http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2007/10/28/outed_spy_im_not_going_awayOuted spy: I'm not going awayBy John Curran, Associated Press Writer | October 28, 2007
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. --Outed spy Valerie Plame says she isn't going away, no matter what the folks at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue want.
Touring in support of a new memoir, the former CIA operative said in a speech Sunday that she and husband Joseph Wilson have left Washington behind but have no intention of keeping quiet about the way they say they were retaliated against by the White House and others. "They would like nothing more for us to than be silent and go away. We are not going to give them the satisfaction," said Plame.
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On Sunday, about 900 people turned out for Plame's $28-a-ticket appearance at a Vermont Woman newspaper lecture series at a Sheraton hotel ballroom, six days after the release of "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House."
Plame got a $1 million advance for the book. Her speaking fee Sunday wasn't disclosed; neither Plame nor Vermont Woman publisher Suzanne Gillis would say what it was.
In a 52-minute speech and a question-and-answer session that followed, Plame recounted some details about her CIA training, her marriage to Wilson -- a veteran diplomat -- and the "wild and woolly" fallout they endured after her name was published. "I felt like someone sucker punched me in the gut," she said.
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