[Mb-civic] Memo Is a Focus of CIA Leak Probe - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Memo Is a Focus of CIA Leak Probe

By Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, July 16, 2005; Page A06

Federal prosecutors investigating the leak of former CIA operative 
Valerie Plame's identity have asked several witnesses in the case 
whether they read a State Department memorandum mentioning her that 
circulated inside the Bush administration in the days before she was 
publicly named, according to people familiar with the testimony.

<>FBI agents showed the State Department memo to several witnesses 
during the interviews over the past two years, according to lawyers in 
the case, in an effort to determine whether it was the source of 
information about Plame's role at the CIA. A key mystery in the leak 
case is how senior administration officials first learned of Plame's 
identity and her relationship to a key critic of President Bush's Iraq 
policy, before her name appeared in news reports.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/16/AR2005071600087.html?nav=hcmodule 

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