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By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide to 20th Century History since 1997

Celebrity Spies in World War II

Thursday August 21, 2008
The U.S. National Archives recently opened more than 35,000 files relating to the men and women who worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) prior to 1947. Among those who worked for the OSS (the precursor to the CIA) were celebrity chef Julia Child, diplomat Ralph Bunche, actor Sterling Hayden, baseball player Moe Berg, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, and historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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