1982 NYT profile of super connected Craig Spence: “Have Names, Will Open Right Doors:” [...] Spence was age 41 at the time. Spence’s connections are described as a “Who’s Who” of Congress, government and journalism. In 1980 the WashPost gave Spence a glowing profile, too.
NYT 1-18-82: “A Washington Post columnist wrote of Mr. Spence two years ago: ''Not since Ethel Kennedy used to give her famous Hickory Hill seminars for great minds of our times during the days of Camelot has anyone staged seminars successfully on a continuing social basis in Washington. That's what Craig Spence has been doing.''
Indeed, his parties do glitter with notables, from ambassadors to television stars, from Senators to senior State Department officials. According to Mr. Spence, Richard Nixon is a friend. So is John Mitchell. Eric Sevareid is termed ''an old, dear friend.'' Senator John Glenn is ''a good friend'' and Peter Ustinov is ''an old, old friend.''
It is not a one-way street. Knowing Mr. Spence can be good business for Government officials, members of Congress and their staffs, and even some journalists who cash in on it by accepting speaking and writing fees. “
Page 93 - 101) Craig Spence’s head goon is Tony. Henry Vinson is terrified of Tony and what he is capable of.
Page 99) Craig Spence and Lawrence E. King make very aggressive demands that Henry Vinson start providing them with underage boys to be sexually abused by their pedophile ring. “Spence and King finally demanded that I pluck destitute children off the streets of D.C. and deliver the children to them.” Vinson refuses and this causes a major falling out with Craig Spence.
Page 104) Vinson fears he is about to be murdered by Spence’s head goon Tony.
Page 105) Donald Gregg, CIA agent for 31 years, heavily involved in Iran-Contra, very close aide to George Herbert Walker Bush, later ambassador to South Korea (1989-1993) - GAO discovers Donald Gregg was using his government credit card on “funeral accessories” which was the cover for billing for services of gay prostitutes under Vinson. Gregg was a very heavy user of gay prostitutes from Vinson. Donald Gregg, born 1927, still alive today:[...]
Page 106) In 1989 a Bush cabinet member (in his late 50’s, with balding black hair, round framed glasses. He wore a pinstripe suit, white shirt and red tie) - attempted to get Henry Vinson to cover up for Donald Gregg. This sounds a lot like then Attorney General Richard Thornburgh: [...]
Richard Thornburgh was born in 1932 and in 1989 he would have been exactly 57 years old - late 50’s in age. Vinson describes this Bush cabinet member (who seems to me to be Atty. General Richard Thornburgh) with Craig Spence as putting extreme pressure on Vinson to cover for Donald Gregg. This cabinet official ominously said “I can withstand a background investigation… can you?” Vinson describes this cabinet member as a “big gun” in the Bush Administration.
Page 107) “Spence had dropped the name [Bush Atty. General Richard Thornburgh 1988-1991, in my estimation] of the cabinet member months earlier, when he revealed that he routinely provided him with adolescent boys. At the time Spence dropped his name and his perverse predications, I thought his disclosure incomprehensible, and I was fairly skeptical of if. But on the other hand, the vast majority of Spence’s illicit activities seemed incomprehensible to me until I actually witnessed them.”
Page 112) Charles Dutcher, former associate director of personnel under Ronald Reagan, a major customer of Henry Vinson’s gay escorts - [...]
Page 116) June 29, 1989 Washington Times article “Homosexual Prostitution Inquiry Ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush” followed by June 30th “Power Broker Served Drugs, Sex At Parties Bugged for Blackmail.”
Page 118) People who used to go to Craig Spence’s parties: Eric Sevareid, Ted Koppel, William Safire, Sen. John Glenn, Sen. Frank Murkowski, former ambassadors Robert Neumann, Elliot Richardson, James Lilly. Also, CIA director William Casey and John Mitchell, former Atty. General under Nixon. Being at Craig Spence’s parties is not exactly a badge of honor, it puts you on the “sexual weirdo” suspect list pronto.
