Julia Child: Cooking Up Covert Operations

The perfect ingredient? Espionage.

Newly released classified documents reveal that the famous chef served in a precursor to the CIA created during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt.

Click through for more of the 35,000 names revealed in the documents.

Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, major league catcher Moe Berg, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., film actor Sterling Hayden, John Hemingway, son of author Ernest Hemingway; Quentin and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of President Theodore Roosevelt; and Miles Copeland, father of Stewart Copeland, drummer for the band The Police.

Posted by Mara Siegler