GR-ish: Julia Child and OSS

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Pretty GR-ish, if you ask me. . . . 

          Move over Austin Powers, Julia Child was a spy first - 
          Previously classified documents released by the 
          National Archives reveal that Chef Julia Child served 
          in a precursor to the CIA created during World War II 
          by President Franklin Roosevelt. . . .

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/strange/article_212164849.shtml
   
          "He was my good health," she often says. "Since 
          he passed away I've had to become all but an 
          outright witch, in pure self-defense." From the 
          kitchen comes the smell of limes freshly cut and 
          squeezed. Darlene's in and out of the room, looking 
          for different botanicals, asking where the cheesecloth's 
          got to, "Tyrone help me just reach down that-no next to 
          it, the tall jar, thank you love"—back into the kitchen in 
          a creak of starch, a flash of pink. "I'm the only one with 
          a memory around here," Mrs. Quoad sighs. "We help 
          each other, you see." She brings out from behind its 
          cretonne camouflage a great bowl of candies. "Now," 
          beaming at Slothrop. "Here: wine jellies. They're prewar." 
          Gravity's Rainbow, p. P118

August 14, 2008
How Roosevelt's Office of Strategic Services followed Britain's example
Ben MacIntyre

          The Office of Strategic Services was the vast American 
          espionage organisation created by President Franklin 
          Roosevelt in the Second World War and directly modelled 
          on Britain’s intelligence services.

          The OSS, which evolved into the Central Intelligence 
          Agency (CIA) after the war, was created virtually from 
          scratch in 1942, and swiftly evolved into a wide 
          intelligence-gathering network, employing soldiers, 
          lawyers, actors, sportsmen, academics and many others.

          The full extent of the spy network will be revealed when 
          the National Archives in Washington declassifies the 
          names and personnel files of around 24,000 people 
          who worked for the secret organisation between 
          1942 and 1945. . . .

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4530222.ece