The Peculiar Truth about JFK’s Spy Mistress

• August 1963: Acting on orders from Attorney General Robert Kennedy, men from the US Justice Department went to a home in Arlington, VA. They then surreptitiously deported a foreign national to East Germany behind the Iron Curtain.

• She was a 27-year-old mother married to a German military officer, and she worked in Washington, DC.

• Congress was secretly warned not to look into the deportation because it impacted national security. The matter remained under wraps for years.

• The deported woman’s name was Ellen Rometsch. She was suspected of being a Soviet spy.

• From 1961-63, she had recurring sex with prominent Washington politicians including President John F. Kennedy.

• Her birth name was Bertha Elly, and she was raised on a farm in rural Germany during Hitler’s reign. In her teen years after WWII, she joined Communist youth groups. In the mid-1950s, her family relocated from Soviet-led East Germany to democratic West Germany.

• 1955: She met and married a German Air Force sergeant named Rolf Rometsch. Three years later, she gave birth to their only child, a son. Ellen then became a fashion model. Life was good.

• 1961: Rolf was assigned to military duty at the West German embassy in Washington, DC. Ellen and their child joined him a few months later. They rented a home in Arlington, Virginia.

• That same year, a private gentlemen’s club opened in a Washington hotel near Capitol Hill. It was called the Quorum Club, and it was established by a senate aide named Bobby Baker.

• Only lobbyists and politicians could frequent the Quorum Club. Baker created it as a getaway for drinking and dining that was near politicians’ offices.

• For many years, Bobby Baker was well-known as the right hand man to Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson. By 1961, LBJ was Vice President of the United States.

• Ellen Rometsch got a job at the club as a hostess. People commented on her likeness to movie star Elizabeth Taylor. With her attractive appearance and modeling background, Ellen fit right in.

• Years later, Baker admitted that he ran a secret call girl operation out of the Quorum Club, and Ellen was one of his girls.

• Among the men she has sex with - supposedly - was John F. Kennedy. While he was President.

• In later testimony, Baker claimed that JFK told him, in not so many words, that Ellen had a special talent for fellatio.

• J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI had been keeping tabs on Ellen Rometsch because of her East German background. Agents then learned about her sexual liaisons at the Quorum Club with various politicians. That set off fears that she was a spy and a potential blackmailer.

• Hoover warned Attorney General Robert Kennedy about the woman, and he took quick action to have her quietly deported.

• September 1963: Back in Germany, Rolf filed for divorce and cited his wife’s repeated adultery. Ellen didn’t deny the sexual encounters but she insisted she was no prostitute. All of the sex she had was consensual and not for money.

• If her liaisons with powerful men had been revealed, Washington would have erupted. But that didn’t happen, especially after JFK’s assassination took all the headlines.

• Despite extensive FBI probes, Ellen Rometsch was never revealed to be a spy. She returned to her family’s farm and then vanished into history, never to be seen or heard from again.