PENTAGON RESEARCH IN BRAZIL IS BLOCKED BY U.S. ENVOY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000101500001-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 24, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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? U.S. Ambassador to Brazil
Lincoln Gordon's critical analy-
sis of a proposed . Army re-
search study planned for Brazil
has led to suspension of the
project, ? State and Defense
Department spokesmen con-
firmed yesterday.
. The Department of the Army
had entered into a contract with
a Massachusetts research
organization?associates?f
International Research, Inc., of
.Cla"Pidge=f o tudy?riii tocial and
ways of influencing ? so
political change and the subver-
sive techniques which permit
Communists to take advantage
of such situations in developing
countries.
As part of the "planning and
of the
coordination stage"
contract, the Army. reportedly
sought State Department clear-
azil.
ance for research in Br
With the. lesson of Project
Camelot behind theni, State
cabled
Department ' officials
Ambassador ? Gordon in Rio,
he Army
asking his reaction to t
research proposal.
Caused Flareup in (nile
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Two, months ago, failure of
Army-sponsored researchers to
obtain clearance from ? U.S.
'Ambassador to Chile Ralph
?Dungan before undertaking
".Camelot .. inquiries 'in ? Chile
compounded the impact of a
public flareup in ,that country
.after the study was publicized
i'in a Chilean newspaper. .' ''. '
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Star of the background of being undertaken by Defense-A
particularly in terms of ' the
damage they can do to relations
between the United States and
the host country. ?,t;
Though stress is placed On the
fact that no research is under-4
taken without prior clearance? 1 ' ?
few eountries could be caught :-
publicly allowing U.S. research-1
ers, supported by the Defense
Department, to study different
elements ? within ? their social:
structure as potential insur-.4
gents.
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At the recent meeting Lima, Peru, Peru, of 'this colintry's,i
ambassadors to Latin . Americ, .
some discussions were held. on
problems and situations that are s:
harmful to U.S. relations in that
area of the. world, and Camelot
was one mentioned. ;
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' Discuss Guidelines
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A State Departnient official.:
.'? said yesterday discussions.
leading to some. guidelines for;
foreign . policy research are,.,
underway, and some. decisions !
are expected to be. reached:!
before ? Secretary of State Dean.'
Rusk appears before a Housei
Foreign Affairs subcommittee to.;
discuss Camelot and other':
behavioral' science' research'.
projects.
Rusk had been scheduled to
appear before the subcommitte&i
Thursday, but that session was.;
postponed because of the Presk
dent's review of the Viet Nami
crisis. The meeting has been,;
reset tentatively for Tuesday,
but it may be cancelled again; 1, ?.
because of the situatiOnin Viet!
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Camelot and the Chilean inci-
dent was followed by hasty
cancellation of the multimillion-
dollar project "in its present
form" by the Defense Depart-
ment. .
A Defense spokesman said at
the time that difficulties inher-
ent in conducting that type of
study in a foreign country?as
exemplified by . the Chilemi
episode?had influenced the
decision to cancel the entire
'program.
Other sources indicated the
impetus to cancel Camelot
came from the White House.
Ambassador Gordon's objec-
tions last week to the Brazilian
study, however, led to yester-
day's decision to suspend it. A
Pentagon spokesman empha-
sized that such a study would
not be undertaken without ,first
obtaining approval from the
host government.
Seek Coordination
Since disclosure of the Came-
lot controversy, talks have been
going on within the Defense and
State Departments looking for
some means to coordinate
foreign research projects.
Discussions between the two
agencies also have been under-
way?though neither will con-
firm them publicly.' "
A certain amount of inter-
governmental 'rivalry has been
brought to the surface by the
Camelot situation.
, Some State Department
officials :are sharply critical of
the, type' .01 behavioral studies
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