Conversation so far:
What was Team B?
Team B, composed of civilian experts and retired military officers.
What was Team B for?
as an antagonist force to a group of CIA intelligence officials known as Team A.
What was the goal of Team A?
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What did Team B do?
Team B was appointed to look at the evidence and to see if we could conclude that the actual Soviet strategy is different from ours.
Did they convince people that the Soviet strategy was different?
Pipes maintained that Team B contributed to creating more realistic defense estimates.
What else did Pipes do in this time?
Pipes's group insisted that the Soviet Union, as of 1976, maintained "a large and expanding Gross National Product,.

Question: What was the result of this claim?
Self-contained rewrite: What was the result of Richard Pipes' claim that the Soviet Union had "a large and expanding Gross National Product"??