Inga Arvad
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Inga Arvad (1913-1973) was born in Denmark and is noted for her romantic relationship with John F. Kennedy in 1942, nineteen years before he was sworn in as President of the United States and her relationship with Adolf Hitler. She was suspected of being a spy for Nazi Germany. It was rumored that she had had affairs with Hermann Göring and Hitler, the latter of which she described as "very kind, very charming". She was Hitler's companion at the 1936 Summer Olympics and might be the only woman to enjoy romances with both John F. Kennedy and Adolf Hitler.
Romance with John F. Kennedy
As an enemy of the Kennedy family, J. Edgar Hoover, then acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sought blackmail material to exert political influence on the Kennedys. While John F. Kennedy served as an ensign in the US Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence, he and Arvad began a romantic relationship. Hoover had his men photograph the couple and record their bedroom activities with hidden microphones.Kennedy nicknamed Arvad "Inga-Binga" and she nicknamed him "Honeysuckle".
Hoover hoped that Arvad, already suspected of being a Nazi spy for her activities with high-ranking Nazis in the 1930s, would incriminate Kennedy enough so that he could have Kennedy discharged from the Navy and lay ruin to the Kennedy political dynasty. However, Kennedy was suddenly reassigned to a desk job in South Carolina in January, 1942 and the relationship ended.
She went on to marry American actor Tim McCoy in 1945.
It is believed that Hoover's recordings of Kennedy and Arvad gave him extra leverage during the Kennedy administration.
Sources
- http://historyplace.com/kennedy/warhero.htm
- http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l/0562.html
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