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== Political connections == | == Political connections == | ||
| + | === Personal friends === | ||
| + | * [[Roy Cohn]] | ||
| + | * [[William Casey]] | ||
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| + | === Intelligence operatives === | ||
* [[William Casey]] | * [[William Casey]] | ||
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* [[Lawrence E. King]] | * [[Lawrence E. King]] | ||
| + | * [[Michael Aquino]]? - most likely the "boss" of both Spence and King | ||
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| + | === Bush Administration === | ||
* [[Donald Gregg]] | * [[Donald Gregg]] | ||
* [[Dick Thornburgh]] | * [[Dick Thornburgh]] | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
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*** "Some believe that Spence may have been up to something with the electronic equipment that friends observed in the house." | *** "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." | *** "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 [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34111751/the_philadelphia_inquirer/ 1c], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34111770/the_philadelphia_inquirer/ 5c]) | ||
** ''Washington Times'', "Spence Elusive, Said to Be Everywhere But Isn't", 1989/08/03 | ** ''Washington Times'', "Spence Elusive, Said to Be Everywhere But Isn't", 1989/08/03 | ||
* New York City arrest | * New York City arrest | ||
Latest revision as of 05:37, 22 July 2019
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
Intelligence operatives
- William Casey
- Lawrence E. King
- Michael Aquino? - most likely the "boss" of both Spence and King
Bush Administration
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
