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“very difficult …”: SMITH.

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“My father was very …”: ibid.

228
“divorce …”: PC, carton 2, folder 58.

228
“Julie is a splendid …”: PC, carton 2, folder 58.

228
“no measly …”: ibid.

228
“a firm and …”: ibid.

229
“Well!”: PC, carton 2, folder 58.

10. Open Season

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“somewhere in Paris”: FAP.

230
“dropped out of sight …”: PC, carton 2, folder 68.

230
“That's a name …”: ibid.

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“so several people …”: FAP.

231
“unmistakable”: PC, carton 2, folder 68.

231
“So we hied …”: FAP.

231
“Dearest Janie …”: PC, carton 2, folder 68.

232
“inexplicable suddenness …”: ibid.

232
“If you'd been …”: ibid.

232
“She sounded …”: ibid.

233
“the American way …”: PC, carton 2, folder 60.

233
“the proportions for …”: ibid., folder 65.

233
“tapping them out”: ibid., folder 68.

233
“Cordon Bleu widower”: ibid., folder 65.

235
“human approach …”: ibid., folder 66.

235
“Oh well, I never …”: ibid., folder 68.

235
“a long time”: ibid.

235
“so-called Military …”: UL, p. 174.

235
“all been Nazis”: ibid., p. 176.

236
“Give me the …”: ibid., p. 185.

236
“Poor George is full …”: PC, carton 2, folder 68.

237
“just to please …”: ibid., folder 65.

237
“Don't touch …”: ibid., folder 69.

237
“She was …”: ibid.

238
“a small, short …”: FAP.

238
“shy and brainy”: PC, carton 2, folder 68.

238
“naked blimpish …”: ibid.

238
“feeding them with finesse”: ibid.

239
“She is almost …”: ibid.

239
“congenital Republicans”: PC, carton 2, folder 68.

239
“John McWilliams …”: ibid.

239
“I'll bet I …”: ibid, folder 66.

240
“From her description …”: ibid., folder 68.

240
“soft on Communism …”: ibid., folder 66.

240
“the master of innuendo …”: ibid., folder 68.

240
“a PhD graduate …”: ibid.

240
“dirty fighting …”: ibid.

241
“suspected of all …”: ibid., folder 48.

242
“the weakness …”: E. J. Kahn,
The China Hands
(New York: Viking Press, 1975), p. 238.

242
“millionaire Communist …”: Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel,
The Venona Secrets
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2000), p. 57.

242
“lost his mind”: Stephen R. MacKinnon and Oris Friesen,
China Reporting
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), p. 143.

242
“doubt of loyalty”: “China Hands,” Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training,
Frontline Diplomacy—Country Readers—China
. Arlington, Va.: ADST Foreign Affairs Oral History Program, 2000.

243
“He was treated …”: FAP.

243
“so invaluable …”: ibid.

244
“Vincent all but …”: Gary May,
China Scapegoat
(Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, 1979), p. 224.

244
“a disgusting era”: FAP.

244
“My moral and spiritual …”: PC, carton 2, folder 66.

245
“unimportant”: ibid., folder 65.

245
“The vigor and …”: ibid.

245
“not eligible for …”: ibid., folder 68.

245
“a real woman …”: ibid.

246
“whiz bang”: ibid.

246
“We have finally …”: ibid., folder 69.

246
“Every time …”: EAP.

246
“I hate only a …” Fitch,
Appetite for Life
, p. 182.

247
“These two men …”: PC, carton 2, folder 69.

247
“25 minutes …”: ibid.

248
“undercurrent of …”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

248
“yellow-bellyism …”: ibid.

248
“He's emasculating …”: ibid., folder 69.

248
“stepchild …”: FAP.

248
“I am terribly …”: Fitch,
Appetite for Life
, p. 204.

250
“I think the … Edwin R. Bayley,
Joe McCarthy and the Press
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981) p. 111.

250
“Communist fronts”: Aloise Buckley Heath,
Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell?
(New York: Arlington House, 1969), p. 134.

250
“proper democratic …”: Julia Child to Mrs. Heath, March 12, 1954, Smith College.

251
“sift truth …”: ibid.

251
“For the colleges …”: ibid.

251
“desperate power-monger”: PC, carton 2, folder 71.

251
“right in there …”: ibid.

252
“supporting the …”: Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme,
My Life in France
(New York: Anchor Books, 2006), p. 200.

252
“These people with …: ibid.

252
“the avalanching danger”: Bernard DeVoto, “Due Notice to the FBI,” The Easy Chair,
Harper's Magazine
, October 1949.

11. The Nightmare

253
“to break loose …”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

253
“the very nadir …”: ibid.

254
“I must confess …”: ibid.

254
“that you have …”: ibid.

254
“And that the …”: ibid.

255
“cringe”: FAP.

255
“who just cravenly …”: ibid.

255
“We would very …”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

256
“being attacked …”: ibid.

256
“to determine …”: USIA case file 105-4454, Paul Child.

257
“I think she …”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

258
“What I suspect …”: ibid.

258
“the professional …”: ibid.

258
“intercepted by …”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

258
“what we must …”: ibid.

258
“believed to have been …”: FBI case file 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.

259
“Ah me …”: ibid.

259
“Well, the Nightmare …”: ibid.

