Valerie Plame's memoirs can't include length of stay at CIA

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Aug. 2, 2007, 10:23PM
Valerie Plame's memoirs can't include length of stay at CIA
Court rules info still is classified, though it has been publicly reported


By ADAM LIPTAK
New York Times


Valerie Wilson may be the best known former intelligence operative in recent history, but a federal judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that she was not allowed to say how long she worked for the CIA in the memoir she plans to publish this fall.

Though the fact that Wilson worked for the CIA from 1985 to 2006 has been published in the Congressional Record and elsewhere, the judge, Barbara S. Jones of U.S. District Court in Manhattan, said Wilson was not free to say so.

"The information at issue was properly classified, was never declassified and has not been officially acknowledged by the CIA," Jones wrote.

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