Difference between revisions of "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

Personal friends

• Roy Cohn
• William Casey

Intelligence operatives

• William Casey
• Lawrence E. King
• Michael Aquino? - most likely the "boss" of both Spence and King

Bush Administration

• Donald Gregg
• Dick Thornburgh

References

External links

• Rigorous Intuition data dump on Spence
• New York Times, "HAVE NAMES, WILL OPEN RIGHT DOORS", 1982/01/18
• Spence's home in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington DC
• Work for Motoo Shiina of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan
  • Alleged FBI report on the origins of the Five Star Trust - on p.4 mentions George Bush planning to elevate the "obscure" Liberal Democratic Party in order to "put CIA controlled people in power"
• Call boy ring exposure
  • Washington Times, "POWER BROKER SERVED DRUGS, SEX AT PARTIES BUGGED FOR BLACKMAIL", 1989/06/30
  • Washington Times, "Spence was Target Before Raid on Ring", 1989/07/10
  • 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."
  • Philadelphia Inquirer, "Party's over" by Frank Greve and Nelson Schwartz, 1989/07/29 (pages 1c, 5c)
  • Washington Times, "Spence Elusive, Said to Be Everywhere But Isn't", 1989/08/03
• New York City arrest
  • NYPD incident report of his arrest on 1989/07/31 (redacts information, doesn't mention the NYPD officer who Nick Bryant interviewed)
  • Washington Times, "Spence arrested in N.Y., released; Once-host to powerful reduced to begging, sleeping in park", 1989/08/09
  • Washington Times, "SPENCE ARRESTED IN N.Y., RELEASED BIZARRE INTERVIEW IS NO NIGHT ON THE TOWN", 1989/08/09
  • Washington Post, "SPENCE FACES DRUG, WEAPON CHARGES AFTER BEING FOUND IN NEW YORK HOTEL", 1989/08/09
  • New York Times, "Lobbyist Is Arrested in New York", 1989/08/10
• Alleged suicide
  • Washington Post, "D.C. SEX SCANDAL FIGURE TAPED FAREWELL TO FRIENDS", 1989/11/13
  • Washington Times, "In Death, Spence Stayed True to Form", 1989/11/13
  • Washington Times, "Spence As Much an Enigma in Death As He Was in Life", 1989/11/13
• 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