Team B

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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".[1]

Members

Strategic Objectives Panel

Advisory Panel

Missile Accuracy Panel

Air Defense Panel

External Resources

 

Related Quotation

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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.