 Devine retired after serving as both the Acting Director and Associate Director of the CIA's operations outside the United States, a capacity in which he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world.Devine joined the CIA in 1967, after his wife gave him a book about the CIA and its role in U.S. national security.Devine completed his training at "the Farm" and various other espionage and paramilitary courses.