Former US spy sues CIA over right to publish memoirs

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NEW YORK (AFP) — A former US intelligence agent who was outed in 2003 in an Iraq war scandal that rocked the White House filed suit against the CIA Thursday over an order preventing her from publishing her memoirs.

The case centers on whether Valerie Plame can publish her dates of service. While the CIA says the information is classified, Plame and her publisher Simon Schuster say the details were released unclassified in 2006.

According to the suit, the CIA has demanded that significant portions of the manuscript "be excised or rendered 'fiction.'" Plame is arguing that the CIA cannot limit the publication of previously unclassified material.

The suit further says that Plame has been cooperating with the intelligence agency's publications review board for...