17, 2014) published an exclusive interview with Prof. Wippl (in German,\u00a0here<\/em><\/a>) focusing on the implications of this incident. The interview was conducted by the Editor of\u00a0Die Zeit<\/em>, Jochen Bittner.<\/p>\n

In an op-ed in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(July 13, 2014),\u00a0Jochen Bittner gave his own views on the issue and quoted Prof. Wippl extensively:<\/p>\n

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I asked Joseph T. Wippl, who was the C.I.A.\u2019s Berlin station chief in the early 2000s, why the agency had recruited German sources. \u201cThe C.I.A. has developed strongly in the direction of a third world agency, in that its officers work in places where the U.S. has great leverage over others and where there is no rule of law,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are not used to or have not been trained to work in countries with similar democratic, constitutional institutions.\u201d At the same time, he went on, the Germans had never seemed interested in the level of cooperation that might obviate this sort of unilateral snooping \u2014 the sort of treaty relationship that America has with Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, the so-called Five Eyes intelligence alliance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The subject of what makes a good intelligence officer is obviously close to Prof. Wippl’s heart. This August he published a paper in the\u00a0International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Volume 27, Number 4, 2014) on\u00a0“The qualities that make a great collection management officer”<\/em><\/a>\u00a0co-authored with Donna D’Andrea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As relations between USA and Germany became tense this summer after revalations that American agents had recruited at least one German foreign intelligence officer, Joe Wippl\u2019s opinion mattered on the future of US intelligence relations with Germany, and more broadly, with Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9961],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11542"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12847,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11542\/revisions\/12847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}