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-of Deputies would investigate the project.^^ This announcement 

 prompted Ralph Dungan, U.S. Ambassador to Chile, to cable Wash- 

 ington to find out something about the project. The first U.S. news 

 story appeared on June 27, 1965, in an article in the Washington 

 Evening Star, citing the Dungan inquiry.^^ 



Congressional reaction 



Congressional reaction swiftly followed the publication of the news 

 report. Senator Eugene McCarthy asked WiUiam Fulbright, chairman 

 of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to hold a hearing on the 

 matter. He charged that the Army "has intruded itself into the field 

 of foreign policy without authority," and seemed to have bypassed 

 the Department of State "which properly has the role of implementing 

 U.S. foreign policy." ^^ Hearings on the incident were also requested 

 by some members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and the 

 House Appropriations Committee, which had just cut the DOD re- 

 search budget. The House committee had reported that — 



Some of the areas of study l)eing pursued in behavioral sciences * * * appear 

 not to offer any real promise of providing useful information. Other studies appear 

 to be concerned with trivial matters on which intelligent people should not 

 require studies in order to be informed.^ 



Little information about the project was forthcoming from either 

 the DOD or the Department of State. However, State, which had not 

 objected to the project, apparently sought to quiet the criticism sur- 

 rounding its failure to keep in touch with the DOD, and to coordinate 

 the demise of the project with DOD.^^ The developments that took 

 place between State, DOD, the President, and the Congress have not 

 been fully disclosed. 



Hearings were held, beginning on July 8, 1965, by the Subcommittee 

 on International Organizations and Movements of the House Com- 

 mittee on Foreign Affairs, which had previously studied the problem 

 and whose past disjjleasure with DOD incursions into foreign area 

 research had had no apparent impact. But whether because or in spite 

 of this concession, the Congress was able to exert pressure on the 

 Administration to terminate the project, and to improve coordination 

 between State and DOD operations. 



As an answer to the criticism of its project, the DOD, on July 1, 

 1965, released a "task statement" explaining that data to be used in 

 the study would come primarily from materials in libraries and 

 archives; and the next day, as an answer to the alleged lack of coordi- 

 nation between State and DOD, DOD announced that "* * * all 

 Army surveys in foreign countries would henceforth be subject to the 



" "Pentaffon Silent: 'Camelot' and the Critics." Latin American Times (July 1. 1965). 

 On Dec. 17^1965, the Chilean Select Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved a 318-page 

 report drawn up by the select committee which concluded that the Camelot plan "was an 

 attempt against the dignity, sovereignty, and independence of states and peoples and 

 acainst the right of the latter to self-determination." ("U.S. Interference Is Charged in 

 Chile." New York Times, Dec. 18. 196o). p. 14. 



19 Walter Pincus. "Army-State Department Feud Bared by Chile Incident : Diplomats 

 See Pentagon Political Study As an Invasion of Foreign Policy Field." Washington Star 

 (June 27, 1965), pp. A-1, A-8. 



20 Walter Pincus. "McCarthv Calls for Probe of Army's Project Camelot." Washington 

 Star r.Tune 30. 19R5). p. A-10. 



21 Pincus, Ibid., p. A-1. 



22 An example of this objective was the failure of SORO to begin July 1, 196.5. scheduled 

 distriijution of its new quarterlv journal Conflict, which was described as "Designed to 

 explore a major preoccupation of U.S. political and military planners. This Is the anticipa- 

 tion, prevention, or resolution of tensions within countries which adversely affect inter- 

 nation.il peace or the national interests of the United States." (Walter Pincus. "Camelot 

 Probe Fended Off." Washington Star (July 9, 1985), p. A-5.) 



