Valerie Plame says 'Fair Game' movie depicts real CIA, is 'very accurate'

11/05/2010 by Corinne Heller

Valerie Plame, a former CIA operative whose cover was blown by the administration of then-President George Bush, says the new film about the scandal, Fair Game, is "very accurate".

In Fair Game, which is set for release on Friday, Naomi Watts plays Plame.

Sean Penn plays her husband Joe Wilson, a former diplomat that visited Niger to see if Iraq was trying to buy uranium to be able to make nuclear weapons and penned a newspaper op-ed that led to his wife's identity to be leaked.

"The movie is very accurate in many ways and still, some of those scenes take us back to that, when it was all happening," she told OnTheRedCarpet.com.

Plame has said Fair Game shows computer screens and maps the way she found them displayed when she worked for the intelligence agency.

"Having worked for the CIA for some time, whenever I would see a movie about the CIA, most of the time they have absolutely nothing to do with reality, she said in a promotional interview provided by the film's studio, River Road Entertainment. "I did try to tell them sort of little things. The level of clutter. What would the office look like? Things to try and make it look as authentic as possible."

The real Wilson had penned a New York Times op-ed piece in 2003 that implied "some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat". After reading the article, Cheney famously told the FBI in 2004 it was "amateur hour" at the CIA.

Wilson's article spurred a senior State Department official to leak Plames identity to the press, which later led to the conviction of Cheneys chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libber, who was found to have lied to investigators of the leak probe.

Check out the video interview with Valerie Plame, carried out by George Pennacchio of KABC Television, OnTheRedCarpet.com's parent company: