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minds of=20
      our times during the days of Camelot has anyone staged seminars=20
      successfully on a continuing social basis in Washington. That's =
what Craig=20
      Spence has been doing."=20
      <P>Mr. Spence was described in The New York Times as "something of =
a=20
      mystery man who dresses in Edwardian dandy style, a former =
television=20
      correspondent who now wears many hats, including international =
business=20
      consultant, party host, registered foreign agent and something =
called=20
      'research journalist.' "=20
      <P>One former friend, William Harben, said of those days: "He =
conned=20
      people into going to parties - big people, Cabinet members, and=20
      personalities and so forth. Everybody likes to go to a free party =
around=20
      here."=20
      <P>That description eerily paralleled Mr. Spence's depiction of =
the guests=20
      at his soirees. "The town [Washington] is full of phonies," he =
said=20
      Monday. "All of these people I helped have turned on me."=20
      <P>The business was lucrative. Mr. Spence earns $200,000 a year as =
a=20
      consultant for Becton, Dickinson &amp; Co., a New Jersey-based =
firm that=20
      makes health care products for physicians, laboratories, =
pharmacies and=20
      the general public. He has worked for the firm since the fall of =
1981 and,=20
      according to a Becton, Dickinson spokesman, is under contract =
until March=20
      1990.=20
      <P>In documents filed with the Justice Department, Mr. Spence said =
he made=20
      $666,774 working for the Policy Study Group, a company of which =
Mr. Shiina=20
      was president between 1979 and 1983.=20
      <P>He made many thousands more for other foreign and domestic =
companies=20
      but said Monday that he had no access to money. He said his =
accounts had=20
      been "frozen" but refused to elaborate.=20
      <P>Mr. Spence admitted Monday to a second lifestyle he kept hidden =
from=20
      most, in which he pursued young "military-looking" men. He bragged =
of many=20
      sexual conquests of otherwise straight men, including several =
servicemen=20
      stationed in the Washington area.=20
      <P>Mr. Spence said he discovered he had AIDS "about three years =
ago" after=20
      going to Johns Hopkins Medical Center on the advice of his doctor. =

      <P>GRAPHIC: Box, On the trail of Craig J.=20
Spence</P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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      <CENTER><B>Sex sold from congressman's apartment; Frank's lover =
was 'call=20
      boy' </B></CENTER></FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>
      <CENTER><B>Paul M. Rodriguez and George Archibald The Washington =
Times;=20
      Part A; Pg. A1 August 25, 1989, Friday, Final Edition</B></CENTER>
      <P><BR></FONT><FONT face=3Darial color=3D#3366cc =
size=3D4><B>A</B></FONT><FONT=20
      color=3D#000000 size=3D2> <SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: =
#7fffd4"><B>male escort ran=20
      and provided homosexual and bisexual prostitution services from a =
U.S.=20
      congressman's house on Capitol Hill on a periodic basis from late =
1985=20
      through mid-1987</B></SPAN>, The Washington Times has learned.=20
      <P>&nbsp;=20
      <TABLE cellPadding=3D20 width=3D200 align=3Dleft border=3D0>
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            <HR>
            <FONT face=3Darial color=3D#3366cc><B>"I had instructed him =
[Davis] not=20
            to use my apartment for his illegitimate purposes ... It =
just never=20
            occurred to me that he'd bring people over. I guess I was =
lied=20
            to."</B></FONT>=20
            <HR>
          </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>"I had reason to believe that he =
might be trying=20
      to do that," said Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, who =
confirmed=20
      in an interview with The Times on Wednesday that the escort had =
access to=20
      his house in the 200 block of 8th Street SE.=20
      <P>"And when I found out about it, I kicked him out [in August =
1987]," Mr.=20
      Frank said.=20
      <P>Mr. Frank said he knew that the call boy - who asked to be =
identified=20
      by his professional name Greg Davis - was a practicing prostitute. =
But he=20
      denied knowing that his former lover was involved in a =
prostitution ring.=20
      <P>"I thought I could get him to stop," Mr. Frank said of Davis, =
whom he=20
      employed with personal funds as a housekeeper and chauffeur.=20
      <P>A senior-level Senate staffer, whom The Times has interviewed =
and=20
      chosen not to identify, confirmed this week that he called Davis'=20
      "massage" advertisement in City Paper, a District weekly =
newspaper, "about=20
      two years ago" and went as instructed to meet the male escort at a =
Capitol=20
      Hill house.=20
      <P>Davis told him the house was Mr. Frank's, and from the aide's=20
      description and documents obtained by The Times, the place they =
met has=20
      been identified as the congressman's home.=20
      <P>Davis said that when he used Mr. Frank's residence to operate =
the=20
      escort services, he or an accomplice would transfer the escort =
services'=20
      telephone calls from his residence to the congressman's number via =

      call-forwarding.=20
      <P>The prostitute, who was living with a fiancee at the time, said =
he used=20
      the ploy because she was unaware of his activities.=20
      <P>Davis also said that he serviced customers at the congressman's =
house.=20
      <P>A former call girl who worked with Davis and often spoke to Mr. =
Frank=20
      on the phone confirmed this telephone switching operation. She =
said that=20
      she helped run the escort services, and also had sexual relations =
with=20
      clients in Mr. Frank's basement home.=20
      <P>Mr. Frank confirmed that he sometimes spoke to the female =
escort but=20
      assumed she was just a friend of Davis', not a prostitute. He also =
said=20
      that on at least one occasion he remembered a "strange phone call" =
from=20
      somebody asking for Davis and his service.=20
      <P>"The guy said a woman's name that he was supposed to meet," Mr. =
Frank=20
      said. "I was suspicious, but could not prove anything at the =
time."=20
      <P>The congressman also said that he was told by his landlords =
several=20
      months before asking Davis to leave that there were "strange =
things going=20
      on" in the apartment with lots of people "coming and going."=20
      <P>Mr. Frank said, too, that "one time, somebody came to the door =
and I=20
      told him to get out."=20
      <P>When asked why he did not inform the police about Davis' =
activities,=20
      Mr. Frank replied: "I had reason to believe that he was doing that =

