"Team-B Tradition"and"Threat Inflation":The Containment Strategy and Activities of U.S.President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Activities Against USSR
[Research purpose]The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board was the key platform of the Republican hawks to in-tervene the intelligence assessment and strategy towards the Soviet Union.During 1970s,it became the main force to end the strategic sta-bility between the U.S.and the USSR and then launched the New Cold War against USSR.The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board focused on exaggerating the Soviet military power and set off the"Threat Inflation"phenomena.It is of great value to explore the ideas and actions of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board for the understanding of American intelligence culture and national security strategy and it is useful to alert China-U.S.relations.[Research method]With the help of declassified historical materials and knowledge of intelligence science,this paper looks into such intelligence assessment methods that exaggerate external threats and pursue ab-solute security,and extracts the so-called"Team-B Tradition"of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board politicizing intelli-gence assessment and squeezing the CIA's influence.[Research conclusion]The Team-B tradition has increased the internal competition of American intelligence assessment and promoted the quality of containment strategy,but the periodic"Threat Inflation"has led the Unit-ed States get into overexpansion and misjudge of the external threats.Eliminating"Threat Inflation"and"Team-B Tradition"is the key to avoid intelligence politicization and promote multilateral strategic stability.
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