Julia Child Among Spies Revealed in Newly Released Federal Documents

[bijou]

WASHINGTON —  Famed chef Julia Child shared a secret with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg at a time when the Nazis threatened the world.

They served 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.

The secret comes out Thursday — all of the names and previously classified files identifying nearly 24,000 spies who formed the first centralized intelligence effort by the United States. The National Archives, which this week released a list of the names found in the records, will make available for the first time all 750,000 pages identifying the vast spy network of military and civilian operatives.

They were soldiers, actors, historians, lawyers, athletes, professors, reporters. But for several years during World War II, they were known simply as the OSS. They studied military plans, created propaganda, infiltrated enemy ranks and stirred resistance among foreign troops.

Among the more than 35,000 OSS personnel files are applications, commendations and handwritten notes identifying young recruits who, like Child, Goldberg and Berg, earned greater acclaim in other fields — Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a historian and special assistant to President Kennedy; Sterling Hayden, a film and television actor whose work included a role in "The Godfather"; and Thomas Braden, an author whose "Eight Is Enough" book inspired the 1970s television series.

Other notables identified in the files include John Hemingway, son of author Ernest Hemingway; Quentin and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of President Theodore Roosevelt, and Miles Copeland, father of Stewart Copeland, drummer for the band The Police.

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Interesting stuff, I expect some good books will be written now this information is released.

[Chris_]

Who's the leaker!

ROVE?!  Is that you Karl?  Are you jeopardizing the lives of our intelligence agents again?

*******it!  Dick Cheney and every last swinging Johnson at Haliburton need to answer before a Dennis Koo(k)sinich witch hunt for this!  And then we need to impeach, BOOOOOOSH, Dick Cheney (and then have them dragged out ans shot in the streets, of course) and the CIA director for this travesty!


And to think that in January, they'll have to come up with a whole new slavering diatribe to launch into.   

[Zeus]

That information has actually been known for years.

[Chris_]

That information has actually been known for years.

Scooter Libbey tried to use that as a defense too.

[Zeus]

That information has actually been known for years.

Scooter Libbey tried to use that as a defense too.

Julia Childs herself talked about it in one of her books.  Other folks that have done books about Julia have referenced it also.

[Chris_]

That information has actually been known for years.

Scooter Libbey tried to use that as a defense too.

Julia Childs herself talked about it in one of her books.  Other folks that have done books about Julia have referenced it also.

Right wing radio tried to say that Valerie Plame had outed herself, too.  We all know that it's really the globalist Bushies that are putting these poor, CIA agents in jeopardy...