      [running an escort service], but I didn't have anything to take to =
a judge=20
      or to the cops."=20
      <P>Mr. Frank initially denied either knowing of or condoning =
Davis'=20
      profession. But during questioning, he acknowledged that he was =
aware that=20
      his lover was a working prostitute.=20
      <P>"I had no idea that he was doing anything other than personal=20
      [prostitution]," Mr. Frank said.=20
      <P>"I knew that he personally did some [sex-for-hire] stuff, but =
had no=20
      idea" about a larger operation that advertised in local =
newspapers,=20
      including City Paper and The Washington Blade, a weekly gay =
newspaper, the=20
      congressman said.=20
      <P>Mr. Frank, one of two openly homosexual members of Congress, =
said he=20
      met Davis by responding to Davis' "escort/model" advertisement in =
The=20
      Washington Blade.=20
      <P>"I met him sexually and had a personal relationship with him," =
Mr.=20
      Frank said.=20
      <P>He said he subsequently allowed the male escort to use his =
house and=20
      car for almost 18 months after first having paid sex with him in =
April=20
      1985.=20
      <P>Mr. Frank also said that Davis accompanied him on several =
politically=20
      oriented functions and also helped to arrange a speaking =
engagement at a=20
      conference put on by the American Association of School =
Administrators.=20
      <P>Davis said he accompanied Mr. Frank to the White House in 1986 =
to=20
      witness President Reagan's signing of immigration and =
naturalization=20
      legislation.=20
      <P>"He said he was on probation and I tried to help him out. I got =
him a=20
      lawyer and I hired him [Davis] to work for me - no governmental =
money,"=20
      Mr. Frank said. "He was my driver, my housekeeper . . . who took =
care of=20
      the car and took it to get it inspected."=20
      <P>The congressman said he wrote a letter to the U.S. Capitol =
Police=20
      authorizing Davis, who also has been linked to the homosexual =
prostitution=20
      ring now under investigation by federal authorities, to have =
access to the=20
      House garage as his driver. Mr. Frank also said Davis played on =
his=20
      congressional softball team.=20
      <P>"That was the only official thing I did," Davis said.=20
      <P>Mr. Frank said he did not withhold federal income taxes or =
Social=20
      Security from Davis's salary. "I considered him to be a =
consultant," he=20
      said.=20
      <P>&nbsp;</P></FONT>
    <TD vAlign=3Dtop width=3D"50%"><FONT size=3D2>Davis did not receive =
regular=20
      paychecks because "I tended to pay for some of his expenses. He =
had use of=20
      the car, I bought him a lot of meals, I bought him food to use =
here, and I=20
      paid for his lawyer," Mr. Frank said.=20
      <P>Describing his four years with Davis as "a sexual relationship =
that=20
      turned into a friendship," Mr. Frank said he also paid for the=20
      prostitute's court-ordered psychological counseling stemming from =
four=20
      felony convictions in 1982: possession of obscene material, =
production of=20
      obscene items involving a juvenile, oral sodomy and possession of =
cocaine.=20
      Davis also was convicted in 1975 of cocaine distribution.=20
      <P>Mr. Frank said he wrote at least four letters to Alexandria =
probation=20
      officials on behalf of Davis. The letters had been obtained by The =
Times=20
      from Alexandria criminal records with a signed privacy waiver from =
Davis.=20
      <P>In one of the letters, dated March 10, 1986, Mr. Frank told the =

      Alexandria probation officer: "Mr. [Davis] works for me on =
personal and=20
      political matters which should not be paid out of my congressional =

      allowance."=20
      <P>Each of the letters signed by Mr. Frank has the letterhead, =
"Congress=20
      of the United States, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.," =
lists=20
      the committees the congressman serves on and the addresses of his=20
      Washington and home-district offices.=20
      <P>Two of the letters include the disclaimer "Not Printed At =
Government=20
      Expense." Mr. Frank said it is his personal stationery.=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>"I needed those letters =
to=20
      continue to operate my escort services in Washington," Davis=20
      said.</B></SPAN> "As a condition of my probation, I was not =
supposed to=20
      live outside of Virginia and I had to have a reason why I was =
still in=20
      D.C.," he said.=20
      <P>On two occasions the probation officer visited Davis at Mr. =
Frank's=20
      Capitol Hill residence.=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Chevy Chase Elementary =
School=20
      principal Gabriel A. Massaro - another Davis client who met Mr. =
Frank=20
      through the call boy - went to the congressman's house for one of =
the=20
      meetings with probation officials, both Davis and Mr. Massaro told =
The=20
      Times.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>Mr. Frank said he was aware of the meeting with the probation =
officials=20
      but did not attend them.=20
      <P>Mr. Massaro said Davis lived during this period in an apartment =
in the=20
      1000 block of 25th Street NW.=20
      <P>"I never lived at Barney's house," Davis said.=20
      <P>"It was a favor for me," he said, referring to Mr. Frank's =
decision to=20
      write letters to the probation department.=20
      <P>But Davis said Mr. Frank was constantly worried about the =
escort=20
      activities being discovered by the probation department, police =
and the=20
      news media.=20
      <P>"He was concerned about security and he was concerned about the =

      publicity if this were to come out," the prostitute said. "He was=20
      concerned about the things that a person would be concerned about. =

      <P>"Yet the excitement, the thrill, so to speak, with being =
connected to=20
      that type of world, which he found to be titillating in various =
ways,=20
      obtaining vicarious thrills being around this type of world, he =
[Mr.=20
      Frank] didn't discourage it, and he was fully aware of the =
situation as it=20
      occurred," Davis said.=20
      <P>Interviews with resident managers and an owner of one of the =
apartments=20
      at the 25th Street location confirmed that Davis had a rented =
apartment=20
      there and was running his male and female prostitution services =
from the=20
      dwelling.=20
      <P>One of those prostitution services called Saxons eventually was =

      disbanded and Davis then opened his own services providing =
heterosexual,=20
      homosexual and bisexual sex-for-hire. The services were called =
Touch of=20
      Class, Male Ad and Bi-Couples, according to Davis.=20
      <P>When Mr. Frank first responded to Davis's prostitution ad in =
The=20
      Washington Blade, he paid for one hour's worth of sex, Davis said. =

      <P>"The first time the cost was $80," the prostitute said. "He =
[Mr. Frank]=20
      called and asked for Greg and he asked me if I was versatile =
[willing to=20
      assume either a male or female sex role]".=20
      <P>The two had sex at Mr. Frank's basement townhouse apartment in =
the=20
      early evening of April 1, 1985, Davis said.=20
      <P>"He said he would like to see me again . . . and at the door he =
asked=20
      me if I had recognized him," the prostitute said. Mr. Frank, =
according to=20
      Davis, "said his picture had appeared in The Washington Blade . . =
. It was=20
      very, very abnormal to be told who he really was."=20
      <P>Davis said he "wasn't blown over or anything . . . I've been =
with=20
      priests and others in public office . . . It was just kinda =
strange."=20
      <P>Davis said Mr. Frank continued to purchase sex from him for =
several=20
      weeks and was provided discounted or free sex as their =
relationship grew.=20
      <P>Davis also said that he later arranged discounted and free sex =
for Mr.=20
      Frank from other male prostitutes in return for use of the =
lawmaker's=20
      house to run the escort services.=20
      <P>"That's an absolute lie," Mr. Frank said in an initial =
interview on=20
      Wednesday. But yesterday the Massachusetts Democrat said he did =
remember=20
      discussing with Davis procurement of male prostitutes for himself. =

