Papers, 1972-1990 (bulk 1977-1988).

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Papers, 1972-1990 (bulk 1977-1988).

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Correspondence, memoranda, speeches and writings, logbooks, subject files, scrapbooks, printed materials, photos, and other papers, relating chiefly to Odom's service as military assistant to Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant to President Jimmy Carter for national security affairs (1977-1981); as U.S. Army assistant chief of staff for intelligence (1981-1985); and as director of National Security Agency (1985-1988). Includes materials from meetings of National Security Council and other materials relating to arms control policy and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II, defense policy and the writings of Samuel Huntington on strategic relationships, education of military officers in the U.S., government operations during military and other crises, hijackings, terrorism, and the Iran Hostage Crisis, training in intelligence gathering methods and the role of intelligence in the armed forces and international affairs, military strategy, structure of the military establishment in the U.S. and Soviet military personnel and organization, relations between the U.S. and the Middle East, U.S. and Soviet foreign relations and related strategic defense, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Correspondents include Anne Legendre Armstrong, Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, George Frost Kennan, Eugene C. Meyer, Edward L. Rowny, John W. Warner, and John Adams Wickham.

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Armstrong, Anne Legendre, 1927-2008

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Warner, John W. (John William), 1927-2021

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Wickham, John Adams, 1928-....

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Rowny, Edward L., 1917-....

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Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

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Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005

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George Kennan (1845-1924), American journalist and author, was best-known for his writings on Russia. In 1865 he was sent to Siberia as part of a surveying party to find a route for a telegraph line to connect Europe and America. Kennan traveled across Russia and wrote about his experiences in Tent Life in Siberia (1870). He worked as assistant manager of the Associated Press and wrote about the Russian prison and exile system for Century Magazine. In addition to his wor...

United States. Army

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Odom, William E. 1932-

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U.S. Army intelligence officer, security specialist, and educator; b. 1932. From the description of Papers, 1972-1990 (bulk 1977-1988). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28495292 U.S. Army officer and educator. Full name: William Eldridge Odom; born 1932. From the description of William E. Odom papers, 1918-1992 (bulk 1977-1988). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983271 ...

Huntington, Samuel Phillips

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Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-2017

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Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski was born on March 28, 1928 in Warsaw, Poland. His father was Polish consul-general in Montreal during World War II. After the communists seized control of the Polish government in 1945, his family remained in Canada. He received a B.A. and M.A. from McGill University in 1949 and 1950, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1953. He remained at Harvard, first as a research fellow at the Russian Research Center, 1953 to 1956, and then as assistant professor of governm...

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