CPD and Its Neocon Progeny

By Kurt Nimmo
Oct. 07, 2006

Before there was the Office of Special Plans, there was Team B and the Committee on the Present Danger.

“Team B was authorized in 1976 by President Gerald 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,” explains Right Web.

In other words, the purpose of Team B, as the purpose of its later spawn, the neocon Office of Special Plans, created by the Straussian acolytes Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and run by Deputy Undersecretary of Defense William Luti, was to tell a whole lot of fantastical lies.

“Israel, a nation dependent upon U.S. military aid and unable to withstand detente between the Soviet Union and the U.S. because of its need for U.S. military aid, had built up significant influence in the CPD. The primary contact person was Michael Ledeen who was connected with Oliver North and the Iran-Contra affair.”

In short, some things never change.

In order to understand the creepy parallels between the CPD and the current crop of neocon fascists, take a look at the video excerpt below taken from The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear, a BBC documentary released in 2004. As well, it can be downloaded in its entirety on this Internet Archive page in various bandwidth flavors.