These may impact Valerie's assignments:
Aldrich Ames: Arrested 21-Feb-1994 by the FBI. Outed a hundred or more US agents to Moscow.
1994-1999 Valerie Plame is moved back to the U.S. for protection because of the Ames scandal.
February 2002 Valerie lobbies with the CIA for Joe Wilson to travel to Niger.
Spring 2003 - Valerie poses as a headhunter:
"My mom takes a message from a headhunter named Valerie Plame with an “energy company” called Brewster-Jennings. Weird, I’ve never heard of Brewster-Jennings, but the name Valerie Plame sounds strangely familiar. I decide not to return the call. I don’t want to work for an energy company. It takes me a couple of weeks before I remember who Valerie Plame is."
http://www.tomchristianonline.com/
November 30, 1999 - One of Valeries classmates is rolled up in Moscow and deported:
"Cheri Leberknight is arrested by the FSB in Moscow for spying and subsequently declared persona non grata. I see the news reports which result and immediately recognize her name and picture. Later news reports mention that she was seen frequenting a Moscow night club called Galereya where she would frequently take patrons to the bathrooms and perform fellatio on them and try to obtain information."
http://www.tomchristianonline.com/
From the above the line of Valerie's early work might be assumed.
Goog Gawd. I don't even want to know what she did before CIA. One thing- I wouldn't necessarily give credence to
Russian "news reports" re her roomie.
"From the above the line of Valerie's early work might be assumed."
This adds a whole new dimension to blowing her cover, lol.