* After the fall of the Berlin Wall, an author conducting research for a book about the Stasi, the East German secret police, learned from former West and East German intelligence operatives that there were “strong indications” that Rometsch had been an agent for the Stasi’s foreign espionage bureau, only marrying her husband after he was posted to Washington. She had been turned over to the KGB by the Stasi because the Soviets had jurisdiction over espionage activities in North America. When asked about her, a former KGB intelligence officer who had served at the Washington embassy said enigmatically, “Yes, I know of such a woman.” (Rometsch lives in Germany and routinely refuses to be interviewed.)