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Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson to speak at UGA

ATHENS, Ga – The University Union Student Programming Board at the University of Georgia will present a discussion by author and former United States CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the UGA Chapel. Wilson is author of the book Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, her accounting of the events surrounding her exposure as a CIA spy.

 On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson’s op-ed piece, “What I Didn’t Find in Africa,” appeared in The New York Times. A week later, journalist Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that the ambassador’s wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative.

 The public disclosure of that classified information spurred a federal investigation and led to the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. The Wilsons also filed a civil suit against top officials of the Bush administration.

 Wilson retired from the CIA in December 2005, ending her 20-year career with the agency.

 Tickets are free for students with valid UGACards and $5 for non-students, and they are available at the Tate Student Center Cashier’s Window, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 706-542-6396 or go to www.uga.edu/union.

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 The University Union Programming Board is a program of the Department of Campus Life within UGA’s Division of Student Affairs.