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39. They say that Operation Mockingbird has been discontinued, but the CIA even financed Julia Child

Mon Aug 5, 2013, 12:05 AM

Aug 2013

who could come into contact with foreign persons, and sometimes even important persons, and pass information back.

Julia Child sought to trivialize her contact with the CIA, but Operation Mockingbird was real. They financed a great number of people and gave covers to them. Being a traveling chef in today's world would be a natural.

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