Social scientists and a growing num ber of people in Congress and the Ad ministration are beginning to give hard thought to the place of the social sci ences in the scheme of social science government relations. Thus far there seems to be no consensus as to what new institutional arrangements should be created, but the feeling is strong that something should be done. The catalog of problems which intrude upon rela tions between the social scientists and government is still being compiled. Problems which must appear obvious to many social scientists, however, are those having to do with money, pro fessional independence, and influence and visibility. The mounting interest of members of Congress in the social sciences is undoubtedly a reflection of the in creasing seriousness of such problems as the upheavals in the Negro ghettos, the overwhelming demands on big-city school systems, and the near-chaos in public transportation. The rapid growth of federal support for the social sci ences, and of the involvement of social scientists in the work of government, is evident from NSF figures showing that the total federal contribution to research in these fields increased from $35 million in fiscal 1960 to $188 mil lion in fiscal 1966.** Nothing has done more to alert social scientists and government to the problems inherent in their deepening involvement with one another than the Camelot incident. Project Camelot, the long-since canceled U.S. Army sponsored study of political instability