Ex-congressman, leader of CIA probe
VERO BEACH, Fla. - Former New York Democratic Congressman Otis Pike has died at age 92 in Florida.
His daughter Lois Pike Eyre said he died Monday at a Vero Beach hospice after a long illness.
Pike served 18 years in Congress before retiring in 1978.
In the mid-1970s, he led the House Select Committee on Intelligence, which investigated questionable CIA activities. The agency considered the Pike Committee inquiry as a dramatic shift in Congress and the first significant House investigation of the U.S. intelligence community since the CIA’s creation in 1947.
After he retired from Congress, Pike wrote a syndicated column for Newhouse Newspapers for 20 years.
Pike was born in Riverhead, N.Y. He also served in the Marines as a pilot in the Pacific during World War II.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 01/22/2014