CIA AND PENTAGON INTERFERE EVERYWHERE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000101090007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2014
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 24, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000101090007-0
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By CHARLES P. HOWARD dosed that this mammoth spying project?
f" ? UN and Foreign Correspondent code-named, "Camelot Project"?was all set
to go to work in Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, the
t- Vnited Nations?Interference in the internal,
Sudan, Guinea, Panama, Cuba, Germany and
It ? affairs of African, Asian and Latin American
t., Japan. 'Senator Fulbright's testimony
countries by the Central 'Intelligence Agency dosed that "other Defense 'Department re-
(and the Armed Forces has become so brazen search projects_are planned or under way in
'I.:. that protests have been heard against it on the other Latin American countries, including Col-
floor of the United States Senate, In the Can- ombia, Peru and Venezuela." '
? gressional Record, August 25th, it was dis- The Dominican Republic was not mentioned,
closed by Senator Wayne B, Morse (Dem-Ore)
ir that a document called "Special Warfare Area
r? Handbook for Ethiopia" and a similar dew-
merit for Japan have already been published.
If? These handbooks, it Was disclosed, are the
k result of snooping studies by the Special
1. -Operations Research Office of American Un-.
versity, Washington, D.C. Known as simply
SORO, this seemingly scientific group, under
t? contract to the U.S. Army Department, ac-
cording to its director, Dr. Valiance, is con-
cerned mainly with the relationship with.
people of the developing countries and deals
? with problems of aiding in the orderly pro-
cess of social change and national develop-
ment which is of concern to the U.S. military
except in passing, by the Senatem; but look-
ing back at the U.S. intervention there this
past summer, it is certain to assume, that
the Army had a master-plan Worked out from
just such a "study." . .
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' These so-called "scientific social study" pro-',
jects are only preludes' to military interven-
tion. This was made dear by Dr. Valiance, if
public nu'anorv has forgotten the Congo, the
Bay of Pigs and other pace.. The record dis-
closes that Dr. Valiance told h Senate Com-
mittee in explaining the Camelot Project: "Ob-
viously, in Vietnam the Army is deeply in-
volved in the more active stages of. dealing
with insurgency. The Army thus (by sponsor-
ing Canieiot Project), in ' effect, is sqying in
-establishment." ?
/ ' ? order to do our job better, we 07?ed to know
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the environment in which we are working.,
? ? ', Backward Policy , what ' the problems are, how people's expec-
t- ..- ? -.talons may be thwarted by new developments.
`? In testimony before a Senate Committee, . they are unable to participate in bow these
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,..' Senator J. W. Fulbright, commenting on Dr. laid to possible hosiility toward the home gov-
Valiance's statement, said he believes "there ernment." ? ?
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lies beneath the jargon of 'science' in which,? '
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-;?-. these studies abound a reactionary, back., It is c . ear here that the Army ;s preparing,
',.'. ward-looking policy. opposed' to change." , 'for' the time when it will be ordered to "do,
t our job, as it had to do in the ? Dominican
He said this policy (1) contains implicit ? Republic. . . .
l' "counter-insurgency," (2). assumes "that I. re-f ,'.
Senator Morse decla.red that the U.S.' is? ary s movements are dangerous to the ?
'volutioninterests of the U.S. and (3) maintainsI4 that .. suffering great losses "because we have per-
mitted develop its police' state' 'the U.S. "must be prepared to repress ,them." th
tactics, methods. and 'procedures within the,
''. Sen ??Morse, when he took ? the floko;.gr.gApAuwir -^A' Amerir=.4e,illagra...;, gar
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? now that had it not been for the secrecy un- '
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' 'der which the CIA operates, there never would !
?-. have been a Bay of Pigs." 1 ?
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: Senator Morse went further, warning against]
the danger of the military to democracy: "Get I ?
? it out of your head if you think the military i 1.
? cannot take over in a democracy in an hour i '1 :
? of 'crisis; Do not forget that before Hitler,'; i
???? Germany was a democracy."
- It should be noted well that the senators!
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- were not arguing against U.S. intervention. '
. 'They were opposed to the military establish- I,
- ment doing the spying, when that is supposed'
. ' to. rest with the civilian arm of the Govern-' ?
. .ment through -the State Department, They! 1.?
. were piqued because they had not been con-, ...
????? stilted and their advice and consent had not; ?
.... been canvassed. .
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Storm Broke . ?I .
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The .storm against the spy project broke! '
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- only after newsman and intellectuals in Chile)
'. were angered by its operations there. It thenl .
reached the attention of the U.S. Senate .t .;
President Lyndon B. Johnson later ordered the .
? Defense Department to drop the projects and; '
, ;to clear any future projects. with the White:
'House. ' I
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'-? . But as Senator Morse said on the floor,t
. "dropping the Camelot Project does not ell;
?? inmate the inherent dangers of the policy it
represented; nor does it change the fact that .'?
the Defense Department was willing to go
.? along with it.' ,
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. The Camelot Project has not died. -'It jus
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.. moved from the Pentagon to the White House.'
And Africa, Asia and Latin America will still '
? be under the surveillance of Big Brother. S$. :-..
? those nations of the Southern Hemisphere,'
.. from,Ca.pe of Good Hope to Cape Horn, ha4 ,
better be on notice. The Camelots are coming.1 ': ?
,- And if the Camelots come,. the Marines oan-1 .
. not be far behind...:' :...!:, ...._ ?:- , , ? ? . ? -;,i ? ?
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