Because I know you're thinking I'm a wack-job...

My concern about the call boy prostitution ring that was never cleared up in my post on Jeff Gannon's "outing" probably left some people a bit cold, and thinking I'm truly dipping into conspiracy theory darkness that can't possibly be true. Today's James Wolcott refers to Rigorous Intuition blog, which refers to that child/male prostitution ring involved with the Reagan White House.

Gannon wasn't much of a journalist, not even of the pretend kind. Not much of a White House shill, either. Though the Bush team couldn't fault him for his slavish devotion to the party line, he wrote for the very limited cyber readership of "TalonNews," which appears now to have folded up and blown away, like every good cut-out once its cover is blown. The White House does not want for friends in corporate media with far greater reach. And the CIA's Operation Mockingbird, we recall, served up far bigger fish than the likes of Gannon. So why did the virtual one-man show of TalonNews receive such pride of place?

To answer that, we should probably ask the rhetorical question: what other purpose could a male prostitute possibly serve in the White House press corp? Or, I suppose, whom could he serve?

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Which brings us to that Craig Spence fellow.

Spence was a conservative lobbyist during the Reagan-Bush years. The New York Times called him "Washington's ultimate power broker." He was also running a gay prostitution ring which employed adolescent boys. As perks of the job, he treated his boys to after-hour tours of the White House. In The Washington Times of August 9, 1989, Spence "hinted the tours were arranged by top level" persons, including Vice President Bush's National Security Advisor Donald Gregg, whose name also figures prominently in the October Surprise story. The paper added that "Spence, according to friends, was also carrying out homosexual blackmail operations for the CIA."

David McGowan writes that one of the White House tours "occurred just after Spence stopped by the Nightline studio to see his friend, Ted Koppel. Spence reportedly introduced Koppel to a 15-year-old boy, whom Koppel later claimed Spence had introduced as his son. Koppel though had been a close friend for over 20 years and surely knew that Spence did not have a teenage son."

Any wonder why this scandal - a sex scandal, even - died one of the quickest and quietest of deaths? Only briefly, and not everywhere, was it was front page news. As when it broke, on June 29, 1989. [Ed: see the headline and front page in my previous post.]

From a follow-up story of June 30, 1989:

Among the clients identified in hundreds of credit-card vouchers obtained by The Washington Times - and identified by male prostitutes and escort operators - are government officials, locally based US military officers, businessmen, lawyers, bankers, congressional aides, media representatives and other professionals.

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After arriving in Washington in the late 1970s, Mr. Spence was hosting parties during the early Reagan years attended by, among others, journalists Eric Sevareid, Ted Koppel and William Safire; former CIA Director William Casey; the late John Mitchell, attorney general in the Nixon administration; conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly; Ambassador James Lilley; and Gen. Alfred M. Gray, the commandant of the Marine Corps.
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According to many current and former friends, Mr. Spence was a dangerous friend to cultivate. Several former associates said his house on Wyoming Avenue was bugged and had a secret two-way mirror, and that he attempted to ensnare visitors into compromising sexual encounters that he could then use as leverage.

It should probably be noted here that it wasn't until November of that year that Spence's body was found in a Boston hotel room, his death ruled a suicide.

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From David McGowan's Pedophacracy:

The Spence story never really registered on the national media’s radar screen. Despite being a largely Republican scandal, it was completely ignored by such pillars of the purportedly liberal press as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. The story soon disappeared entirely and Washington and the media proceeded to pretend as though nothing had ever happened. According to a Washington Times reporter, the paper trail was quickly covered up. Some 20,000 documents pertaining to the case were sealed by court order and the U.S. Attorney’s office issued a gag order on the release of information.

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Spence had been subpoenaed by a grand jury but had not yet been called to appear. As it turned out, very few witnesses ever did appear before that grand jury. Spence had also reportedly agreed to provide Penthouse magazine with “lurid details of Washington’s bisexual wonderland.” His story, needless to say, was never told.

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We should also note that Spence was an associate of Lawrence King, whose own juvenile prostitution ring enjoyed special privileges and the protection of authorities. King ran it out of his Franklin Credit Union, and in the course of its whispered history, implicated prominent Republicans in Nebraska, Washington and elsewhere in the sexual abuse of minors.

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"Larry King and Craig Spence were business partners. Look at two companies, "Dream Boys" and "Man to Man," both of which operated under another service, "Bodies by God."

  Read the rest of the Rigorous Intuition post

An interesting comment to the blog post claims:

There is evidence that Hitler used latent homosexuality to maintain fear-based control - the fear of being "outed" and shipped off to the camps with the Jews. The party that is most against homosexuality is likely creating an atmosphere where any non-straight tendencies could compromise one's career. Sort of like the Catholic church - denounce pedophilia while harboring a great number of them. It's a great method of control, from their perspective.

In case you didn't watch the video documentary I linked in that earlier post (Conspiracy of Silence), one thing I would point out is that the religious director of Boys' Town was implicated in the scandal - for providing boys for sordid Republican parties. And if you think this is unbelievable, check into the case of the recently convicted priest Shanley. (Here's an audio interview with a reporter covering the priest's sordid affairs and the cover the Catholic church provided for him - discussing organized pedophilia and mind control.)

Now, if you want dark and weird, there's this:

"Some top U.S. military flag officers are aware of the correctness and validity of our exclusive stories of George W. Bush and his male sex-mate since University and Skull & Bones initiation and up to date. These flag officers are gravely concerned with the national security ramifications of this relationship which is not a private and personal matter. The situation has caused the murder of a magazine photo editor [The CIA's National Enquirer in Ft Lauderdale, Florida - the first person killed by anthrax post 9-11-2001, with entire building permanently shut down by FBI] as well as causing George W. Bush to be subject to blackmail and compromise of Bush resulting in his conveyance to sworn enemies of the United States, and giving them aid and comfort, of U.S. financial, industrial, and military secrets."
—Sherman Skolnick, SkolnicksReport.com, "Overthrow of the American Republic"

Nothing, but nothing, could be too lurid and too perverse to surprise me about the Bush Cabal. Nothing. I have another web page that has some other pretty interesting links to articles just about Dubya. I can't vouch for any of it, but as I've said before, the things that we do know about these people are evil and disgusting. The iceberg beneath the tip must be astounding.