Results: I Spy... Part 2

Spy novelist Ian Fleming drew on his experiences in British Naval Intelligence during World War II to write his popular James Bond spy novels. But before becoming an author, Fleming concocted schemes that British commandos used to undermine the German war effort. One of his ideas – planting false plans on a dead body – was used to mislead the Nazis before the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. He also devised the disastrous Dieppe Raid in 1942, a hit-and-run attack on the French coast, as cover for grabbing an Enigma – the Nazi's ultrasecret cryptography machine – from German naval offices in the French seaside town. But the mission failed, resulting in the deaths of nearly 1,000 British, Canadian and American commandos. Were you aware of Fleming's hands-on spy work?

Celebrity chef and author Julia Child Child worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II, before she became famous. She assisted with research on a number of projects before taking on a bigger assignment: cooking up a recipe for shark repellent. Child created "cakes" of copper acetate mixed with black dye that smelled like dead sharks that scared off living ones. Were you aware of her work with the OSS?

Perhaps no celebrity spy has become as notorious as Cary Grant. It was alleged the movie star worked for the FBI and British intelligence in helping ferret out Nazi sympathizers in Hollywood and others with possible connections to the German regime during World War II. Grant exposed Errol Flynn as a supposed Nazi agent. The author claimed to find government records implicating the film legend, though no one else has ever substantiated the claim. Some historians and Flynn's family have denied the accusation. Grant also spied on Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, the German-born husband of heiress Barbara Woolworth Hutton. The actor even married Hutton in 1942 after she divorced the count. Grant served as a "volunteer" spy for J. Edgar Hoover during World War II. Grant was never investigated by the FBI during the Red Scare of the 1950s despite a "known Communist connection" and may have been protected by Hoover. Were you aware of Grant's spy career?

After her retirement from acting in 1935, many believed that Greta Garbo just used acting as an excuse to cover up her actions as a spy for the Allied forces. She used her celebrity status as a Swedish actress to identify Nazi agents and report on their actions. One of her missions was to help secretly transport a man from Copenhagen to Britain, which she accomplished successfully at the side of Winston Churchill's special envoy and Canadian spy Sir William Stephenson. That man happened to be Niels Bohr, who went on to help develop the atomic bomb. Were you aware of Garbo's spy career?