Valerie Elise Plame is an American writer, spy novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of The Washington Post. She described this period and the media firestorm that ensued as "mortifying, and I think I was in shock for a couple years".
Plame at the 2014 Texas Book Festival
Presenting a lecture on her book Fair Game, at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 4, 2007.
Valerie Plame and journalist Nina Burleigh, October 2016
Valerie Plame at Moravian College October 2008
Robert David Sanders Novak was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he became a reporter for the Associated Press and then for The Wall Street Journal. He teamed up with Rowland Evans in 1963 to start Inside Report, which became the longest running syndicated political column in U.S. history and ran in hundreds of papers. They also started the Evans-Novak Political Report, a notable biweekly newsletter, in 1967.
Novak in 2002
Novak greeting President Gerald Ford in 1975
Novak greeting President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Novak with Mike Garrett and Christopher Cox in 2003