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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>
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|members=Richard Pipes, William Van Cleave, Daniel Graham, Thomas Wolfe, John Vogt Jr., Foy Kohler, Paul Nitze, 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
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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>
  
 
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===Air Defense Panel===
 
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*[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Team_B Team B Strategic Initiatives Panel] Sourcewatch profile.
 
*[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Team_B Team B Strategic Initiatives Panel] Sourcewatch profile.
 
*Tom Barry, [http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/Remembering_Team_B Remembering Team B], Right Web, 11 February 1984.
 
*Tom Barry, [http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/Remembering_Team_B Remembering Team B], Right Web, 11 February 1984.
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[[Category:Neocons]]
 
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Group.png Team B   Powerbase SourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Formation1976
FounderGeorge H. W. Bush.jpg George H. W. Bush
InterestsUS/Nuclear weapons, USSR/Nuclear weapons
Membership• Richard Pipes 2004.JPG Richard Pipes
• William Van Cleave.jpg William Van Cleave
• Daniel Graham.jpg Daniel Graham
•  Thomas Wolfe
•  John Vogt Jr.
• FoyDKohler.jpg Foy Kohler
• Paul Nitze.jpg Paul Nitze
• No image available (photo).jpg Seymour Weiss
•  Jasper Welch
• Paul Wolfowitz.jpg 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]

Members

Strategic Objectives Panel

Advisory Panel

Missile Accuracy Panel

Air Defense Panel

External Resources

 

Related Quotation

PageQuote
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:

MemberDescription
William Van CleaveUS academic member of the Committee on the Present Danger and of Team B
Daniel GrahamIran-Contra connected CIA/DIA spook
Foy KohlerUS 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 NitzeUS deep politician, hawkish United States Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Richard PipesHawkish cold warrior historian
Seymour WeissA neoconservative, a hawk, and an anti-Soviet hard-liner.
Paul WolfowitzAn "architect" of the invasion of Iraq, World Bank President
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References

  1. ↑ Tom Barry, Remembering Team B, Right Web, 12 February 2004.
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