Julia Child was a Spook (NPR report on chick-agents)
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/apr/spies/index.html [Ed: amusing that sleeper agents who infiltrated occupied territories are glorified by the winner of that conflict.. but when the US is the occupier, the resistance agents are terrorists..] The Lady Was a Spy Exhibit Presents the Untold Stories of Women in Espionage Listen to Susan Stamberg's report. April 4, 2002 -- During World War II, entertainer Josephine Baker helped the French Resistance by smuggling secret information written in invisible ink on her sheet music. Ironically, Baker's fame made it possible for her to complete her missions unnoticed, Linda McCarthy, curator of a new exhibition on female spies throughout history, tells NPR's Susan Stamberg on Morning Edition. Passport checkers were so starstruck by Baker that they never suspected she was a spy. As she toured Europe, she and her entourage -- which included other members of the resistance -- were allowed to pass through. One thing about espionage, at its peak it's an equal opportunity employer, McCarthy says. And there are times, quite frankly, where women can get into situations where men can't. The National Women's History Museum exhibit, Clandestine Women: The Untold Stories of Women in Espionage, also features the story of another unlikely operative, Julia Child. 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. snip
Julia Child was a Spook (NPR report on chick-agents)
During World War II, entertainer Josephine Baker helped the French Resistance by smuggling secret information written in invisible ink on her sheet music. She also had top secret chemical info hidden in banana's around her waist,these had to be smoked to release the information.As for the shark repellant,I bet they could have used some 11 miles inland (!) when a great white attacked around 1916.See close to shore,by michael Capuzzo. The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope. ---Max Ernst Daily Bloody Eye in full, 56 entries, web page, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0402.htm with lots of links excerpts: MAX ERNST Surrealist painter of Loplop the bird all he surveys. INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S BOOK DAY. 1805 -- Hans Christian Andersen lives (1805-1875), Odense. Danish writer who combined folk legends with his own great imagination produced fairy tales appreciated in many cultures. 1840 -- French writer, activist, experimental novelist Emile Zola lives (1840-1902), Paris, France. 1851 -- Joseph Lane (1851-1920), British anarchist, lives. http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/joelane.htm 1863 -- US: Bread riots in Richmond, Virginia. 1891 -- Saint Max Ernst (1891-1976) lives, Br|hl, Germany, near Cologne. Painter, poet. Big hi to chick agent and ugly ho ~Justine