      <P>"He did offer that [call boys] to me. . . . We talked about it =
. . .=20
      and I put him off and finally told him no," Mr. Frank said.=20
      <P>The congressman said he never knew such sexual services were =
being=20
      provided to others at his house while he was at his congressional =
office=20
      or out of town.=20
      <P>"I had instructed him [Davis] not to use my apartment for his=20
      illegitimate purposes," Mr. Frank said Thursday. <SPAN=20
      style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>"It just never occurred to me =
that he'd=20
      bring people over. I guess I was lied to."</B></SPAN>=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>When asked how he could =
not have=20
      known that his admitted prostitute friend was having sexual =
liaisons with=20
      paying clients in his own bed, Mr. Frank said, "I was emotionally=20
      vulnerable at that time. I guess I was still coming to terms with =
being=20
      gay . . . It was a difficult period."</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>Concerning Davis' actions, the congressman said, "He suckered =
me."=20
      <P>=20
      <HR>

      <P>Illustration, ANATOMY OF A FRIENDSHIP; BOX, Rep. Barney Frank, =
THE=20
      WASHINGTON TIMES</P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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      <CENTER><B>Sex sold from congressman's apartment; School used as =
base for=20
      sex ring </B></CENTER></FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>
      <CENTER><B>George Archibald and Paul M. Rodriguez The Washington =
Times;=20
      Part A; Pg. A1 August 25, 1989, Friday, Final Edition</B></CENTER>
      <P><BR></FONT><FONT face=3Darial color=3D#3366cc =
size=3D4><B>A</B></FONT><FONT=20
      color=3D#000000 size=3D2> male prostitute convicted of drug =
trafficking and=20
      sex offenses against a minor <SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: =
#7fffd4"><B>used the=20
      Chevy Chase Elementary School in late 1987 to run his prostitution =

      operation after the school's principal began buying sex from=20
      him</B></SPAN>, an investigation by The Washington Times has =
revealed.=20
      <P>&nbsp;=20
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            <HR>
            <FONT face=3Darial color=3D#3366cc><B>The call boy was =
allowed to sleep=20
            and use phones in the school even after the principal left =
at 5=20
            p.m., while teachers and the children were still involved in =

            after-school activities such as chorus, Mr. Massaro =
said.</B></FONT>=20

            <HR>
          </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: =
#7fffd4"><B>The=20
      principal, Gabriel A. Massaro</B></SPAN>, conceded in a two-hour =
interview=20
      with The Times Wednesday that he <SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: =
#7fffd4"><B>had=20
      a four-year relationship with the prostitute and provided him with =
a=20
      guidance counselor's office and telephone at the model "magnet =
school"=20
      even while children were in classes elsewhere in the =
building</B></SPAN>.=20
      <P>The 48-year-old principal also confirmed that he told the =
school's=20
      custodian to give the prostitute - who told The Times that he has =
also=20
      worked for a homosexual prostitution service now under =
investigation by=20
      federal authorities and the subject of earlier articles - <SPAN=20
      style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>unlimited access to the=20
      building</B></SPAN>.=20
      <P>Their relationship ultimately soured, Mr. Massaro said, in part =
because=20
      the prostitute used his credit card number without his permission =
to pay=20
      for a personal ad in The Washington Blade, a weekly newspaper of =
the=20
      homosexual community.=20
      <P>"I knew he was an escort, but I didn't know he was running an =
escort=20
      service," Mr. Massaro said. "I couldn't condone it from going out =
of here=20
      . . . He may have done that, but I did not know that."=20
      <P>The escort, who asked to be identified as Greg Davis, the alias =
he uses=20
      in personal ads, told The Times he was at the school at Mr. =
Massaro's=20
      invitation "on a fairly regular basis" during October and November =
1987=20
      and that he regularly used drugs in the building during that time. =

      <P>Davis said Mr. Massaro "was very aware of what I was doing and =
what was=20
      going on" when he was at the upscale Montgomery County school, =
which=20
      enrols about 350 children, aged 9 through 12, in the third through =
sixth=20
      grades.=20
      <P>"I would be allowed to use the telephones to check my =
[computerized=20
      answering] service and to set up appointments [with homosexual and =

      heterosexual clients], as long as they weren't set up at the =
school - that=20
      was the arrangement," the prostitute said in one of several =
interviews.=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Davis said Mr. Massaro =
also=20
      explained to him how to turn off the school's audio security =
system so his=20
      calls would not be overheard.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>Mr. Massaro confirmed that such listening devices were =
installed in the=20
      school ceilings but denied telling Davis how to have the security =
system=20
      turned off.=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>"How would I know that =
these=20
      devices were in operation at the school unless he had warned me =
about=20
      them?" Davis asked.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>"I normally used the time between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. to set up =
the=20
      appointments for that evening with any of the ladies or myself. =
And then=20
      after 10 o'clock I would have a person who was used as the driver =
for the=20
      [escort] services pick me up at the school. He would pick me up =
about 10=20
      p.m.," Davis said.=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>On at least one =
occasion, Davis=20
      claimed to have performed homosexual sex with a client in the =
guidance=20
      counselor's office.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>The 45-year-old man who came to the school to have sex with =
Davis "was=20
      a regular client that I knew," the prostitute said. "When I told =
him that=20
      he was going to come to a school, at first he sounded concerned on =
the=20
      telephone. In a joking sort of manner, he asked me if he was being =
set up.=20

      <P>". . . The client, after thinking about it for a couple of =
minutes,=20
      said, 'Well, it might be a kick.' That was his response. In other =
words,=20
      it was a turn-on for him," Davis said.=20
      <P>The Times has been unable to locate the customer to confirm =
Davis'=20
      story.=20
      <P>The prostitute said that Mr. Massaro did not know "that I had =
met a=20
      client at the school."=20
      <P>"He knew me well enough to know that that was possible and told =
me that=20
      that was not supposed to be done," Davis said. "For the most part, =
I=20
      agreed. I went along with it because it was a threat to the =
security of=20
      the [prostitution] service to have anybody come to the school."=20
      <P>Davis also said Mr. Massaro never knew that his driver went =
into the=20
      school or about the drug use in the building. "I would be there =
maybe=20
      three out of the five nights a week," the prostitute said.=20
      <P>Mr. Massaro said Davis came to the school several times a week =
during=20
      the two-month period in question.=20
      <P>The principal's secretary, Peggy Monday, confirmed Davis's =
access to=20
      the school, but said she saw him no more than once a week. Mrs. =
Monday=20
      said that Mr. Massaro explained Davis' presence at the school by =
saying=20
      the man was a friend of his.=20
      <P>"I would either use his [principal's] office or I would use a =
guidance=20
      counselor's office upstairs" on the school's second floor where =
6th grade=20
      classrooms and a science lab are located, Davis said.=20
      <P>Told that Davis had given The Times a detailed accounting of =
his call=20
      boy activities and criminal convictions, the principal conceded =
that he=20
      was aware of Davis' work as a prostitute.=20
      <P>Mr. Massaro said he knew the prostitute was still on probation =
for=20
      felony drug and sex offenses and undergoing court-ordered =
psycho-sexual=20
      therapy when he allowed him to use the school's facilities.=20
      <P>A former school counselor, Mr. Massaro said he talked to =
Davis's sex=20
      therapist about his court-ordered treatment after the call boy's =
felony=20
      conviction in 1982 on four charges: possession of obscene =
material,=20
      production of obscene items involving a juvenile, oral sodomy and=20
      possession of cocaine. Davis was convicted in 1975 of cocaine=20
      distribution.=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>"There were some =
afternoons when=20
      he just had nowhere to go, so I would just let him come here to =
the school=20
      and just use the bathroom and stuff like that," Mr. Massaro=20
      said.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>"[The prostitute] used =
that=20
      [counselor's] office," the principal said.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Asked if he authorized =
the escort=20
      free use of school phones, Mr. Massaro responded, "Oh, =
yes."</B></SPAN>=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Pressed whether Davis =
might have=20
      molested or tried to molest any children at the Chevy Chase =
school, the=20
      principal said, "Oh God, no. He couldn't have. I don't think so.=20
      No."</B></SPAN>=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Davis said he had no =
dealings with=20
      any of the children who attended the elementary school.</B></SPAN> =

