Ellen Rometsch

Ellen Rometsch (born Bertha Hildegard Elly, September 19, 1936 in Kleinitz, Germany) 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. During World War II her family fled to Kreinitz near Riesa, where her parents ran a farm. After the war, when collectivisation was imposed in the GDR she had fled East Germany with her parents in 1955. They moved to Schwelm where her parents leased the farm Gut Oberberge. She married German air force sergeant Rolf Rometsch, who was stationed at the West German embassy. Rometsch is 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" that Rometsch was a spy or that she had relations with President Kennedy.