William E. Odom

William Eldridge Odom (June 23, 1932 – May 30, 2008) was a United States Army lieutenant general who served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Ronald Reagan, which culminated a 31-year career in military intelligence, mainly specializing in matters relating to the Soviet Union. After his retirement from the military, he became a think tank policy expert and a university professor and became known for his outspoken criticism of the Iraq War and warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. He died of an apparent heart attack at his vacation home in Lincoln, Vermont.[1]

Military career[edit]

• 1954 Graduated from the United States Military Academy and was commissioned a second lieutenant.
• 1954–1960, Served in both the United States and West Germany.
• 1962, Earned a Masters Degree from Columbia University, and married Anne Weld Curtis.----30岁哥伦比亚大学硕士
• 1964–1966, Served as part of the military liaison mission to the Soviet Union at Potsdam, Germany.
• 1966–1969, Taught at West Point as an assistant professor of government.
• 1970, Completed a Ph.D. at Columbia. 38岁博士
• 1970–1971, At this point a lieutenant colonel, served in Vietnam, being on the Staff of Plans, Policy, and Programs, and working on the Vietnamization phase of the war.
• 1971–1972, Odom was a visiting scholar at the Research Institute on Communist Affairs at Columbia.
• 1972–1974, U.S. assistant military attaché at the United States embassy in Moscow.美国驻莫斯科大使馆
• 1974, Published The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in a Public Mass Organization, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 360 pp.)
• 1974–1975, Associate of the Research Institute on International Change at Columbia
• 1974–1977, Associate professor, Department of Social Science at West Point.
• 1975–1976, Associate member of the Columbia University Seminar on Communism
• 1975–1977, Senior research associate, Research Institute on International Change at Columbia
• 1981, promoted to Major General
• 1977–1981, Military assistant to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the assistant to the president for national security affairs. 国家安全委员会布热津斯基的军事助手，
• 1981–1985, Assistant chief of staff for intelligence, United States Army.
• 1984, promoted to lieutenant general.
• 1985–1988, Director of the National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland

Post-military[edit]

• 1989, Director of national security studies, Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana
• 1989, Adjunct professor, political science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
• Extensive publications; see bibliography below