American spies revealed in archive search
A list of names and previously classified files identifying nearly 24,000 US spies has been released.
The secrets, which have been made available for the first time, were listed in the National Archives.
750,000 pages of records identify a vast spy network of military and civilian operatives.
Among those serving in an international spy ring managed by the Office of Strategic Services, an early version of the CIA created in World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt, were famed chef Julia Child and Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg.
Soldiers, actors, lawyers, athletes, academics and reporters served in what was called the OSS during World War II.
The US spies were involved in military plans, propaganda and the infiltration of enemy positions.
Other notables identified in the files include John Hemingway, son of author Ernest Hemingway; Quentin and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of President Theodore Roosevelt, Miles Copeland, father of Stewart Copeland, drummer for the band The Police, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a historian and special assistant to President Kennedy and Sterling Hayden, a film and television actor whose work included a roles in “Dr Strangelove” and “The Godfather.”
OSS, the short-lived wartime intelligence agency, was later folded into the CIA after President Truman disbanded it in 1945.
On the Net:
* CIA OSS page
* Index to National Archives OSS personnel files
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