Richard Pipes
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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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