ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the emergence of organised opposition to détente during the 1970s, uniting conservatives with former Cold War liberals in organisations such as the Committee on the Present Danger, and providing a key context for the emergence of the neoconservative movement.
Debates about intelligence policy were intimately linked to this wider struggle, notably in episodes such as the Team B exercise of 1975/76. The Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, formed in 1979, brought together a coalition of forces which combined scepticism about the ability of intelligence to monitor détente with support for a renewal of political warfare on the early Cold War model.
