# Douglas Pike

Douglas Eugene Pike (July 27, 1924 – May 13, 2002) was a leading American historian and foremost scholar on the Vietnam War and the Viet Cong based at Texas Tech University from 1997, was director of the Indochina Archive at the University of California, Berkeley from 1981 and prior to that served as Foreign Service Officer in Asia, with assignments in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Hong Kong, Tokyo and Taipei. Pike served for 15 years as the State Department's leading analyst. He was considered the leading expert on the National Liberation Front and NVA (People's Army of Vietnam) before his death in 2002.Pike received a degree in journalism from the University of North Dakota, a bachelor's in international communications from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA from American University in Washington D.C. (1958), and did a year of graduate work at the MIT Center for International Studies (1963–64).He was the founder of the journal Indochina Chronology which was subscribed to by academics and diplomats worldwide.