Dear Colleagues, Please share this CALL for essays for an issue of *American Behavioral Scientist* entitled 'Pre-Internet Networked Operations' DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS 1 OCTOBER, 2025 Essays invited for a survey of 1960s -1970s network experiments such as: *COINTELPRO *(US); *CHAOS* (US); *Phoenix* (Vietnam); *Condor* (South America); *ORDEN* (El Salvador); *Jakarta *(Indonesia); *OBAN* (Brazil) that networked societies prior to the Internet. *These experimental networks shared characteristics of a two-part program that promoted austerity programs while aiding police in neutralizing dissidents. *Discussions about these two-part experimental and Operations Research (OR) informed networks is invited particularly in regard to how evident or non-evident the communications were that supported these operations; the staffing and hardware; how networks were used; and, how they contributed to social and financial inequality and political polarization in the populations they monitored. The survey aims to be an unclassified, one-of-a-kind, historical-comparative, resource for media scholars, media users, social scientists and everyone who depends on the Internet. See CFP List link to view details, timeline and abstract portal: https://www.cfplist.com/CFP/40855 Abstracts requested for an issue of *American Behavioral Scientist* issue entitled: "Pre-Internet Networked Operations" and guest edited by: Noel Packard Ph.D. Media, Film and Television, University of Auckland, N.Z. and Dr. Bradley Simpson, professor of history at University of Connecticut and author of *Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968.* *DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 1 OCTOBER 2025* Feel free to send questions to Noel Packard; npac825@aucklanduni.ac.nz Thank you. Kind regards, Noel Packard PhD