General Discussion

T'is no accident. Before Epstein was an operator, Craig J. Spence was the man with the plan.



by Nick Bryant
Nuke the Messenger, December 13, 2024

Excerpt...

The documentation that Rodriguez salvaged from the escort service on 34th Place was one strand of a vast, tightly woven rug shrouding an enormous pile of dirt. As Rodriguez doggedly tugged on the strand, more and more dirt piled up. After Rodriguez managed to unravel a corner of the rug, he started to uncover the shady exploits of a DC “powerbroker” named Craig Spence who was in the habit of racking up a monthly $20,000 tab at the raided escort service. Spence had ties to the CIA, blackmail, and Lawrence King of Omaha.

Throughout the 1980s, Spence collected the rich, powerful, and influential with the dexterity of a coin collector amassing rare coins. His parties and seminars boasted journalists Eric Sevareid, Ted Koppel, and William Safire. High-powered politicians—including Senators John Glenn of Ohio and Frank Murkowski of Alaska—attended. Former Ambassadors Robert Neumann, Elliott Richardson and James Lilly also came. John Mitchell, the disgraced former Attorney General under Richard Nixon, was a close friend of Spence and a frequent party fixture. Spence’s soirees also attracted high-ranking military and intelligence officials. In fact, CIA Director William Casey seemed to be particularly fond of Spence and his high-flying get-togethers. Spence once threw a glitzy birthday bash for his friend and right-wing closet homosexual Roy Cohn, and his friend William Casey was one of the guests of honor.

According to Henry Vinson, who ran the escort service on 34th Place Northwest, Casey met with the escorts from his enterprise at the Ritz-Carleton Hotel. After he was nude and splayed on a bed, he had the escorts rub oil over his body as he kissed and fondled them. Casey was old and withered, and the escorts didn’t particularly savor their encounters with him. Casey also had erectile dysfunction.

According to interviews conducted by Washington Times reporters, Spence had an eight-foot-long, two-way mirror overlooking his library that gave him a prime vantage point for “spying on guests.” Bugs were also scattered throughout various nooks and crannies within his house. A Georgetown law professor and longtime friend of Spence’s remembered being at Spence’s home and having a conversation with a second friend

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A business associate of Spence’s told the reporters that Spence delivered him to one of his parties in a limousine; and when he arrived at the party, a number of young men made friendly overtures towards him. “I didn’t bite; it’s not my inclination,” said the business associate. But he too remarked on Spence’s predilection for blackmail: “He was blackmailing people. He was taping people and blackmailing them.”

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Before Spence, some other fiend of Roy Cohn's ran the operation...



... Who knew what when? In Palo Alto, after Epstein’s conviction, he was a guest at a dinner for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden that was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. At the same dinner Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Is money so powerful that it tramples all other considerations? As James Baldwin put it, “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

One of the most remarkable moments in Tyrnauer’s documentary comes near the end, when it’s no longer possible to pretend that Cohn isn’t a liar and a fraud, when it’s no longer possible to deny that he lacks both shame and conscience. When Cohn was about to be disbarred in 1986 for defrauding his clients and for taking advantage of a dying and incompetent man, character witnesses began to emerge. There were letters to the court from William F. Buckley Jr., Barbara Walters, William Safire, and, of course, Trump, who wrote that Cohn “has been extremely loyal and extremely honest.” Were Cohn’s parties—was his protection—really that good?...

Source: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29130905/roy-cohn-documentary-wheres-my-roy-cohn/

Tradition, blackmail.