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'''Richard Pipes''' is Baird Professor of History, Emeritus, at | '''Richard Pipes''' is Baird Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University]]. In retirement, he still writes and speaks for the Heritage Foundation]], Hudson Institute]], and Freedom House]]; he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations]]. His son, Donald Pipes]], is director of the Middle East Forum]] and a fellow at the Hoover Institution]]. He began teaching at Harvard in 1950, and was director of the Russian Research Center (1968-1973). | ||
In 2004, while he agreed that the | In 2004, while he agreed that the Beslan school capture]] was an atrocity, he distinguished between the motivation of al-Qaeda]] and that of the Chechnya|Chechens]]; he supported a Chechen homeland. <ref name=NYT2004-09-09>{{citation | ||
| title = Op-Ed: Give the Chechens a Land of Their Own | | title = Op-Ed: Give the Chechens a Land of Their Own | ||
| author = Richard Pipes | | author = Richard Pipes | ||
| date = 9 September 2004 | journal = | | date = 9 September 2004 | journal = New York Times]] | ||
| url = http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/opinion/09pipes.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22Give%20the%20Chechens%20a%20Land%20of%20Their%20Own%22&st=cse}}</ref> | | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/opinion/09pipes.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22Give%20the%20Chechens%20a%20Land%20of%20Their%20Own%22&st=cse}}</ref> | ||
In 1981-82 he was a Reagan Administration | In 1981-82 he was a Reagan Administration National Security Council]] staff adviser on Soviet and East European affairs. | ||
He participated in the 1970s incarnation of the | He participated in the 1970s incarnation of the Committee on the Present Danger]], which went idle after the Cold War. | ||
In 1976, he chaired the "Team B" alternate study of Soviet intentions for nuclear war, done as a cross-check on | In 1976, he chaired the "Team B" alternate study of Soviet intentions for nuclear war, done as a cross-check on Central Intelligence Agency]] analysis. Some reports said its highly classified report dealt with missile strength, but he disagreed. "It did not deal with 'Soviet military strength' at all, but with Soviet nuclear strategy -- whether the Soviet Union shared the dominant American strategy of mutual assured destruction. Team B concluded on the theoretical and physical evidence that the Russians had instead adopted a ''war-fighting and war-winning'' doctrine, which was confirmed after the Soviet Union's collapse." <ref name=NYT2003-06-21>{{citation | ||
| title=Letter to the editor: Team B of the C.I.A. | | title=Letter to the editor: Team B of the C.I.A. | ||
| date = 21 June 2003 | journal = New York Times | | date = 21 June 2003 | journal = New York Times | ||
| url = http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/21/opinion/l-team-b-of-the-cia-196410.html}}</ref> Team B was a model of the approach to | | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/21/opinion/l-team-b-of-the-cia-196410.html}}</ref> Team B was a model of the approach to intelligence (intelligence gathering)#intelligence analysis|intelligence analysis]] that considers ideology as well as hard data. Pipes had been recommended for the job by Richard Perle]], then a staffer to Sen. Henry Jackson|Henry "Scoop" Jackson]] (Democratic Party (United States)|D-]]Washington (U.S. state)]]), but, according to Pipes, Perle had no access to its findings. <ref name=Weisman>{{citation | ||
| author = | | author = Alan Weisman]] | ||
| title = Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle; the Kingdom, the Power, and the End of Empire in America | | title = Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle; the Kingdom, the Power, and the End of Empire in America | ||
| publisher = Union Square | year = 2007 | | publisher = Union Square | year = 2007 | ||
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 Richard Pipes is Baird Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University]]. In retirement, he still writes and speaks for the Heritage Foundation]], Hudson Institute]], and Freedom House]]; he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations]]. His son, Donald Pipes]], is director of the Middle East Forum]] and a fellow at the Hoover Institution]]. He began teaching at Harvard in 1950, and was director of the Russian Research Center (1968-1973). In 2004, while he agreed that the Beslan school capture]] was an atrocity, he distinguished between the motivation of al-Qaeda]] and that of the Chechnya|Chechens]]; he supported a Chechen homeland. [1] In 1981-82 he was a Reagan Administration National Security Council]] staff adviser on Soviet and East European affairs. He participated in the 1970s incarnation of the Committee on the Present Danger]], which went idle after the Cold War. In 1976, he chaired the "Team B" alternate study of Soviet intentions for nuclear war, done as a cross-check on Central Intelligence Agency]] analysis. Some reports said its highly classified report dealt with missile strength, but he disagreed. "It did not deal with 'Soviet military strength' at all, but with Soviet nuclear strategy -- whether the Soviet Union shared the dominant American strategy of mutual assured destruction. Team B concluded on the theoretical and physical evidence that the Russians had instead adopted a war-fighting and war-winning doctrine, which was confirmed after the Soviet Union's collapse." [2] Team B was a model of the approach to intelligence (intelligence gathering)#intelligence analysis|intelligence analysis]] that considers ideology as well as hard data. Pipes had been recommended for the job by Richard Perle]], then a staffer to Sen. Henry Jackson|Henry "Scoop" Jackson]] (Democratic Party (United States)|D-]]Washington (U.S. state)]]), but, according to Pipes, Perle had no access to its findings. [3] References
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