Page 119) CIA director William Casey was a client of Henry Vinson. Casey started calling in 1986 and he requested underage boys but Vinson only provided late teens for him. Escorts would be sent to Ritz-Carleton Hotel. Unable to get an erection. “… he had the escorts rub oil over his body as he kissed and fondled them” (p. 119). Casey died on May 6, 1987. Very good article on William Casey here at Deep Politics Forum: [...]y
Page 122) Washington Post writes articles to undermine Washington Times reporting on Craig Spence and the call boy ring. A “Skeptical Guest” source is used to debunk the Washington Times claims of sexual blackmail. This “Skeptical Guest” used to go to Craig Spence’s parties. Wonder if he stayed around for the sex orgies? ….
Page 125) Los Angeles Times, New York Times join Washington Post in trying to debunk Washington Times reporting on Spence scandal. This reminds me a lot of what happened to the reporting of San Jose Mercury News Gary Webb and his reporting on the CIA Nicaraguan contras drug connection to black LA street gangs.
Page 129) Craig Spence dies on 11-10-89.[...]_J._Spence Henry Vinson thinks it was a suicide and not a murder. Dies in Boston’s Ritz-Carleton. Addicted to cocaine, dying of AIDS, he kills himself.
Page 131) Vinson: “I also have a tendency to think that William Casey’s involvement with both Spence and gay escorts is perhaps additional corroboration that Spence’s blackmail activities were affiliated with the CIA.”
Pages 131-135) The Washington Post’s deep ties to CIA and US intelligence community. Including both Phil Graham and Ben Bradlee. Superstar reporter Bob Woodward has a naval intelligence background as well.
Page 138) Jay Stephens, then US Attorney for Wash DC and Alan Strasser, Asst US Attorney for Wash DC, two of the governmental officials prosecuting Henry Vinson. They threw the book at him.
Pages 140-156) Greta Van Susteran was Henry Vinson’s not so capable lawyer.
Page 142) Paul Ware - one of the Secret Service guys - 5’10”, then in his late thirties - who was quite hostile to Henry Vinson.
Page 149) Secret Service agent Paul - no interest in Spence/King pedophile ring. No interest in the thug tactics of Craig Spence’s head goon Tony. No interest in the cabinet member of the Bush Administration who tried to get Vinson to cover for Donald Gregg’s use of a govt credit card for gay prostitutes (this official in my opinion was Atty General Richard Thornburgh).
Page 150-151) Jeff Gannon covered. Vinson knew him as gay escort back in the late 1980’s who told him he would sometimes spend nights in the White House. This was 15 years before Jeff Gannon was outed as a fake reporter in the Bush #43 Administration. There is a famous picture of George W. Bush kissing the head of Jeff Gannon, rubbing his head and looking at him in a very suggestive way. In 2005 Gannon was outed by the White House press corps as a fake reporter. Gannon went to Bush White House over 200 times within a 2 year period. He attended 155 of 196 White House press briefings during that time. On 14 separate occasions he checked in with Secret Service but did not check out during the day (presumably gay sex at night). One of those days had no press conference. From 2003-2005 Jeff Gannon was running around the George W. Bush White House like a stray cat.
In my opinion George W. Bush and Jeff Gannon were (are?) homosexual lovers. Gannon in the 1980’s had told Henry Vinson that he was sexually servicing officials in the upper levels of the Bush #41 Administration. Under Bush #43 the Secret Service made the very unusual move of giving Jeff Gannon one day security clearances every time he went to White House, with no background check on this longtime gay prostitute.
Page 195) CIA fingerprints all over Spence’s network. Spence was a CIA asset. CIA director and Donald Gregg (national security advisor to VP GHW Bush) were both buying the services of gay prostitutes. The book the Franklin Cover Up had VP GHW Bush buying the services of an 18 year old gay prostitute named Brandt Thomas who was provided by Lawrence E. King, a very close friend to GHW Bush and the perfect psychopath Craig Spence.
Page 197) Henry Vinson believes that if his case had gone to trial without him accepting a plea bargain, that he would have been murdered in the 1980’s.
Page 198) Henry Vinson says that “a number of media superstars” who used his gay escort service are still around today and thriving in their professions.
Page 199) Dr. Vernon Houk, formerly of the Center for Disease Control, was a big customer of Vinson. Houk died in Sept., 1994 - [...]