Valerie Elise Plame was born on August 13,1963 and is an American writer, spy novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency officer.
19 Facts About Valerie Plame
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In collaboration with a ghostwriter, Valerie Plame wrote a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA.
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Valerie Plame has subsequently written and published at least two spy novels.
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Valerie 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.
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Valerie Elise Plame was born on August 13,1963, on Elmendorf Air Force Base, in Anchorage, Alaska, to Diane and Samuel Plame III.
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The rest of Valerie Plame's family was Protestant ; she was unaware, until she was an adult, that her grandfather was Jewish.
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Valerie Plame served the CIA at times as a non-official cover, operating in Athens and Brussels.
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Valerie Plame was acquitted on one count of making false statements.
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Valerie Plame was not charged for revealing Plame's CIA status.
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Valerie Plame's sentence included a $250,000 fine, 30 months in prison and two years of probation.
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In May 2006, The New York Times reported that Valerie Plame Wilson agreed to a $2.5 million book deal with Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House.
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On October 31,2007, in an interview with Charlie Rose broadcast on The Charlie Rose Show, Valerie Wilson discussed many aspects relating to her memoir: the CIA leak grand jury investigation; United States v Libby, the civil suit which she and her husband were at the time still pursuing against Libby, Cheney, Rove, and Armitage; and other matters presented in her memoir relating to her covert work with the CIA.
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In May 2011, it was announced that Valerie Plame would write a series of spy novels with mystery writer Sarah Lovett.
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Valerie Plame launched her campaign because she believes that Donald Trump 'emboldens white supremacists' and encourages 'violence against journalists'.
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In September 2017, Valerie Plame tweeted a link to an article from The Unz Review website posted by Philip Giraldi, titled "America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars", repeating the title of the article in her tweet.
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In May 2019, Valerie Plame announced her candidacy for the United States House of Representatives for in the 2020 elections.
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In 1997, while working for the Central Intelligence Agency, Plame met former Ambassador Joseph C Wilson.
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Valerie Plame married Dr Joseph Shepard, President of Western New Mexico University, in 2020.
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Valerie Plame was involved in the 2016 presidential campaign of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.