After the Team B conclusions had been bruited around the world, Pipes became a leading member
of the Committee on the Present Danger, where his fellow Team B veteran Paul Nitze was alreadyensconced, along with Eugene V. Rostow, Dean Rusk, Lane Kirkland, Max Kampelman, Richard
Allen, David Packard, and Henry Fowler. About 30 members of the Committee on the Present
danger went on to become high officials of the Reagan Administration.
Ronald Reagan himself embracedthe "window of vulerability" thesis, which worked as well for himas the bomber gap and missle gap arguments had worked in previous elections. When the Reagan
Administration was being assembled, Bush and James Baker had a lot to say about who got what
appointments. Bush was the founder of Team B, and that is the fundamental reason which such pro-
Zionist neoconservatives as Max Kampelman, Richard Perle, Steven Bryen, Noel Koch, Paul
Wolfowitz and Dov Zakem showed up in the Reagan Administration. For in one of his manyideological reincarnations, George Bush is also a neoconservative himself. What counted for Team (^)
B was to occupy the offices, and to dominate the debate. Team B greatly influenced the strategic
assumptions and rhetoric of the first Reagan Administration; their one outstanding defeat was the
launching of the SDI, and that was administered to them by LaRouche.
In a grim postlude to the Team B exercise, Bush's hand-picked staff director for the operation, John
Paisley, the Soviet analyst (Paisley was the former deputy director of the CIA's Office of Strategic
Research) and CIA liaison to the Plumbers, disappeared on September 24, 1978 while sailing on
Chesapeake Bay in his sloop, the Brillig. Several days later a body was found floating in the bay in
an advanced state of decomposition, and with a gun shot wound beweighed down by two sets of ponderous diving belts. The body was four inches shorter thanhind the left ear. The corpse was
Paisley's own height, and Paisley's wife later asserted that the body found was not that of her
husband. Despite all this, the body was positively identified as Paisley's, the death summarily ruled
a suicide, and the body quickly cremated at a funeral home approved by the Office of Security.
Paisley had been involved along with Angleton in the debriefing and managing of Soviet defectorslike Nosenko and Nikolai Artamonov/"Shadrin," and various aspects of this case show that the
Bush-Cherne Team B had not really ceased its operations after 1976-77, but had continued to
function. Some have attempted to identify Paisley as Deep Throat. Others have suggested that he
was a KGB mole. Either story, if true, might lead to highly embarrassing consequences for George
Bush. [fn 55]
The Shadrin case just mentioned allows us to follow Bush a few steps further into the world of
Soviet defectors, exchanges, kidnappings, murders, and other grisly rites of the cold war. Nicolai
Artamonov alias Nick Shadrin was a Soviet naval officer who had defected to the west in the
1950's, and who worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency. There are indications that Shadrinwas encouraged by his US handlers to let himself be contacted by the Soviets so that he could
become a double agent. In December, 1975 Shadrin was sent to Vienna by the CIA, where he
disappeared. According to some versions, he had been a Soviet agent all along, and went back to
Moscow under the orders of the KGB. According to other versions, Shadrin was cynically delivered
up by hioperation to enhance the career of another KGB agent who had secretly gone to work for ts CIA handlers to certain death at the hands of the KGB within the framework of ahe CIA dirty (^)
while remaining with the KGB. [fn 56]
The handling of defectors such as Shadrin represented that part of CIA operations where James
Jesus Angleton spun his web, so were are moving through abroaching this subject. But it seems well established that Bush acquired a personal role in then obfuscated wilderness of mirrors in
Shadrin affair through his deception of Shadrin's wife, Eva Shadrin, who was desperately seeking to
find out what had happened to her husband. With the help of friends, Eva Shadrin appealed for
assistance to Senators John Sparkman, and James Eastland, to Speaker of the House Carl Albert, to
Pentagon officials and to PFIAB. On February 5, Mrs. Shadrin received a call from Brent