STATE DEPARTMENT PROCEDURES FOR REVIEWING GOVERNMENT SPONSORED FOREIGN AREA RESEARCH

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PART ONE, SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND GOVERNMENT SPONSOR-
Government Sponsored Foreign Area Research
GEORGE C. DENNEY, JR.
Deputy Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State
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Last year a number of events drew attention both to the in-'
creasing role of the federal government as a sponsor (mainly
by contracts with persons and institutions outside the govern-
ment) of social science research related to foreign affairs and
to some of the problems associated with this sponsorship. In
June, an ambitious outline of a study of the social roots of po-
litical instability, financed by the Army and named project
CAMELOT, provoked such hostile reaction in Chile, where it.
was discussed by an indiscreet consultant to the study design-
ers, and elsewhere, that the Defense Department felt compelled
to cancel it. In early August, President Johnson, noting that
some federally-supported social science research could "raise
problems affecting the conduct of our foreign policy," asked the
Secretary of State to take steps to "assure the propriety of
Government-sponsored social science research in the area of
foreign policy." On'November 18, 1965, after weeks of internal
discussions and consultations with other agencies, the State De-
partment issued a set of procedures for its review of "possible
adverse effects upon foreign relations" of Government-
sponsored research.1
These developments have been accompanied by controversy,
some of it resulting from misunderstandings of the facts of the
matter and some of it stemming from legitimate differences of
opinion on important issues of public policy affecting both the
government and the academic community. In the year since
CAMELOT, however, there has been a growing recognition that .
certain types of U.S. government support,for,social science re-
1The text of the procedures was published in the- FEDERAL PEG-
State Dept. declassification & release instructions on (file..,..
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