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Eleanor Thiry, unpublished diary and private family letters.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, Charles—which cover years of his life and many thousands of pages—and 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 Field Intelligence Reports, Jane Foster, Theater Officer Correspondence, Draft Histories, RG 226, box 21. |
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SMITH |
Oral History Interview with Julia McWilliams Child, Smith College Centennial Study, conducted by Jacqueline Van Voris, October 10, 1972. |
SS |
Elizabeth P. McIntosh, Sisterhood of Spies. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. |
ST |
Susan Tenenbaum, Jane Foster’s niece by marriage and closest surviving relation, interview. |
UG |
Elizabeth MacDonald, Undercover Girl. New York: Macmillan, 1947. |
UL |
Jane Foster, An UnAmerican Lady. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980. |
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 123–192, 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 “Woe—how did we …”: Noël Riley Fitch, Appetite for Life (New York: Anchor Books, 1999), p. 218.
4 “had enough of that …: 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.
67 “problems”: PC, carton 1, folder 28.
67 “designed to test …”: UG, p. 40.
68 “It took all …”: UL, p. 109.
68 “from the hip …”: UG, p. 51.
69 “We had been …”: ibid., p. 52.
69 “the professionals …”: UL, p. 107.
69 “Foster, here’s …”: ibid., p. 111.
70 “several boxes …”: UG, p. 52.
70 “wouldn’t hear …”: ibid.
71 “did not mind paying …”: UL, p. 112.
71 “OSS girls bound …”: UG, p. 53.
71 “wishful packing”: ibid.
71 “disemboweled …”: ibid., p. 54.
72 “recalled the era …”: ibid., p. 56.
72 “One of them …”: UL, p. 112.
73 “The following will …”: UG, p. 60.
73 “The prospect of …”: ibid., p. 61.
75 “Breakbone fever”: UL, p. 78.
75 “Toonerville Trolley”: ibid., p. 113.
76 “cubbyhole …”: ibid., p. 114.
78 “red from head …”: ibid.
78 “the drains of …”: ibid.
78 “Delhi Belly …”: PC, carton 2, folder 49.
80 “lonely …”: ibid.
80 “Zorina”: ibid.
81 “a new and interesting …”: PC, carton 2, folder 50.
81 “Janie is … Bohemienne”: ibid.
84 “Young lady, may …”: UL, p. 121.
84 “a little bit …”: Vicki Constantine Croke, The Lady and the Panda (New York: Random House, 2005), p. 133.
85 “as it was forbidden …”: UL, p. 70.
85 “Mrs. Harkness would emit …”: ibid.
85 “fascinating …”: FAP, p. 7.
85 “She was terribly funny …”: ibid.
86 “probably the most beautiful …”: Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 279.
86 “Lovely Louis …”: UL, p. 123–124.
86 “the mangy British lion”: ibid., p. 125.
87 “He had the …”: ibid., p. 123.
87 “the jolliest girl …”: Fitch, Appetite for Life, p. 101.
87 “having a genius …”: UL, p. 134.
87 “bagging the beasts …”: PC, carton 2, folder 49.
87 “an Oxford don …”: ibid.
88 “When the waters …”: UG, p. 144.
88 “For use in salt …”: ibid., p. 145.
88 “mad scientist”: UL, p. 116.
88 “the fascination of a …”: ibid.
90 “by drinking …”: PC, carton 2, folder 50.
90 “to undermine the …”: UL, p. 118.
90 “a phenomenal memory …”: ibid.
90 “I would look …”: ibid.
91 “could have cared …”: UL, p. 119.
91 “We would parachute …”: ibid.
91 “Why don’t we …”: ibid.
91 “wasting the taxpayers’ …”: ibid., p. 118.
92 “disconcerted …”: Carleton Scofield, University of Missouri at Kansas City Archives, Carleton F. Scofield Papers, diary, August 14, 1944.
92 “wiles of the …”: Reynolds, Thailand’s Secret War, p. 229.
93 “the contagions of …”: Taylor, Awakening from History, p. 352.
93 “little more than …”: ibid.
93 “Damn it, why …”: Scofield, diary, August 19, 1944.
93 “It may be …”: SS, p. 212.
94 “At present …”: ibid.
94 “tactless …”: ibid, p. 213.
94 “uncoordinated …”: UG, p. 133.
94 “To those red-blooded …”: ibid, p. 132.
94 “Oh, What a …”: Eldridge, Wrath in Burma, p. 263.
95 “put their imagination to work …”: Alexander MacDonald, My Footloose Newspaper Life, p. 85.
