Frank Carlucci

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Frank Carlucci
Frank Carlucci at a 1988 press conference.
16th United States Secretary of Defense
In office November 23, 1987 – January 20, 1989
President	Ronald Reagan
Deputy	William Howard Taft IV
Preceded by	Caspar Weinberger
Succeeded by	Dick Cheney
15th United States National Security Advisor
In office December 2, 1986 – November 23, 1987
President	Ronald Reagan
Deputy	Peter Rodman
Preceded by	John M. Poindexter
Succeeded by	Colin Powell
15th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
In office 1981 - 1983
President	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
Succeeded by	W. Paul Thayer
13th Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
In office February 1978 – February 1981
President	Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	John Francis Blake
Succeeded by	Bobby Ray Inman
4th Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity
In office 1971 - 1972
President	Richard Nixon
Preceded by	Donald Rumsfeld
Succeeded by	Philip V. Sanchez
Born	October 18, 1930 (1930-10-18) (age 79) Scranton, PA, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Princeton University Harvard Business School
Religion	Roman Catholic
Military service
Service/branch	United States Navy
Years of service	1952-1954

Frank Charles Carlucci III (born October 18, 1930) is a former government official in the United States, associated with the Republican Party. He was United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 until 1989.

Contents 1 Early career 2 Administration 3 Post-Administration work 3.1 Business 3.2 Organizations 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Early career

Carlucci was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Wyoming Seminary in 1948 and Princeton University in 1952, where he roomed with Donald Rumsfeld, and attended Harvard Business School in 1954-55. He was a Naval officer from 1952-54. He joined the Foreign Service, working for the State Department from 1956 until 1969. In 1961 he participated in a CIA mission to Congo, in which he helped to rescue US citizens from mobs.

According to James Schlesinger, following the death of Patrice Lumumba, the new Prime Minister of the Congo, Cyrille Adoula, began a meeting with President John F. Kennedy with the question "Ou est Carlucci?" (Where is Carlucci?), who first responded "Who the hell is Carlucci?'" and then sent Dean Rusk to find him.^[1]

In the year 2000, a film called Lumumba portrayed him as being involved during his service in Congo in the murder of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba. Carlucci furiously denied the charges, and successfully went to court to prevent being named in the film when it was released in the United States.

[edit] Administration

During the early 1970s Rumsfeld became Mr. Carlucci's protégé as Mr. Carlucci showed him the ropes. Carlucci was Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare when Caspar Weinberger was secretary during the Nixon administration. Carlucci became Ambassador to Portugal, and served in this position from 1974 until 1977. He is still very fondly remembered in Portugal among the winners of the November 25 Coup d'État [1]. Carlucci was Deputy Director of the CIA from 1978-1981, under CIA Director Stansfield Turner. Carlucci was deputy defense secretary from 1981 until 1983 [2], national security advisor from 1986 until 1987, and defense secretary in 1987, following the resignation of Weinberger, his nomination by President Ronald Reagan and his confirmation in the Senate by a vote of 91 to 1. He was reportedly less hard-line in policies toward the Soviet Union than Weinberger.

On January 5, 2006, he participated in a meeting at the White House of former Secretaries of Defense and State to discuss United States foreign policy with Bush administration officials.

[edit] Post-Administration work

[edit] Business

Carlucci served as chairman of the Carlyle Group from 1992-2003, and chairman emeritus until 2005. He also has business interests in the following companies: General Dynamics, Westinghouse, Ashland Oil, Neurogen, CB Commercial Real Estate, Nortel, BDM International, Quaker Oats, and Kaman. Carlucci is Chairman of Envion USA, and former director of Wackenhut. He is a co-founder and senior member of the Frontier Group, a private equity investment firm co-founded by David Robb (formerly with The Carlyle Group) and to which Sanford McDonnell and Norm Augustine are senior advisors. Frontier Group is the principal investor in Utopia Residences (http://www.utopiaresidences.com), which has ordered the Utopia ocean liner [see "A Cruise That Never Ends". http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/01/asia-biggest-cruise-ship-lifestyle-travel-samsung.html?feed=rss_asia. Retrieved 2009-12-21.]. Carlucci is an Advisory board member of G2 Satellite Solutions and the Chairman Emeritus of Nortel Networks.