      <P>The call boy was allowed to sleep and use phones in the school =
even=20
      after the principal left at 5 p.m., while teachers and the =
children were=20
      still involved in after-school activities such as chorus, Mr. =
Massaro=20
      said.=20
      <P>"I introduced him to one of the custodians and the custodian =
just let=20
      him use the facility," he said. "I told him [the custodian] that =
he was my=20
      friend."=20
      <P>"I would leave at five and I thought he [the prostitute] would =
leave=20
      shortly thereafter, but before the custodian would close the =
building,"=20
      Mr. Massaro said.=20
      <P>Davis said he advertised his services as an "escort/model" in =
the=20
      classified section of The Washington Blade. He also advertised =
homosexual=20
      escort services under the name "Male Ad" and services for bisexual =

      threesomes under the name "Bi-Couples."=20
      <P>&nbsp;</P></FONT>
    <TD vAlign=3Dtop width=3D"50%"><FONT size=3D2>Davis said he and a =
woman partner=20
      in the "Bi-Couples" business also ran a female prostitution =
operation=20
      called "Touch of Class," which advertised in City Paper, a =
District weekly=20
      newspaper.=20
      <P>In his interview with The Times, Mr. Massaro, who is married, =
at first=20
      denied procuring sex from the male prostitute.=20
      <P>But as the interview continued, and a photograph of himself =
with Davis=20
      in the audience of a 1986 telecast of the Phil Donahue show, the =
principal=20
      said he had had a longtime, secret sexual liaison with Davis.=20
      <P>"That's not true [previous denials of having homosexual sex =
with=20
      Davis]," Mr. Massaro said about 30 minutes into the interview. "I =
did.=20
      Yes, I did. But it was nothing, though. I mean it was. . . ." His =
voice=20
      trailed off as he fought back tears.=20
      <P>"My son died very suddenly [in 1984] and I met [Greg] through a =
friend"=20
      - another education professional, he said. The friend, whom he =
declined to=20
      identify, gave Mr. Massaro the prostitute's telephone number =
listed in his=20
      escort advertisement in The Washington Blade.=20
      <P>"I began to know [Greg] and I got to know him very well," Mr. =
Massaro=20
      said. "He became also a surrogate son to me . . . I don't want you =
to=20
      think I behaved this way with my son. I had a normal father-son=20
      relationship with my own son, John."=20
      <P>Mr. Massaro's son died at age 19 in August 1984 of a viral =
infection=20
      resulting from drug abuse, the principal said.=20
      <P>Mr. Massaro acknowledged frequent payments in cash and by check =
to=20
      Davis ranging from $20 to $100. He also gave the call boy gifts of =

      clothing and restaurant outings, and the loan of his car when the=20
      principal went to the beach with his wife and daughter.=20
      <P>After Davis lost his bank account, Mr. Massaro paid for his =
trysts with=20
      checks made out to Davis's roommate, also the call boy's =
homosexual client=20
      and a social friend of the elementary principal, he said. The =
roommate has=20
      confirmed the arrangements.=20
      <P>Both Davis and Mr. Massaro said the call boy was not only a sex =
partner=20
      to the principal but also a family friend. However, Mr. Massaro =
said=20
      neither his wife nor daughter knew about his secret homosexual sex =
life.=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Mr. Massaro acknowledged =
that he=20
      attended a meeting between Davis and his Alexandria probation =
officer at=20
      the Capitol Hill home of Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts =
Democrat,=20
      another client whose home the call boy used to perform sexual=20
      services.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>"We [Mr. Massaro and Mr. =
Frank]=20
      tried to help him through it [the probation]," the principal said. =

      "[Davis] invited me over [to Mr. Frank's house] one day and said, =
'Hey,=20
      I'd like you to meet with this person,' and he was trying to get =
off=20
      [probation]. I don't even remember all the details . . . I went as =
a=20
      friend of [Davis's] who could vouch for him as being the person =
who was=20
      trying to pull his life together."</B></SPAN>=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>On some days, Davis said =
he would=20
      arrive at the Chevy Chase school as early as noon, when classes =
were still=20
      in session.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>"There were times when the guidance counselor's office was not=20
      available to me," the prostitute said. "I would actually use the=20
      principal's office itself, and he would move to another location =
and I=20
      would sit at his desk using his telephones on his desk."=20
      <P>The phone numbers listed in his escort advertisements were=20
      call-forwarded to a Maryland-based answering service called =
Compu-Voice,=20
      he said.=20
      <P>"It's all done by computer. When a client calls the answering =
service,=20
      they hear my voice, recorded by remote from a telephone using a =
series of=20
      code numbers. I would call my own phone number and, through =
punching in a=20
      series of code buttons [on the telephone dial] I was able to =
obtain access=20
      to my own system, and I was able to obtain the messages from the =
system,=20
      and then erase them after I had recorded them into the appointment =
book,"=20
      Davis said.=20
      <P>"I let them know on the tape that I usually returned calls =
within one=20
      hour. And at the time that I was at the school, I would check in =
every 15=20
      minutes," he said. "And I would go ahead and set up the =
appointments for=20
      the evening until Bobby [the man who would drive him to his sexual =
liasons=20
      and supply him with illegal drugs] would arrive."=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Davis said he used =
cocaine in the=20
      school with Bobby and that the two men often raided the school's =
cafeteria=20
      for their dinner.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>"Bobby and I would make something to eat, we'd play a little =
basketball=20
      [in the school gym], we'd do some coke, and then we'd go out to =
meet the=20
      appointments and to meet the ladies and obtain the commissions =
from their=20
      appointments."=20
      <P>On several occasions Davis said he and Bobby "did use cocaine =
in the=20
      guidance counselor's office," Davis said.=20
      <P>Davis said Mr. Massaro "instructed me on how to have the =
[school's=20
      audio] security system turned off so that the conversations would =
not be=20
      overheard [when he was conducting his prostitution business]. They =

