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Title: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: Spoony on August 14, 2008, 11:27:43 AM
This was a stronger jolt than my morning coffee. Julia Child was a OSS spy for the US in WWII. That's amazing.

Even better was the sidenote halfway through the article that revealed that Stuart Copeland's father was also under CIA employ.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUNOHxDTQoehoT3FAda6jBvSN4uQD92HVGJG0
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: Bryan on August 14, 2008, 12:01:57 PM
Sterling Hayden, too. That's not so much of a surprise - that guy was the coolest.
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: Chris L on August 14, 2008, 12:05:01 PM
When are they going to release the Chuck Barris files?
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: Spoony on August 14, 2008, 12:22:04 PM
Can you imagine Sterling Heydon trying to be inconspicuous?

He even LOOKED like a G Man. That's like sending commercial airliner to fly spy missions. That guy reminds me of a terrifying high school principal.
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on August 14, 2008, 12:28:13 PM
no kidding


(http://www.meekermuseum.com/sterling.jpg)
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: Sarah on August 14, 2008, 01:31:36 PM
It's been public knowledge for years that Julia Child was in the OSS.  Why is this news?
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on August 14, 2008, 01:48:33 PM
its news because im only 25, having created my own bubble and it filled with things that revolve around me. 

but mostly because im 25.
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: Spoony on August 14, 2008, 01:59:52 PM
Quote from: Sarah on August 14, 2008, 01:31:36 PM
It's been public knowledge for years that Julia Child was in the OSS.  Why is this news?

This has been public knowledge? Where the hell have I been? You mean everyone knew that if there was something The Child wanted to know, she'd get it out of you one way or another?

(http://www.beyondgourmet.com/food/images/julia.jpg)
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: Sarah on August 14, 2008, 02:15:10 PM
There was some documentary about her years ago that reported she worked for the OSS in Paris.  I don't think it came right out and said she'd been a spy, but, come on, the OSS in Paris? 
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: jbissell on August 14, 2008, 02:37:40 PM
I thought OSS was the Office of Savory Snacks?
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: Emily on August 14, 2008, 03:00:56 PM
This is great news because not only do I do a pretty good Julia Child impersonation, but I also work with microfilm, so later when my boss leaves I can reenact her role as a spy!

All I need is someone to play Stuart Copeland...
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: namethebats on August 14, 2008, 03:08:36 PM
I spent 10 minutes trying to come up with a good headline for this story today and the best I could come up with was "Mastering the art of American spying."
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: Spoony on August 14, 2008, 03:17:54 PM
I would love to hear Julia Child instruct an audience how to dispose of an SS officer you've seduced and garroted in 30 minutes or less.

"Make sure you've washed your hands first..."
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: Fido on August 14, 2008, 05:00:46 PM
Quote from: Sarah on August 14, 2008, 01:31:36 PM
It's been public knowledge for years that Julia Child was in the OSS.  Why is this news?

The fact that Stewart Copeland's dad was in the CIA has been out there for years, too. 

Any other interesting nuggets?  I didn't know that about Julia Child, but I loved learning that.  I love espionage.
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: Spoony on August 14, 2008, 05:24:28 PM
The only thing left is that Theodore Roosevelt had a son and his name was Kermit.

Kermit Roosevelt, spy.
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on August 14, 2008, 05:29:29 PM
not what i expected

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Kermit_roosevelt_20s.jpg)
Title: Re: Julia Child just handed off the microfilm to Stuart Copeland
Post by: KickTheBobo on August 14, 2008, 08:10:06 PM
also:

-Captain Kangaroo was Ozzy Osbourne's dad.
-Jamie-Lee Curtis was born a hermaphrodite
-Alan Alda was a sixth-degree Warlock in Anton LaVey's Temple of the Blasphemer in the late 60s.