The secret is out. This week the United States' National Archives released all of the names and previously classified files identifying nearly 24,000 spies that formed the US's first centralized intelligence effort. Amongst some of the more famous names on the list of spies are famed chef Julia Child, Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg, and Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldburg.

Those famous names served in an international spy ring which was managed by the Office of Stragetic Services (OSS), which was an early version of the CIA created during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. For the first time, the National Archives released the names found in the records, which include 750,000 pages that identify the huge network of military and civilian operatives.

There were people of all professions on the list - soldiers, athletes, lawyers, actors, reporters, historians, etc. - but for a few years they worked together under the OSS where they studied military plans, infiltrated enemy ranks, and created propaganda.

Other notable names on the list included Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a historian and special assistant to President John F. Kennedy; Sterling Hayden, an actor whose work included a role in "The Godfather;" and Thomas Braden, whose "Eight Is Enough" book inspired the 1970s television series.

Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was also in the OSS along with Miles Copeland, father of Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police and John Hemingway, son of author Ernest Hemingway.

Included amongst the 35,000 OSS personnel files are the applications, commendations, and handwritten notes.

With the release of these OSS personnel files, one of the last great secrets of the wartime intelligence agency is finally out. The OSS was folded into the CIA in 1947. The CIA resisted releasing OSS records for decades, but former CIA Director William Casey got the ball rolling in 1981, hoping to one day unseal the records.