Frank Carlucci

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=Frank Carlucci


caption=Frank Carlucci at a 1988 press conference.
order=16th
title=United States Secretary of Defense
president=Ronald Reagan
term_start=November 23, 1987
term_end=January 20, 1989
predecessor=Caspar Weinberger
successor=Dick Cheney
birth_date=birth date and age|1930|10|18
birth_place= Scranton, PA, U.S.
death_date=
death_place=
alma_mater=Princeton University
religion=Episcopalian
party=Republican
profession=

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.

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. 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.

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 PortugalFact|date=October 2008. Carlucci was Deputy Director of the CIA from 1978-1981, under CIA Director Stansfield Turner. Carlucci was deputy defense secretary from 1981 until 1983 [http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/carlucci.htm] , 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.

Post-Administration work

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 senior member of the Frontier Group, a private equity investment firm founded by Sanford McDonnell and David Robb. Carlucci is an Advisory board member of G2 Satellite Solutions and the Chairman Emeritus of Nortel Networks

Organizations

He is affiliated with the Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, a neo-conservative thinktank. Fact|date=July 2008He formerly sat on the Board of Directors of the Middle East Policy Council.Fact|date=July 2008 He is Chairman Emeritus of the US-Taiwan Business Council. Fact|date=July 2008Carlucci 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.Fact|date=July 2008

References

* [http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/carlucci.htm Department of Defense biography]

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