Women of the CIA: The Hidden History of American Spycraft
“My first son was my 1993 World Trade Center bombing baby,” says Gina Bennett, a veteran CIA analyst who has spent her career tracking...
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ALL ARTICLES and VIDEOS
Valerie Plame via HUFFPOST
- Sep 20, 2016
What’s It Like To Try And Be Normal After A Career As A Spy
I love this little story by David Foster Wallace because it so perfectly captures my feelings and experiences after being outed as a CIA...
Chris Pavone and Valerie Plame
- Apr 10, 2016
Valerie Plame has one regret: “I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more”
Valerie Plame Wilson was a lifelong CIA officer until her cover was spectacularly — and illegally — blown in 2003 by the Bush...
Julie Johnson, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
- Mar 8, 2016
Former CIA intelligence officer Valerie Plame discusses career, White House scandal, politics
Former CIA officer Valerie Plame might be one of America’s most famous spies. She has inspired a Hollywood depiction of her life, pop...
Valerie Plame via HUFFPOST
- Feb 18, 2016
Why Women-Led Businesses Outperform Their Peers
Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman...
Jackie Jadrnak, Albuquerque Journal
- Feb 13, 2016
Santa Fe in fever over particle physics
SANTA FE, N.M. — On a Tuesday night with the Winter Olympics playing on television, 791 people turned out at the Lensic to see a movie...
Jonathan Peltz, Salon
- Dec 22, 2014
Valerie Plame: Most female spies in pop culture are gun-wielding eye candy
The transition from spy to fiction writer has been made a few times: Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, John Le Carré. Now Valerie Plame,...
Miller Hudson, The Colorado Statesman
- Nov 5, 2013
Valerie Plame’s dispatch from her river of no return
Blowback is a spy story co-written by Valerie Plame with the thriller novelist Sarah Lovett, featuring a CIA operative, Vanessa Pierson,...
Paul Harris, The Guardian
- Dec 16, 2012
Valerie Plame welcomes new breed of fictional female spy in Zero Dark Thirty
The heroine of Kathryn Bigelow's controversial new movie Zero Dark Thirtystands out for her weapon of choice when helping to run down...
Michel Martin, NPR
- Apr 25, 2012
Plame Wilson Makes Fighting Postpartum New Mission
Years before CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson's cover was blown in a newspaper column, she faced a private struggle with postpartum...
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