OBITUARIES - CARTER W. CLARKE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100010067-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: September 9, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK NEWSDAY
SEP091987
Carter W. Clarke 90, a retired
and ormer o cial who holRed persuade No
York y. THEIZEMeway not to make the .Tapa-
nese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor an is
in
Dewev's 1944 bid for the presidency, died of a
heart attack Sept. 3 at his home in Clearwater,
Fla. Gen. Clarke, whose 39 year career was spent
mostly in intelligence work, had been chief of the
War Department's security division and deputy
chief of milit= intelligence during World War
U. In 1944 he was made confidential courier be-
tween the Army chief of staff, Can. George C.
Marshall, and Dewey, the Republican running
against President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gene.
Marshall and Clarke convinced Dewey not to in-
ject into the campaign the Pearl Harbor disaster,
and the evidence that the military may have had
advance warning of the attack and had passed it
on to the White House, because a public airing of
the issue would let the Japanese know we were
intercepting and reading their coded messages.
Gen. Clarke was a special assistant to CIA Direc-
tor Allen Dulles for several years, then was com-
mannding general of the Southwest Command in
Japan from 1950 to 1953. In 1952, he was hospi-
talized for several weeks with face and chest
burns after Korean and Japanese Communists
threw acid at him in Suite, Japan. He retired
from active duty in 1954. Survivors include his
wife, Jessie, a son, retired Brig. Can. Carter W.
Clarke, Jr., both of Clearwater, two grandchil.
dren and a,great-grandchild.
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