US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

Director of the National Security Agency.

Official Website:
http://www.nsa.gov/

Nov-1952	Nov-1956	Ralph J. Canine	(under Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Nov-1956	Nov-1960	John A. Samford	(under Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Nov-1960	Jan-1962	Laurence H. Frost	(under Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy)
Jan-1962	Jun-1965	Gordon A. Blake	(under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson)
Jun-1965	Aug-1969	Marshall S. Carter	(under Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon)
Aug-1969	Aug-1972	Noel A. M. Gaylor	(under Richard M. Nixon)
Aug-1972	Aug-1973	Samuel C. Phillips	(under Richard M. Nixon)
Aug-1973	Jul-1977	Lew Allen, Jr.	(under Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter)
Jul-1977	Apr-1981	Bobby Ray Inman	(under Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan)
Apr-1981	May-1985	Lincoln D. Faurer	(under Ronald Reagan)
May-1985	Aug-1988	William Odom	(under Ronald Reagan)
Aug-1988	May-1992	William O. Studeman	(under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush)
May-1992	Feb-1996	John M. McConnell	(under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton)
Feb-1996	Mar-1999	Kenneth A. Minihan	(under Bill Clinton)
Mar-1999	1-Aug-2005	Michael V. Hayden	(under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush)
1-Aug-2005	28-Mat-2014	Keith B. Alexander	(under George W. Bush and Barack Obama)

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