Special Warfare Area Handbook for Cuba
Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1961. Limited Edition, number 944 of 500. Wraps. x, 657, [1] pages. Wraps. Fold-out maps. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Name in ink on title page. Covers soiled. Copy #944 of 500 copies (Clearly it was reprinted after the first 500 and the copy numbers reflected the actual number produced. Believed to be 1000. Prepared under contract with the Department of the Army. This book covers the sociological, political, economic, and military background information essential for planning for psychological operations and unconventional warfare. Very scarce. Project Camelot was a counterinsurgency study begun by the United States Army in 1964. The project was executed by the Special Operations Research Office (SORO) at American University, which assembled an eclectic team of psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and other intellectuals to analyze the society and culture of numerous target countries, especially in Latin America. The goal of the project was to enhance the Army's ability to predict and influence social developments in foreign countries. This motive was described by an internal memo on December 5, 1964: "If the U.S. Army is to perform effectively its part in the U.S. mission of counterinsurgency it must recognize that insurgency represents a breakdown of social order and that the social processes involved must be understood." Controversy arose around Project Camelot when professors in South America discovered its military funding and criticized its motives as imperialistic. The Department of Defense ostensibly canceled Project Camelot on July 8, 1965, but continued the same research more discreetly. More