November 7, 2001

Contact:

Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: November 7, 2001

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - Former director of the National Security

Agency, retired Army Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, will discuss

“American Foreign Policy and the War Against Terrorism” on

Monday, Nov. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Middlebury College’s

Twilight Auditorium on College Street (Route 125). The talk

is free and open to the public.

Odom is a

senior fellow and director of national security studies at

the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., and an adjunct

professor at Yale University. As director of the National

Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, he was responsible for

the nation’s intelligence and communications security. From

1981 to 1985, Odom served as assistant chief of staff for

intelligence, the Army’s senior intelligence officer. From

1977 to 1981, he was military assistant to the president’s

assistant for national security affairs, Zbigniew

Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security Council

staff, Odom worked on strategic planning, Soviet affairs,

nuclear weapons policy, telecommunications policy, and

Persian Gulf security issues.

Odom

graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1954,

and received a doctorate from Columbia University in 1970.

From 1987 to 1997, he served as a trustee of Middlebury

College.

His

publications include “The Collapse of the Soviet Military”

(Yale University Press, 1998), which won the Marshall

Shulman Prize; “American’s Military Revolution: Strategy and

Structure After the Cold War” (American University Press,

1993); “Trial After Triumph: East Asia After the Cold War”

(Hudson Institute, 1992); “On Internal War: American and

Soviet Approaches to Third World Clients and Insurgents”

(Duke University Press, 1992); and articles in Foreign

Affairs, World Politics, Foreign Policy, Orbis, The National

Interest, and many other publications. He is a frequent

contributor to the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal,

The Washington Post and The New York Times.

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Odom has appeared frequently on radio and television

programs, including “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” CNN’s

“Crossfire, ABC’s “Nightline,” NBC News and BBC’s “The World

Tonight.”

His talk at

Middlebury is sponsored by Atwater Commons. For more

information, contact the Atwater Commons office at

443-3310.