95 “Madison Avenue ad men …”: ibid.
97 “Each side cheated …”: Taylor, Awakening from History, p. 351.
97 “high-echelon personnel”: UG, p. 121.
97 “easy targets …”: UG, p. 121.
98 “OK, Alec …”: UL, p. 126.
98 “hell-raising …”: PC, carton 2, folder 50.
100 “Donovan’s here …”: Alexander MacDonald, My Footloose Newspaper Life, p. 86.
100 “quasi-royal procession”: UL, p. 122.
100 “It meant we …”: ibid.
100 “Sounds promising …”: Alexander MacDonald, My Footloose Newspaper Life, p. 86.
100 “How about …”: ibid.
101 “They’re messages …”: ibid.
101 “It seems a …”: ibid.
101 “instant fame”: SS, p. 220.
102 “Jane, really!”: ibid.
102 “the same freckled …”: UG, p. 132.
102 “on a boondoggling …”: ibid.
102 “so clean it …”: ibid., p. 133
103 “reached the saturation point”: Fitch, Appetite for Life, p. 100.
103 “by holding a …”: UL, p. 124.
103 “Stilwell knew …”: ibid.
104 “the old sourpuss”: ibid., p. 124.
105 “fantastic”: PC, carton 2, folder 51.
105 “as a casual …”: ibid.
105 “though where she …”: ibid.
105 “of course, I am not …”: ibid.
105 “except that all …”: ibid.
106 “And there’s …”: UG, p. 141.
106 “I took this …”: ibid.
107 “Chop says he …”: ibid., p. 134.
107 “the care and training”: ibid.
107 “shield them from …”: ibid.
107 “Hindus no beef …”: UL, p. 120.
107 “so no one’s …”: UG, p. 136.
108 “wilted when …”: ibid.
108 “He says he’s …”: ibid., p. 137.
108 “the mute …”: ibid.
108 “They don’t like …”: ibid.
109 “The subs go over …”: UG, p. 144.
109 “subversive bone …”: ibid., p. 135.
109 “they never knew …”: ibid., p. 136.
110 “It could be just …”: Alexander MacDonald, My Footloose Newspaper Life, p. 87.
110 “When the station …”: UG, p. 144.
110 “The Thai foreign …”: Alexander MacDonald, My Footloose Newspaper Life, p. 88.
111 “nerve center”: Fisher Howe, interview by the author.
111 “fool-proof locator system”: SS, p. 217.
111 “one of those you have …”: ibid.
112 “If you don’t …”: ibid.
112 “exuberant and …”: Fitch, Appetite for Life, p. 98.
112 “Julia was so …”: EM.
112 “It was already …”: EM.
113 “Wish I were …”: Fitch, Appetite for Life, p. 98.
113 “Julia, the 6′2″ …”: PC, carton 2, folder 50.
113 “a warm and witty …”: ibid.
113 “she says …”: ibid.
114 “heavily in love”: PC, carton 2, folder 51.
115 “best birthday …”: ibid.
115 “Your confusion …”: ibid.
115 “but not one of …”: UL, p. 130.
116 “a bit of an …”: ibid.
116 “be true to each other”: ibid.
116 “unevenly, of course”: ibid.
116 “There was a lot …”: EM.
116 “No one else …”: UL, p. 130.
116 “fleet-footed couriers”: Manly Fleischmann letters, FBI case file 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.
116 “I can hardly tell …”: ibid.
116 “the U.S. armed forces …”: UL, p. 130.
117 “It is not necessary …”: Manly Fleischmann letters, FBI case file number 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.
117 “red-and-white dressing gown …”: UL, p. 130.
117 “the only child …”: Windmiller, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 8 (1955), p. 111.
119 “straight-backed Groucho …”: UL, p. 127.
119 “Two years …”: Lord Louis Mountbatten, Personal Diary … 1943–1946 (London: Collins, 1988), p. 61.
119 “a useless organization”: UL, p. 129.
120 “modestly advised Mountbatten …”: Geoffrey T. Hellman, “Curator Getting Around,” The New Yorker, August 26, 1950.
120 “never forgave …”: UL, p. 129.
120 “Get the Commander …”: ibid.
122 “a sad, ugly …”: UL, p. 132.
122 “cesspool …”: ibid.
123 “Something was always happening …”: ibid.
123 “I’m sorry …”: ibid.
123 “purple with rage …”: ibid., p. 133.
124 “the war would …”: ibid.
124 “negligence and/or …”: ibid.
125 “Rumors were …”: ibid., p. 134.
125 “Oh, Gregory …”: ibid., p. 135.
125 “mostly devoted …”: UL, p. 136.
126 “a vast eyeball-searing …”: ibid.
126 “I’m writing …”: ibid.
126 “How we celebrated …”: ibid., p. 138.
126 “I quickly …”: ibid., p. 139.
127 “The Indonesians were in full …”: ibid.
127 “What could possibly happen …”: ibid.
128 “confidential plan”: UG, p. 145.
128 “peace-time covert …”: E. Bruce Reynolds, “Staying Behind in Bangkok,” Journal of Intelligence History 2, no. 2 (Winter 2002), p. 24.
128 “covert development …”: ibid.
128 “Here’s luck!”: UL, p. 140.
129 “cherished wish …”: ibid., p. 139.
129 “He made the …”: ibid., p. 29.
129 “1.1 billion enemies …”: Geoffrey Gunn, “Origins of the American War in Vietnam,” Asia-Pacific Journal: JapanFocus, May 9, 2009.
130 “the Draconian Thailand …”: UL, p. 140.
130 “the quiet shelving …”: ibid.
131 “It was a bittersweet …”: UL, p. 141.
131 “sat on the beach …”: ibid.
131 “Well, kid …”: Manly Fleischmann letters, FBI case file 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.
132 “a lovely surprise”: UL, p. 141.
133 “Jane, those …”: ibid.
133 “How could you …”: ibid., p. 142.
133 “She was pure …”: ibid., p. 86.
134 “We could distinctly see …”: ibid., p. 142.
134 “the dreaded Japanese …”: ibid.
135 “occasionally seemed …”: ibid., p. 143.
135 “explosive”: OSS/FIR, Jane Foster, “Current Political Situation,” September 20, 1945.
136 “That’ll l’arn ’em”: UL, p. 143.
136 “The pilots had …”: ibid., p. 144.
136 “The prisoners were”: ibid., p. 143.
137 “case in point”: ibid.
138 “Some of the …”: ibid., p. 145.
139 “You’re not …”: ibid.
140 “the only flag …”: OSS/FIR, Jane Foster, “Current Political Situation,” September 20, 1945.
140 “Americans were the only …”: UL, p. 145.
140 “In the event …”: ibid., p. 145.
140 “increasingly tense”: OSS/FIR, Jane Foster, “Current Political Situation,” September 20, 1945.
141 “The city is …”: ibid.
141 “the great mass …”: ibid.
142 “to resist by force …”: ibid.
142 “With a supreme lack …”: UL, p. 146.
142 “ambiguous …”: OSS/FIR, Jane Foster, “Current Political Situation,” September 20, 1945.
143 “It looks as if …”: ibid.
143 “precarious”: ibid.
143 “waiting (like dopes)”: OSS/FIR, Operational, Jane Foster to Lloyd George, September 25, 1945.
144 “All in all …”: ibid.
144 “would drive …”: Frederick E. Crockett, “How the Marble Began in Java,” Harper’s Magazine, March 1946, p. 281.
144 “The broadcast was …”: ibid.
144 “no authority …”: ibid.
145 “liked the Dutch”:
146 “status quo ante bellum”: UL, p. 149.
146 “no information …”: Crockett, p. 282.
147 “Her days were …”: Timothy Lindsey, The Romance of K’Tut Tantri and Indonesia (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 165.
148 “sounded like the …”: UL, p. 149.
148 “war wounds”: ibid., p. 190.
148 “What the hell …”: Crockett, p. 283.
148 “The lieutenant insisted …”: ibid.
149 “swilling whiskey …”: UL, p. 151.
149 “in light of …”: OSS/FIR, Military Attache Report, Colonel Kenneth Kennedy, Military Intelligence Division, October 11, 1945.
149 “We are of the opinion …”: ibid.
150 “salivating at …”: UL, p. 150.
150 “Incidents continue …”: OSS/FIR, Jane Foster, Situation Report, October 15, 1945.
150 “an undisguised …”: ibid.
150 “quite appalled …”: ibid.
151 “a complete stalemate”: ibid.
152 “brutal conduct”: Crockett, p. 283.
152 “The peoples of …”: ibid.
152 “the rattle of …”: UL, p. 152.
152 “Jane, have …”: ibid.
153 “fat Dutch sergeant”: ibid.
153 “GET FOSTER …”: UL, p. 152.
153 “Public opinion …”: ibid.
153 “OK, Jane …”: ibid.
