A Covert Affair (52 page)
Authors: Jennet Conant
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
Klehr, Harvey, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson.
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Klehr, Harvey, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov.
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Lamphere, Robert J., and Tom Shachtman.
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New York: Random House, 1986 / Macon Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1995.
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Sibley, Katherine A. S.
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:
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Sources frequently cited have been identified by the following abbreviations:
EM | Elizabeth P. McIntosh, aka Betty MacDonald, interviews by the author. |
ET | Eleanor Thiry, unpublished diary and private family letters. |
FAP | Foreign Affairs Oral History Project, Foreign Service Spouse Series, Julia Child Interview, November 7, 1991. Frontline Diplomacy, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Record/Information Dissemination Section, Records Management Division, Washington, D.C. All documents are referred to by case file number and name of subject. |
JC | Julia Child Correspondence, Julia Child Papers, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. |
PC | Paul Child Correspondence, Julia Child Papers, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. All of Paul Child's quotations from his letter-diaries to his twin brother, Charlesâwhich cover years of his life and many thousands of pagesâand letter-diaries to Julia during his security check in Washington will be referenced by the carton and file folder for that specific time period. |
OSS/FIRÂ Â Â | OSS Field Intelligence Reports, Jane Foster, Theater Officer Correspondence, Draft Histories, RG 226, box 21. |
SMITH | Oral History Interview with Julia McWilliams Child, Smith College Centennial Study, conducted by Jacqueline Van Voris, October 10, 1972. |
SS | Elizabeth P. McIntosh, |
ST | Susan Tenenbaum, Jane Foster's niece by marriage and closest surviving relation, interview. |
UG | Elizabeth MacDonald, |
UL | Jane Foster, |
All Paul Child quotes in this chapter are drawn from his letter-diaries to Julia Child from 1955 found in PC, carton 2, folder 46.
All of the references to Paul Child and Julia Child background checks, and details of Paul Child's FBI interrogation, including the agents' questions and his answers, are drawn from FBI case file 123â192, Paul Child.
The same FBI reports, plus some additional memorandums, can also be found in summarized form Paul Child's Department of State / USIA dossier, case file IOS-4454.
Additional sources are identified below.
1
“REPORT SOONEST ⦔: PC, carton 2, folder 46.
1
“head of the ⦔: FAP, p. 7.
2
“Woodenhead the First”: ibid., p. 9.
3
“horrified”: SMITH, p. 25.
3
“To think of ⦔: PC, carton 2, folder 71.
3
“Woeâhow did we ⦔: Noël Riley Fitch,
Appetite for Life
(New York: Anchor Books, 1999), p. 218.
4
“had enough of that â¦: ibid.
5
“a peculiarly depressing ⦔: James B. Conant,
My Several Lives
(New York: Harper & Row, 1970), p. 577.
5
“rampant right wingery ⦔: PC, carton 2, folder 71.
6
“dear old Pop”: ibid.
6
“good-hearted ⦔: ibid.
7
“still working ⦔: “McCarthy Charges Reds Hold U.S. Jobs,”
Wheeling Intelligencer
, February 10, 1950.
7
“security risks”: Conant,
My Several Lives
, p. 563.
7
“positive loyalty”: Gary May,
China Scapegoat
(Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, 1979), p. 269.
8
“vague, but dirty”: PC, carton 2, folder 69.
8
“two young bloods”: ibid.
8
“during most of ⦔: ibid.
8
“a desperately dangerous ⦔: PC, carton 2, folder 71.
8
“Eisenhower appears ⦔: ibid.
9
“Quite a number ⦔: FAP, p. 5.
9
“ever meet up ⦔: PC, carton 2, folder 65.
9
“You have no ⦔: ibid.
9
“After the events ⦔: Fitch,
Appetite for Life
, p. 215.
10
“SITUATION CONFUSED”: PC, carton 2, folder 46.
11
“It would have ⦔: ibid.
11
“SITUATION HERE ⦔: ibid.
19
“Paul is being ⦔: Fitch,
Appetite for Life
, p. 225.
19
“As soon as ⦔: FAP, p. 7.
20
“hyperpatriotism”:
Washington Post and Times-Herald
, April 19, 1955.
21
“You are finer ⦔: PC, carton 2, folder 46.
21
“A horrible experience”: FAP, p. 7.
23
“INVESTIGATION ⦔: PC, carton 2, folder 46.
24
“Look, just what ⦔: UG, p. 2.
24
“That was ⦔: EM.
25
“a wild, messy ⦔: PC, carton 1, folder 28.
26
“whispered overtures”: UG, p. 4.
26
“on the spot”: EM.
26
“This is not ⦔: ibid.
27
“to do something ⦔: ibid.
27
“terrible, terrible ⦔: ibid.
27
“the Japanese came to us”: SS, p. 198.
27
“sent off somewhere”: EM.
28
“ever considered ⦔: UG, p. 4.
28
“hadn't described ⦔: ibid., p. 3.
28
“something like ⦔: Elizabeth P. McIntosh Papers (AFC/2001/001/30838), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
29
“overcome by ⦔: UG, p. 4.
