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  Frank Carlucci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Charles Carlucci III (born October 18, 1930) was a government official in the United States, associated with the Republican Party.
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.
Carlucci is a member of the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation.
en.wikipedia.org /?title=Frank_Carlucci   (393 words)

  
 SecDef Histories - Frank Carlucci   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Carlucci actually thought the matter ought to be exclusively in the hands of the secretary of defense, but he proposed the commission approach as a politically viable way to achieve the result.
Carlucci worried about proposals in Congress to provide quick fixes in the procurement area‹including establishment of an independent procurement control agency, a special inspector general to investigate reports of Pentagon corruption, and strengthening the "revolving door" laws involving the Pentagon and military contractors.
Carlucci felt that the Midgetman would not be cost effective and would compete for funds with the MX in a tight Pentagon budget, but he proposed a modest allocation in the FY 1988 budget to keep the Midgetman alive.
www.defenselink.mil /specials/secdef_histories/bios/carlucci.htm   (2798 words)

  
 PSI: Frank Carlucci
Carlucci has more than half a century of distinguished service in the public and private sectors, and has held a number of top government positions, including secretary of defense in the Reagan Administration.
Carlucci preceded that affiliation with a career in government service, including deputy secretary of defense (1980-82), deputy director of Central Intelligence (1978-80), ambassador to Portugal (1975-78), under secretary of Health Education and Welfare (1973-75), deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (1970-72), and director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969).
Carlucci is chairman emeritus of Nortel Networks and the US-Taiwan Business Council and chairman of the boards of directors of Neurogen Corporation, Center for Excellence in Education, Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs and the Private Sector Council.
www.psi.org /about_us/carlucci.html   (320 words)

  
 Asia Times: US-Taiwan: The guiding hand of Frank Carlucci
Carlucci was elected chairman in 1999 and followed in the footsteps of several other former defense officials, including former defense secretary Caspar Weinburger and former national security adviser William P Clark.
Carlucci has played a key role in these investments as a member of the Carlyle Asia advisory board, which is chaired by former president George H W Bush, himself a former US ambassador to China.
Carlucci, as chairman of Carlyle and a longtime operative in the US intelligence and national security establishment, is doing what he does best: parlaying his vast contacts in business and commerce to make money for himself and his companies behind the thin veneer of public service.
www.atimes.com /china/DC19Ad02.html   (1634 words)

  
 American President
Frank Charles Carlucci III was born on October 18, 1930, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Carlucci was also associate director and deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (1971-1972) and served as undersecretary of the department of health, education and welfare (1972-1974).
He was an ambassador to Portugal (1974-1977), undersecretary of health, education and welfare (1977-1978) and then deputy director of the C.I.A. Carlucci then served as deputy secretary at the Department of Defense from 1981 to 1983.
www.americanpresident.org /history/ronaldreagan/cabinet/defense/frankcarlucci/email.html   (185 words)

  
 USCFL - Interview with Samuel Berger and Frank Carlucci 
Frank Carlucci: Like many in this room I spent many years in diplomacy and diplomacy is very hollow unless it's backed by a military strength.
Frank Carlucci: Well, as Adel Al Zubera [phonetic] has said, the Saudis have made mistakes in the past and it's clear that they have been a little slow on the pickup.
Frank Carlucci: It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
www.freelebanon.org /testimonies/t73.htm   (7344 words)

  
 Scoop: Suzan Mazur: Unspooking Frank Carlucci
Frank Carlucci III was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1930.
Carlucci's father was a life insurance agent for Connecticut Mutual and a graduate of Lafayette College where he belonged to a Waspy fraternity.
Carlucci's grandfather, Frank Carlucci I, was an immigrant from southern Italy.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0501/S00017.htm   (3981 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Strategic Thinking -- April 6, 1999
FRANK CARLUCCI: Well, if the goal, the most recent goal seems to be to expel the Serbian troops from Kosovo and allow the refugees to come back in -- by the way, standard formula in warfare is that have you clear goals and obscure the means so the adversary is kept guessing.
FRANK CARLUCCI: I think we would have to be very fortunate indeed to have air power change Milosevic's mind at this point, particularly-- it's one thing to degrade his military capability.
FRANK CARLUCCI: Well, what I said was that that was a figure that had come out of the Pentagon or NATO.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/jan-june99/defense_4-6.html   (2528 words)

  
 Frank Charles Carlucci III - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Frank Charles Carlucci III has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since at least 1995.
Carlucci is a director on United Defense Industries (the United States' largest defense contractor), which is owned by the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank based in Washington, D.C., of which Carlucci is the chairman.
Carlucci is both a trustee (http://www.rand.org/nsrd/cmepp/about.html) of the RAND Corporation and co-chair of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy (CMEPP), which "sets the standard for research and analysis on the Middle East
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Frank_Charles_Carlucci_III   (345 words)

