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"Unfair Game"

Naomi Watts as Valerie Plame in the film "Fair Game' based on Plame's memoir.
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"Unfair Game"

Op-Ed, The Huffington Post

December 8, 2010

Author: Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security

 

Although Naomi Watts is a subject of continuing fascination, I can hardly believe her claim, in the role of Valerie Plame in the film "Fair Game," that she was beaten up as a part of her CIA training at "the farm." Things just don't happen that way, certainly not to young American CIA aspirants.

There also seems to be a whiff of hyperbole in the acts of derring-do in Iraq by Naomi/Valerie....

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