Julia Child Was a Spy!
There are new reports that everyone’s favorite TV cook with the warbly high-pitched voice, Julia Child, was once a secret agent! New claims say that Child was a covert agent on behalf of the OSS (precursor to the CIA) during World War II.
Secret-aaaagent Julia! Secret-aaaagent Julia! She’s gonna grill all the Nazis, and then she’s gonna serve them with some dill.
Okay, I’m such a dork!
The Guardian reports:
Child was one of more than 24,000 covert agents working on behalf of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a second world war-era precursor to the CIA. Her fellow spies included professional baseball player Moe Berg, US supreme court justice Arthur Goldberg and Miles Copeland, the father of The Police drummer Stewart Copeland.
In new records released today by the US national archives, Child admitted she left a previous job in furniture advertising after personality conflicts with her employers.
“I made a tactical error and was out,” the French-cuisine guru wrote in her OSS application. “However, I learned a lot about advertising and wish I had been older and more experienced so that I could have handled the situation, as it was a most interesting position.”
Child, who died four years ago this week at age 91, applied for the spying post years before marrying Paul Cushing Child and opening her storied French cooking school, L’Ecole des Trois Gourmandes.
How awesome is this!!!
