Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm

[tuvor]

From the Washington Post...Two years ago! (Found it on BuzzFlash)

Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm

By Walter Pincus and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, October 4, 2003; Page A03

The leak of a CIA operative's name has also exposed the identity of a CIA front company, potentially expanding the damage caused by the original disclosure, Bush administration officials said yesterday.

The company's identity, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, became public because it appeared in Federal Election Commission records on a form filled out in 1999 by Valerie Plame, the case officer at the center of the controversy, when she contributed $1,000 to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign.

After the name of the company was broadcast yesterday, administration officials confirmed that it was a CIA front. They said the obscure and possibly defunct firm was listed as Plame's employer on her W-2 tax forms in 1999 when she was working undercover for the CIA. Plame's name was first published July 14 in a newspaper column by Robert D. Novak that quoted two senior administration officials. They were critical of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, for his handling of a CIA mission that undercut President Bush's claim that Iraq had sought uranium from the African nation of Niger for possible use in developing nuclear weapons.

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The inadvertent disclosure of the name of a business affiliated with the CIA underscores the potential damage to the agency and its operatives caused by the leak of Plame's identity. Intelligence officials have said that once Plame's job as an undercover operative was revealed, other agency secrets could be unraveled and her sources might be compromised or endangered.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A40012-2003Oct3¬Found=true

[DeepModem Mom]

1. Thanks for posting, tuvor. nt

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. WaPo should re-run this article

Note: The adjective "inadvertant disclosure" in the fourth paragraph is another example of the conservative corporate media.

[tuvor]

3. Anyone think this is worth a third recommendation?

I do, so I'm kicking it.

[Joanne98]

4. I googled Aramco and Halliburton,,,,,,

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-23,GGLG:en&q=Aramco%2BHalliburton


Here's Daily Kos
http://sparky-mcgruff.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/7/3/16838/88864

[madhat]

5. Watching MSNBC NOW? n/t

[tuvor]

6. No, I don't get it in BC

Unfortunately.

[no name no slogan]

7. That bites

Well, I suppose they're back to being called "Spies 'R' Us", then

[eleny]

8. "became public because it appeared in Federal Election Commission records"

Are they implying that she leaked herself? This is an old meme at this point. Anyone would "knew" she worked there if that was her cover. The FEC records couldn't have been the only way it was public.

[are_we_united_yet]

9. *snort*

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re: picture

[BrightKnight]

10. Does this mean that he outed others as well?

Anyone that used that company as a cover for anything is essentially out now. The word for that is treason.

[kimpossible]

11. Another thread on Brewster-Jennings and repercussions

is here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4104003

[morgan2]

12. very intertesting

how the media never made anyting of the fact that the CIA is using the names of Oil Moguls as their front companies. I wonder what kind of connection there is between Brewster Jennings and the CIA.