Julia Child a Spy?
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August 14th, 2008
Move over Austin Powers, Julia Child was a spy first - Previously classified documents released by the National Archives reveal that Chef Julia Child served in a precursor to the CIA created during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt.
The docs show a World War II spy ring with operatives one would find unexpected.
Besides Julia Child, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg were also spies under the Office of Strategic Services.
The CIA had resisted releasing OSS records for decades. But former CIA Director William Casey, himself an OSS veteran, cleared the way for transfer of millions of OSS documents to the National Archives when he took over the agency in 1981. The personnel files are the latest to be made public.
The international spy ring also included: historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; John Hemingway (son of Ernest); President Theodore Roosevelt’s kids, Quentin and Kermit; Miles Copeland, dad of the Police drummer Stewart Copeland; actor Sterling Hayden and author Thomas Braden, who wrote the book that was the inspiration for the TV series “Eight is Enough.”
On the Net:
* CIA OSS page
* Index to National Archives OSS personnel files
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