  
 NewsMine.org - frank carlucci.txt
The Chairman of the Carlyle Group, Frank Carlucci, was not only a former Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, but a Deputy Director of the CIA during the Carter Administration.
Fortunately for Carlucci, Timberlake was relieved of his ambassadorial post and replaced by Kennedy appointees whose liberal politics allowed for certain compromises with indigenous forces in Africa who might still serve the anti-communist alliance while facilitating US economic interests in the region.
Although Carlucci wasn't around for the mess that followed in the wake of UN intervention and the continuing zigs and zags of US policy in the Congo, he did wind up in Brazil in time for the overthrow of the Goulart government.
newsmine.org /archive/cabal-elite/frank-carlucci.txt   (1898 words)

  
 Francis Schor: The Strange Career of Frank Carlucci
A critical part of Carlucci's career was spent as a foreign service officer during the 1950's and 1960's in such hot spots as the Congo and Brazil.
Carlucci managed to convince President Ford of his approach by working directly through Rumsfeld who was, at the time, the White House chief of staff.
Carlucci then made the transition to a procurer of new weapons as Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration under Caspar Weinberger from 1981-83.
www.counterpunch.org /schorcarlucci.html   (1959 words)

  
 Index Ca-Ce
Carlucci eventually became under secretary of health, education, and welfare - by invitation of Weinberger, who had become secretary.
Carlucci returned to the State Department in 1975 as ambassador to Portugal.
On Nov. 23, 1987, Carlucci succeeded Weinberger as secretary of defense, having been nominated by Reagan on November 5 and confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 91-1 on November 20.
www.rulers.org /indexc1.html   (18942 words)

  
 Scoop: Suzan Mazur: Frank Carlucci I, "Sublime Prince"
The life of Frank Carlucci I has largely escaped public scrutiny, possibly because he's grandfather to one of the knights of the political chessboard -- Carlyle Group’s Frank Carlucci III -- who is not known for being flashy.
Carlucci obviously valued the traditions of his craft and professional associations, and the knowledge of the keystone in building an archway was part of the Mason success story.
Frank Carlucci I died March 4, 1931 at the age of 69, several months after the birth of his grandson and namesake, Frank Carlucci III.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0506/S00418.htm   (1842 words)

  
 "Carlucci" bleeped from HBO version of Lumumba Ex-CIA official threatened lawsuit
Carlucci’s lawyers threatened Peck and distribution company Zeitgeist Films with legal action if the name of the former US official was not bleeped out of a scene that shows American Ambassador Clare Timberlake and Carlucci, along with Belgian and Congolese officials, plotting Lumumba’s assassination.
Carlucci insisted that only the altered version of the film, with his name missing, could be used for mass market venues, such as television, video and DVD, allowing the original track to remain intact for theater showings.
Carlucci is an immensely wealthy individual, with connections at the highest levels of the US government.
www.wsws.org /articles/2002/mar2002/carl-m15.shtml   (1231 words)

  
 Presidential Appointee Initiative - Transcript of "Presidential Appointees Pay a Price to Serve Their Country" Press ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I may be wrong about this, but Frank Carlucci is the last career officer, the last careerist who really made it all the way up to the secretary of a department, I believe.
Frank was also a member of the first Volcker Commission, and has been a deeply committed public servant, and a strong supporter of efforts to improve public service.
And you do have children thinking about going to college, or in college, as Frank described, and you may have made the downpayment on that boat you've been wanting all your life, or that second home at the shore, or something like that, so your costs are relatively high.
www.appointee.brookings.edu /events/march2002_transcript.htm   (9780 words)

  
 TESTIMONY OF FRANK CARLUCCI
CARLUCCI: I can't recall what structures the National Security Council has had over time, but when I came in as the National Security Advisor and, of course, that was in the wake of Iran-Contra, I totally reorganized the National Security Council staff.
CARLUCCI: Without being current on the subject, and I have to emphasize that point, I really don't know what DIA is doing and shouldn't know what they're doing in clandestine collection.
CARLUCCI: No. Let me say -- and General Allen may recall that when I was Secretary I took a group of about six people, the smartest people I could find -- Phil Carter headed the group -- and I said, you go over to NDU, you just sit there and think.
www.fas.org /irp/commission/testcarl.htm   (5979 words)

  
 Remarks at the Swearing-In Ceremony for Frank C
As you know, Frank has earned a reputation as an experienced and skillful administrator -- a man who knows the bureaucracy, knows the Hill, and knows how to work with both to achieve remarkable results for our national security.
Yes, Frank is the grandson of an Italian stonecutter; he knows in a special way not only what this nation means to all of us but to the entire world.
In Secretary Carlucci's remarks, he referred to Howard H. Baker, Jr., Chief of Staff to the President, and Kenneth M. Duberstein, Deputy Chief of Staff.
www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1987/112387a.htm   (1104 words)

