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Team B Strategic Initiatives Panel

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'''Team B Members'''
"Team members included Richard Pipes (father of [[Daniel Pipes]], director of the [[Middle East Forum]]) and [[William Van van Cleave]], both of whom would become members of the second [[Committee on the Present Danger]], as well as Gen. [[Daniel O. 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]
"The Team B leader was Prof. Richard Pipes. Associates were Prof. William Van Cleave; Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham, USA (Ret.); Dr. [[Thomas Wolfe]], [[RAND Corporation]]; and Gen. [[John Vogt, Jr.]], USAF, (Ret.). The Team's Advisory Panel was comprised of Ambassador [[Foy Kohler]](former US Ambassador to Moscow); The Honorable Paul Nitze; Ambassador Seymour Weiss; Maj. Gen. [[Jasper Welch]], USAF; and Dr. Paul Wolfowitz, [[Arms Control and Disarmament Agency]]."[http://intellit.muskingum.edu/analysis_folder/analysissovteams.html]
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== Other SourceWatch Resources ==
*Group Watch, [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cpd_body.html Committee on the Present Danger], ''RightWeb'': "The revitalization of the CPD grew out of an independent group called Team B. Team B was authorized in 1976 by President [[Gerald R. Ford]] and organized by then-CIA chief, George Bush. The purpose of Team B was to develop an independent judgment of Soviet capabilities and intentions. Team B was headed by Richard Pipes and included Paul Nitze, Foy Kohler, William Van Cleave, Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham (ret.), Thomas Wolf of RAND Corp and Gen. John Vogt, Jr. (ret.). Also a part of Team B were five officials still active in government: Maj. Gen. [[George Keegan]], Brig. Gen. Jasper Welch, Paul D. Wolfowitz of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Seymour Weiss of the State Department. Team B was housed in the offices of the [[Coalition for a Democratic Majority]]."
*Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, [http://www.tarpley.net/bush15.htm George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography], Chapter 15. Scroll down to section on Team B.
*Ralph McGehee, [http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/03/RM/RM-T.rand-cor CIABASE].
*Scott DaVault, [http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/teamb.html Operation: "Team B" in Effect], ''whatreallyhappened''.

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