      [security listening devices] were in operation after 5 p.m. when =
all the=20
      administration leaves," he said.=20
      <P>"I would call the security of the school system, report in . . =
. I=20
      would call in and tell them that I would be there until 10 p.m. =
doing work=20
      for Dr. Massaro," Davis said.=20
      <P>The prostitute said he "never stayed overnight [at the school] =
or=20
      anything like that. I would take a nap there maybe - there was a =
couch=20
      there - because I was running around a lot from place to place at =
the=20
      time."=20
      <P>Mr. Massaro said he helped Mr. Davis move from one apartment to =
another=20
      on several occasions during their relationship, and allowed the =
male=20
      escort to store his personal effects and furniture in the school's =

      basement machine room in 1987 while he was looking for a new place =
to=20
      live.=20
      <P>His landlord found out that he was running a prostitution =
operation and=20
      kicked him out of the apartment, Davis said.=20
      <P>Mr. Massaro said the relationship ultimately soured just over a =
year=20
      ago when Davis started stealing from him.=20
      <P>"I loaned [Greg] my car, and he literally stole it. He never =
returned=20
      it. He finally did return it. I sent him money and he did return =
it," the=20
      principal said.=20
      <P>Also, Davis used the principal's credit card number without =
permission=20
      to pay for his escort ads in The Washington Blade, Mr. Massaro =
said.=20
      <P>A spokesman for the newspaper's publisher confirmed "a problem" =
that=20
      caused The Blade to cancel Davis's ads but would not elaborate.=20
      <P>"I just used very poor judgment, what can I tell you?" Mr. =
Massaro=20
      said. "It was just stupid. I just never thought it through. I just =
thought=20
      I was helping somebody."=20
      <P>After the car and credit card incidents, Mr. Massaro said he =
told=20
      Davis, " 'Hey, you've got real problems and I can't help you.' So =
that was=20
      it and he just left. And I guess it was then that I really =
realized that=20
      he was a drug abuser."=20
      <P>Asked if Davis had ever used drugs in his presence, Mr. Massaro =
said he=20
      "may have" smoked marijuana. "I don't remember that. He may have. =
He never=20
      used anything else, though, other than pot. I don't think I ever =
knew=20
      that, until very recently. . . .=20
      <P>"I've never used the stuff. I don't know what it's like. And we =
talked=20
      about that in trying to get off it and trying to help him get off =
it . . .=20
      Our lives just became very intertwined and I guess I felt as =
though I=20
      could save him."=20
      <P>Davis, for his part, said that the relationship with Mr. =
Massaro soured=20
      because of a lack of "sensitivity" and "a lack of interest" on his =
part=20
      sexually towards the principal.=20
      <P>Mr. Massaro characterized Davis's action in going public as "an =
effort=20
      to get back at me."=20
      <P>He said Davis "was always going to sell his story and I was =
going to=20
      write a book for him and make him famous . . . He said he had a =
very=20
      interesting life, and one day we were going to sit down and write =
a book,=20
      and I guess that's what he's doing."=20
      <P>Photo, Homosexual escort services were operated out of Chevy =
Chase=20
      Elementary School and the Capitol Hill basement apartment of Rep. =
Barney=20
      Frank., Photos by Joseph Silverman/The Washington=20
  Times</P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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      <CENTER><B>THE GOBIE STORY; Frank's 'call boy' tells all=20
      </B></CENTER></FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>
      <CENTER><B>George Archibald, and Paul M. Rodriguez The Washington =
Times;=20
      Part A; Pg. A1 September 1, 1989, Friday, Final =
Edition</B></CENTER>
      <P><BR></FONT><FONT face=3Darial color=3D#3366cc =
size=3D4><B>S</B></FONT><FONT=20
      color=3D#000000 size=3D2>tephen L. Gobie wanted a sugar daddy, but =
Barney=20
      Frank turned out to be "Sweet'n Low" instead - "a sweet guy, low =
on cash."=20

      <P>&nbsp;=20
      <TABLE cellPadding=3D20 width=3D200 align=3Dleft border=3D0>
        <TBODY>
        <TR>
          <TD>
            <HR>
            <FONT face=3Darial color=3D#3366cc><B>Gobie insisted again =
as he has in=20
            previous interviews that he used the congressman's apartment =
as a=20
            base for a prostitution service - with Mr. Frank's=20
            knowledge.</B></FONT>=20
            <HR>
          </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>That's what he called his =
congressional sex=20
      partner, Gobie said in exclusive interviews with The Washington =
Times.=20
      <P>"In this business, the term 'sugar daddy' is popular for a =
person that=20
      supports you and sponsors you financially as well as otherwise," =
the=20
      prostitute said. "In this case, I had a nickname for Barney - it =
was=20
      'Sweet'n Low' - sweet guy, low on cash, that's what the moniker =
stood for=20
      . . . And I told him that . . . And he said, 'Hey, I'm only a =
congressman,=20
      I don't make a million dollars a year.' "=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Gobie called =
"preposterous" the=20
      Massachusetts Democrat's claim that he was the male hustler's =
Henry=20
      Higgins, intent on helping him straighten out his life while =
paying him=20
      about $20,000 a year to be Mr. Frank's housekeeper and =
driver.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>"The true story is there were no such compensations anywhere =
near that=20
      level of money . . . I would say the total dollar value that came =
to me=20
      from the beginning of the relationship [was] maybe less than =
$2,500,"=20
      Gobie said.=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Gobie insisted again as =
he has in=20
      previous interviews that he used the congressman's apartment as a =
base for=20
      a prostitution service - with Mr. Frank's knowledge.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>One of his clients was =
Washington=20
      power broker and former Japanese lobbyist Craig J. =
Spence</B></SPAN>, who=20
      has been linked to the homosexual prostitution ring being =
investigated by=20
      federal authorities.=20
      <P>Gobie also said he would willingly appear before the House =
ethics=20
      committee which is expected to investigate Mr. Frank's =
relationship with=20
      the prostitute, "if my lawyer told me that it was in my best =
interest."=20
      <P>Mr. Frank has acknowledged purchasing sexual services from =
Gobie after=20
      contacting him through an advertisement in The Washington Blade, a =

