'CAMELOT' FUND SHIFT HIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000402420002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 22, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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1S-ENATE-ARMY CONFLICT
'Cc:1mile Fund ShIft
By WALTER PINCUS
? Star Staff Writer
The Senate Appropriations
Committee has moved to pre-
vent the Army from spending
$1.1,. million?originally ear-
marked for Project Camelot?on
other behavioral science or
human factors research in the
coming year..
In its report on the Defense
Department appropriation bill,
released Wednesday, the Senate
group concurred with a House
reduction of $1.5 million in
behavioral research and added:
"In addition, the committee also
recommends a reduction of $1.1
million for the recently canceled
Camelot project."
? Although the Defense Depart-
ment canceled Camelot last
month, American University's
Special Operations Research
Office (SORO) was assured by
Army contract monitors that
funds originally earmarked for
Camelot would continue to be
'available to SORO for support
of new research projects.
SORO's Camelot contingent?
retitled Special Activities Group
I(SAG)?is currently at work on
;new proposals to present to the
Army. In addition, individuals
:are helping out with SORO
projects.
The Senate committee's $2.6-
million reduction in Army-
'financed behavioral science
studies was part of some $32
million cut from that depart-
'ment's $L4-billion budget for
'research, development, test and
'evaluation progFams ,foKliisc41
Reductions of $500,000?as
first proposed by the House?
also were made in the behav-
ioral science accounts of Navy,
Air Force and Defense Depart-
ment research budgets.
The House cuts were proposed
after the defense appropriations
subcommittee called attention
to the Defense Department's
$20-million behavioral science
research program. In recom-
mending reductions in the area,
the House group criticized
studies "concerned with trivial
matters on which intelligent
people should not require studi-
es in order to be informed."
? . Flareup in Chile
In June, The Star published a
story about a public flareup in
Chile caused by a SORO repre-
sentative making preliminary
inquiries aimed at instituting a
Camelot study in that country.
Camelot was to be a multi-
nation study of insurgent ele-
ments designed to help predict
and thus possibly control social
change in developing nations.
U. S. Ambassador to Chile
Ralph Dungan?previously
uninformed ' of the Camelot
program?complained to Wash-
ington about the Pentagon.
sponsored study.
Sparked by the news stories
and Dungan's complaints, the
administration?from the White
House on down?began to study
the foreign research program.
On July 8, the Pentagon can-
celed Camelot and. four days
later, according' to the Senate
? ,Appropriations .Committee
. !report, ? ? Defense.. 'Secretary
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ti)
Robert McNamara Issued a,
directive "requiring that all
studies in or for the Department
of Defense, the conduct of which
may affect the relations of the
United States with foreign
governments, are to be cleared
with the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Secu-
rity Affairs."
Closed Hearing Held
On Aug. 2, the White House
released a letter from the
President to Secretary of State
Dean Rusk directing the latter
to assume responsibility for
clearing all government-spon-
sored social science research in
the area of foreign policy.
Since that time, State officials
have been at work setting up
machinery to implement the
President's directive.
Meanwhile, a House Foreign
Affairs subcommittee is prepar-
ing to release edited transcripts
of its three-day closed hearing
on Camelot and other Defense-
sponsored behavioral science
research.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee has yet to decide
whether to go ahead with its
Camelot inquiry. The study was
requested by Sen. Eugene Mc-
Carthy, D-Minn., and staff work
has been done. McCarthy's
recent illness has been one
cause for the delay. Another
rests with the committee's
satisfaction with the administra-
tion's response to the situation.,
There is some feeling that a
full-scale inquiry should await a',
test of the new machinery that's,
been created to prevent another.
Camelot from occurring. ,
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