PIKE COMMITTEE

1. Public Record

Pike Committee. House Select Committee on Intelligence, 1975, Otis Pike in the chair. The other room next to Church in the Senate. The House wanted the same decade's intelligence sins with less reverence and more arithmetic: costs, illegal domestic work, failures, the habit of not telling Congress. The Ford White House and the Agency fight the draft. A report is prepared. The House votes not to release it in the form Pike wanted. The Village Voice prints a version. Daniel Schorr's name is dragged through the leak.

This folder already holds Church, CHAOS, Shamrock, Minaret. Pike is the House twin that did not get a polite bound set from the government. What survived is a leaked text, a chairman who looked like he wanted blood, and a precedent: the chamber can investigate and still lose the last page to the executive.

A House room. A report the House would not issue. A newspaper that issued it anyway.

2. Date of Incident

1975. Leak and Voice publication into early 1976.

3. Location

United States House, Washington. Approximate 38°53 N 077°00 W.

4. Official Narrative

A committee whose full official report was suppressed by the chamber. Official narrative is process. The leaked text is the public narrative.

5. Witness Layer

Otis Pike. Committee staff. Ford administration. CIA liaison. Schorr and the Voice.

6. Recovery Logistics

Leaked report text. Hearing fragments. No complete official bound set as Pike drafted it.

7. Assessment

Church is the cathedral. Pike is the audit. One produced bound volumes the Agency could live with in public. The other produced a fight about whether the House owned its own paper. The Voice printing is not pretty. It is how the arithmetic got out.

This folder files Pike as the inquiry that lost the last vote and won the leak. Keep Schorr as a cost, not as the author of the sins. The sins were already in the building.

8. Materials & Remains

Village Voice text. Hearing record. Church as the neighbouring shelf.

9. Key Personnel

Otis Pike : Chair.

Daniel Schorr / Village Voice : The unofficial printer.

10. Aftermath

Oversight theatre learns both lessons: you can investigate, and you can still be voted off your own report. The leaked pages stay the Pike that people read.

11. Current Archive Status

Status: 1975 House. Report leaked. Official bound withheld.

Confidence: High that Pike ran and that a version reached the Voice. High that the House blocked Pike's preferred release. Low that the leaked text is identical to every draft page.

Filing note

A House chairman who wanted the bill, a White House that wanted the draft dead, a chamber that voted against its own paper, a newspaper that printed it, a reporter who paid in public.

The House would not issue it. The Voice did. That is the whole of the official narrative.