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So many times, genuine health workers and genuine NGO folks are really just trying to help other humans in whatever capacity they can. But they are perceived as being CIA, and therefore, it blocks their effectiveness.

~Valerie Plame

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In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.

~Valerie Plame

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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.

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I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.

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I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.

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My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.

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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.

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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.

~Valerie Plame

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 13th, 1963

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