#ProjectCamelot

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Johan Galtung Norwegian sociologist working at FLACSO in Santiago in 1965 who received and rejected a Project Camelot recruitment letter from SORO, shared the letter with Chilean academic colleagues, and thereby initiated the chain of exposure that led to the project's cancellation, the Chilean diplomatic protest, and congressional investigations into Army-sponsored foreign social science.

CRESS Army-funded counterinsurgency and psychological-warfare research center at American University, founded in 1956 as the Special Operations Research Office (SORO), which ran Project Camelot and was renamed CRESS in 1966.

Project Camelot A 1964 US Army project run through SORO at American University under contract ARO-7 and a budget Secretary of State Rusk described as 'more than $4,000,000' that attempted to build a predictive social science model for revolution in developing countries; cancelled in July 1965 after its exposure by Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung provoked a Chilean diplomatic protest, congressional hearings, and a permanent rupture between the military and academic social science communities.