I believe he was in Navy Intelligence.
Wow. I had never heard that before. Not that it changes much but, yeah, he was the traitor pretending to be investigating a mole a la Kevin Costner’s character in No Way Out.
Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of Jane (née Upshur) and Alfred Eno Woodward II, a lawyer who later became chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court. He was raised in nearby Wheaton, Illinois. His parents divorced when he was twelve, and he and his brother and sister were raised by their father, who subsequently remarried. [3] Woodward enrolled in Yale College with a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) scholarship and studied history and English literature. While at Yale, Woodward joined the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and was a member of the prestigious secret society Book and Snake.[4][5] He received his B.A. degree in 1965 and began a five-year tour of duty in the United States Navy.[6] During his service in the Navy, Woodward served aboard the USS Wright, and was one of two officers assigned to move or handle nuclear launch codes the Wright carried in its capacity as a NECPA.[7] At one time, he was close to Admiral Robert O. Welander, being communications officer on the USS Fox under Welander's command.[8]
After being discharged as a lieutenant in August 1970, Woodward was admitted to Harvard Law School but elected not to attend. Instead, he applied for a job as a reporter for The Washington Post while taking graduate courses in Shakespeare and international relations at George Washington University. Harry M. Rosenfeld, the Post's metropolitan editor, gave him a two-week trial but did not hire him because of his lack of journalistic experience. After a year at the Montgomery Sentinel, a weekly newspaper in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, Woodward was hired as a Post reporter in 1971.[9]