Valerie Plame Wilson
| Valerie Plame | |
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Plame at the 2014 Texas Book Festival
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| Born | Valerie Elise Plame August 13, 1963 Anchorage, Alaska, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, Spy Novelist, CIA officer (1985–2006) |
| Nationality | United States |
| 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 |
Todd Sesler (m. 1987; divorce 1989) Joseph C. Wilson (m. 1998) |
| Children | 2 (with Wilson) |
| Website | |
| www.valerieplamewilson.com | |
Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (née Plame; born August 13, 1963), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is a former operations officer who worked at the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a writer, and a spy novelist. 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. In the aftermath of the scandal, Richard Armitage in the State Department was identified as one source of the information, and I. Lewis "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. No one was formally charged with leaking the information.
In collaboration with a ghostwriter, Plame wrote a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA and she has subsequently written and published at least two spy novels. A biographical feature film, Fair Game, was produced based on memoirs by her and her husband.
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 having been Jewish until she was an adult.
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