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The '''Special Studies Project''' was a study funded by the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]] and conceived by its then president, [[Nelson Rockefeller]], to 'define the major problems and opportunities facing the U.S. and clarify national purposes and objectives, and to develop principles which could serve as the basis of future national policy'. The study ran between 1956 and 1960.<ref name=rbf>{{testcite
|url=http://www.rockarch.org/collections/rbf/
|title=Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives, 1941-1989}}</ref>

Nelson recruited [[Henry Kissinger]], who was then on the faculty of [[Harvard University]], as director of the project; he had first met Kissinger in 1955. He also brought on board such luminaries as [[Edward Teller]], [[Charles H. Percy|Charles Percy]], [[Dean Rusk]], [[John W. Gardner|John Gardner]] (president of the [[Carnegie Corporation]]) and [[Henry Luce]], along with his brothers [[Laurance Rockefeller|Laurance]] and [[John D. Rockefeller 3rd|John D. 3rd]]. Six panels were constituted that looked at sweeping issues ranging from military/security stategy to foreign policy, to international economic stategy and defense department and governmental reorganization.

The seven sub-panels were:<ref name=rbf/><ref name=andrew>{{testcitebook
|title=Cracks in the Consensus: The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Special Studies Project and Eisenhower's America
|author=John III Andrew
|year=1998
|volume=28
|journal=Presidential Studies Quarterly
}}</ref>

*'''Panel I - International Objectives and Strategies '''; chaired by [[Dean Rusk]], the report was written mostly by August Heckscher
*'''Panel II - International Security Objectives and Strategy'''; directed by [[Henry Kissinger]]. Panellists included Frank Altschul, [[Gordon Dean]], James B. Fisk, [[Roswell Gilpatric]], [[Townsend Hoopes]], [[Henry Luce]], [[Laurance Rockefeller]], [[Edward Teller]], Carroll L. Wilson, and economist Arthur Smithies.
*'''Panel III - International Economic and Social Objectives and Strategy '''; chaired by Milton Katz. [[Harlan Cleveland]] was a panellist.
*'''Panel IV - U.S. Economic and Social Policy'''; chaired by [[Thomas B. McCabe]]
*'''Panel V - U.S. Utilization of Human Resources'''; chaired by [[John W. Gardner]]
*'''Panel VI - U.S. Democratic Process'''; chaired by [[James A. Perkins]]
*'''Panel VII - The Moral Framework of National Purpose'''

The military subpanel's report was rush-released much earlier than the others, about two months after the USSR launched [[Sputnik]], in October, 1957. It was given prominent treatment on the front page of ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>{{testcite
|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70B1EF8395B107B93C4A9178AD85F4C8585F9
|title=Arms Rise Urged Lest Reds Seize Lead in 2 Years
|date=January 6th, 1958
|work=The New York Times
|page=1
|author=Philip Benjamin}}</ref> selling thousands of copies and garnering unprecedented influence. Many of its major recommendations - principal among them a massive arms buildup to counter perceived Soviet military superiority - were adopted by U.S. President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in his [[State of the Union]] address in January, 1958.<small><ref>Rushed release of military subpanel's report - see Cary Reich, ''The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958'', New York: Doubleday, 1996. (pp.650-667)</ref></small>

The project was finally published in its entirety in 1961 as ''Prospect for America: The Rockefeller Panel Reports''. The archival study papers are stored in the ''Rockefeller Archive Center'' at the family estate; portions of the papers are still restricted, over four decades after the report was published.<ref name=rbf/>

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 Nelson recruited [[Henry Kissinger]], who was then on the faculty of [[Harvard University]], as director of the project; he had first met Kissinger in 1955. He also brought on board such luminaries as [[Edward Teller]], [[Charles H. Percy|Charles Percy]], [[Dean Rusk]], [[John W. Gardner|John Gardner]] (president of the [[Carnegie Corporation]]) and [[Henry Luce]], along with his brothers [[Laurance Rockefeller|Laurance]] and [[John D. Rockefeller 3rd|John D. 3rd]]. Six panels were constituted that looked at sweeping issues ranging from military/security stategy to foreign policy, to international economic stategy and defense department and governmental reorganization.
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 |title=Cracks in the Consensus: The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Special Studies Project and Eisenhower's America
 |author=John III Andrew

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