Frank "Chuck" Spinney
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1945 –
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Who is Frank "Chuck" Spinney?
Franklin C. "Chuck" Spinney is an American former military analyst for the Pentagon who became famous in the early 1980s for what became known as the "Spinney Report", criticizing what he described as the reckless pursuit of costly complex weapon systems by the Pentagon, with disregard to budgetary consequences. Despite attempts by his superiors to bury the controversial report, it eventually was exposed during a United States Senate Budget Committee on Defense hearing, which though scheduled to go unnoticed, made the cover of Time Magazine March 7, 1983.
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- Born
- May 2, 1945
United States of America - Also known as
- Frank Spinney
- Franklin C. "Chuck" Spinney
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Lehigh University
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on July 23, 2013
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