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Originally posted by m3rlz
i still cannot seem to download more than 50 MB of the interview with Mr. Lear (in either format), or any of the other interviews in their entirety... would someone please upload this to google video or something? projectcamelot just does not seem to like me for some reason, d'oh!
John, you wrote about seeing the 5 hours of Dan Burisch video.. did you watch the Project Camelot interview? Would love to hear your thoughts on that. And how it correlates to the 'Henry Deacon' interview on the same page.. there's definitely some common ground there.
Project Camelot
Testifying before the U.S. Congress in 1965, R.L. Sproul, director of DARPA said: "It is [our] primary thesis that remote area warfare is controlled in a major way by the environment in which the warfare occurs, by the sociological and anthropological characteristics of the people involved in the war, and by the nature of the conflict itself."54
The recognition within DOD that research and development efforts to support counterinsurgency operations must be oriented toward the local human terrain led to the establishment of the Special Operations Research Office (SORO) at the American University in Washington, D.C. With anthropologists and other social scientists on staff, SORO functioned as a research center into the human dimension of counterinsurgency. Many SORO reports took a unique approach. In 1964, the Army commissioned an unusual paper titled "Witchcraft, Sorcery, Magic, and Other Psychological Phenomena, and Their Implications on Military and Paramilitary Operations in the Congo." Authored by James R. Price and Paul Jureidini, the report is a treatise on paranormal combat, discussing "counter-magic" tactics to suppress rebels who are backed by witch doctors, charms, and magic potions.55
In 1964, SORO also designed the infamous Project Camelot. According to a letter from the Office of the Director of the Special Operations Research Office, Project Camelot was "a study whose objective [was] to determine the feasibility of developing a general social systems model which would make it possible to predict and influence politically significant aspects of social change in the developing nations of the world." The project's objectives were "to devise procedures for assessing the potential for internal war within national societies; to identify with increased degrees of confidence those actions which a government might take to relieve conditions which are assessed as giving rise to a potential for internal war; [and] to assess the feasibility of prescribing the characteristics of a system for obtaining and using the essential information needed for doing the above two things."56
Project Camelot, which was initiated during a time when the military took counterinsurgency seriously as an area of competency, recognized the need for social science insights. According to the director's letter: "Within the Army there is especially ready acceptance of the need to improve the general understanding of the processes of social change if the Army is to discharge its responsibilities in the overall counterinsurgency program of the U.S. Government."57
Chile was to be the first case study for Project Camelot. Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung was invited to design a seminar for Project Camelot. Although he refused, he shared information about the project with colleagues. Meanwhile, Hugo Nuttini, who taught anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, accepted an assignment for Project Camelot in Chile. While there, he concealed Camelot's military origin, but word leaked out. Protests arose from Chile's newspapers and legislature and the Chilean Government lodged a diplomatic protest with the U.S. Ambassador. In Washington, D.C., following congressional hearings on the subject, McNamara canceled Project Camelot in 1965.
Originally posted by RiotComing
Please, this thread is NOT about Bill Ryan.
Seriously, leave your misgivings about Bill Ryan at the door, because this is NOT what this thread is intended to discuss.
Project Camelot is doing a good service here, regardless what you think of Mr Ryan.
For once, stop with the Bill Ryan this, Bill Ryan that... and talk about the more important things - the real issues facing us all. For crying out loud!
[edit on 26-10-2006 by RiotComing]
Originally posted by RiotComing
Now, I realise Bill Ryan's reputation at ATS is not the best. The Serpo debacle brought him nothing but scorn, pitchforks and distrust. In spite of this, I found Bill's postings here to be gentlemanly, and like the rest of us here, trying to get to the truth of the matter. He admitted himself that Serpo was a platform for the information to come to light, that there was the possibility that the information could be partly or completely false. Serpo turned out to be a hoax, and well.. Bill Ryan became nothing but a dirty smell around here.
[edit on 9-8-2006 by RiotComing]
Originally posted by RiotComing
I would be only too happy to edit the thread title if I were able to do so. I used Bill's name initially because I realised that yes he was burnt badly by Serpo but here he is, doing positive things for disclosure.
Now I have to ask you Shawnna, you are writing off ALL the material here because of BR.. have you actually watched any of these videos? Do you think Ralph Ring is a charlatan? Is Gary MacKinnon a charlatan? Is John Lear a charlatan? Are they all talking from out of their behinds?
Originally posted by RiotComing
Hi Shawnna, no I haven't read that Q&A, I've been out at a function and just come home. And no, I've been stressing that we shouldn't even think about BR, and discuss the participants and the topics raised instead. So I'm not painting him in a light of any particular colour, if it were to be any kind of hue it would be a shadow, as he appears to take a back seat in most of the proceedings.
Which is fine, he's letting the people tell their stories unhindered. It's interesting you say none of the participants are validating facts. If anything, it's drawing the strings together and corroberating pretty much every theory floating around out there - that's the fascinating thing about Camelot for me. Every speaker, without exception, has engendered my reaction of "yeah! that makes total sense! that's exactly what so-and-so-said" like missing jigsaw pieces falling into place.
It's your decision in the end if you choose to ignore what these people are bringing to the table. Fine with me.
Originally posted by Shawnna
I suggest a little more research is needed before you make a judgement as to his integrity. The Q&A and expose are both quite eye-opening and worth your effort to read. Additionally, the serpo thread here at ATS is also reflective of Bill's complicity in that hoax.
Originally posted by RiotComing
Shawnna, I've taken the time to read the 7-page Q&A and for the record, I see absolutely nothing sinister or dishonest about Bill Ryan's motives. On the other hand, your own demeanour towards him is insulting and condescending. I'm sorry, it had to be said.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Riotcoming..
Why get mad at people not "positively responding" to your thread because they don't believe it because... there's no proof... its fiction.. because there's no proof.. proof is kind of important when your dealing with such technical matters, and of course I and I'm sure many others would agree such intelligent men, as they claim, could come up with some kind of proof.