ABSTRACT
Project Camelot may well have been the worst single scientific project since King Canute dealt with the tides: the worst conceived, worst advised, worst designed, and worst executed. Most members of the House Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements saw Project Camelot as a sad consequence of the dispersed, unfocused, and inadequate role of the behavioral sciences in the Federal government. There was one other reaction to Project Camelot that we must mark for the sake of the record: the reaction of many liberals and non-Establishment social scientists. Research projects which go abroad from the United States under the aegis of a governmental department, even departments as generally "clean" as National Science Foundation or National Institutes of Health, will increasingly encounter suspicion of, or will at least be subject to partisan political charges of, clandestine military penetration. There was one other reaction to Project Camelot that we must mark for the sake of the record: the reaction of many liberals and non-Establishment social scientists.
