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of the behavioral sciences." ^^ The committee was chaired by Dr. Paul 

 Youn^, of the Rockefeller University, and Gene Lyons, a political 

 scientist at Dartmouth was chosen to be executive secretary. 



State Department 



On November 18, 1965, the Foreign Affairs Research Council re- 

 leased its list of criteria and procedures for review. Projects covered 

 included all grants and contract research of all Federal agencies. 

 Exempted from review were in-house social research and work done 

 under NSF, NIH, the Fulbright-Hays and National Defense Educa- 

 tion Acts. Also exempted were "grants made by operating agencies — 

 that is, grants which leave to the recipient academic institution full 

 autonomy in the selection of scholars, areas, and methods * * *." The 

 only criterion established for cancellation of a project was "* * * the 

 purpose of avoiding adverse effects upon U.S. foreign relations." It 

 encompassed: potential of the project for being exploited by opposi- 

 tion parties; vulnerability to attack by foreign nationals because of 

 agency sponsorship; classification; and research techniques (library 

 research is recommended by the State Department) .^^ 



Other responses in the '"'' Advisory C oiriTnunity'''' 



On May 7, 1966, the realignment of SORO at The American Uni- 

 versity was announced. The office henceforth would be known as the 

 Center for Research in Social Systems (CRESS), and would confine 

 itself to preparing the country and area handbooks for the Army. All 

 other DOD contracts would be screened for propriety by the university 

 and a panel of outside advisers. In addition, CRESS would try to 

 establish closer ties with the university and the academic world.""* 



Two other NAS committees were formed. While not a direct reaction 

 to Project Camelot, they were established in part because of the re- 

 action that came after that issue to search for improvement of the 

 relations between the Government and the social science community. 



The Behavioral and Social Science Committee was established un- 

 der COSPUP (the Committee on Science and Public Policy), in Jan- 

 uary 1967. COSPUP had previously conducted reviews of the needs of 

 the physical and natural sciences. The tasks of this committee are to 

 assess the opportunities and needs of the social and behavioral sciences 

 and to relate them to a national policy for strengthening and develop- 

 ing the behavioral and social sciences. Funded by NIH, NSF, and the 

 Russell Sage Foundation, the committee has polled social scientists 

 in academia and industry, to get some data on the "social science en- 

 terprise." Its report will be published in September 1969. 



The third NAS Committee to be formed after Project Camelot was 

 the Committee on International Relations in the Behavioral Sciences, 

 established in late 1966. Several factors stimulated establishment of 

 this committee: (1) the relative weakness of international social sci- 

 ences; (2) the need for encouragement of cross-national and cross- 



«2 "Reports of Committees, Division of Behavioral Sciences, National Academy of 

 Sciences — National Research Council." 1968. Washington, National Academy of Sciences — 

 National Research Council, mimeo, 1968, p. 12. 



«3 Procedures for Department of State Review of Government-Sponsored Foreign Affairs 

 Research. Released by the Department of State, Nov. 18, 1965 ; State Department Review 

 of Research ; Research Council Activities : A Summary. PAR Horizons (vol. 1, No. 3, 

 May 196S), p. 7. 



8* Richard Eder. "School Limits Ties to Army Proieet." New York Times (May 8, 1966), 

 p. 30. 



