BAKER PROBERS ASK FBI DATA ON GERMAN BEAUTY'S ACTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100250014-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: November 29, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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By JOHN DARRON
Star Staff Writer
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The Senate Rules Commit e
;,nvestigating Bobby Baker 1 is
asked the FBI to tell it all ab t
the exploits of the Germ in
beauty, Ellen Rometsch.
A 27-year-old brunette w o
`once had Influential frier s,.
` Mrs. Rometsch suddenly w is
rushed out of the country 1 t
'year, reportedly because f
r: "personal misbehavior."
T By requesting a full FBI
ort about her, the Rub s
Committee has indicated-that t
now may explore the question f
whether party girls were us( I
to influence legislation or prip.
mote. questionable deals.
Heretofore in the Baker i -
vestigation, the senators ha
created the impression that the
regarded this subject as irrel -
*ant or forbidden.
But, as on several occasion ,
the committee last week w
-pulled into a. new area of it.
query by Sen. John J. William
R-Del.
.
c
en
on clues-
and forwarded to the connnitte ti ed Williams about' the, FBI
s copy of an FBI interview wi re ort of the" interview, the
mother German girl,who for, Se ator intimated that he 'al-
;.while lived with Mrs. Romets re dy had and expected to `re-
ixs Washington. ce e still more'evidence.about
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en
mmitte
were sent home, she vanished.
Correspondents have been un-
able to locate her in Europe.
In preparations for resume;
tion of . hearings, committee,
staff members on. Friday' prl4
vately questioned Williams and
Reynolds for nearly three hours.i
The committee hopes It can
end the latest series of hearings
by Saturday.
Republicans hope that enough,
new evidence will be developed
to force dontinuance 'of the
hearings !ud f
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S. ELLEN ROMETSCH . , spill out into the public recor .
-AP Photo Shortly after Mrs. Rometsch
and her husband, who then was
a German Air Force sergeant,
Lennox P
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M
d
committee did not investigate:
their role in the Baker case, he
would.
McLendon then asked the FBI'
to inform the committee what It
learned during the extensive
Investigation of Mrs., Rometsch
it made last year.
Customarily, the FBI refusesz
to show its files to anyone out-
side the Justice Department.
However, the Justice Depart-;
ment has copies of FBI reports
and, if it chose, it could provide
them or a summary of them to
Don B. Reynolds, another,
important witness who will testi-
fy, is believed to know much
about the activities of Mrs.:
Rometsch and other women who'
thus far have been kept in the.
shadows of the Baker case.
When he Is interrogated in open'
cession Tuesda
it Is ,, ssibl
y