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Julia Child Was a Spy

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Kyle Cassandra
@ August 15, 2008 9:54 AM
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Julia Child shared her words of wisdom and great recepies, little did any one know she had an even bigger one that no one else had.


Child shared a secret with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Aruthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg.(Pictured Top Right) They all served in an international spy ring managed by the office of Strategic Services, an early version of the CIA, which was created in World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt.

The secret came out yesterday when all of the names and previously classified files identified about 24,000 spies who formed the U.S.'s first centralized intelligence effot.

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

Some of those people have been identified previously as having worked for the OSS, but their personnel records never have been available before. Those records would show why they were hired, jobs they were assigned to and perhaps even missions they pursued while working for the agency.

The release of the OSS personnel files unmasks one of the last secrets from the short-lived wartime intelligence agency, which for the most part was later folded into the CIA after President Truman disbanded it in 1945.

For the first time, the National Archives will make all 750,000 pages identifying the vast spy network of military and civilian operatives available.

In this June 11, 1948 black-and-white file photo (bottom right), reputed mobster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano sips a drink during a news conference in the Excelsior Hotel in Rome. Luciano was involoved with the OSS, and with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg at a time when the Nazis threatened the world.


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