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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