Outed former CIA agent Valerie Plame has reportedly inked a seven figure book deal.
Valerie Plame, the former CIA operative whose unmasking led to a federal investigation and the indictment of a top vice presidential aide, has agreed to a book deal with the Crown Publishing Group.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but two sources close to the negotiations said the deal was in the low seven figures. Several publishers had competed for the memoir, scheduled to come out in the fall of 2007 and tentatively titled "Fair Game."
In 2003, White House adviser Karl Rove reportedly said Plame was "fair game" after her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, accused the Bush administration of distorting intelligence about Iraq to justify going to war.
"She will tell her whole story, absolutely," Crown's publisher and senior vice president, Steve Ross, said Friday. "This book will be the first time the public will get to hear about her work and the surprising role she had in intelligence gathering in the lead-up to the war in Iraq."
Ross also said that Plame would tell of "being a high ranking woman in the male-dominated intelligence community." He said Plame would write the book herself and that "one of the most pleasant surprises was the quality of her craftsmanship and the richness of her storytelling" in the book proposal she submitted.
How much Plame, now retired from the agency, will reveal could be complicated by two factors: The CIA, which reviews the manuscripts of former agents and has reportedly become stricter about what it will permit, and next year's scheduled trial of I. Libby Lewis, the former chief aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.
