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WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Navy admiral engaged in sexual relations in the White House in 1990 with a federal employee whom he falsely told he was a widower, according to a report released Friday by the Defense Department.

In March, when the report was submitted to Pentagon officials, Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem was demoted and fired from his post as director of the Navy staff.

Stufflebeem told investigators he couldn’t remember the name of the woman he had an affair with. He also lied when he told investigators he did not engage in sexual relations with the woman, identified as “Jane Doe,” the Defense Department’s inspector general’s report said.

Jane Doe, who was then unmarried and working for a federal agency, told the investigators the allegations were true, the report said. Her supervisor and Stufflebeem’s superiors supported her testimony.

Stufflebeem was convicted April 18 of making false official statements to investigators. After the hearing, called an admiral’s mast, he requested retirement.

Jane Doe told investigators that she and Stufflebeem began their affair on an overseas trip in 1989, that the married admiral told her he was a widower who was raising his children as a single parent and that they had sexual relations several times, including once in a White House room reserved for “military aides with overnight duties.”

She also told investigators that Stufflebeem came to her home on the day in August 1990 when she learned he was married and that she called him “scum,” shut the door in his face and never spoke to him again.

At issue was Stufflebeem’s removal from his post as a presidential aide in 1990. Stufflebeem testified that he initiated the request to leave his White House post because of “close family personal problems.” But his superiors testified that he was removed from the post because of his relationship with the woman — and that he admitted the affair.

Doe also said Stufflebeem told her that his wife had died of breast cancer, that a woman who answered the phone when she called his home was the children’s nanny and that he continued to wear his wedding ring “for his daughters who missed their late mother.”

Stufflebeem became well known in the initial months of the war in Afghanistan, when he often conducted on-camera television briefings as a Pentagon spokesman. He was then deputy director for global operations on the Joint Staff. More…

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