The Pike Committee is the common name for the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during the period when it was chaired by Democratic Representative Otis G. Pike of New York. The Select Committee had originally been established in February 1975 under the chairmanship of Congressman Lucien Nedzi of Michigan. Following Nedzi's resignation in June, the committee was reconstituted with Pike as chair, in July 1975, with its mandate expiring January 31, 1976. Under Pike's chairmanship, the committee investigated illegal activities by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA).
The colonies officially broke away from England when they declared independence via The Declaration of Independence of 1776.
<span> No matter if nation’s independence (de jure) was violent or non- violent, the consequences of decolonization, among them crippled economies, ethnic violence and even global conflict, eventually led to developing nations still not economically independent</span>
