Valerie Plame Shopping A Book Deal
Posted on May 4, 2006
Outed ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame is reportedly shopping a book deal about her experiences. Plame is the key figure in the ongoing federal criminal investigation by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald who is trying to determine who outed Plame as an undercover CIA agent to several reporters. When Bob Novak revealed her identity, her cover was blown and she eventually had to leave the CIA. Needless to say, operatives at the CIA were furious over the leak. So far, Scooter Libby has indicted, and it appears that Karl Rove may be next.
Valerie Plame Wilson, the Central Intelligence Agency covert officer whose name was publicly disclosed three years ago, is shopping a book proposal among a small group of publishers, according to two people familiar with the project. Both people were granted anonymity because their publishing companies have signed nondisclosure agreements about the content of the proposal.Well, it makes sense. Now that her cover has been blown, she has to make a living somehow: you can't be a spy when everyone knows who you are.*****
Ms. Wilson has remained virtually silent throughout the leak investigation, though she did pose with her husband for a photograph in Vanity Fair. No details were available about the contents of her proposed book.