Fair Game: A Spy Exposed | Valerie Plame | Ep. 350

The Team House

dee takos

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Valerie Plame is a former covert CIA officer who focused on counterproliferation, working to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Her identity was controversially leaked to the press in 2003 after her husband criticized the Bush administration, a story she recounted in her memoir, Fair Game. Since leaving the CIA, Plame has become an author and public speaker on national security.

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0:00.0	Special Operations.
0:04.0	Covert Ops. Espionage.
0:09.0	The Team House.
0:12.0	With your host, Jack Murphy and David Park.
0:39.7	Hi everyone. Welcome to episode 350 of the Team House. I'm Jack Murphy. Here today with our guest, Valerie Plame. She is the author of Fair Game, how a top CIA agent was betrayed by her own government. And the book, Fair Game, was also turned into a feature film starring the Always Lovely Naomi Watts, portraying Valerie and Sean Penn playing Valerie's late husband,
0:47.3	Joe Wilson, who is a State Department ambassador to West Africa and some other places that
0:54.0	will definitely get into.
0:57.0	Valerie has an incredible story from her time at the Central Intelligence Agency,
1:01.5	crossing over with some previous guests on the Team House, of course.
1:05.3	And then eventually how the government outed her name,
1:10.0	she was a protected CIA officer under the, I believe,
1:13.9	it's the National Intelligence Identities Protection Act. It's kind of illegal, especially
1:19.2	illegal for someone in the government to out a covered intelligence officer. And that was done
1:25.9	to Valerie because of her husband's activism against the
1:29.4	Iraq war. So we'll get into all of that in the interview. Valerie, thank you for joining us.
1:36.3	Thank you so much for having me. What a pleasure. Yeah, absolutely. So first question is about
1:43.1	your origin story. If you can tell us a little bit about how you grew up and you grew up in a military family too.
1:49.0	I did. My dad was an Air Force officer. He served in World War II.
1:54.0	My brother was a Marine wounded in Vietnam.
1:58.0	And my mother was a public school teacher.
2:00.0	So I definitely came from a family of quiet
2:03.4	public service. And I was given the opportunity to join the agency rather young. And I jumped at it.
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