Otis G. Pike

Otis Grey Pike (August 31, 1921 – January 20, 2014) was an American lawyer and politician who served nine terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, from 1961 to 1979.

He graduated with an AB from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1943 after completing a senior thesis titled "American-Chinese Relations: Emphasizing the Years 1931-1941.

In early 1965, at a student meeting at Suffolk County Community College, he said that only revolution would result in a change of government in South Africa.

He voted to end the Philadelphia Plan which provided for affirmative action in hiring practices of construction firms on government projects.

The American Prospect gives some background, noting that prior to these investigations, "the U.S. intelligence community had never undergone significant congressional scrutiny" because of a "laissez-faire attitude...but after a 1974 New York Times series by Seymour Hersh revealed that the CIA had conducted "massive" illegal spying activities against American antiwar protesters and dissidents, Congress and the executive branch convulsed into action.

The report was suppressed from the start but was leaked by Daniel Schorr to the Village Voice who asked the publication to give to his legal defense fund, which was refused.

[9] In the present, the Mary Farrell Foundation decided to publish the sections of the final report Pike wanted to make public in the first place.

Pike boating in 1978