Long before she taught America how to cook on her PBS show The French Chef, Julia Child was a spy.
According to documents just released by the National Archives, the
towering, high-voiced chef and cookbook author, who died a few years
ago, was part of a huge World War II-era network administered by the
Office of Strategic Services (which later became the CIA).
It's
long been known that Child worked as a research assistant for the OSS
-- she even helped develop a shark repellent to keep the creatures from
running into underwater bombs intended for enemy submarines. But this
is the first confirmation that she was an out-and-out spy. Other famous
agents identified in the documents include major
league catcher Moe Berg, actor Sterling Hayden, and Miles
Copeland Jr., father of the Police's drummer Stewart Copeland.
Click through for a bit of Child's TV show, followed by Dan Aykroyd's famous (and hilarious) Saturday Night Live satire of the same:
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