Team B

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".

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
• 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.