      newspaper catering to the homosexual community.=20
      <P>The congressman also has admitted knowing of Gobie's continued =
work as=20
      a prostitute while on Mr. Frank's personal payroll from mid-1985 =
to early=20
      1987 and while Gobie continued to have unlimited access to his =
house in=20
      the 200 block of Eighth Street SE.=20
      <P>But Mr. Frank has denied knowledge of Gobie's operating a =
prostitution=20
      service from his house and has requested the ethics probe in part =
out of=20
      fear that Gobie will embellish his story to improve the chances of =
selling=20
      it as a book.=20
      <P>The differing accounts in this unfolding story of a troubled =
18-month=20
      liaison between one of the House's leading liberals and the man =
Mr. Frank=20
      says pushed him into publicly acknowledging his homosexuality seem =
to=20
      capture the inherent contradictions in both of their lives.=20
      <P>Mr. Frank, a portly middle-aged Boston career politician when =
he met=20
      Gobie, led the fight in the state legislature in the 1970s for =
urban=20
      "combat zones" for prostitutes. <SPAN=20
      style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Calling the world's oldest =
profession "a=20
      victimless crime," Mr. Frank now says he was victimized by=20
      Gobie.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>The prostitute, in turn, a 28-year-old hooker when Mr. Frank =
answered=20
      his ad for "hot bottom and large endowment," rejects being labeled =

      homosexual or bisexual. Instead, he said he's a heterosexual who =
isn't=20
      good at deviant sex.=20
      <P>"My proclivities, my heterosexuality, precluded me from being a =

      successful escort for men because sex was almost non-existent, and =
the=20
      strength of my relationships with men was strictly on my =
character,=20
      personality and my sense of humor," Gobie said.=20
      <P>"But being able to to have people call you and respond [to =
ads], and=20
      continue to be successful and have repeats - people calling you =
again - is=20
      difficult. And then I realized that I was not going to make it as =
an=20
      escort, either for women or for men . . . So I thought if I was =
going to=20
      make it at all, I would make it actually running escort services =
as a=20
      madam because I have a good sense for business."=20
      <P>Coloring Gobie's accusations, however, are a series of criminal =

      convictions dating to 1975. He was convicted at 17 for the felony =
sale and=20
      possession of cocaine in Fairfax County.=20
      <P>Gobie was convicted on four felony counts in 1982: possession =
of=20
      obscene material, productions of obscene items involving a =
juvenile=20
      (taking photos of a 15-year-old girl with whom he was having sex), =
oral=20
      sodomy and possession of cocaine.=20
      <P>Gobie, whose professional name in the underground prostitute =
trade is=20
      "Greg Davis," grew up the son of a Marine Corps master sergeant =
who was a=20
      budget analyst at the Pentagon.=20
      <P>"He was a very strict conservative person from the military, . =
. . your=20
      traditional gung-ho Marine . . . He wanted to lock me in my room =
for the=20
      rest of my life until I agreed to get a haircut," Gobie said.=20
      <P>It was an unhappy boyhood marked by rebellion all the way, =
Gobie said.=20
      He defied all his parents' moral values and teachings.=20
      <P>"At six, I performed oral sex on my first female. She =
reciprocated. She=20
      was five," Gobie said. "I was having orgasms from age nine on . . =
. My=20
      father came to me at the age of 14, I believe, the first time in =
the=20
      basement of my house to discuss sex with me, and I cut him off =
right away=20
      and I said, 'Dad, I probably know more than you do at this point.' =
"=20
      <P>By age 14, Gobie had been labeled "incorrigible" by Fairfax =
County=20
      juvenile authorities for skipping 9th grade classes at West =
Springfield=20
      High School and refusing to return home on Friday afternoons.=20
      <P>"Me and my friends at 15 were watching X-rated movies on the =
family=20
      projector down in the basement when my family was watching TV =
upstairs,"=20
      he said. "A friend of mine worked at a medical building as a =
janitor at=20
      night and he got them out of the psychiatrist's office who used =
them for=20
      sexual marriage counseling."=20
      <P>A year away from home during his sophomore year at a southwest =
Virginia=20
      boarding school failed to mend Gobie's ways, despite his claims of =
a=20
      promising record.=20
      <P>"I was a standout basketball player [at the private school]. I =
played=20
      for the school team. And I also brought my grades back up to an =
acceptable=20
      level," he said. "I wasn't real concerned with making straight As. =
That=20
      wasn't a goal of mine. If it had been, I would have."=20
      <P>&nbsp;</P></FONT>
    <TD vAlign=3Dtop width=3D"50%"><FONT size=3D2>Instead, Gobie turned =
to marijuana=20
      and other drugs after his return to Fairfax County and expulsion =
from West=20
      Springfield High for truancy during his senior year in 1974. He =
never=20
      received his diploma, although he subsequently passed the General=20
      Educational Development test, the equivalent of high school =
completion.=20
      <P>"I didn't start using drugs until after the trouble started in=20
      Springfield, smoking marijuana and experimenting with every drug =
you could=20
      think of - everything," Gobie said.=20
      <P>The serious run-ins with the law then began, court records =
show. In=20
      1975, Gobie was convicted of a misdemeanor marijuana possession =
charge in=20
      the District. Later that year, he received a five-year suspended =
sentence=20
      in Fairfax County for distribution of cocaine and served three =
years=20
      probation.=20
      <P>In 1977-78, Gobie said he attended Chowan College in =
Murfreesboro,=20
      N.C., a fundamentalist Southern Baptist school and one of few =
colleges=20
      that would accept him "to get a school record that would enable me =
to=20
      transfer" to the University of South Carolina, where he hoped to =
join a=20
      girlfriend.=20
      <P>But it didn't work out. At Chowan, "I raised the roof off the =
place,"=20
      he said. "I threw extensive parties and I was responsible at that =
time for=20
      the entertainment at parties, whether it be females or whether it =
be party=20
      favors - drugs and things like that."=20
      <P>Gobie said his parents were divorced in 1979 and left the area. =
The=20
      prostitute said he hasn't seen his family, including two younger =
brothers=20
      and an older sister, since. By then, at age 21, he had decided to =
reject=20
      the family name and start a new life as a male escort.=20
      <P>"I met a woman one day in Hecht's clothing store," he said. "I =
was=20
      trying on a suit and she asked me if I had ever done any modeling =
work.=20
      She was just a customer, a very elegant looking woman, a very =
attractive=20
      older woman. And she approached me and asked me if I wanted to =
have lunch=20
      with her. She picked me up."=20
      <P>Gobie says of the 47-year-old woman, whom he refuses to name: =
"I owe=20
      everything to her. I'll never do anything to hurt her in any way." =

