Secret Agent Ma'am

One may want to pause the next time Emeril Lagasse shouts "BAM!" The personnel records of America's most beloved chefs / secret agents has been released. In documents made public Thursday, Julia Child was listed among the 24,000 agents who served in the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. As surprising as that my be, how many gasped with horror when it was learned that Katarina Witt had an intimate relationship with the East German Stasi? Turns out that Child's work was less dramatic. She did clerical work for OSS Director William Donovan under her maiden name McWilliams. She described for the OSS her relationship with the managers at a store where she previously as a "tactical error." So the next time your favorite entertainer disappears, they may be busy serving king and country by "kicking things up a notch" and making things go "BAM!"