Ellen Rometsch was born on Bertha Hildegard Elly, September 19,1936 in Kleinitz, Germany and is a German former model who was alleged to be an East German Communist spy who was assigned on diplomatic cover to the West German embassy in Washington, DC during the early 1960s.
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However, the FBI never turned up "any solid evidence" that Rometsch was a spy or that she had relations with President Kennedy.
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Ellen Rometsch was a member of the Free German Youth and worked as a stenographer for the Socialist Unity Party district administration.
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In Siegburg she met German air force sergeant Rolf Ellen Rometsch, who was stationed at the West German embassy; she married him, took his family name Ellen Rometsch and had a son in 1958.
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Ellen Rometsch first appeared in Washington as a photo model under the pseudonym Ellen Rometsch.
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Ellen Rometsch met Nancy Carole Tyler, the secretary of senate staffer Bobby Baker.
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Ellen Rometsch had worked in the Quorum Club for about two years before allegedly starting her affair with Kennedy.
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Ellen Rometsch had apparently disclosed details of her illicit relations with highly placed government officials that she had met at the club, to a former FBI informant of questionable reliability.
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However, due to the sensation that the Profumo affair in the United Kingdom had created in the press and because the US State Department could not remove Ellen Rometsch without disclosing a specific reason to the West German authorities, it was decided that the information developed by the FBI would be transmitted via liaison to the State Department and then be made available discreetly to West German authorities.
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Ellen Rometsch was informed by his superiors of the allegations being made against his wife and that he was therefore being recalled back to West Germany in one week.
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Ellen Rometsch was expelled from the US on August 21,1963 "because of her behavior in Washington", behavior which according to media reports threatened to have scandalous overtones reminiscent of the Profumo affair.
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Ellen Rometsch was an alleged call girl, which she denied, and was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine if she had been working as an East German spy.
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Ellen Rometsch worked as a milkmaid on the farm, helped out with the beet harvest and raised her son.
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