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Valerie Plame (2014-12-20)
About this film
This week’s guest on "Report from Santa Fe" is Valerie Plame, Former CIA Operations Officer and New York Times Best-Selling author of “Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House,” a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA. Currently, she is co-writing best-selling spy thrillers with the accomplished author Sarah Lovett. Plame discusses their second thriller, Burned. Their first novel, Blowback, received rave reviews. The books draw upon Plame's knowledge of spycraft and experiences in the field, delivered in a fictional format, and reveal in a most thrilling way the heroism and the challenge that working undercover represents. Plame shares how her CIA career - including assignments in counterproliferation operations - enables her to recreate the faced-paced world of spy-versus-spy. Plame has put her hard-won intelligence experience expertly to work with her latest spy thriller Burned. Vanessa Piersen, the hero of Valerie Plame’s thriller series, is a CIA Ops Officer that Plame describes as a “younger, smarter version of me.” This red-hot spy novel is ripped from today's headlines, with elements of ISIS and ISIL and extr…
Directors & creators
KENW-TV, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Covert Operations, Nuclear Proliferation, Iraq War, Bush Administration, National Security, Political Scandal, Plame Affair, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), Counter-proliferation, Whistleblowing, Fair Game (Memoir), Santa Fe, New Mexico, Intelligence Community, Privacy and Security, Women's Reproductive Rights, Public Identity, Foreign Policy, Government Accountability, Nuclear Weapons, Political Retaliation
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