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| − | The [[Team B]] exercise was an alternative review of the [[CIA]]'s National Intelligence Estimates commissioned by [[George H.W. Bush]] when he became [[CIA]] director in 1976, at the behest of the [[President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board]]. It has been described by Tom Barry as a "classic case of threat escalation by hawks determined to increase military budgets and step up the U.S. offensive in the cold war".<ref>Tom Barry, [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/843.html Remembering Team B], Right Web, 12 February 2004.</ref> | + | The [[Team B]] exercise was an alternative review of the [[CIA]]'s National Intelligence Estimates commissioned by [[George H. W. Bush]] when he became [[CIA]] director in 1976, at the behest of the [[President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board]]. It has been described by Tom Barry as a "classic case of threat escalation by hawks determined to increase military budgets and step up the U.S. offensive in the cold war".<ref>Tom Barry, [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/843.html Remembering Team B], Right Web, 12 February 2004.</ref> |
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*[[David Vaughn]] | *[[David Vaughn]] | ||
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===Air Defense Panel=== | ===Air Defense Panel=== | ||
*[[Charles Lerch]] - team leader | *[[Charles Lerch]] - team leader | ||
Latest revision as of 06:54, 25 June 2019
 Team B      | |
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| Formation | 1976 |
| Founder |  George H. W. Bush |
| Interests | US/Nuclear weapons, USSR/Nuclear weapons |
| Membership | •  Richard Pipes•  William Van Cleave•  Daniel Graham• Thomas Wolfe • John Vogt Jr. •  Foy Kohler•  Paul Nitze• .jpg){kind=small} Seymour Weiss• Jasper Welch •  Paul Wolfowitz• Roland Herbst • John Brett • John Kirk • Chuck Stowe • David Vaughn • Larry D. Welch • Charles Lerch • James Drake • Daniel Fink |
| A group of hawks to talk up the Soviet threat. | |
The Team B exercise was an alternative review of the CIA's National Intelligence Estimates commissioned by George H. W. Bush when he became CIA director in 1976, at the behest of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. It has been described by Tom Barry as a "classic case of threat escalation by hawks determined to increase military budgets and step up the U.S. offensive in the cold war".[1]
Contents
Members
Strategic Objectives Panel
- Richard Pipes - team leader
- Prof. William Van Cleave
- Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham
- Dr. Thomas Wolfe
- Gen. John Vogt, Jr.
Advisory Panel
- Foy Kohler
- Paul Nitze
- Ambassador Seymour Weiss
- Maj. Gen. Jasper Welch
- Dr. Paul Wolfowitz
Missile Accuracy Panel
- Roland Herbst - team leader
- John Brett
- John Kirk
- Chuck Stowe
- David Vaughn
- Larry D. Welch
Air Defense Panel
- Charles Lerch - team leader
- James Drake
- Daniel Fink
External Resources
- Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente: The Right Attacks the CIA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
- Team B Strategic Objectives Panel Right Web profile.
- Team B Strategic Initiatives Panel Sourcewatch profile.
- Tom Barry, Remembering Team B, Right Web, 11 February 1984.
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote |
|---|---|
| CIA | “[Bush] wielded this heightened power on behalf of the military industrial complex that president Eisenhower had so famously warned against. Politicising the process of intelligence analysis, he imposed a systematic bias that took a new, harder line towards the communist block. This was a direct reversal of the Nixon-Kissinger policy of detente. Under the guidance of Rumsfeld, Cheney, a young Paul Wolfowitz and others who had ascended in the Halloween massacre, Poppy began finding ways to get around the analysts who did not sufficiently hype the Soviet threat. To that end, he created a second analytical team which produced alarming estimates of Soviet military capabilities. The concept was known as Team A - Team B. In this way, Poppy was the father of the analytical gamesmanship his son would use to justify war with Iraq nearly three decades later, under the guidance of the same Rumseld, Cheney and Wolfowitz.” |
Known members
7 of the 19 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| William Van Cleave | US academic member of the Committee on the Present Danger and of Team B |
| Daniel Graham | Iran-Contra connected CIA/DIA spook |
| Foy Kohler | US diplomat and cold warrior. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Committee on the Present Danger, Team B, Council on Foreign Relations. |
| Paul Nitze | US deep politician, hawkish United States Deputy Secretary of Defense. |
| Richard Pipes | Hawkish cold warrior historian |
| Seymour Weiss | A neoconservative, a hawk, and an anti-Soviet hard-liner. |
| Paul Wolfowitz | An "architect" of the invasion of Iraq, World Bank President |
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References
- ↑ Tom Barry, Remembering Team B, Right Web, 12 February 2004.