[edit] Organizations

He is affiliated with the Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, a neo-conservative thinktank.^{[citation needed]}He formerly sat on the Board of Directors of the Middle East Policy Council.^{[citation needed]} He is Chairman Emeritus of the US-Taiwan Business Council [3]. Carlucci is a member of the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation and founding co-chair of the Advisory Board for RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

1. ^ Shorrock, Tim (March 14, 2002). "Company Man". The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020325&s=shorrock20020314. Retrieved May 3, 2009. 

[edit] External links

• Department of Defense biography

Government offices
Preceded by Donald Rumsfeld	Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity 1971–1972	Succeeded by Philip V. Sanchez
Preceded by Enno Henry Knoche	Deputy Director of Central Intelligence 1978–1981	Succeeded by Bobby Ray Inman
Legal offices
Preceded by John Poindexter	United States National Security Advisor 1986–1987	Succeeded by Colin Powell
Political offices
Preceded by W. Graham Claytor Jr.	United States Deputy Secretary of Defense 1981–1983	Succeeded by W. Paul Thayer
Preceded by Caspar W. Weinberger	United States Secretary of Defense Served under: Ronald Reagan 1987–1989	Succeeded by Dick Cheney

v • d • e United States Secretaries of Defense Forrestal • Johnson • Marshall • Lovett • Wilson • McElroy • T. Gates • McNamara • Clifford • Laird • Richardson • Schlesinger • Rumsfeld • Brown • Weinberger • Carlucci • Cheney • Aspin • Perry • Cohen • Rumsfeld • R. Gates

v • d • e National Security Advisors of the United States Cutler • Anderson • Jackson • Cutler • Gray • Bundy • Rostow • Kissinger • Scowcroft • Brzezinski • Allen • Clark • McFarlane • Poindexter • Carlucci • Powell • Scowcroft • Lake • Berger • Rice • Hadley • Jones

v • d • e Deputy Directors of Central Intelligence and Central Intelligence Agency Central Intelligence Kingman Douglass · Vacant · Edwin Kennedy Wright · Vacant · William Harding Jackson · Allen W. Dulles · Charles P. Cabell · Marshall Carter · Richard Helms · Rufus Taylor · Robert E. Cushman, Jr. · Vernon A. Walters · Enno Knoche · John F. Blake · Frank Carlucci · Bobby Ray Inman · John N. McMahon · Robert Gates Richard James Kerr · Bill Studeman · George Tenet · John A. Gordon · John E. McLaughlin · Vacant Central Intelligence Agency Albert Calland · Stephen Kappes

v • d • e Directors of the Office of Economic Oppurtunity Sargent Shriver • Bertrand Harding • Donald Rumsfeld • Frank Carlucci • Phillip V. Sanchez • Howard Phillips (acting) • Arvin J. Arnett • Nathan E. Chambers

v • d • e Cabinet of President Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)   Cabinet Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (1981–1982) • George P. Shultz (1982–1989) Secretary of the Treasury Donald T. Regan (1981–1985) • James A. Baker, III (1985–1988) • Nicholas F. Brady (1988–1989) Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger (1981–1987) • Frank C. Carlucci (1987–1989) Attorney General William French Smith (1981–1985) • Edwin Meese III (1985–1988) • Richard L. Thornburgh (1988–1989) Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt (1981–1983) • William P. Clark, Jr. (1983–1985) • Donald P. Hodel (1985–1989) Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block (1981–1986) • Richard E. Lyng (1986–1989) Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, Jr. (1981–1987) • C. William Verity, Jr. (1987–1989) Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan (1981–1985) • William E. Brock (1985–1987) • Ann Dore McLaughlin (1987–1989) Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard S. Schweiker (1981–1983) • Margaret M. Heckler (1983–1985) • Otis R. Bowen (1985–1989) Secretary of Education T. H. Bell (1981–1985) • William J. Bennett (1985–1988) • Lauro F. Cavazos (1988–1989) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel R. Pierce, Jr. (1981–1989) Secretary of Transportation Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. (1981–1983) • Elizabeth H. Dole (1983–1987) • James H. Burnley IV (1988–1989) Secretary of Energy James B. Edwards (1981–1983) • Donald P. Hodel (1983–1985) • John S. Herrington (1985–1989)   Cabinet-level Vice President George H. W. Bush (1981–1989) Director of Central Intelligence William J. Casey (1981–1987) • William H. Webster (1987–1989) Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1981–1985) • Vernon A. Walters (1985–1989) Trade Representative William E. Brock, III (1981–1985) • Clayton K. Yeutter (1985–1989)