154 “HAD NOT …”: UG, p. 298
154 “PEACE OF WORLD …”: ibid.
156 “the remnants of sugar …”: UL, p. 153.
158 “apparently enjoying …”: Archimedes L. A. Patti, Why Vietnam? (Berkeley: University of California Press), p. 317.
158 “Cochinchina is …”: ibid., p. 320.
159 “mistaken identity”: ibid., p. 322.
159 “not doing their stuff”: OSS/FIR, Memorandum for the President, Representative in Kandy to Donovan, September 28, 1945.
159 “Basically, the situation …”: UL, p. 154
160 “[Miss Foster] felt …”: Department of State Memorandum, “Conditions in Saigon,” December 12, 1945.
160 “It was apparent …”: ibid.
160 “Boycotts and …”: ibid.
161 “The general situation …”: Gunn, “Origins.”
161 “the single immediate …”: ibid.
161 “on the par …”: UL, p. 154.
161 “to get the French back …”: Vietnam: A Television History, “The Roots of War (1945–1953),” written and produced by Judith Vecchione for American Experience. WGBH Educational Foundation, 1983/2007.
162 “the best journalist”: UL, p. 154.
163 “practically all”: ibid.
163 “If there is anything …”: Edgar Snow, “Secrets from Siam,” Saturday Evening Post, January 12, 1946.
164 “as secret as La Guardia …”: Reynolds, Thailand’s Secret War, p. 303.
165 “But I had …”: UL, p. 155.
165 “stern self-discipline …”: ibid.
165 “Of all the …”: ST.
166 “There was no …”: UL, p. 155.
166 “to swipe …”: ibid., p. 154.
167 “A sixteenth-century …”: ibid., p. 155.
167 “We are all slightly …”: OSS/FIR, Operational, Jane Foster to Lloyd George, September 25, 1945.
168 “it was so fitting”: UL, p. 155.
168 “although he, too”: ibid.
168 “physically push”: UL, p. 156.
168 “It showed …”: ibid., p. 159.
169 “Darling, do you …”: ibid., p. 160.
169 “the heavy-duty thinkers”: ibid.
169 “No longer in …”: ibid.
170 “The Japanese …”: ibid.
171 “a gentleman of …”: UL, p. 161.
171 “there are …”: ibid.
171 “Sukarno is a traitor …”: ibid.
172 “I’ve just come …”: ibid.
172 “Don’t you remember …”: ibid.
174 “more icicle than …”: PC, carton 2, folder 56.
175 “Balm in Gilead …”: ibid.
175 “It’s dirty beyond …”: ibid.
175 “bawling like …”: ibid.
176 “of becoming magnificently …”: ibid.
177 “dangerous thinker”: SS, p. 230.
177 “with an eager mind …”: PC, carton 2, folder 56.
177 “a great solace”: ibid.
178 “Paul Child …”: Thibaut de Saint Phalle, interview by author.
178 “the underside of …”: ibid.
178 “incandescant …”: ibid.
179 “slightly disintegrated”: ibid.
179 “The atmosphere is …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
180 “appeals from …”: ibid., p. 170.
180 “The warlords …”: EM.
180 “the Chinese …”: UG, p. 162.
181 “ambush discipline …”: ibid., p. 164.
181 “Lack of patriotism …”: ibid., p. 165.
181 “The warp and woof …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
183 “struck off into …”: ibid.
183 “Perhaps you will …”: ibid.
184 “love at first sight …”: ibid.
184 “Marjorie continues …”: ibid.
184 “A good many …”: ibid.
185 “We were pulled …”: EM.
185 “We talked …”: EM.
185 “how could it be …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
186 “So now, as before …”: ibid.
186 “These prison wires …”: ibid.
187 “We talked about …”: ibid.
187 “morale-building …”: ibid.
187 “He was terribly …”: UG, p. 149.
187 “It was fortunate …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
188 “Do you realize …”: ibid.
189 “They were an …”: Thibaut de Saint Phalle, interview by author.
189 “running a very complicated …”: Calvin Tomkins, “Good Cooking,” The New Yorker, December 23, 1974.
189 “A wonderful ‘good scout’ …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
189 “The China theater …”: EM.
189 “They were always …”: EM.
189 “never liked the idea …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
189 “He sort of …”: EM.
190 “plunge headfirst …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
190 “a great whisper …”: UG, p. 218.
190 “to be light for …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
190 “placidly hoeing …”: ibid.
190 “rather stay alive …”: ibid.
