Wippl in the Boston Herald on Edward Snowden – BU Today

February 13, 2017

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 the possibility of whistleblower Edward Snowden being returned to the United States by Russian authorities.

Wippl was quoted in a February 12, 2017 article in theBoston Heraldentitled Edward Snowden May Head to U.S., Jail.

From the text of the article:

Boston University professor and longtime CIA officer Joseph Wippl said gift-wrapping Snowden and forcing him on a plane to U.S. wouldnt make a whole lot of sense.

Its up in the air whether Snowden was an agent of Russias before he got to Russia. Certainly, hes become one there, Wippl said.

His use may indeed be over, and also he may not want to stay in Russia forever. I would be surprised if they forcibly sent him back. Its just something that wouldnt make a whole lot of sense. As a bit of a present, I dont know how much good that does to the administration.

You can read the entire article 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.

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