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Lang emphasized his view that the Bush Administration's action in leaking Plame's identity had threatened vital national security interests over the long term, by sending the message to potential assets around the world that their identity will not be protected if they work with the CIA. "This says to them that if you decide to cooperate, someone will give you up, so you don't do it," he said. "They are not going to trust you in any way."[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072201261.html]
Fred Rustmann, a covert CIA agent from 1966 to 1990, was a supervisor of Valerie Plame during her early career at the CIA. He stated that "She made no bones about the fact that she was an agency employee and her husband was a diplomat," told The Washington Times.
"Her neighbors knew this, her friends knew this, his friends knew this. A lot of blame could be put on to central cover staff and the agency because they weren't minding the store here. ... The agency never changed her cover status."[http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050715-121257-9887r.htm]
Mr. Rustmann spent 20 of his 24 years under "nonofficial cover" aka NOC, which was the same status as Valerie Plame, also stated that she worked under extremly light cover.
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