Valerie Plame

Valerie Plame
Plame at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Born	Valerie Elise Plame (1963-08-13) August 13, 1963 (age 53) Anchorage, Alaska
Occupation	CIA officer (1985–2006)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Pennsylvania State University (B.A., Advertising, 1985) College of Europe (M.A.) London School of Economics (M.A.)
Genre	Autobiography, Memoir, Political criticism
Notable works	Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
Spouse	Joseph C. Wilson (1998– ) Todd Sesler (1987–1989)
Children	Two (with Wilson)

Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (born August 13, 1963), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is a former operations officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame had her identity as covert officer of the CIA leaked to the press by members of the George W. Bush administration and subsequently made public. Plame has written a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA.

Valerie Elise Plame was born on August 13, 1963, on Elmendorf Air Force Base, in Anchorage, Alaska, to Diane (née McClintock) and Samuel Plame III. Plame's paternal grandfather was Jewish, the son of a rabbi who emigrated from Ukraine; the original family surname was "Plamevotski". The rest of Plame's family was Protestant (the religion in which Plame was raised); she was unaware of her grandfather's ancestry until she was an adult.

She was reared in "a military family ... imbued her with a sense of public duty"; her father was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, who worked for the National Security Agency for three years, and, according to her close friend Janet Angstadt, her parents "are the type who are still volunteering for the Red Cross and Meals on Wheels in the Philadelphia suburb where they live," having moved to that area while Plame was still in school.