"It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine."

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We don't like to talk about that in America, but there are classes in America. And she [Julia Child] was of a class of women who were wealthy, privately educated, went to Smith, moved in that sort of circle. She was conscripted into the OSS, which is the early CIA, which was all filled with Yalies and Princeton and Harvard people and a few women who were typing mostly but also had something to do.

— Meryl Streep