Reply #3: Okay, so you're saying the CIA would have employees [View All]

[patrice]

who are not secret; someone would work for the CIA and other people would know that fact, because they are simply employees (administrative, clerical, custodial etc.)

And then there would be another class of employees who are in Operations, i.e. Operatives, and these would be secret employees; they would be doing whatever they do and others would not know they were CIA employees at all?

So the question about Plame is: Didn't people know she worked at the CIA? I've heard it said people did know she was a CIA employee. They just didn't know what she did there? So what was revealed by Armitage and others was that she was an Operative not just an administrative or other non-secret type of employee?