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Team B Strategic Initiatives Panel

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For full details, read the remainder of Hessing's [http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1993/a93/a93Teamb.html article (Part I)] and scroll down the page for Part II written by John Pradas.
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"Team members included Richard Pipes (father of [[Daniel Pipes]], director of the [[Middle East Forum]]) and [[William Van Cleave]], both of whom would become members of the second [[Committee on the Present Danger]], as well as Gen. [[Daniel Graham]], whose 'High Frontier' missile defense proposal foreshadowed President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] (SDI), or "Star Wars." The team's advisory panel included [[Paul Wolfowitz]], [[Paul H. Nitze]], and [[Seymour Weiss]]--all close associates of [[Albert Wohlstetter]]. Although [[Richard Perle]] played no direct role in Team B, he was instrumental in setting it up. It was Perle who had introduced Richard Pipes, a Polish immigrant who taught Czarist Russian history at Harvard, to Sen. [[Henry Jackson]], catapulting Pipes into a clique of fanatically anti-Soviet hawks. Pipes, who served as Team B's chairman, later said he chose Wolfowitz as his principal Team B adviser 'because Richard Perle recommended him so highly.'"[http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2004/0402teamb.php]
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