Longtime CP fronter recently working with the Iraq antiwar movement. His website is on a list of usual suspects recommended as "resources" in Appendix II of John Dean's Worse Than Watergate. Also acknowledged in William Arkin's Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World.
Pike previously worked for nearly two decades with the Federation of American Scientists, where he directed the Space Policy, Cyberstrategy, Military Analysis, Nuclear Resource and Intelligence Resource projects. Pike developed the Federation's award winning website, and was personally responsible for creating most of the site's online content. He has also been at the forefront of utilizing satellite imagery to monitor worldwide weapons facilities.
Frequently called upon to testify before Congress, Pike in 1983 established the Space Policy Working Group, comprised of Congressional staff and advocacy organizations concerned with missile defense issues. Ten years later, he set up the Military Spending Group, composed of public interest organizations working on alternative security strategies. Pike helped form the National Campaign to Save the ABM Treaty, and served on its Executive Committee. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has served on a variety of non-governmental boards and advisory committees, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Peace Research and European Security Studies Center, and the Verification Technology Information Centre of London. He has been a consultant to numerous groups, including the United Nations Group of Government Experts on Confidence Building Measures in Outer Space. In 1991 he participated in the NASA International Near-Earth Object (NEO) Detection Panel, and served as a consultant to the NEO Working Group of the International Astronomical Union.
...It was actually brought out at a House Science Committee hearing in 1998, because Pike the Liar was running around claiming to be "Dr. Pike" Some congressman asked him in, the hearing, in public, if he had a PhD, and where he got it, and Pike was forced to admit he had been LYING the ENTIRE time, and DID NOT have a doctorate! Then the member said, well, do you have a master's, and what is it in? THEN he asked, do you have a bachelors (this was funny, as I think everyone assumed the guy at least had a bachelors) -- NO, Pike admitted, HE DIDN'T!!
Notice how much this bothers the liberals, thought, as they continue to quote him as an expert. You, too, can be an "expert" in science with ONLY A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION if you have the correct left wing views.
17 posted on 01/17/2002 7:50:34 AM PST by justanotherfreeper
Aftergood: Secrecy serves the interests of the executive branch against the legislative--that's a temptation against reform. And regardless of what the new administration wants to change, there'll be resistance from bureaucracy. The Nixon administration declared that most documents could be declassified within ten years. Carter shortened that to six years. All these were executive orders from the president, but they never happened. Even explicit directives aren't enough.
Sounds like he and Pike would love Mark Zaid.
He's quoted here along with good ol' Greg Thielman in this nigerflap story :
The Spies Who Pushed For War
Guardian UK ^ | 07-17-03
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/947694/posts
He's also cited in the faulty 'missing explosives' story in Iraq:
Missing explosives capture spotlight - John Pike cites "treasure trove," soft peddles WMD
Baltimore Sun ^ | October 26, 2004 | David L. Greene, Tom Bowman and Julie Hirschfeld Davis
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1257137/posts