Pike Committee

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United States House of Representatives select committee congressional investigative committee

The Pike Committee was a 1975 U.S. House of Representatives committee chaired by Otis Pike that investigated abuses and oversight failures within American intelligence agencies during the same period as the Senate’s Church Committee.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Pike Committee canonical	2
Pike Committee report	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States House of Representatives select committee ⓘ congressional investigative committee ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Central Intelligence Agency ⓘ Defense Intelligence Agency ⓘ Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ National Security Agency ⓘ United States Intelligence Community ⓘ surface form: U.S. intelligence community
appointedBy	Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ
chairperson	Otis G. Pike NERFINISHED ⓘ Otis Pike ⓘ
contemporaneousWith	Church Committee ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dissolved	1976 ⓘ
followedBy	United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ⓘ surface form: Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (House)
hasMember	Bella Abzug ⓘ Henry B. González ⓘ Les Aspin ⓘ Paul N. McCloskey Jr. ⓘ Robert McClory ⓘ
hasPurpose	examine oversight failures of U.S. intelligence agencies ⓘ investigate abuses by American intelligence agencies ⓘ investigate activities of U.S. intelligence agencies ⓘ
historicalContext	post-Watergate reform era ⓘ
inception	1975 ⓘ
influenced	creation of permanent House intelligence oversight mechanisms ⓘ
legislativeBody	United States House of Representatives ⓘ
legislativePeriod	94th United States Congress ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
namedAfter	Otis Pike ⓘ
notableWork	Pike Committee self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Pike Committee report draft report on U.S. intelligence activities ⓘ
officialName	United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ⓘ surface form: House Select Committee on Intelligence
opposedBy	Central Intelligence Agency ⓘ surface form: Central Intelligence Agency leadership Gerald Ford administration ⓘ
partOf	post-Watergate congressional investigations ⓘ
reportPublishedIn	The Village Voice ⓘ
seeAlso	Church Committee ⓘ United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States ⓘ surface form: Rockefeller Commission United States congressional oversight of intelligence ⓘ
significantEvent	conflict with the executive branch over access to classified documents ⓘ leak of draft report to the press ⓘ subpoena disputes with the Ford administration ⓘ
subjectHasRole	oversight of intelligence activities ⓘ
topic	abuses of surveillance powers ⓘ budgetary control of intelligence agencies ⓘ covert operations ⓘ executive secrecy ⓘ intelligence oversight ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Pike Committee
Description of subject: The Pike Committee was a 1975 U.S. House of Representatives committee chaired by Otis Pike that investigated abuses and oversight failures within American intelligence agencies during the same period as the Senate’s Church Committee.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Church Committee → contemporaneousWith → Pike Committee ⓘ

Rockefeller Commission → followedBy → Pike Committee ⓘ

Pike Committee → notableWork → Pike Committee self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pike Committee report