Ellen Rometsch

Who is Ellen Rometsch?

Ellen Rometsch was rumored to be an East German Communist spy who was assigned on diplomatic cover to the West German embassy in Washington, D.C. during the early 1960s. She had fled East Germany with her parents in 1955. She married German air force sergeant Rolf Rometsch who was stationed at the West German embassy. She is also widely thought in some Washington journalism circles to have been one of President John F. Kennedy's girlfriends during the height of the Cold War. However, the FBI never turned up "any solid evidence" Rometsch was a spy or that she had relations with President Kennedy.

She was expelled from the U.S. in August 1963 "because of her behavior in Washington" which threatened to have scandalous overtones reminiscent of the Profumo Affair in England. Rometsch had worked as a hostess at the Quorum Club located in the Carroll Arms Hotel adjacent a Senate office building. It was a place for lawmakers and other influential men to meet for food, drink, and ladies. She disclosed details of the hostess service which provided members of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives with access to prostitutes. A news report by Clark R.