Earlier today, we told you that Julia Child was actually a member of a top secret spy ring referred to as Office of Strategic Services.

Evidently, Child and other high-profile Americans studied military plans, created propaganda, infiltrated enemy ranks and stirred resistance among foreign troops during WWII.

Now, we know more...

Before Julia Child became known to the world as a leading chef, she admitted at least one failing when applying for a job as a spy: impulsiveness.

At 28 as an advertising manager at W&J Sloane furniture store in Beverly Hills, Calif., Child clashed with new store managers and left her job abruptly.

"I made a tactical error and was out," she explained in a handwritten note attached to her application to join the Office of Strategic Services, a World War II-era spy agency. "However, I learned a lot about advertising and wish I had been older and more experienced so that I could have handled the situation, as it was a most interesting position."

Child was not yet married and was applying for the job under her maiden name, McWilliams, according to previously top-secret records released by the National Archives on Thursday. She was hired in the summer of 1942 for clerical work with the intelligence agency and later worked directly for OSS Director William Donovan, the personnel records show.

Details about Child's background and nearly 24,000 other OSS employees are revealed in the newly released documents, withheld from public view as classified records for decades by the CIA.

Pretty fierce, huh? I thought the only think Julia was responsible for clobbering were chickens and lobsters. Hitler and the Nazi's would have never crossed my mind!

The top secret files were released today with information on Child and other OSS agents such as Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, major league catcher Moe Berg, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and film actor Sterling Hayden.

Wouldn't it be crazy if something like this existed today? Who would they throw in there, Madonna, Alex Rodriquez, Dr. Phil and Oprah? Makes you wonder, doesn't it?!