'PROJECT CAMELOT' FIZZLE BRINGS CUT IN ARMY FUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500320018-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 27, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

Q
Approved For Release 2004/01/16 : CL4-RDP75-060 4
1
Brings Cut in Ai'iny Funds
"Project Camelot" izz e
1
WASHINGTON, A u g. 26
(UPI) - The Senate yesterday
eliminated $1.1 million from
the multi-million dollar Armedl
Services Appropriation bill as
!a result of the cancelation of
the, Army's "Project Camelot"
(in Chile.
But this did not halt another
{round of criticism of the proj-
ect by two Senators on the
Foreign Relations Committee.
Senator Wayne Morse, (D:
Ore.), spoke at length against
the project, which caused a
similar Congressional uproar in
Chile in Junc.
ing a "basic social science re-t
search project on pre-condi
tions of internal conflict" with-
out t)ic knowledge or permis-,
sign' of the Chilean govern-
ment or the U.S. Ambassador,:
He said he was sure Amer-.:
!can University's special op-'
erations research office;
(SORO), which was in charge',
of the project, has other mili-
tary contracts for similar stud.
iea..
tart' study of the causes of un-jlion is included in the Defense'
rest and of Potential revolu-IDepatment budget for "behav-'
tion, was "intervention under coral and social science" re-
!the name of research." search of which 2.7 million is:
"This is butanextension of for SORO.
thcpoliecsntate tactics of the The Arkansas Democrat said
CIA (Cetral ... Intelli ence he hoped that "the appropriate
typc_of_. intervenlion .can go
yontl_ even_milifary intervention
In the specific ease of Cam? drawn,
_ ducted In other countries, U.S. Ambassador to Chile
Senator . J. William Fui-Ralph Dungan charged In June,
bright`, (D: Ark,), inserted in that he first learned of the
,the Congressional record a long project from reading ' leftist
'gtntomont critlcial of tlto proj? newspapers in Santiago, Chile,'
;Oct. The projoot was later wilier:
thorough study of all our gov-
ernnient's research programs."
Yesterday, the Defense De-
partment said the State De-
partment was fully aware of
Camelot and participated in 15
preliminary discussions on the!
In the internal affairs of nnotit.
s .country."
Projects Elsewhere
He said lie would not be sur-
prised to learn that there are 40
to 50 similar mlutary-sponsored
Approved For Release 2004/01/16 : CIA-RDP75-001149R0005003290j8-6