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Part Six: Kissinger

Behind the Bastards

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The CIA and the Pentagon Papers - The Rights Answer

Dick Cheney wanted to drive the CIA so far to the right that it would never say no to the generals, writes Greg Grandin. The members of team B were admitted ideologues who saw the Soviet threat as a matter of faith and not empirical problem. Team B's failure to find a Soviet non acoustic anti submarine system was evidence that there could well be one.

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