Cold War in Latin America: the Camelot Project (1964-1965) and the political and academic reactions of the Chilean Left wing

NAVARRO, JUAN JOSÉ

Comparative Sociology

Brill Publishers

Lugar: Leiden; Año: 2011 vol. 10 p. 807 - 825

The Project Camelot, a social research orientated to measuring, predicting and controlling internal conflicts tending to the social destabilization of countries of the periphery, arose in the Special Operations Research Office, SORO, belonging to the American University, was contracted by the Department of Defense of The United States, to be applied in Chile within four years. Since it irruption in the public sphere, in 1965, a myth was constructed, linking all types of funds from international agencies with the flow of money for espionage, throug sociological researches.