Carter W. Clarke

Carter W. Clarke (September 20, 1896 – September 3, 1987) was a US Army intelligence officer and brigadier general who was the military intelligence officer who prepared intercepted Japanese Magic cables for US officials. He also headed a War Department investigation into the role that military intelligence played before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Clarke joined the army in 1916, the year prior to US entry into World War I. In his work for the Military Intelligence Division, he was instrumental in 1943 in starting the Venona project. In 1944, he ignored a request initiated by Eleanor Roosevelt to cease the project.

During the Korean War, he commanded forces in Osaka, Japan. Late in his career, he also worked as an assistant to Allen W. Dulles, who was Director of Central Intelligence. Clarke retired in 1954.

Clarke died of a heart attack at his home in Clearwater, Florida. Clarke died on September 3, 1987, in Clearwater, Florida, at the age of 90 from a heart attack.