191 “something terrible …”: UG, p. 220.
191 “Until that time …”: ibid.
191 “All the toilets …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
192 “as a purely …”: ibid.
192 “That’s a big rat …”: ibid.
192 “melting like …”: UG, p. 221.
192 “a tough people …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
192 “The sudden ending …”: ibid.
194 “Never mind …”: Maochun Yu, OSS in China (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), p. 289.
195 “a lack of good …”: ibid., p. 240
195 “keeping order …”: ibid.
195 “It discourages …”: PC, carton 2, folder 58.
195 “victory hullabaloos …”: ibid.
196 “perhaps the God damned war …”: ibid.
196 “important work …”: National Archives, OSS Records, Julia Child
196 “There was a sudden …”: UG, p. 227.
196 “I was in love …”: EM.
197 “pitch-fork out”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
197 “Over the 18 …”: ibid.
197 How like the …: ibid.
198 “not the woman …”: Fitch, Appetite for Life, p. 124.
198 “Perhaps he’s catching …”: EM.
198 “friendly passion …”: Fitch, Appetite for Life, p. 124.
199 “the limited and …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
199 “exhausted …”: ibid.
199 “He is probably …”: Fitch, Appetite for Life, p. 124.
200 “I feel washed-out …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
200 “I’m sitting on …”: ibid.
200 “Love …”: ibid.
201 “machine guns …”: ibid.
202 “substratum chicanery”: UG, p. 262.
203 “mausoleum …”: ibid., p. 294.
203 “the returning …”: ibid.
203 “new, noiseless …”: ibid., p. 295.
203 “to mourn the …”: ibid.
204 “a handsome …”: ibid., pp. 297–298.
205 “The leaflet …”: ibid., pp. 300–301.
205 “the Dutch press …”: ibid., p. 301.
206 “Well, let’s see …”: ibid., p. 303.
207 “The term …”: ibid.
207 “such forces …”: ibid., p. 304.
208 “It was hard …”: EM.
209 “Please be back …”: UL, p. 167.
209 “Jane never …”: EM.
209 “Trigger-Happy Dutchmen …”: San Francisco Chronicle, December 31, 1945.
210 “forced the war …”: People’s World, January 5, 1946.
210 “did not attach …”: UL, p. 166.
210 “an eyewitness account …”: Jane Foster, “Revolt in Indonesia,” Institute of Pacific Relations, San Francisco, CA January 11, 1946.
211 “confidential assignment …”: FBI case file 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.
212 “This is one of the …”: Edgar Snow, “No Four Freedoms for Indo-China,” The Saturday Evening Post, February 2, 1946.
212 “The Netherlands …”: Jane Foster, letter to the editor, The New York Times, July 15, 1946.
212 “The problem …”: EM.
213 “if only by …”: UL, p. 110.
213 “on the other …”: ibid., p. 130.
213 “misty …”: ibid., p. 164.
214 “There was something …”: EM, interview by author.
214 “socially useful element …”: Zlatovski, “The Autobiography of an Anti-Hero,” Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota Public Library, p. 26.
215 “a strong …”: UL, p. 82.
215 “too non-conformist …”: FBI case file 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.
216 “a bit of a …”: ibid., p. 83.
216 “gussied up …”: ibid., p. 96.
216 “incurable romantics …”: Zlatovski, “The Autobiography of an Anti-Hero,” p. 1.
216 “did not really …”: EM.
217 “In very different …”: EM. 217 “La Très Haute Societé …”: Katrina Vanden Heuvel, “Grand Illusions,” Vanity Fair, September 1991, pp. 219–25, 248–56.
217 “loved intrigue …”: UL, p. 97.
218 “adorable, adored …”: ibid., p. 170.
218 “Break out my …”: PC, carton 2, folder 57.
219 “This brings up …”: PC, carton 2, folder 58.
219 “I’ll take her …”: John K. Singlaub with Malcolm McConnell, Hazardous Duty (New York: Summit Books, 1991), p. 115.
219 “tired and …”: Thibault de Saint Phalle, Saints, Sinners, and Scalawags (Brookline, N.H.: Hobblebrush Books, 2004), p. 161.
220 “pursue the plan …”: SMITH.
220 “to see what …”: ibid.
220 “on the porch …”: Fitch, Appetite for Life, p. 129.
220 “allow for …”: ibid.
220 “a relationship based …”: ibid.
221 “Dearest Paulski …”: JC, carton 2, folder 45. The letters that follow from JC to PC, January to June 1946, are contained in JC, carton 2, folder 45, and only the sources of quotes drawn from elsewhere will be identified.
