Christopher Pyle Delivers 76-Page Report on Military Spying on Americans
Retired Army Captain Christopher H. Pyle on this day delivered a 76-page report to the Senate exposing military spying on Americans protesting the Vietnam War.
Pyle had earlier exposed military spying on American political groups in a magazine article on January 15, 1970. Pyle himself had been an Army intelligence officer and was knowledgeable about the army spying program.
On the basis of his revelations, Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina undertook the first Congressional investigation of the spying by the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, which he chaired.
Learn more; read: Christopher Pyle, Military Surveillance of Civilian Politics, 1967–1970 (1986)
Watch Pyle discuss military spying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0d5OBnmxw4
Read the Senate Church Committee report on spying on Americans pp. 785-834): http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/contents/church/contents_church_reports_book3.htm
Learn about the early history of military spying on Americans: Joan Jensen, Army Surveillance in America, 1775–1980 (1991)