American writer, spy novelist and former CIA officer (born 1963)
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Valerie Plame
Plame at the 2014 Texas Book Festival
Born
Valerie Elise Plame
(1963-08-13) August 13, 1963 (age 60)
Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.
Other names
Valerie Plame Wilson
Education
Pennsylvania State University (BA)
London School of Economics (MSc)
College of Europe (MA)
Occupations
Spy novelist
CIA officer (1985–2006)
Memoirist
Political party
Democratic
Spouses
Todd Sesler
(m. 1987; div. 1989)
Joseph C. Wilson
(m. 1998; div. 2017)
Joseph Shepard
(m. 2020)
Children
2
Website
valerieplame.com
Valerie Elise Plame (born August 13, 1963) is an American writer, spy novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of The Washington Post. She described this period and the media firestorm that ensued as "mortifying, and I think I was in shock for a couple years".[1]
In the aftermath of the scandal, Richard Armitage in the U.S. Department of State was identified as one source of the information, and Scooter Libby, Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of lying to investigators. After a failed appeal, President George W. Bush commuted Libby's sentence and in 2018, President Donald Trump pardoned him. The individual responsible for leaking the information was never charged.
In collaboration with a ghostwriter, Plame wrote a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA. She has subsequently written and published at least two spy novels. A 2010 biographical feature film, Fair Game, was produced based on memoirs by her and her husband.
Plame was an unsuccessful candidate for New Mexico's 3rd congressional district in 2020, placing second behind Teresa Leger Fernandez in the June 2, 2020 primary.
^Eyewitness History, "Former CIA Agent Valerie Plame Discusses Bush Administration's Identity Leak and Aftermath, Spying & Espionage"
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