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She could have also known Wilson's second wife, Jacqueline Marylene Giorgi. She 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)

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).

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

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. These forms are public records and must be supplemented every six months.

According to FARA records, Jacqueline Wilson (#5262), 6104 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Glen Echo, Maryland 20182, reported she received $100,000 prior to the registration. Subsequently, she received $180,000 (July-Dec 31, 1998), $250,000 (Dec 31-June 30, 1999), $75,000 (Dec 31-June 30, 2000), $39,000 (Jan-June 2001), not listed as an agent for the period July-Dec 2001, $8,000 (Jan-June 2002, not listed as an agent for the period July-Dec 2002, and not listed as an agent for 2003.

Summary of payments by year: 1998 ($280,0000), 1999 ($250,000); 2000 ($75,000 missing pages for last half year); 2001 ($39,000); and 2002 ($8,000).

Jacqueline Wilson’s business dealings with Gabon and its leader, Omar Bongo, raise some important and germane questions about Joseph Wilson’s CIA-sponsored trips to Africa in 1999 and 2002. A strong case can be made that Wilson’s trips had more to do with personal business and financial interests than with addressing substantive government issues.