mission, and en route to Spain, where he was to fulfill a series of speaking engagements. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is suspected of involvement in his death. Recto, who had no known heart disease, met with two mysterious "Caucasians" wearing business suits before he died. that a plan to murder Recto with a vial of poison was discussed by CIA Chief of Station Ralph Lovett and the US Ambassador to the Philippines Admiral Raymond Spruance years earlier. Recto was married twice. He had four children in his first marriage with Angeles Silos. He also had two sons with his second wife, Aurora Reyes. He is the grandfather of current senator Ralph Recto. Speeches and Writings A realistic economic policy for the Philippines. Speech delivered at the Philippine Columbian Association, September 26, 1956. ISBN B0007KCFEM Sovereignty and Nationalism On the Formosa Question, 1955 ISBN B0007JI5DI United States-Philippine Relations, 1935-1960. Alicia Benitez, ed. University of Hawaii, 1964. Three years of enemy occupation: The issue of political collaboration in the Philippines. Filipiniana series, 1985 Filipiana reprint. ISBN B0007K1JRG Our trade relations with the United States, 1954 ISBN B0007K8LS6 The evil of religious test in a democracy, 1960 ISBN B0007K4Y8W Solo entre las sombres: Drama en un acto y en prosa, 1917; reprinted 1999 Asiatic monroeism and other essays: Articles of debate, 1930 ISBN B0008A5354 The law of belligerent occupation and the effect of the change of sovereignty on the commonwealth treason law: With particular reference to the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, 1946 Our lingering colonial complex, a speech before the Baguio Press Association, 1951 The Quirino junket: an Objective Appraisal, 1949 ISBN B0007K4A7W The Philippine survival: Nationalist essays by Claro M. Recto, 1982 Claro Recto on our Constitution, Constitutional Amendments and the Constitutional Convention of 1991 Our mendicant foreign policy, a speech at the commencement exercises, University of the Philippines, 1951 The Recto Valedictory, a collection of 10 never-delivered speeches, with English translations by Nick Joaquin, 1985 [1] [2] Vintage Recto: Memorable speeches and writings, edited by Renato Constantino, 1986 Recto Reader: Excerpts from the Speeches of Claro M. Recto. edited by Renato Constantino, 1965 ISBN B0006E72Z6 Further reading The relevant Recto, by Renato Constantino, 1986 Dissent on Philippine Society; the Filipino elite; Recto's Second Demise, by Renato Constantino, 1972 The Relevance of Recto Today: A review of Philippine-American and other relations, by Emerenciana Avellana Recto and the National Democratic Struggle: