Holy Shit! The government just released over 750,000 documents from the National Archives, and among those documents were 35,000 personnel files, which revealed a super-secret spy network created by FDR, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which later went on to become the CIA. And guess who was a spy for the OSS?Julia Child.
Yeah. That Julia Child. The doddering, world-famous chef - a spy!
At 28 as an advertising manager at W&J Sloane furniture store in Beverly Hills, Child clashed with new store managers and left her job abruptly. She was not yet married and was applying for the job under her maiden name, McWilliams, according to records. She was hired in the summer of 1942 for clerical work with the intelligence agency and later worked directly for OSS Director William Donovan.
The OSS files offer details about other agents, including Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, major league catcher Moe Berg, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and film actor Sterling Hayden. 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 The Police.
The OSS files offer details about other agents, including Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, major league catcher Moe Berg, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and film actor Sterling Hayden. 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 The Police.
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