julia child, secret agent woman
points me to an interesting
analysis
of the
nra suspicous suspects list
where i discover that
julia child
might have been a spy , “…despite being a woman and very tall.”
me thinks surely this must be an internet myth, but a quick
googling
reveals that
julia was cooking up more than liver pate
:
“Decades before becoming a famous chef, she worked for
the Office of Strategic Services. (The OSS was the predecessor to
the CIA.) She was assigned to solve a problem for U.S. naval forces
during World War II: Sharks would bump into explosives that were
placed underwater, setting them off and warning the German U-boats
they were intended to sink.“So… Julia Child and a few of her male compatriots got together
and literally cooked up a shark repellent,” that was used to coat
the explosives, McCarthy says.”
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