User:Marcello Spada/sandbox

SPENCER LEWIS

(New York City, 1901 - ?) As a young man in New York City, Spencer had wanted to become a Catholic priest. This is perhaps why he was so fascinated with Rome. It is also why he had embraced his secret mission as a Secret Agent with such faith and zeal. In his youth, his innate sense of justice had also brought him to embrace Socialism as the political equivalent of Christianity, but the war came to cancel all that.

As a soldier, Spencer stopped professing either beliefs and concentrated on his job. Which was to win the War. His private life remains a mystery.

Between 1945 and 1962 his powers allowed him to conduct special operations in Italy without the need of any authorisation by the Italian authorities.

In 1962 he was suspected of being a legendary Soviet spy code named "The Bishop". He disappeared before he could be arrested.

From Spencer Lewis’ last letter to Marcello Spada:

“''When I was your age I thought that the World was a place that needed repair. Injustice, inequality, betrayal were everywhere. The three words upon which we have built our faith in Democracy, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, the ideals of the French Revolution, had all been betrayed. We gave too much importance to “liberty”, mistaking it for an instrument for the survival of the fittest. We conned ourselves into pretending we lived in societies where we could all be “equal”. We completely forgot to give any meaning to “fraternity”. I wanted to change all that. I honestly thought I could. I didn’t know then what I know now: the world doesn’t change. We do''.”