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Institutional
Affiliations
National
Endowment for Democracy (NED): Member, Board of Directors
(4)
Project
for the New American Century (PNAC): Has signed several
PNAC advocacy letters (5)
RAND
Corporation: Member, Board of Trustees; Co-Chair, Advisory
Board for Center for Middle East Public Policy (6), (7)
American
Academy of Diplomacy: Chairman Emeritus (8)
Government
Service
Department
of Defense: Secretary of Defense, November 23, 1987-January
20, 1989 (1)
Department
of State: National Security Adviser, 1987 (4)
White
House: Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs, 1986 (1)
White
House: Member, President’s Blue Ribbon Commission
on Defense Management, where he worked on issues of long-range
planning and the budgeting and programming process, 1985-1986
(1)
Department
of Defense: Deputy Secretary, 1981-1983 (1)
Central
Intelligence Agency: Deputy Director, 1978-1981 (1)
U.S.
State Department: Ambassador to Portugal, 1975-1978 (1)
Department
of Health, Education and Welfare: Undersecretary, 1972-1974
(1)
Office
of Management and Budget: Associate Director, Deputy Director,
1971-1972 (1)
Office
of Economic Opportunity: Assistant Director, 1969; Director,
1970-1971 (1)
Department
of State: Foreign Service Officer, 1957-1969 (1)
U.S.
Navy: Lieutenant, 1952-1954 (1)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Carlyle
Group: chairman emeritus (3)
G2
Satellite Solutions: Advisory board member (7)
Nortel
Networks: Chairman Emeritus (3)
U.S.-Taiwan
Business Council: Chairman Emeritus (3)
Neurogen
Corp.: Chairman of Board of Directors (3)
SunResorts,
Ltd., N.V.: Member, Corporate Board (3)
Encysive
Pharmaceuticals, Inc: Member, Corporate Board (3)
United
Defense, L.P.: Member, Corporate Board (3)
Ashland,
Inc.: Member, Corporate Board (4)
Kaman
Corp.: Member, Corporate Board (4)
Quaker
Oats Co.: Member, Corporate Board (4)
Pharmacia
Corp.: Member, Corporate Board (4)
Sears
World Trade, Inc.: President, Chairman and CEO, 1983-1986
(1)
Education
Harvard
Graduate School of Business Administration (1)
Princeton University: B.A., 1952 (1)
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Highlights
& Quotes
Frank
Carlucci, Ronald Reagan’s defense secretary and a former CIA
deputy director, has had a colorful career as a government insider
and corporate player. The Carlyle Group, which Carlucci headed for
nearly a decade, has been called the “ex-president’s
club” because of the large number of high-powered former government
officials who work for the investment company, including former
President George H. W. Bush, former British Prime Minister John
Major, and former Secretary of State James Baker. Reports The Guardian,
“When Carlucci arrived there [with Carlyle] in 1989, he brought
with him a phalanx of former subordinates from the CIA and the Pentagon,
and an awareness of the scale of business a company like Carlyle
could do in the corridors and steak-houses of Washington. In a decade
and a half, the firm has been able to realise a 34% rate of return
on its investments, and now claims to be the largest private equity
firm in the world. Success brought more investors, including the
international financier George Soros and, in 1995, the wealthy Saudi
Binladin family, who insist they long ago severed all links with
their notorious relative. The first president Bush is understood
to have visited the Bin Ladins in Saudi Arabia twice on the firm's
behalf.” (9)
When
Carlucci isn’t busy fending off questions about how Carlyle
does its business, he is fighting accusations that he was involved
in the assassination of former independent Republic of Congo Prime
Minister Patrice Lumumba when Carlucci was second secretary at the
embassy in Kinshasa in the early 1960s. In 2002, Carlucci’s
lawyers successfully pressured the distributor of the HBO film Lumumba
to delete any references to their client. A scene that was cut from
the movie depicted Carlucci and his boss, Ambassador Clare Timberlake,
in a meeting with Congolese officials who were plotting Lumumba's
murder. Carlucci contends that he and Timberlake had no knowledge
whatsoever of the plot, telling Pacific News, "There's no substantiation
to that charge in any of the reviews done on Lumumba's death by
the United Nations or the recent Belgian book or Maddie Kalb's book.
... If you go through the Kalb book [which was based on declassified
U.S. cables], you'll find no references to me."
However,
there seem to be several problems with Carlucci’s contention,
starting with the fact that the Kalb book does in fact mention Carlucci.
Pacific News quotes the book: "Whenever Timberlake, accompanied
by his French-speaking second secretary, Frank Carlucci, went to
see Kasavubu ... to try to persuade him that Lumumba was an extremely
dangerous man, Kasavubu ... would say nothing. ... As Timberlake
noted in a gloomy cable to Washington, 'I confess I have not yet
learned the secret of spurring Kasavubu to action.'"
Pacific
also cites a letter from Ludo de Witte, author of the “recent
Belgian book” The Assassination of Lumumba, to Raoul Peck,
the filmmaker who made the HBO film: "From mid-August (when
Eisenhower gave indirectly the green light for the assassination
of Lumumba) till mid-October, there was a de facto collaboration
and exchange of information between all important personnel in the
U.S. Embassy (that is Timberlake, Carlucci and Devlin included),
including on efforts to get rid of Lumumba." (2)
Carlucci,
who went on to have an extremely successful career in government
after the Lumumba affair, has received several awards and honors
for his work, including the Herbert Roback Memorial Award, the George
C. Marshall Award, the Woodrow Wilson Award, the James Forrestal
Award, the Presidential Citizens Award, the National Intelligence
Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal,
the Defense Department Distinguished Civilian Service Award, and
the State Department Superior Service Award. (3)
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