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To: maica
Did Wilson have another wife that he divorced in 1997, or did someone lie to the reporter of the article you linked? The Who's Who listing says that he divorced his first wife in 1986.

Yes, Jacqueline C. Wilson.

Before meeting and marrying Joseph Wilson, Jacqueline Marylene Giorgi was the Cultural Counselor at the French Embassy in Bujumbura, Burundi. Wilson met her there while being stationed at the US Embassy as Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), (1982-85). (Source: Vanity Fair article January 17, 2004)

Wilson divorced his wife, Susan Dale Otckis on April 27, 1986 after 12 years of marriage and two children. (Source: Who’s Who in America 2002). According to Wilson, it was in Burundi that Susan "decided she'd had about enough of me" and left him, he says. (Source: Vanity Fair article January 17, 2004)

Jacqueline married Joseph Wilson IV on July 1, 1986 and joined him back to the US for a one-year assignment to Washington on his congressional fellowship to work in the offices of Al Gore and then Tom Foley (1985-86). She then accompanied him on his subsequent overseas assignments as DCM to our embassies in Brazzaville, Congo (1986-88) and Baghdad (1988-91), and as US Ambassador to Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe (1992-1995). We do not know if she accompanied Wilson as political advisor (POLAD) to Commander-in-Chief, US Armed Forces, Europe (CINCEUCOM) in Stuttgart, Germany(1995-97). (Source: Who’s Who in America 2000)

Joseph Wilson IV claims that, “He had met Plame in February 1997 at a reception at the Washington home of the Turkish ambassador. He says that when his eyes fell on her from across the room he thought he knew her. He realized as he drew near that he did not-and that it was love at first sight. From that moment on, he says, "she did not let anyone into the conversation, and I did not let anyone into the conversation." . (Source: Vanity Fair article January 17, 2004) Presumably, Wilson was in Washington on consultations, because he in February 1997, he was still assigned to EUCOM.

Records show that Wilson and his second wife, Jacqueline, to whom he was married for 12 years, were divorced in 1998. The divorce must have been in early 1998, since Joseph Wilson IV married Valerie Plame on April 3, 1998. (Source: Vanity Fair article January 17, 2004 and Who’s Who in America)

Jacqueline registered as a foreign agent of Gabon on June 17, 1998 under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which requires every agent of a foreign principal to register with the Department of Justice and file forms outlining its agreements with, income from, and expenditures on behalf of the foreign principal.

465 posted on 07/11/2006 6:30:19 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

Thanks for posting that. I wonder if we will ever learn if there is any connection between Wilson, Jacqueline, the French govt or operatives, and the forged letter that Wilson seemed to know about before it surfaced through intelligence channels.


468 posted on 07/11/2006 6:36:02 PM PDT by maica (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle --Abraham Lincoln)
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To: kabar
Among other things, Wilson seems to have a penchant for marital infidelity, leading to divorce, leading to quick re-marraige.
469 posted on 07/11/2006 6:48:33 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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