Frank Carlucci
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Frank Charles Carlucci III (born October 18 1930) was a government official in the United States, associated with the Republican Party. He was United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 until 1989.
Carlucci was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Princeton University in 1952, 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 used his athletic ability to rescue US citizens from mobs.
During the early 1970s he became a protégé and was a former roommate at Princeton with Donald Rumsfeld. He 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. Carlucci was deputy defense secretary from 1981 until 1986, 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 officals.
Carlucci is Chairman emeritus of the Carlyle Group. 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 a former director of Wackenhut.
Carlucci is affiliated with the Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, the neo-conservative thinktank. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Middle East Policy Council.
Carlucci is a member of the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation.
Carlucci was Deputy Director of the CIA from 1978-1981, under CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who succeeded George Herbert Walker Bush.
Carlucci is an Advisory board member of G2 Satellite Solutions.
Carlucci is Chairman Emeritus of Nortel Networks and of the US-Taiwan Business Council.
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