29
“caused trouble”: UL, p. 57.
29
“study painting ⦔: ibid., p. 58.
30
“silent and ⦔: ibid., p. 59.
30
“three-kinds of ⦔: ibid., p. 61.
30
“wide-eyed ⦔: ibid., p. 62.
30
“romantic idea”: EM.
31
“probably have ⦔: UL, p. 89.
32
“My mother ⦔: ibid., p. 91.
32
“You girls ⦔: UG, p. 4.
35
“at the very ⦔: ibid., p. 1.
35
“a large proportion ⦔: UL, p. 106.
35
“hardly beloved”: ibid.
36
“sneeringly said ⦔: ibid.
36
“MO Manual ⦔: UG, p. 7.
36
“when done right ⦔: ibid., p. 2.
37
“Morale operations include ⦔: ibid., p. 7.
37
“blow cover ⦔: ibid.
38
“Our black radio ⦔: ibid., p. 8.
38
“If it worked ⦔: EM.
38
“It takes all kinds ⦔: ibid., p. 8.
38
“It was ⦔: ibid.
39
“pistols, machine ⦔: UL, p. 108.
39
“understood nothing”: ibid.
39
“The first thing ⦔: ibid.
39
“I did not join ⦔: ibid.
41
“mental hazard ⦔: UG, p. 45.
41
“Besides ⦔: ibid., p. 49.
41
“a half-consumed pint ⦔: ibid.
42
“After ten minutes ⦔: UL, p. 109.
42
“It was permissible ⦔: UG, p. 45.
42
“a charming ⦔: ibid., p. 46.
42
“leaving Kilroy ⦔: ibid.
42
“by what sounded ⦔: ibid., p. 47.
43
“The idea ⦔: UL, p. 109.
43
“neurotic intellectual”: ibid., p. 109.
43
“open-face-sandwich ⦔: UG, p. 39.
44
“whether to salute ⦔: UG, p. 6.
46
“Safecrackers ⦔: Dan Pinck, interview by the author.
46
“a weird ⦔: UL, p. 106.
46
“elephant laboring ⦔: UG, p. 20.
47
“From a pathetically ⦔: ibid., p. 38.
48
“The Japs, we ⦔: ibid., p. 54.
49
“admirably adapted ⦔: ibid., p. 31.
49
“inherited from Eve ⦔: ibid.
50
“crept up ⦔: ibid., p. 11.
50
“a singularly ⦔: ibid.
50
“The professor ⦔: UL, p. 111.
51
“Why not ⦔: UG, p. 14.
51
“cast suspicion ⦔: ibid.
52
“We were flat ⦔: ibid.
53
“five major ⦔: UG, p. 18.
53
“stomach-full ⦔: PC, carton 1, folder 28.
53
“Brooks Brothers ⦔: ibid.
54
“a princeling”: Philip Ziegler,
Mountbatten
(New York: Harper & Row, 1986), p. 221.
54
“rather confused ⦔: UL, p. 117.
55
“the most important ⦔: ibid.
55
“suspicious of ⦔: E. Bruce Reynolds,
Thailand's Secret War
(Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 125.
55
“door to India ⦔: UG, p. 18.
56
“to obtain New York ⦔: Reynolds,
Thailand's Secret War
, p. 125.
56
“full operational control ⦔: ibid., p. 126.
56
“other complications ⦔: UL, p. 117.
56
“with a monumental hatred”: ibid.
57
“his wife, his child ⦔: ibid.
57
“keeping China ⦔: Ziegler,
Mountbatten
, p. 241.
57
“a blend of ⦔: Edmond Taylor,
Awakening from History
(Boston: Gambit, 1969), p. 347.
57
“We must take orders ⦔: ibid., p. 18.
58
“bursting to blab”: ibid., p. 20.
58
“highly developed ⦔: ibid., p. 26.
59
“the distilled reports ⦔: ibid.
59
“lady novelist”: SMITH, p. 17.
59
“social butterfly”: PC, carton 2, folder 58.
60
“too long”: FAP, p. 7.
60
“good impression”: National Archives, OSS Records, Julia Child.
61
“a cross between ⦔: UG, p. 21.
61
“fish-squeezing unit”: SMITH, p. 28.
61
“Julia was a woman ⦔: Fitch,
Appetite for Life
, p. 85.
62
“a plain person”: FAP, p. 7.
62
“The idea of going ⦔: ibid., p. 28.
63
“never been anywhere ⦔: ET, diary.
63
“We presented ⦔: ibid.
64
“Julia, Rosie ⦔: Thibaut de Saint Phalle, interview by author.
64
“I never would ⦔: ibid.
65
“The times when ⦔: ibid.
65
“Easter Sunday ⦔: ibid.
66
“a killing train ride ⦔: Fitch,
Appetite for Life
, p. 92.
66
“number three air ⦔: UG, p. 39.
67
“Just think ⦔: Alexander MacDonald,
My Footloose Newspaper Life
(Bangkok: Post Publishing, 1990), p. 80.
67
“We were just so ⦔: EM.
67
“C'est la guerre”
: Alexander MacDonald,
My Footloose Newspaper Life
, p. 80.