223 “dilettante”: SMITH.
223 “liked that type …”: ibid.
225 “everybody”: JC, carton 2, folder 45.
226 “You play a leading role …”: Fitch, Appetite for Life, p. 131.
227 “operational proof …”: FAP.
227 “very difficult …”: SMITH.
227 “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.
230 “somewhere in Paris”: FAP.
230 “dropped out of sight …”: PC, carton 2, folder 68.
230 “That’s a name …”: ibid.
231 “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.
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.
275 “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.
291 “Morros, who did …”: UL, p. 46.
291 “Écoutez moi …”: ibid, p. 224.
291 “do things by …”: ibid.
292 “what a fabulous …”: ibid., p. 200.
292 “Boris Morros was …”: ibid., p. 209.
293 “pure swindle …”: ibid., p. 211.
293 “Undoubtedly …”: ibid., p. 212.
293 “amusing stories …”: ibid., p. 213.
294 “more discreet …”: ibid., p. 226.
296 “It seemed highly …”: ibid., p. 224.
296 “not exactly …”: ibid., p. 227.
297 “Mrs. Zlatovski …”: ibid., p. 228.
297 “In view of …”: FBI case file 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.
298 “because of their …”: ibid.
298 “acted like a …”: UL, p. 232.
298 “It was THE BIG …”: ibid., p. 233.
299 “glaring inaccuracies …”: ibid., p. 234.
300 “Gertrude Stein …”: ibid., p. 200.
301 “socially at concerts …”: Civil Service … FBI case file 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.
301 “complete and …”: FBI case file 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.
303 “did not know …”: ibid.
304 “UN debate on Indonesia …”: ibid.
305 “available information….”: John F. Fox Jr., “In Passion and in Hope,” (Ph.D. diss.) University of New Hampshire, 2001), p. 16.
306 “Will I be able to …”: UL, p. 241.
306 “the family always …”: ST.
307 “She liked …”: ibid.
307 “be questioned concerning …”: FBI case file 123-192, Paul Child.
307 “the possibility exists …” ibid.
308 “traced directly”: Andrew Roadnight, United States Policy Towards Indonesia in the Truman and Eisenhower Years (New York: MacMillan, 2002), p. 154.
309 “We talked about it …”: EM.
309 “Jane was a …”: ibid.
309 “She was very …”: ST.
310 “ordinary people …”: UL, p. 244.
310 “Simply to be accused …”: ibid., p.232.
311 “Julia was braver”: EM.
311 “We decided …”: SMITH.
311 “seemed so far away”: FAP.
312 “the most comprehensive …”: Craig Claiborne, review of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, by Julia Child, The New York Times, October 18, 1961.
312 “prime dishwasher …”: FAP.
312 “enormous”: Donna Lee, “The Man Behind Julia Child,” Boston Herald American Magazine, May 10, 1981.
312 “We do everything together”: ibid.
312 “shameful episode”: Julia Child, My Life in France(New York: Anchor Books, 2005), p. 215.
313 “It all receded … ST.
314 “never go home again”: ibid.
314 “seized by terror”: UL, p. 245.
315 “intrinsically tied …”: FBI case file 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.
315 “Fascist junta …”: UL, p. 245.
316 “She willed herself …”: ST.
316 “opened Jane’s …”: ibid.
317 “scarred and ruined …”: UL, p. 246.
318 “With open eyes …”: ibid., p. 33.
319 “suitable for framing …”: PC, carton 2, folder 73.
319 “We have no …”: SMITH.
319 “We’re perfectly happy …”: Calvin Tompkins, “Good Cooking,” The New Yorker, December 23, 1974.
321 “fascinating and …”: FAP.
321 “a strange man”: EM.
322 “every effort should …”: FBI case file 100-57453, Martha Dodd Stern.
322 “concerning their …”: FBI case file 100-35543, Jane Foster Zlatovski.
322 “a very grave …”: International Herald Tribune, March 24, 1979.
323 “it is absolutely …”: UL, p. 238.
324 “the biggest spy ring …”: Walter Schneir, “The Soblen Trial,” The Nation, August 26, 1961.
325 “lies and wrong things …”: ibid.
325 “less than a year …”: ibid.
325 “A spy is a …”: ibid.
326 “with all the dirty …”: Theodore H. White, In Search of History (London: Cape, 1979), p. 391.
326 “too much danger …”: ibid., p. 392.
326 “warping effect …”: ibid., p. 395.