Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University is a Baltimore research university whose Army-funded Operations Research Office conducted classified psychological-warfare and counterinsurgency studies that prefigured Project Camelot.
Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, founded in 1876 as the first American university built on the German research-university model. Its administration of large federal contract-research organizations made it an institutional hub for Cold War military and intelligence science.1
Operations Research Office
From 1948 the university operated the Operations Research Office (ORO) under U.S. Army contract, a classified body that conducted operations analysis during the Korean War and studies of psychological warfare and unconventional conflict. The Army terminated the Hopkins relationship in 1961 and reconstituted the work as the Research Analysis Corporation. The same lineage of Army-funded social science produced the Special Operations Research Office and its successor SORO, the unit that ran the controversial Project Camelot counterinsurgency study.12
Applied Physics Laboratory
The university's Applied Physics Laboratory, established in 1942 to develop the proximity fuze, became a major Navy research center and one of the largest university-affiliated defense laboratories in the United States.1
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