Pike Committee

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The Pike Committee was a 1975 U.S. House of Representatives committee chaired by Otis Pike that investigated abuses and oversight failures within American intelligence agencies during the same period as the Senate’s Church Committee.

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Pike Committee canonical 2
Pike Committee report 1

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instanceOf United States House of Representatives select committee
congressional investigative committee
appliesToJurisdiction Central Intelligence Agency
Defense Intelligence Agency
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Security Agency
U.S. intelligence community
appointedBy Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
chairperson Otis G. Pike NERFINISHED
Otis Pike
contemporaneousWith Church Committee
country United States
dissolved 1976
followedBy Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (House)
hasMember Bella Abzug
Henry B. González
Les Aspin
Paul N. McCloskey Jr.
Robert McClory
hasPurpose examine oversight failures of U.S. intelligence agencies
investigate abuses by American intelligence agencies
investigate activities of U.S. intelligence agencies
historicalContext post-Watergate reform era
inception 1975
influenced creation of permanent House intelligence oversight mechanisms
legislativeBody United States House of Representatives
legislativePeriod 94th United States Congress
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Washington, D.C.
namedAfter Otis Pike
notableWork Pike Committee report
linked to: Pike Committee

draft report on U.S. intelligence activities
officialName House Select Committee on Intelligence
opposedBy Central Intelligence Agency leadership
Gerald Ford administration
partOf post-Watergate congressional investigations
reportPublishedIn The Village Voice
seeAlso Church Committee
Rockefeller Commission
United States congressional oversight of intelligence
significantEvent conflict with the executive branch over access to classified documents
leak of draft report to the press
subpoena disputes with the Ford administration
subjectHasRole oversight of intelligence activities
topic abuses of surveillance powers
budgetary control of intelligence agencies
covert operations
executive secrecy
intelligence oversight

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Church Committee contemporaneousWith Pike Committee
Rockefeller Commission followedBy Pike Committee
Pike Committee notableWork Pike Committee report
linked to: Pike Committee