CIA Leak Case Watch: Valerie Plame Retires From CIA

Valerie Plame, the woman at the center of the CIA leak investigation, drives away from her home in Washington December 9, 2005. Plame will retire from the CIA after two decades, a source familiar with her plans said on Tuesday.

The ASSociated Press has Valerie Plame Said to Leave Job at CIA

Valerie Plame, the CIA officer whose exposure led to a criminal investigation of the Bush White House, spent her last day at the spy agency Friday.

Neither the agency nor Plame’s husband would confirm her departure, but two people who have known Plame for a number of years confirmed she was leaving.

Married to Bush administration critic and former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, Plame was working at agency headquarters in Langley, Va., in 2003 when her CIA status was disclosed by conservative columnist Robert Novak. That triggered a probe that led to the recent indictment of Vice President
Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby.

Plame had served for many years at overseas postings for the CIA, and her employment remained classified when she took a headquarters desk job, traveling overseas periodically.

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