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Fade
08-13-2008, 08:45 PM
Documents: Julia Child part of WWII era spy ring
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and RANDY HERSCHAFT
Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.

Story continued.... (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92HMRN00&show_article=1&catnum=0)

WarriorMonk
08-14-2008, 08:34 PM
"Search all the pots and pans!" "Make sure you don't get clobbered with her frying pan!"

(sorry, it probably sounds sexist, but then again, chef living also as a spy, what kind of weapons can you improvise to get out of a Bourne-style situation?)

LineDoggie
08-14-2008, 09:39 PM
This is new? I remember reading about her being in the OSS 15 years ago?

James
08-15-2008, 12:10 AM
This is new? I remember reading about her being in the OSS 15 years ago?

Indeed. She was a cryptographer or something in Burma or India, not a spy or an intelligence officer.

LineDoggie
08-15-2008, 10:20 PM
just noticed something odd from the story:

"Other notables identified in the files include John Hemingway, son of author Ernest Hemingway; Quentin and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of President Theodore Roosevelt....."

Since Quentin was shot down on July 14th, 1918 and killed exactly how was he in the OSS 20 something years later?

Quentin is Buried Next to his Brother Theodore Jr. in Normandy: Quentin Roosevelt

First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Corp.

95th Aeroplane Squadron

Entered the Service from: Unknown
Died: July 14, 1918
Buried at: Plot D Row 28 Grave 46
Normandy American Cemetery
Colleville-sur-Mer, FranceAwards: French Croix de Guerre with Palm. Buried in the World War II cemetery at Normandy next to his brother, Theodore J. Roosevelt.

Mofreaka
08-16-2008, 12:25 PM
I just want the cool stuff to be declassified, like who shot JFK lol.