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About Valerie Plame
In the volatile aftermath of 9/11, while policymakers debated intelligence reform, I ran non-official cover operations across Europe and the Middle East, recruiting assets inside nuclear procurement networks, verifying claims about Iraqi WMD programs before they reached the National Security Council, and quietly de-escalating a near-crisis between NATO allies over shared counterterrorism intel. My work wasn’t about headlines; it was about the friction points no one sees, the forged passport that got a source out of Damascus, the encrypted channel that confirmed uranium enrichment timelines in Niger, the quiet intervention that kept a diplomatic channel open after a botched joint operation. When my identity was disclosed in 2003, it wasn’t just a personal rupture, it exposed how political agendas could override operational security, reshaping congressional oversight of covert action for over a decade. That moment didn’t end the work; it redefined its stakes.
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