A Team B Team Experiment organization
also: B team, A team, ATB team experiment
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Claims (4)
Richard Perle member_of
A Team B Team Experiment documented
“major disputes between the CIA Professional Intelligence staff and political conservatives that were outside the formal intelligence community. The critics, like Richard Pearl, Richard Pipes, Major General Daniel Graham, and other quote-unq…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 20:42
Richard Pipes member_of
A Team B Team Experiment documented
“major disputes between the CIA Professional Intelligence staff and political conservatives that were outside the formal intelligence community. The critics, like Richard Pearl, Richard Pipes, Major General Daniel Graham, and other quote-unq…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 20:42
Daniel Graham member_of
A Team B Team Experiment documented
“major disputes between the CIA Professional Intelligence staff and political conservatives that were outside the formal intelligence community. The critics, like Richard Pearl, Richard Pipes, Major General Daniel Graham, and other quote-unq…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 20:42
George Anderson headed
A Team B Team Experiment documented
“The conservatives charged that faulty CIA estimates of Soviet strategic strength had allowed the U.S. to sign the SALT I Treaty, which had permitted the Soviets to catch up with its strategic weapon. In August 1975, the president's Foreign …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 22:35
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wrote President Ford a letter proposing that an outside group of strategic experts be given access to the same intelligence as the CIA analysts and were allowed to prepare a competing intelligence estimate. The outside group would be called…
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The importance of bringing in outside consultants to review the CIA's work crossed a line that had never been crossed before. Bringing in outsiders legitimized the idea that the CIA no longer was immune to any outside influences. The B team…
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that the days of the CIA old boys network would soon be over. The influence of Richard Pearl and others of similar political persuasion were able to exert over intelligence operations would dramatically increase in the coming years and deca…
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Bush, the first politician to hold the job, authorized the competition. Hank Nocky, Bush's top deputy, said Bush was in love with the idea because, of course, he's going to benefit from it. He signed off on the experiment.…
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What Bush approved and Nolke agreed to was revolutionary in the American intelligence. For the first time, outsiders, many already skeptical of the CIA's work, would be given access to national intelligence estimates going back to 1959. The…
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Not like the CIA's ever done that. The other was that the CIA's reputation for impeccable strategic research would be forever damaged. I mean, you guys, I'm rolling my eyes right now. If you're looking over on Rumble here, let me do this fo…
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The liaison position between the CIA and the B team was a key appointment. This person would control all of the documents. In early 1976, John Arthur Paisley was chosen to be the CIA coordinator for the B team. Paisley was an unprepossessin…
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By the time Bush came on the scene, Paisley was officially retired, but in fact was still working for the CIA. Namely, naming Paisley as a coordinator of the A-Team B-Team experiment was a controversial choice. It meant putting in position …
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Paisley's appointment may very well have been the CIA's effort at protecting its own interests. Not like it ever does that or anything. The entire effort was supposed to be secret. Both sides understood that any media leaks would endanger n…
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The CIA charged that the experiment had caused important national security data to be compromised. The B team's version concluded that the CIA had underestimated Soviet strategic intentions and technical capability. Members of the B team wo…
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all over the world as part of Gladio. I'm shocked. I'm just, this is my shock face. All right. Binder, a veteran newsman known for his ties to members in the intelligence community. Okay, so what they're basically saying here is the guy the…
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Paisley was clearly trying to get to the bottom of something. Sullivan, who was later forced to resign from the CIA for leaking classified data to Richard Pearl, told Robert Gambino in the Office of Security that he suspected that Paisley w…
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Hank Nolke finds it hard to believe that Paisley was the source of a story that was so badly damaging to the agency. It is worth noting that the leak took place after Jimmy Carter had won the election and Bush had found out that he was not …
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Most looked upon the A-Team, B-Team experiment as a way of opening up the CIA, but a close examination of the experiment and the personalities involved point more to it being another step on the way to a kind of privatization of a rogue int…