  
 Extreme Networks
Carlucci, 41, who has 14 years of sales and business operations experience, has held senior and mid-level positions with market leading technology companies, such as Avaya Inc., Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks.
Carlucci was also responsible for the Business Operations and Planning function for Avaya's Enterprise Communications Group after having lead Avaya's largest sales region for two years.
Carlucci is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy.
www.extremenetworks.com /aboutus/pressroom/releases/pr07_12_04.asp   (439 words)

  
 village voice > news > The Carlyle Connection by Geoffrey Gray
He invited Carlucci over to the Pentagon for advice—not as a Carlyle chairman, but as a former public servant—along with William Perry, former Clinton defense secretary.
Carlucci, who has been out of office long enough to work as a lobbyist if he wanted to, told Fortune he had been "particularly cautious" not to discuss Carlyle business with Rumsfeld.
True, the two have become close friends since their Ivy League days together on the Princeton wrestling team, and the defense secretary and his wife, Joyce, often dine at the Carluccis' house, and Rummy occasionally lends Frank and Marsha the keys to their $280,000 ski condo in Taos, New Mexico.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0218/gray.php   (962 words)

  
 Presidential Appointees Pay a Price to Serve Their Country   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
PAUL C. It's also important to note that Frank Carlucci was in government at the time when Congress passed the Base Realignment and Closure Act, which created a mechanism for doing something very difficult.
FRANK C. The way that came about, I sat down with the then obscure Congressman named Dick Armey, and we worked out the process.
FRANK C. For every abuse, you've got an example of people who have been rewarded for creating value all over the place.
www.brook.edu /comm/transcripts/20020322.htm   (9985 words)

  
 Company Man
Last November Frank Carlucci, chairman of the Carlyle Group, spoke to a conference on national security sponsored by the Pentagon and the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank where he sits on the board of directors.
Carlucci, who was the second secretary of the US Embassy in Congo from 1960 to 1962, has vehemently denied that he played any role in Lumumba's demise.
There is plenty of documentation of Carlucci's role in the US intervention in postcolonial Congo, including an account, partly verified by Carlucci, of his role in seeking Lumumba's overthrow in Jonathan Kwitny's 1984 book on US foreign policy, Endless Enemies (see also Francis Shore's recent article in CounterPunch, "The Strange Career of Frank Carlucci,").
www.thenation.com /doc/20020325/shorrock20020314   (828 words)

  
 Nortel Networks: News Release - Frank C. Carlucci Becomes Nortel Networks' New Chairman of the Board of Directors
Carlucci, replaces Donald J. Schuenke who had served as chairman of the board since April 28, 1994.
Carlucci of McLean, Virginia, a member of the Nortel Networks board of directors since 1989, currently serves as the chairman of the Carlyle Group, a Washington, D.C.-based merchant banking firm as well as chairman of the board and a director of Neurogen Corporation.
Speaking on his election as chairman of the board, Carlucci said, "Since my election to the board of directors ten years ago, I've worked with a great many leaders as Nortel Networks has grown both its revenue and earnings as well as its contributions in the field of communications.
www.nortelnetworks.com /corporate/news/newsreleases/1999b/4_29_9999298_Carlucci_appt.html   (478 words)

  
 NCHC | Members - Board of Directors
Carlucci was Chairman and CEO of Sears World Trade, a business he joined in 1983.
Carlucci preceded his affiliation with Sears World Trade, Inc. with a career in government service, which included Deputy Secretary of Defense (1980-82), Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (1978-80), Ambassador to Portugal (1975-78), Under Secretary of Health Education and Welfare (1973-75), Deputy Director of OMB (1970-72), and Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969).
Carlucci was a Foreign Service Officer from 1956 to 1980 and he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1952 to 1954.
www.nchc.org /members/bios/Carlucci_Frank.shtml   (247 words)

  
 Fahrenheit 9/11 | Library + Resources Book
It is Carlucci’s close friendship with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that the press most often seizes on when criticizing Carlyle.
A former college roommate and wrestling teammate of Frank Carlucci, Rumsfeld and Carlucci are never far apart.
One of his early mentors was Frank Carlucci, and the two remain close.
www.fahrenheit911.com /library/book/carlyle/index.php?page=3   (2242 words)

  
 Encysive Pharmaceuticals Announces Retirement of Frank C. Carlucci from Board of Directors
Carlucci's departure reduces the number of Directors to 10.
"Frank's leadership and wise counsel have helped guide Encysive through our early years as a research and development concern, followed by our transition to a pharmaceutical company poised to directly commercialize Thelin(TM) (sitaxsentan sodium) pending FDA approval," commented John M. Pietruski, Encysive Pharmaceuticals' Chairman of the Board.
Our research and development programs are predominantly focused on the treatment and prevention of interrelated diseases of the vascular endothelium and exploit our expertise in the area of the intravascular inflammatory process, referred to as the inflammatory cascade, and vascular diseases.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-03-2006/0004312854&EDATE=   (500 words)

  
 Neurogen Corporation :: Craig Saxton, M.D. Appointed New Chairman of Neurogen Corporation
Carlucci served as a director and Chairman of the Board of Neurogen since February 1989.
Carlucci served as Secretary of Defense of the United States from November 1987 through January 1989.
Carlucci had been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sears World Trade Inc. from 1984 to 1986, after having served as President and Chief Operating Officer since 1983.
sev.prnewswire.com /health-care-hospitals/20050107/NYF00707012005-1.html   (533 words)

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