      <P>"Our first discussion centered around modeling and advertising, =
things=20
      like that," he said. Then I went to her apartment . . . She took =
me under=20
      her wing . . . I worked for her. She was a madam. She operated an=20
      underground escort operation of mostly females, but she had a few =
select=20
      males also. She had extensive women clientele that she had a hard =
time=20
      finding suitable escorts for. It was very hard to find gentle =
young men.=20
      <P>"It's easier to find women than men [escorts], apparently - men =
who=20
      have the inclination and the capabilities, who have what it takes =
to be=20
      successful with women as an escort."=20
      <P>Women clients - middle-aged and older women, both married and =
widows -=20
      place more emphasis on obtaining male escorts who are charming,=20
      entertaining, good conversationalists and socially attentive, =
Gobie said,=20
      while male homosexual clients are more interested in obtaining=20
      "animalistic" sex.=20
      <P>"Male clients are more sexually oriented. They very seldom care =
about=20
      character, personality, sense of humor, things like that," he =
said.=20
      <P>Since becoming an escort, Gobie said he has personally serviced =
"more=20
      than 500" women clients and "hundreds" of male clients, but would =
not be=20
      more specific.=20
      <P>"There was never an occasion, even before the AIDS crisis, I =
was [ever]=20
      involved in any unsafe sex practices," the prostitute said. "I =
always took=20
      precautions . . . using condoms."=20
      <P>Asked if clients always want him to use condoms, Gobie =
responded, "No.=20
      Sometimes clients are willing to pay thousands of dollars for you =
not to=20
      use condoms. In that case, alarm bells would go off in my head, =
and those=20
      are the people that I wouldn't think of having sex without a =
condom no=20
      matter what the dollar figure was.=20
      <P>"Those are people that are potentially dangerous to you," he =
said.=20
      "Their motivations might be sinister, in that they might have =
contracted a=20
      disease from some escort in the past and now, through some sort of =
revenge=20
      motive, try . . . to infect other people in that business as a way =
of=20
      getting back."=20
      <P>However, in dozens of interviews over the last two months, =
Gobie has=20
      given details of sexual acts including an explicit tape-recorded=20
      description of his first sexual encounter with Mr. Frank in April =
1985,=20
      and it was clear that neither Gobie nor his sex partners were =
wearing=20
      condoms.=20
      <P>This week, Gobie said he had recently been tested for AIDS and =
the=20
      results were negative.=20
      <P>Gobie entered the male escort world through a prominent =
free-lance=20
      photographer for leading Washington-area homosexual publications =
whom he=20
      was introduced to by his female madam friend. The photographer =
"eventually=20
      got me involved in the modeling and escort work through the male =
scene" -=20
      including work for some of Washington's homosexual businesses and=20
      nightclubs, Gobie said.=20
      <P>"I did advertisements, endorsements for the [homosexual] bars =
in town=20
      and things like that . . . I was the first 'Mr. Rascals,' ' he =
said,=20
      referring to the prominent Dupont Circle homosexual bar Rascals.=20
      <P>Gobie said he also worked at some of the area's posh hotels as =
a=20
      concierge and front office manager as a legitimate "front" for his =
escort=20
      activities from 1978 to 1984. "Hotels are very valuable places to =
make=20
      contacts," he said.=20
      <P>Gobie said he worked at such hotels as The River Inn in =
Georgetown,=20
      Guest Quarters in Foggy Bottom, the Bristol Hotel, Quality-Inn at =
Pentagon=20
      City and the Regency Raquet Club condominium complex in McLean.=20
      <P>But the roof on his legitimate fronts caved in when he was =
convicted on=20
      the four felony charges in Alexandria in 1982.=20
      <P>All but four months of his five-year prison sentence was =
suspended, and=20
      Gobie was placed on probation for three years, during which he was =
ordered=20
      to undergo psycho-sexual therapy at the Washington-based Human =
Sexuality=20
      Institute.=20
      <P>"I was forced into the underworld by my probation and by the =
nature of=20
      the charges and the fact that my probation officer was breathing =
down my=20
      neck to try to try to let everybody in the world know what was =
going on,"=20
      Gobie said. "I felt as though I couldn't go through legitimate =
avenues for=20
      work anymore, and the logical thing for me to do was to establish =
my own=20
      escort service.=20
      <P>"I knew that there was a ton of money to be made," he said. =
"And I knew=20
      that I could get away with it if I could provide myself with some =
sort of=20
      official cover to deceive and mislead the probation department, =
which I=20
      did."=20
      <P>That "official cover" was employment by Mr. Frank, who allowed =
the=20
      prostitute to use his house and wrote to the Virginia probation =
department=20
      saying he had hired Gobie as a personal employee, Gobie claimed.=20
      <P>Mr. Frank acknowledged writing the letters but denied they were =

      intended to mislead or deceive probation=20
  officials.</P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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      <CENTER><B>IN DEATH, SPENCE STAYED TRUE TO FORM =
</B></CENTER></FONT><FONT=20
      color=3D#000000 size=3D2>
      <CENTER><B>Michael Hedges, and Jerry Seper The Washington Times; =
Final=20
      Section: A, Page: A1 Monday, November 13, 1989</B></CENTER>
      <P>BOSTON -<BR></FONT><FONT face=3Darial color=3D#3366cc=20
      size=3D4><B>C</B></FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>raig J. =
<SPAN=20
      style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Spence, the once-powerful =
lobbyist who=20
      entertained and influenced Washington's elite, died =
Friday</B></SPAN> much=20
      as he had lived: dressed in a tuxedo in Boston's most expensive =
hotel,=20
      listening to Mozart with three dollars in his pocket.=20
      <P>&nbsp;=20
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            <FONT face=3Darial color=3D#3366cc><B>Mr. Spence told =
several friends=20
            that the call-boy operation was being investigated by the =
U.S.=20
            Attorney's Office and other federal authorities as a =
possible CIA=20
            front. He told the friends that the CIA used the service to=20
            compromise other federal intelligence officials and foreign=20
            diplomats.</B></FONT>=20
            <HR>
          </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Now, many questions may never be =
answered about=20
      the man who was a focus of a federal grand jury investigation for =
<SPAN=20
      style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>spending $20,000 a month on male=20
      prostitutes, orchestrating unauthorized late-night tours of the =
White=20
      House and possibly bribing a Secret Service officer and a member =
of the=20
      Army's Delta Force.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>On a mirror in Room 429 of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Mr. Spence =
on Friday=20
      left his final enigma in the form of a suicide note.=20
      <P>With a black felt-tip marker he had written, <SPAN=20
      style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>"Chief, consider this my =
resignation,=20
      effective immediately. As you always said, you can't ask others to =
make a=20
      sacrifice if you are not ready to do the same. Life is duty. God =
bless=20
      America."</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>As a postscript, he wrote, "To the Ritz, please forgive this=20
      inconvenience."=20
      <P>Mr. Spence was found by hotel employees Friday afternoon lying =
on his=20
      bed, fully clothed, with a telephone cradled in his ear and a =
Walkman=20
      headset containing a cassette tape of Mozart's "A Little Night =
Music"=20
      around his neck, police detectives and other sources said.=20
      <P>Boston's medical examiner had made no official finding on the =
cause of=20
      death yesterday. "That may take as long a couple weeks," said a =
spokesman=20
      for the office. Mr. Spence's body was being held by the medical =
examiner,=20
      who had performed an autopsy, while police tried to contact his =
survivors.=20

