Papers, 1972-1990 (bulk 1977-1988) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary: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