Christopher Pyle

Christopher H. Pyle (born 1939) is a Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He is the author of several books and Congressional reports, and has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress on issues of deportation and extradition.

Investigations

Christopher H. Pyle learned while in the U.S. Army in the 1960s that "Army intelligence had 1,500 plainclothes agents watching every demonstration of 20 people or more throughout the United States" [1] [2]. His disclosure of the Army's spying in January 1970 began the era we now call Watergate in this sense: Senator Sam Ervin, who led the Watergate investigation, got his start investigating the Army's spying, and Pyle worked as an investigator for Ervin's Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights; Ervin's further investigations, together with the Church Committee inquiries, lead to the founding of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Pyle consulted for three Congressional committees.

Selected works

• Extradition, Politics, and Human Rights (2001) ISBN 1-56639-823-1
• The President, Congress and the Constitution (1984) ISBN 0-02-925380-2
• Military surveillance of civilian politics, 1967-1970 (American legal and constitutional history) (Garland Press, 1986) ISBN 0-8240-8290-7
• Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law (Potomac Books Inc. (2009) ISBN 1597973874; ISBN 978-1597973878

Articles

• Be afraid, be very afraid, of spying by U.S. Army
• Extradition, Politics, and Human Rights
• The Intelligence Revolution

Related links

• Mount Holyoke listing, Christopher H. Pyle, Professor of Politics
• Public Information Research, Names Base
• Protecting Our Civil Liberties: The Core of Democracy
• Christopher Pyle, on Military Spying of Olympia Peace Activists - video by Democracy Now!

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