Special Guest Blogger: Inga Arvad

Journalism is not an easy career choice and sometimes you have to talk to people who are not completely nice and trustworthy which is why it was two very powerful men who pretty much put an end to mine.    
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, i was sent to England for my education but it was when i won a Miss Denmark beauty contest that i became known but my passion was for journalism and i joined Denmark's most prestigious newspaper, Berligske Tidene, and quite soon after starting i was to hold an interview which would impact the rest of my life.
In 1935, to prove my potential, I asked for, and was granted an interview with a little known Austrian who had just been appointed Führer in Germany who was yet to come into the global consciousnesses and actually back then many found him a fascinating character and he was very amiable and charming and as i had little understanding of International Politics, our interview was not that hard hitting.
I was only one of a few selected Scandinavian journalists chosen to meet with him and i was invited to join him at the 1936 Berlin Olympics which i did but by then International tensions were rising on the approach to WWII, and other nations were starting to pay closer attention to the Führer and his pals.
I realised just how much of a situation i was in when the Getsapo tried to recruit me as a spy so i moved to America to escape being spied on and got a job at the Washington Times-Herald as a columnist and that was when i got noticed by the second life changing powerful man.
A Picture of me standing beside Hitler at the Olympics surfaced and  J Edgar Hoover was certain I was a spy for Germany and the FBI began taking an interest in my day to day activities and bugged my apartment and intercepted my mail.
What the bugging my apartment discovered was that  John F Kennedy was a regular visitor to it.
We had met when my roommate introduced us but we had tried to keep our relationship a secret, he was then an Ensign in the Navy but he had ambitions to be a politician as he came from a political family and being with a suspected German spy was not a good career move for him.
Although they had no evidence i was a spy, to protect John they moved him to Charleston but the phone calls and visits continued so the FBI told his father who forbid him from seeing me.
I thought becoming an American citizen would help me allay any fears about me so I became an American naturalized citizen but the FBI continued to distrust and keep tabs on me, even when i met and was engaged to a British politician, Robert Boothby, but pressure was put on him about my links to Hitler and JFK and the engagement was called off.
It was now the middle of WWII and I gave an interview to set the record straight and I explained that I had no positive view of the Führer who i had only met twice and categorically denounce his policies but the media refused to let it go.
I then met and married all American hero actor Tim McCoy and finally it was accepted that i was no spy but by then I had retreated from the public eye and stayed out of it until i died of colon cancer in 1960.