| William Odom  AKA William Eldridge Odom
Born: 23-Jun-1932
Birthplace: Cookeville, TN
Died: 30-May-2008
Location of death: Lincoln, VT
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Military, Government, Pundit Nationality: United States
Executive summary: NSA Director 1985-88 Military service: US Army (34 years) Speaks fluent Russian. Wife: Anne Weld Curtis (m. 1962)
Son: Mark Odom
University: BS, US Military Academy, West Point (1954)
University: MA, Columbia University (1962)
Professor: Government, US Military Academy, West Point (1966-69)
University: PhD, Columbia University (1970)
NSA Director (1985-88)
US Defense Department Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, US Army (1981-85)
US National Security Council (1977-81)
Member of the Board of American Science & Engineering (1996-2008, as Chairman, 1998-2008)
Council on Foreign Relations
Hudson Institute Senior Fellow
National Council on Economic Education Life Director
Author of books:
Trial After Triumph: East Asia After The Cold War (1992)
On Internal War: American And Soviet Approaches To Third World Clients And Insurgents (1992)
Americas Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure after the Cold War (1993)
The Collapse of the Soviet Military (1998)
Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America (2003)
America's Inadvertent Empire (2004, with Robert Dujarric)
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