Otis G. Pike

Otis G. Pike    (Politician, Maverick)
Born	August 31, 1921 Riverhead, New York
Died	January 20, 2014 (Age 92) Vero Beach, Florida
Alma mater	Princeton University, Columbia Law School
Religion	Congregationalist
Children	3
Spouse	Doris O. Pike Barbe Bonjour
Member of	Pike Committee
Party	Democratic
The first congressman to battle the NSA  Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 1st district In office January 3, 1961 - January 3, 1979

Otis Grey Pike was an American lawyer and politician who served nine terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1979.

Career

Full article: Pike Committee

Otis Pike led the Pike Committee, the House of Representatives: "most intensive and threatening hearings into US intelligence community abuses, far more radical and revealing than the better-known Church Committee’s Senate hearings that took place at the same time".

"Pike was less interested in sensational scandals like Church’s poison darts and foreign assassination plots than he was in getting to the guts of the intelligence apparatus, its power, its funding, its purpose. He asked questions never asked or answered since the start of the Cold War: What was America’s intelligence budget? What was the purpose of the CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies and programs? Were they succeeding by their own standards? Were taxpayers getting their money’s worth? Were they making America safer?"

“Pike will pay for this, you wait and see — we’ll destroy him for this.”
Mitchell Rogovin (1976) 
(CIA special counsel)

Death

Pike died at a hospice in Florida after an illness in January 2014.

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