260
“you have the …”: ibid.

260
“Well, what did …”: UL, p. 20.

260
“[Her] only thought …”: ibid., p. 29.

261
“the top Russian …”: Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson, “Seeing Red,”
Johns Hopkins Magazine
, September 2000.

262
“the four liturgical …”: UL, p. 22.

262
“really, Jane …”: ibid., p. 24.

262
“My mother …”: ST.

263
“You can't”: ibid.

263
“Jane just …”: ibid.

263
“a hideous …”: UL, p. 27.

263
“to show the nightmarish …”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

264
“the Holy Office”: ibid.

264
“a physical …”: ibid.

264
“unadulterated horror”: ibid.

264
“It would have …”: UL, p. 29.

265
“with mirrors …”: ibid., p. 30.

265
“Then the Nightmare …: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

265
“Spy! Spy!”: UL, p. 30.

266
“a member of …”: ibid., p. 35.

266
“conceived to be …”: HUAC Memorandum, September 12, 1962, From Don Sweeney to Francis J. McNamara, Re: Jane Foster Zlatovski v. Secretary of State, J. B. Matthews Papers, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Durham, N.C.

267
“It was a real … PC, carton 2, folder 46.

267
“holed up in …”: ibid.

267
“whey-faced agents”: UL, p. 41.

267
“Afraid to go out”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

267
“I had been …”: ibid.

267
“not in the …”: HUAC Memorandum, September 12, 1962, From Don Sweeney to Francis J. McNamara, Re: Jane Foster Zlatovski v. Secretary of State, J. B. Matthews Papers, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Durham, N.C.

268
“the most unfirable …”:
Time
, 1951.

268
“the way Mussolini …”: UL, p. 36.

268
“very sick”: ibid.

268
“There I was …”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

269
“Rat-tat-tat-tat …
”: UL, p. 43.

270
“a loveable little …”: ibid., p. 40.

270
“a law unto itself”: Leonard B. Boudin, “The Right to Travel,”
Nation
, July 30, 1955.

271
“fool around”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

271
“shaking like an …”: UL, p. 45.

271
“log-jam”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

271
“[Judge Mathews] …”: ibid.

272
“did not show them …”: ibid.

272
“derogatory information”: HUAC Memorandum, September 5, 1962, Honorable Gordon H. Scherer to Francis J. McNamara, Director, Re: Jane Foster Zlatovski v. Secretary of State, J. B. Matthews Papers, Duke University.

273
“break the seal …”: UL, p. 48.

273
“the boys in gabardine …”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.

273
“ARRIVED PARIS …”: ibid.

273
“Forgive me …”: ibid.

274
“then I can really say …”: ibid.

274
“case had been …”: USIA case file 105-4454 / FBI case file 123-192, Paul Child.

12. The Taste of Ashes

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“dumping ground”: FAP.

275
“poor marks …”: Julia Child,
My Life in France
, p. 224.

276
“Wish You Were Here”: JC, Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard, carton 2, folder 47.

276
“brainless bureaucrats”: FAP.

277
“that did not mean …”: UL, p. 218.

277
“She and George …”: ibid.

277
“a cry for help …”: UL, p. 218.

278
“Julia was awfully …”: EM.

278
“liberal …”: FBI case file 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.

278
“Hoover was no …”: ibid.

279
“now the land of …”: Julia Child,
My Life in France
, p. 224.

279
“think someone that …”: Fitch,
Appetite for Life
, p. 237.

279
“U.S. COUPLE ACCUSED …”:
Los Angeles Times
, July 9, 1957.

279
“EX-AIDES OF U.S….”:
The New York Times
, July 9, 1957.

279
“An American couple …”:
The Washington Post and Times-Herald
, July 9, 1957.

282
“FRANCE GRANTS” …
Washington Daily News
, July 9, 1957.

282
“The French have …”:
Evening Star
, July 9, 1957.

282
“They've been …”: Reuters, July 9, 1957.

282
“parlor pink”:
Washington Daily News
, July 9, 1957.

283
“a haven”:
Chicago Daily Tribune
, July 11, 1957.

283
“shifted her base …”: ibid.

284
“an untenable …”:
The Washington Post and Times-Herald
, July 11, 1957.

284
“A Communist suspect …”: ibid.

285
“approved”:
The New York Times
, August 13, 1957.

285
“didn't come easy …”:
The New York Times
, August 13, 1957.

285
“special special agent”:
Time
, January 12, 1959.

286
“Boris, somehow …”: ibid.

286
“a prominent American …”: ibid.

286
“missing link”:
The New York Times
, August 17, 1957.

286
“part of the Soviet …”: ibid.

286
“The Justice Department …”: Katrina Vanden Heuvel, “Grand Illusions,”
Vanity Fair
, September 1991.

288
“guaranteed”:
The New York Times
, September 10, 1957.

288
“a sensitive, dynamic …”: Francis E. Walter, “The First Official Story of the Man Who Fooled the Kremlin,”
The Philadelphia Inquirer
, September 29, 1957.

288
“a hand to shake …”: ibid., October 2, 1957.

289
“at eleven o'clock …”: UL, p. 218.

289
“tragic-comedy …”: ibid.

289
“a hairless teddy bear”: ibid., p. 222.

290
“put her head …”: ibid.

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