White House Children Sexual Exploitation Ring in 1989

In June 1989, the Washington Times published a story that sent shockwaves rippling across Capitol Hill.
Craig Spence, a behind-the-scenes Republican powerbroker in Washington had been deeply involved with a callboy ring that supplied young boys, some of them very young boys, to the politician of both US parties, as well as to visiting dignitaries.
It was reported by the Times that a list of some 200 influential clients included the names of “government officials, locally based U.S. military officers, businessmen, lawyers, bankers, congressional aides, media representatives and other professionals,” only a few of whom were publicly identified.
On the guest lists for Spence’s parties were former CIA Director William Casey and former Deputy Director of Intelligence Ray Cline; Congressman Barney Frank and Senators John Glenn and Frank Murkowski; political activist/propagandist Phyllis Schlafly; former Attorney General John Mitchell (who once co-hosted a party with Spence); journalists William Safire, Liz Trotta, Ted Koppel and Eric Severeid; former Ambassadors James Lilley, Robert Neumann and Elliot Richardson; General Alfred M. Gray, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, and Lt. General Daniel O. Graham, an expert on the ‘Space Defense Initiative’; and former U.S. Attorneys Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing.
Spence once held a birthday bash for the notorious Roy Cohn. He also boasted of playing host to Rock Hudson and other celebrities.
Among the revelations in the case was that Spence had taken some of his callboy escorts, that is sexually exploited children, on private, late-night tours of the White House.
The tours were cleared by a uniformed Secret Service guard who moonlighted as a bodyguard at Spence’s 'parties'. Spence hinted that the tours were arranged by the national security adviser to then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, Donald Gregg.
Spence had spent a considerable time in south east Asia, namely Vietnam prior to his work in Washington.