Pike Committee event
also: Pike Commission, Pike investigations
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Claims (4)
Gerald Ford covered_up
Pike Committee documented
“After consultation with the Attorney General, President Ford intervened on November 19, 1975, writing Otis Pike that the subpoenaed documents had been legitimately withheld. The committee responded by voting to cite Kissinger for contempt o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 31:37
U.S. Congress covered_up
Pike Committee documented
“The Ford administration was able to prevail upon the full House of Representatives not to release the Pike report. Some 246 representatives voted to suppress the report against 124 for its release. When television reporter Daniel Score, S-C…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 32:34
Daniel Schorr exposed
Pike Committee documented
“though it was discovered that the initial leak had been to Daniel's score. Ironically, Gerald Ford might have done better with the initial House committee leadership. The original choice for chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 33:31
CIA influenced
Pike Committee book_quoted
“And no intelligence committee is going to change that. Right. Well, it ended up that way, but it's very important to see how the CIA did that. And that is primarily through Operation Mockingbird. She has them just go into the New York Times…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:11:30
Mentions (14)
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the Pike Commission and the Church Commission happens and they discover about the heart attack gun and the assassinations and all that other stuff. So SAIC is set up prior to that. The guy's name that founded it is J. Robert, J is an initia…
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is going to happen and that changes everything in the past because all of the exposures in the past were done like can you imagine having the 1975 church commission and all of those pike commission when nelson rockefeller is the vice presid…
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And they had the ability to do it as a result of the Pike Committee, the Church Commission, all of that stuff. And they failed to do it. And they failed to do it every year after that. And every year after that, we have found out more and m…
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that the fiercest legislative oversight of CIA in U.S. history was targeted for assassination on a Jonestown tarmac? So in addition to... That's significant. Yeah, in addition to that one, you had the Church Committee, you had the Pike Comm…
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Nelson Rockefeller, one of the guys who is in the syndicate directing the CIA's abuses. Very swiftly, Congress established its own investigative committee. The Senate approved a resolution, S-21, on January 27th by a vote of 82 to 4, naming…
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or for them to report without revealing some information. Withholding documents and witnesses or restricting testimony by officials was sure to arouse the ire of the investigators and encourage leaks. Moreover, refusals to supply informatio…
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that they hoped to obtain intelligence material in the future as oversight panels, staff would have to be reduced, plus stiff penalties for leaks adopted. Penalties would include expulsion from Congress. For its part, the CIA recommended nu…
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The Ford administration was able to prevail upon the full House of Representatives not to release the Pike report. Some 246 representatives voted to suppress the report against 124 for its release. When television reporter Daniel Score, S-C…
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and they're going to vote their American Legion host, unquote. But, counter to President Ford's wishes, the Pike report was leaked, and major portions were printed in two installments in a New York weekly called The Village Voice. Subsequen…
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John's weaving in and out of traffic trying to get me back here on time. So I'm a little out of breath. I'm ready for today. So we were just talking yesterday about the Pike Report and all of the machinations of the mid-1970s. So we start o…
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The committee recommended that overall CIA budget figures be made public so annual budget debates could be realistic. The fundamental issue remained one of balancing secrecy with an American democracy. Church's committee and Pikes as well r…
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According to the Pike Committee, which studied Angola in some detail, the Davis Group's prime recommendation disappeared from its report at the direction of the National Security Council. The course was presented to the National Security Co…
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Gates himself returned for something fairly dramatic around the follow-up testimony refuting critics. The hearings became the most extensive examination of U.S. intelligence since the Church and Pike investigations. Work at Laneley basicall…
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The Eric Church Committee, as well as the Pike Commission, as you're well aware, was basically at its conclusion derailed because of the assassination of the CIA station chief in Greece, which at the very beginning two years ago, I did an e…