Brewster Jennings & Associates was a front company set up in 1994 by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a "cover" for its agents. The most famous is Valerie Plame, a "covert employee of the CIA" whose employment status was "classified" and whose then-classified covert identity was published in a syndicated newspaper column by Robert Novak on July 14, 2003 . Novak's initial primary source of that information was later said by Novak to be the...
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Brewster Jennings & Associates was a front company set up in 1994 by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a "cover" for its agents. The most famous is Valerie Plame, a "covert employee of the CIA" whose employment status was "classified" and whose then-classified covert identity was published in a syndicated newspaper column by Robert Novak on July 14, 2003 . Novak's initial primary source of that information was later said by Novak to be then United States Deputy Secretary of State (2001–2005) Richard Armitage, although the latter disagreed with Novak as to the extent of his role . Karl Rove was a second source.
According to Walter Pincus and Mike Allen, in the Washington Post of October 4, 2003, Brewster Jennings & Associates was "the obscure and possibly defunct firm" at one time listing Valerie Plame as a staff member:
Plame's name was first published July 14, 2003, in a newspaper column by Robert D. Novak that quoted two senior administration officials. They were critical of...
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