According to this Vanity Fair piece......."In 1997, Plame moved back to the Washington area, partly because (as was recently reported in The New York Times) the C.I.A. suspeccted that her name may have been on a list given to the Russians by the double agent Aldrich Ames in 1994."
http://www.jimgilliam.com/2004/01/vanity_fairs_profile_on_joseph_wilson_and_valerie_plame.php
Sweet fine!
I know Plame's not been covert for 9 or more years if she ever really was - thanks for posting your snippet of info. I was just mentioning that one reporter- Pincus- claimed to know and he said it was 1999. We already know he's full of manure.
circa 1997 : (VALERIE PLAME OUTS HERSELF TO A C-in-C US ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE POLITICAL ADVISOR, WILSON, THAT SHE IS IN THE CIA, ACCORDING TO LATER REPORT BY MAUREEEN DOWD OF THE NY TIMES) Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson both happened to alight in Washington, their jet-set schedules intersecting, and spotted each other across a cocktail party filled with foreigners."I saw this striking blonde," he recalled, still sounding smitten six years later. At first she said she was an energy analyst, but confided sometime around the first kiss that she was in the CIA. "I had a security clearance," grinned Wilson, then a political adviser to the commander of U.S. forces in Europe. - "Maureen Dowd : Ambassador Wilson and the Spy Who Loved Him, " NY Times, October 3, 2003
1997 : (WILSON RETURNS FROM OVERSEAS TO WASHINGTON AS SENIOR DIRECTOR OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS AT THE NSC) That same year [1997], Wilson also came back to Washington, as a senior director for African affairs at the National Security Council...A source, however, says that Wilson was not universally popular, because of what was perceived to be too strong sympathies for the interests of the Africans and Europeans. via FR's seamole, Jan 2, 2004*
1997 : (WORLD BANK RECEPTION ORGANIZED BY WESTAR GROUP : JOSEPH WILSON MEETS MOHAMED AL AMOUDI) Joseph Wilson IV. The latter had already met Mohamed Al Amoudi in 1997 at the time of a reception organized for the World Bank by Westar Group (LAW n.794). --- "(Some) Well introduced businessmen ," The Letter of The Indian Ocean, October 23, 1999 via 100 posted on 06/26/2004 6:42:46 PM PDT by Shermy
Wilson ran his company out of the offices of an investment company called Rock Creek Corporation. Rock Creek was controlled by Mohammed Alamoudi, whom Wilson had met in 1997 at a reception organized for the World Bank by Westar Group. Alamoudi was a member of the Saudi-Ethiopian Alamoudi dynasty, which was heavily invested in the segments of the African economy Wilson was seeking to penetrate. The Alamoudi-affiliated company Delta Services--a Swiss subsidiary of the Saudi company Delta Oil--handled Iraqi oil export contracts in 2000 and 2001 and was revealed in 2003 as a recipient of Iraqi Oil-for-Food vouchers channeled through Abu Abbas, a Palestinian terrorist with Iraqi connections.
--- "What Wilson Didn't Say About Africa," Fedora, Original Freeper Research, Oct 25, 2004, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1256475/posts
I have Pete Earley's "Confessions of a spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames" which I read when it came out, 1997, in front of me. There is no "references" by keyword section. But yeah.. Plame *might* have been on that list Ames gave to the Russians (their various "arsenal" programs).
Heck, I always wanted to know who MOTORBOAT was.
Notes to self: Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Statement on the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997, May 22, 1996