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plame affair  

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  • Valerie Plame Wilson worked as a covert operative for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) between 1986 and 2003. Her covert status came to an end when her identity as a CIA agent was revealed publicly on July 14, 2003, in a Washington Post column by Robert Novak. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; Plame Affair]

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