Valerie Plame

:This article deals with the individual. For focus on the political scandal, see Plame affair

Background

On April 3, 1998, Plame became the third wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. Plame met Wilson, her second husband, at a Washington D.C party in early 1997. She was able to reveal her CIA role to him while they were dating because he held a high-level security clearance. At the time, Wilson was separated from his second wife Jacqueline, a former French diplomat. Wilson and Plame are the parents of five-year-old twins.

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April 3 - 1998 - Joseph C. Wilson IV - Washington D.C - Party - 1997 - CIA - Security clearance - Separated - French

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Education

Plame is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University in 1985, the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and the College of Europe, an international-relations school in Bruges. Soon after graduation, she started working for the U.S. government in Washington D.C. During her time at Penn State, she had worked on the business side of PSU's student newspaper, The Daily Collegian. According to an October 9, 2003 Collegian article, she previously attended Lower Moreland High School in Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. {{ref|VanityFairDoubleExposure}}

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Pennsylvania State University - 1985 - London School of Economics and Political Science - College of Europe - Bruges - U.S. government - The Daily Collegian - October 9 - 2003 - Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

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Career

Little is known of Plame's professional career. While undercover, she had described herself as an "energy analyst" for the private company "Brewster Jennings & Associates," which the CIA later acknowledged was a front company for certain investigations.

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Brewster Jennings & Associates - Front company

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"Brewster Jennings" was first entered into Dun and Bradstreet records on May 22 1994, but D&B would not discuss the source of the filing. D&B records list the company as a "legal services office," located at 101 Arch Street.

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Dun and Bradstreet - May 22 - 1994

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One former CIA official, Larry C. Johnson, identified Plame as a "non-official cover operative" (NOC). He explained: "...that meant she agreed to operate overseas without the protection of a diplomatic passport. If caught in that status she would have been executed." {{ref|LarryJohnson}} David Armstrong, an Andover researcher for the Public Education Center, believed that the Brewster Jennings & Associates cover had not been done convincingly and that other covers would have been established for her by the CIA. {{ref|DodgyCover}}

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Cover - CIA

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It has been speculated that Plame likely would have worked in the office of former CIA Deputy Director of Operations (DDO) James Pavitt.

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