Craig Spence

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Craig Spence  link Cavdef (Lobbyist, Journalist, Blackmailer?, Franklin child prostitution ring/Premature death, Deep state actor)
File:Craig J. Spence.jpg
Born	1941
Died	November 10, 1989
Victim of	Premature death
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Syracuse University
Interests	White House
A lobbyist who ran a call-boy ring for purposes of sexual blackmail, also implicated in the Franklin child prostitution ring. Died suddenly.

Craig J. Spence was a US deep state actor implicated in the US VIPaedophile affair. He was connected to the Franklin child prostitution ring and also reportedly ran a Washington DC based call-boy service. His sudden death prevented him from testifying. {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Craig Spence |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Nick Bryant|+sep=, |Has text=“In November 1989, Craig Spence’s body was found in a room at Boston’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Next to it, on the bed, was a newspaper clipping about then-CIA Director William Webster attempting to protect CIA agents summoned to testify before government bodies. The Washington Post reported that Spence had been subpoenaed by the grand jury investigating Vinson. His death was ruled a suicide.” |Is about=Craig Spence,Craig Spence|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=2008-01-01 |Sourced from=Document:The Franklin Scandal |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=Document:The Franklin Scandal |Has sourceURL=http://www.franklincase.org/

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“In November 1989, Craig Spence’s body was found in a room at Boston’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Next to it, on the bed, was a newspaper clipping about then-CIA Director William Webster attempting to protect CIA agents summoned to testify before government bodies. The Washington Post reported that Spence had been subpoenaed by the grand jury investigating Vinson. His death was ruled a suicide.”
Nick Bryant (2008-01-01) 

Career

In 2012, Charles Young described Spence as "surely one of the oddest figures in the history of American politics. Once a correspondent for ABC in Vietnam, Spence subsequently made a living blackmailing rightwing politicians in Japan. In Washington, he had a large house that he used for parties. The house was bugged from floor to ceiling, and he often seemed to be in possession of information he could have learned only from the bugs. He bragged about his CIA connections."

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The New York Times reported that "Mr. Spence arranged at least four midnight tours of the White House, including one on June 29, 1988, on which he took with him a 15-year-old boy whom he falsely identified as his son."

Sudden death

On November 10, 1989 Spence was found dead in Room 429 of the Boston Ritz Carlton (the city's most expensive hotel) dressed in a tuxedo with three dollars in his pocket. According to the police report, when found by hotel employees he was attired in the style he affected at his lavish dinner parties: "black Tux with white shirt, bow tie, white suspenders, black socks and shoes", with a telephone cradled in his ear and a Walkman headset containing a cassette tape of Mozart's "A Little Night Music".

Found hidden in a false ceiling in the bathroom were seven small packets of Xanax, an anti-anxiety prescription drug, with one pill removed. In black felt-tip marker he had written on a mirror of his room:

Chief, consider this my resignation, effective immediately. As you always said, you can't ask others to make a sacrifice if you are not ready to do the same. Life is duty. God bless America.

As a postscript, he wrote, "To the Ritz, please forgive this inconvenience."

During a lengthy interview at a Manhattan apartment a few months before his death, Spence alluded to more intricate involvements. "All this stuff you've uncovered (involving call boys, bribery and the White House tours), to be honest with you, is insignificant compared to other things I've done. But I'm not going to tell you those things, and somehow the world will carry on."

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