Lise Vallerie was a Euro News Network journalist who met up with both Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan on Earth. Convincing her that these were two separate individuals led to the cover story of Admiral Naismith being a clone of Lord Vorkosigan. After Admiral Naismith refused to be interviewed for a special series of stories, she moved onto the study of illegal cloning practices, particularly as performed on Jackson's Whole.