Time-Saver Reading Note

The best part of Valerie Plame Wilson’s memoir, Fair Game (2007) is the 80-page “Afterword” by Laura Rozen, added (apparently) to trump the CIA’s fairly heavy-handed censorship of Wilson’s own manuscript. By laying out in some detail the chronicle of Wilson’s career, Rozen makes it clear just how calamitous it was for her to be outed. It also, perhaps ironically, casts the CIA in a rather more attractive light than the censors may have realized--as hard-working true believers who do their job (more or less) well.