Julia Child was revealed to be a spy for the OSS during the WII. You just never know.

This is not really news. She’s been dead and it was over sixty years ago. Come to think of it she was really good with knives and would probably know how to conceal poison in a white wine sauce. I couldn’t help thinking of Valerie Plame. Imagine FDR revealing Julia during WWII. Text from DJCline.com.

Baseball player Moe Berg also worked for the OSS. Once again no surprise. I’ve actually reviewed a book about it. Text from DJCline.com.

Actor Sterling Hayden was OSS too. He fought alongside the Red partisans in Yugoslavia. Ironically he was blacklisted for doing what he was ordered to do. Go figure. Text from DJCline.com.

Noel Coward worked for British intelligence as probably the most flamboyant and poorly concealed spy of the war. Text from DJCline.com.

Actor David Niven was in fact a British officer, a Sandhurst man. When the war broke out he took the long way back to Britain. He traveled with a German military officer across the Atlantic, through Fascist Italy and then on to France before officially signing up in London. He became a commando and made films in between missions. Text from DJCline.com.

Kind of makes you wonder who wasn’t a spook.

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