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FBI tracked JFK sex life as early as '42, data show

By From Wire Services, 05/14/98

ASHINGTON - The FBI kept tabs on former President John F. Kennedy's sex life as far back as World War II, when the young naval officer had an affair with a suspected Nazi agent, according to documents made public yesterday.

Kennedy's wartime fling with Inga Fejos, which was captured on FBI surveillance tapes in 1942, was the first in a series of rumored dalliances that caught the attention of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The records regarding Kennedy's personal life were among 17,000 pages released yesterday by the National Archives.

The documents on Kennedy's relationship with Fejos, stamped ''Personal and Confidential,'' were transferred to Hoover's office in 1960, about the time Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination. Investigators found no evidence that either Kennedy or Fejos passed state secrets to Germany.

An FBI summary of the case says the agency began investigating Fejos in 1940, after one of her fellow students at Columbia University identified her as a possible Nazi agent. In 1942, another informant reported that the married Fejos had been spending time with a naval officer named ''Jack.''

''Physical surveillance conducted by the FBI verified Mrs. Fejos visited John Kennedy at Charleston, South Carolina, two weekends in February, 1942,'' the summary states. ''Technical surveillance coverage disclosed that they engaged in sexual intercourse on a number of occasions in the hotel room during this period.''

On another matter, the files show that the FBI kept systematic track of private bank transactions between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War, enabling officials to stumble upon an attempt by Lee Harvey Oswald's mother to send him $25 after he defected.

Oswald, the suspected Kennedy assassin, was himself killed in a Dallas jail after the president was shot on Nov. 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade through downtown Dallas.

Marguerite Oswald's attempt to send money to her son had been revealed, but the FBI kept concealed how it knew about it. The bureau apparently was eager to suppress the existence of a sensitive and possibly illegal program that monitored private banking transactions between individuals in the two countries.

This story ran on page A15 of the Boston Globe on 05/14/98.
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