“(Still,) Julia had a very responsible job - she handled top-secret material.” “They were not spies in the sense that people think of operational agents dropping behind enemy lines, they were intelligence officers,” Conant said.
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She was sent to Ceylon to work for General Mountbatten where she would be head of the Registry, the nerve center of the OSS that stored all of the top-secret cables, war plans and code names of their agents, as Jennet Connant described in her book, A Covert Affair, about Julia and Paul Child’s work in the OSS. Six months later she was promoted again to work on a hands-on, experimental program to prepare fliers who were downed at sea.īut, when a chance to work overseas came, Julia jumped at the chance for adventure. But she was diligent and responsible and, a year later, was promoted to Senior Clerk in Donovan’s office. Initially, Spitz says it was organizing and filing and filing and organizing. Not just any secretary, according to Spitz, she was a junior assistant to Wild Bill Donovan himself, the colorful character who created the OSS. And, by the end of the war, Julia had worked her way up to a senior civilian intelligence officer and, more importantly, the “keeper of the secrets,” according to her biographer Bob Spitz.īut, she did begin her work with the OSS in the capacity of a secretary. Any administrator will tell you that the secretary is the backbone of the office and the most important person there. That’s not to say her work wasn’t critical. But, Julia was a spy in the way that a school secretary is an educator. Yes, she did work for the premiere intelligence agency, that part is true. Newspapers across America ran deliciously intriguing headlines such as “The Spy That Fed Me” and “Julia Child Cooked Up Double Life as a Spy.” In 2008, the National Archives released 750,000 pages of previously classified personnel files from WWII, including 24,000 employees of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of today’s CIA. MWC does not hold collections related to Julia Child. Note: this blog post about Julia Child was related to a performance at the Museums of Western Colorado’s 2019 Chautauqua event. Scientific and Cultural Heritage of the Western Slope Blog.Famous Fossil Sites of the Grand Valley.Geology and Paleontology of the Grand Valley.Rock Art and Cultures of the Colorado Plateau.Timeline of the Uranium Boom in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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