Baker’s Men: Pat-a-Cake Politics and Capitol Sex Crimes Ran Hot Inside U.S. Senate Sex Club
Firsthand Witness AVAILABLE For Interviews. Long before modern Washington scandals involving kompromat, sexual leverage, and influence operations dominated headlines, there existed an elite private club on Capitol Hill at the Carroll Arms Hotel, where U.S. senators and lobbyists let their guards (and pants) down, behind closed doors. Insulated from public scrutiny just steps from the U.S. Capitol, at a place called “The Quorum Club,” run by LBJ’s right-hand man, Bobby Baker, Senators almost willingly compromised themselves. As Vice President, LBJ was PRESIDENT of the U.S. Senate. Consequently, he had blackmail on many Senators he presided over.
Former CIA contract pilot Robert “Tosh” Plumlee had a front row seat to key parts of that world firsthand—literally. He piloted those Senators to various locations so they could rendezvous with females, many of them underage. They would often bring them back as future service providers for Quorum Club members. Plumlee’s biggest challenge was rounding them up to get them back to Washington was always the biggest challenge. It was like herding cats who also brought much younger felines home with them.
When Baker resigned on October 7, 1963, it was supposed to make the engulfing scandal disappear. Instead, that resignation became an accelerant.
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- Plumlee was a CIA contract pilot who flew senators across Caribbean before and during Kennedy years.
- Bobby Baker wielded sexual blackmail to influence Senate votes.
- Quorum Club operated for Senate inside Capitol Hill’s Carroll Arms Hotel.
- Baker resigned weeks before JFK assassination amid widening corruption scandal.
- Plumlee was in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.
Plumlee, a seasoned covert intelligence operations during the Cold War era, says one of his assignments involved flying U.S. senators and politically connected figures throughout the Caribbean, including trips to Havana, during the height of the Kennedy years. According to Plumlee, many of those trips involved heavy drinking, sexual activity, and the transportation of very young women back to Washington, where they allegedly became connected to the infamous Quorum Club, a private Capitol Hill establishment founded by Lyndon Johnson confidant Bobby Baker.
Located inside the old Carroll Arms Hotel near the Senate Office Building, the Quorum Club became notorious in Washington lore as a discreet gathering place for senators, lobbyists, staffers, and powerful insiders seeking privacy away from reporters and public scrutiny. Historical accounts describe the club as a place where lawmakers entertained girlfriends and engaged in secretive social activity. (en.wikipedia.org)
Baker — widely known as LBJ’s political fixer and right-hand man during Johnson’s tenure as Senate Majority Leader and vice president — resigned on October 7, 1963 amid a spiraling corruption and influence-peddling scandal that threatened to politically engulf Johnson himself. Contemporary reporting and later historical accounts noted that investigators were probing Baker’s finances, political dealings, and allegations involving sexual favors and access. (en.wikipedia.org)
Then came November 22, 1963.
Plumlee says he was in Dealey Plaza that day as part of what he has described in past interviews as a CIA “abort team,” sent to stop an assassination plot that intelligence operatives allegedly knew was developing. His claims remain controversial and unproven, but they place him in a unique position to discuss the convergence of intelligence operations, political scandal, and blackmail culture surrounding Washington during the Kennedy era.
Most explosively, Plumlee argues the Quorum Club functioned less like a social club and more like a political leverage operation — a model eerily similar to later blackmail-and-compromise scandals involving powerful elites decades afterward. According to Plumlee, compromising information gathered through sex, alcohol, and clandestine relationships gave Bobby Baker enormous influence over senators whose votes were critical to Lyndon Johnson’s legislative ambitions. As Senate Majority Leader and later vice president, LBJ understood power in the Senate better than anyone.
Today, the Quorum Club still exists in another form: the private “116 Club,” the successor establishment that emerged after the Carroll Arms Hotel disappeared from Capitol Hill history. (en.wikipedia.org)
Robert “Tosh” Plumlee is available for interviews on the Bobby Baker scandal, the Quorum Club, covert CIA operations, Dealey Plaza, and what he alleges was a hidden blackmail culture operating at the highest levels of the U.S. Senate in 1963.
Relevant Article(s):
The Hill is Home | Lost Capitol Hill: Shady Doings at the Quorum Club | The Hill is Home
Sex in the Senate – POLITICO Magazine
OPTIONAL Q&A:
- What exactly was the Quorum Club, and why did senators flock there?
- How close was Bobby Baker to Lyndon Johnson during the Kennedy years?
- Did the Quorum Club operate as a political blackmail operation for the Senate on Capitol Hill?
- Why does Tosh Plumlee compare the Quorum Club model to later elite sex scandals?
- What did Plumlee witness while flying senators throughout the Caribbean and Havana?
- How were young women allegedly brought into Washington’s political power structure inside the Senate?
- Why did Bobby Baker resign weeks before JFK’s assassination — and who feared exposure?
- What does Plumlee’s presence in Dealey Plaza suggest about CIA foreknowledge on November 22, 1963?
ABOUT ROBERT “TOSH” PLUMLEE…
Robert “Tosh” Plumlee is a former contract pilot who claims to have participated in covert aviation operations connected to U.S. intelligence agencies beginning in the early 1950s.
According to his account, he flew missions throughout the Caribbean and Latin America involving weapons transfers, intelligence logistics, and clandestine operations targeting Cuba.
Plumlee has provided statements to investigators examining intelligence activities and the Kennedy assassination over several decades.
ABOUT DORY WILEY…
Dory A. Wiley has studied the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for more than 40 years and is one of Dallas’s foremost independent researchers on the subject. He has done extensive work on the claims made by Robert “Tosh” Plumlee and finds them to be largely unassailable. For the past decade he has hosted an annual JFK Assassination Symposium in Dallas, bringing together researchers, historians, and eyewitnesses to examine the evidence and pursue the historical record. He serves on the Board of the Dallas Historical Society, and the University of North Texas Library. Mr. Wiley is President & CEO of Commerce Street Holdings, LLC, and appears frequently on CNBC and Fox Business as a guest contributor on financial topics.
ABOUT RALPH PEZZULLO…
Pezzullo is a New York Times bestselling author, and award-winning playwright and screenwriter. He is also the host of the popular podcast “Heroes Behind Headlines,” which is ranked in the top 1% off all podcasts worldwide.
Born in New York City, he grew up in Mexico, Vietnam, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay and Nicaragua as the son of a US diplomat. His over 30 books published include New York Times bestsellers Jawbreaker (with former CIA operative Gary Berntsen), Inside SEAL Team Six (with Don Mann), Most Evil, Zero Footprint, Left of Boom and Ghost. His latest books, both released in 2025, are The Great Chinese Art Heist and Stolen Elections: Takedown of Democracies Worldwide.
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