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| Author | Valerie Plame Wilson |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | October 22, 2007 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), CD, e-audio |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-1-4165-3761-8 |
| OCLC | 180205046 |
| 327.12730092 B 22 | |
| LC Class | JK468.I6 W465 2007 |
Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007) is a memoir by Valerie Plame Wilson. Wilson is the former covert CIA officer whose then-classified non-official cover (NOC) identity as "Valerie Plame" was leaked to the press in July 2003, after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV, had criticized the George W. Bush administration's rationale for the Iraq War. The outing made her the center of the American political scandal known as the Plame affair. Her public outing led to her decision to resign from the CIA in December 2005, when she attempted to retire early at the age of 42. Being told that she could not collect her pension until the age of 56, she determined to write this book both as a means of telling her own story in her own words and as a means of earning income to replace her deferred retirement annuity. She encountered resistance from the CIA in the course of chronicling her work with the organization.[1][2][3][4]
As Janet Maslin writes in her review in The New York Times on the day of publication, "the story of how her career was derailed and her C.I.A. cover blown ... has its combative side. But the real proof of Ms. Wilson's fighting spirit is the form in which her version of events has been brought into the light of day."
- ^ Adam Liptak, "Judge Backs C.I.A. in Suit On Memoir", The New York Times August 3, 2007, accessed March 23, 2008.
- ^ John Solomon, "Rove Learned CIA Agent's Name from Novak", USA Today, July 15, 2005, accessed July 15, 2006.
- ^ Joel Seidman (Producer, NBC News), "Plame Was 'covert' Agent at Time of Name Leak: Newly Released Unclassified Document Details CIA Employment", NBC News, May 29, 2007, accessed August 10, 2007.
- ^ Bonnie Goldstein, "Free Valerie Plame's Memoirs!", Slate, June 15, 2007, accessed October 28, 2007.