View source for Craig J. Spence

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== Biography ==
=== Family and early life ===

=== Vietnam correspondent ===

=== Consulting in Japan ===

=== DC blackmail operation ===
''Main articles'': [[Washington DC call boy ring]], [[Franklin child sex ring]]

=== New York arrest ===

=== Final months and death ===

== Occupations ==

== Political connections ==
* [[William Casey]]
* [[Roy Cohn]]
* [[Lawrence E. King]]
* [[Donald Gregg]]
* [[Dick Thornburgh]]


* [[Michael Aquino]]? (possible "boss" of both Spence and King)

== References ==

== External links ==
* Earlier life coverage
** [http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?p=469326 Rigorous Intuition data dump on Spence]
** [http://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/18/us/have-names-will-open-right-doors.html ''New York Times'', "HAVE NAMES, WILL OPEN RIGHT DOORS", 1982/01/18]
* [http://www.pbase.com/image/152981529 Spence's home in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington DC]
* Call boy ring exposure
** [http://www.futile.work/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012114/power-broker-served-drugs.pdf ''Washington Times'', "POWER BROKER SERVED DRUGS, SEX AT PARTIES BUGGED FOR BLACKMAIL", 1989/06/30]
** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/07/18/the-shadow-world-of-craig-spence/2837e91e-49ce-4121-9416-8e0c7a2debf6/ ''Washington Post'', "THE SHADOW WORLD OF CRAIG SPENCE", 1989/07/18]
*** "Economics consultant Rinfret said Spence tried to create an image of mystery and intrigue to attract international clients. "He did cultivate that image. It was a commercial objective: Saying, 'I'm in,' " Rinfret said. "I really thought he was CIA. He always tended to be a bit mysterious. ... He ran his own intelligence network in the U.S. and Japan. ... He made himself fascinating.""
*** "Some believe that Spence may have been up to something with the electronic equipment that friends observed in the house."
*** "After working as a press secretary for Massachusetts state Speaker John F.X. Davoren for a couple years, Spence worked at WCBS in New York, and then signed on as a Vietnam correspondent for ABC in 1969-70. "He was a mystery man," remembers colleague Jim Kincaid, now an anchor of WVEC-TV in Norfolk. "Craig always looked like he had learned something that no one else knew." Trotta recalls that Spence pulled disappearing acts in Vietnam -- sometimes for weeks at a time -- leading people to think he was killed. Then he'd turn up, refusing to say where he'd been."
* New York arrest
** [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwnI6PcRU44rUnFoWGpheFd4Slk NYPD incident report of his arrest on 1989/07/31] (redacts information, doesn't mention the NYPD officer who Nick Bryant interviewed)
** [http://www.futile.work/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012114/spence-reduced-to-begging.pdf ''Washington Times'', "Spence arrested in N.Y., released; Once-host to powerful reduced to begging, sleeping in park", 1989/08/09]
** [http://www.futile.work/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012114/spence-arrested-in-ny.pdf ''Washington Times'', "SPENCE ARRESTED IN N.Y., RELEASED BIZARRE INTERVIEW IS NO NIGHT ON THE TOWN", 1989/08/09]
** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1989/08/09/spence-faces-drug-weapon-charges-after-being-found-in-new-york-hotel/0f170231-a80e-4689-a21b-2afd52138f78 ''Washington Post'', "SPENCE FACES DRUG, WEAPON CHARGES AFTER BEING FOUND IN NEW YORK HOTEL", 1989/08/09]
** [http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/10/us/lobbyist-is-arrested-in-new-york.html ''New York Times'', "Lobbyist Is Arrested in New York", 1989/08/10]
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1989/11/13/dc-sex-scandal-figure-taped-farewell-to-friends/1c2fcd73-876f-4394-84c1-50948d41589d/ ''Washington Post'', "D.C. SEX SCANDAL FIGURE TAPED FAREWELL TO FRIENDS", 1989/11/13]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/magazine/albrecht-muth-and-viola-drath-georgetowns-worst-marriage.html&pagewanted=all ''New York Times'', "The Worst Marriage in Georgetown", 2012/07/06] - admits that Spence was covertly recording what went on at his house; mentions Nebraska Senator [[Chuck Hagel]] at one point

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