Douglas Wise on Clubhouse

Bio

Career CIA officer (Retired). Doug retired from CIA as a member of CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service in late-2016 completing nearly three decades of service. His finished his career with CIA in a Joint Duty Assignment as the Deputy Director of the Defense intelligence Agency.

He currently serves on a number of corporate boards (including the Board of Advisors to an entertainment startup: Spycraft Entertainment) and provides management and leadership coaching and mentoring to the leadership teams of large corporations. Doug also serves as a strategic advisor and risk identification/risk mitigation subject matter expert for the world’s largest law Firm. In addition, Doug spends significant time providing interagency leadership and clandestine tradecraft training as well as role playing as a chief of station for special operations warriors.

Doug was recently inducted as a senior member of the prestigious Honorary Board of Advisors for the International Spy Museum.

He is also an Adjunct Professor in the National Security Studies Program at the University of New Mexico.

During his nearly thirty years of service in CIA’s Clandestine Service, he had the privilege of serving 9 overseas assignments, Doug served four times as a Chief of Station, including a tour as a Chief of Station in Iraq, which was then the largest field station in the Agency’s history. He was also the CIA’s Chief of Operational Training and the Chief of “The Farm.”

In addition to assignments in
Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia and South East Asia, he has served multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Prior to joining CIA, Doug spent a 20-year career in the U.S. Army (the last 5 of those years on loan to CIA) in conventional and special operations units.

He is married to Cynthia C. Wise a former FBI Special Agent and has three sons.