      <P>Found hidden in a false ceiling in the bathroom were seven =
small=20
      packets of Xanex, a prescription anti-depressant, with one pill =
removed,=20
      Detective Sgt. James McDonald said. Also found were Mr. Spence's =
will and=20
      birth certificate.=20
      <P>Mr. Spence was attired in the style he affected at his lavish =
dinner=20
      parties, according to the police report: "black Tux with white =
shirt, bow=20
      tie, white suspenders, black socks and shoes."=20
      <P>"There was no sign of foul play whatsoever, no marks on the =
body," said=20
      Boston Police Detective Robert Harrington. "It was as if he had =
fallen=20
      asleep talking on the telephone."=20
      <P>The door of the hotel had been barricaded with the room's other =
double=20
      bed and a chair, according to a police report. Hotel maintenance =
workers=20
      had to saw through the door to enter the room. The only other way =
into the=20
      room was through a fourth-floor window facing a busy street.=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Mr. Spence may have =
attempted to=20
      save himself after taking an intentional overdose, according to =
police=20
      investigators.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4" <span><B>"Someone from Washington =
called=20
      the hotel that day and said a Craig Spence had called the caller =
and may=20
      be sick," said a police detective.</B> "But the hotel couldn't =
find a Mr.=20
      Spence registered. It turned out he had checked in under an alias, =
C.S.=20
      Kane." Friends theorized the alias was an ironic takeoff on Orson =
Welles'=20
      fictional hero Citizen Kane, whom Mr. Spence often said he =
admired.=20
      <P>&nbsp;</P></FONT>
    <TD vAlign=3Dtop width=3D"50%"><FONT size=3D2>In an interview with =
The=20
      Washington Times in August, <SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: =
#7fffd4"><B>Mr.=20
      Spence made frequent allusions to his work with the Central =
Intelligence=20
      Agency, a connection CIA sources deny.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>But on the bed near him =
when he=20
      died, according to two Boston detectives who handled the =
investigation,=20
      was a newspaper clipping detailing efforts by CIA Director William =
Webster=20
      to initiate legislation giving protection to CIA agents called =
upon to=20
      testify before government bodies.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>Mr. Spence had been subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand =
jury in=20
      Washington probing his connections to a call-boy network suspected =
of=20
      committing credit-card violations, to late-night White House tours =
he=20
      arranged and the gift of a Rolex watch to a Secret Service officer =
who=20
      allegedly gave Mr. Spence pieces of the Truman china collection in =
return.=20

      <P>&nbsp;=20
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            <FONT face=3Darial color=3D#3366cc><B>"All this stuff you've =
uncovered=20
            (involving call boys, bribery and the White House tours), to =
be=20
            honest with you, is insignificant compared to other things =
I've=20
            done. But I'm not going to tell you those things, and =
somehow the=20
            world will carry on."</B></FONT>=20
            <HR>
          </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: =
#7fffd4"><B>He had=20
      boasted to reporters for The Times that - if he testified - he =
would=20
      provide a wealth of damaging information into the workings of the =
call-boy=20
      ring, bribery of Japanese and U.S. officials and other sordid=20
      matters.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>But, despite the =
subpoena, Mr.=20
      Spence apparently never appeared before a grand jury.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>During the past few weeks, Mr. Spence told several friends that =
<SPAN=20
      style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>the call-boy operation was being=20
      investigated by the U.S. Attorney's Office and other federal =
authorities=20
      as a possible CIA front. He told the friends that the CIA used the =
service=20
      to compromise other federal intelligence officials and foreign=20
      diplomats.</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>One friend quoted him as saying, <SPAN=20
      style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>"Casey's boys are out to get=20
      me,"</B></SPAN> an apparent reference to former CIA Director =
William=20
      Casey, now deceased. Mr. Casey and Mr. Spence were friends, and =
the former=20
      CIA director attended parties hosted by the former lobbyist.=20
      <P>Mr. Spence had come to Boston several days before his death =
with=20
      frequent companion former Air Force Sgt. Ron Paganelli and his =
dog,=20
      Winston, according to police investigators.=20
      <P>During his stay at the elegant Ritz Carlton, just off the =
Boston=20
      Common, he entertained as many as six or seven guests in his =
$285-a-night=20
      room, according to hotel employees.=20
      <P>He had arrived at the hotel Nov. 4. Mr. Spence told a hotel =
worker with=20
      whom he had become friendly that he was in town to meet with a =
former=20
      boss, one-time Massachusetts Speaker of the House John Davoren, =
police=20
      said. But that meeting never occurred, they said.=20
      <P>Hotel employees said he was an eccentric guest, making frequent =
demands=20
      of the staff for chocolate truffles, fresh flowers and other =
appointments=20
      but then somewhat arbitrarily tipping $200 or $300 at a time. He =
spent=20
      much of his stay traveling in limousines to meet friends, police =
said.=20
      <P>During a lengthy interview at a Manhattan apartment in August, =
<SPAN=20
      style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>Mr. Spence frequently alluded to =
deep=20
      mysteries. "All this stuff you've uncovered (involving call boys, =
bribery=20
      and the White House tours), to be honest with you, is =
insignificant=20
      compared to other things I've done. But I'm not going to tell you =
those=20
      things, and somehow the world will carry on."</B></SPAN>=20
      <P><SPAN style=3D"BACKGROUND: #7fffd4"><B>He also talked =
frequently of=20
      suicide, saying repeatedly, "My life is over." He reserved deep =
bitterness=20
      for high-powered friends he said had forsaken him. "I've had the =
world at=20
      my house, and now they don't know who I am," he said. "But they =
did come,=20
      didn't they?"</B></SPAN>=20
      <P>Photo, Craig J. Spence, who once said he was "looking forward" =
to=20
      death, was found dead Friday in his room at the Ritz Carlton Hotel =
in=20
      Boston.,=20
      <P>By Peter Kolk/Special to The Washington=20
Times</P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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      <CENTER><B>SPENCE AS MUCH AN ENIGMA IN DEATH AS HE WAS IN LIFE=20
      </B></CENTER></FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>
      <CENTER><B>Jerry Seper, and Michael Hedges The Washington Times; =
Final=20
      Section: WORLD Page: A11 Monday, November 13, 1989</B></CENTER>
      <P><BR></FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D3><I>"The rumors of my =
death are=20
      greatly exaggerated."</I><BR></FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 =
size=3D2>- Craig J.=20
      Spence, two weeks ago at a Washington dinner party.</FONT>=20
      <P>=20
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      <P><FONT face=3Darial color=3D#3366cc =
size=3D4><B>T</B></FONT><FONT=20
      color=3D#000000 size=3D2>he room where Craig J. Spence died was =