Documents / FOIA release
This is Volume Three of the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology Historical Series on the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI), 1949 to 1968, written by Karl H. Weber in June 1972 and approved for release in 2008. It holds three annexes, on OSI publications, OSI's external assistance and contracting program, and OSI's interaction with the National Security Agency. The released text covers production planning, review boards, current intelligence periodicals and future threat forecasting. It does not discuss UFOs.
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## TOP SECRET to estimates were indeed the quality output of the Office and consumed a large portion of the Office effort. Current intelligence was a poor third, in both quality and quantity of effort. As OSI developed a basis from which to move forward and to devote more time to both current and long-range problems, the balance of effort slowly shifted. Thus while NIEs still today remain the ultimate in intelligence reporting, OSI's efforts in the production of current intelligence have gradually increased and a second periodical for current reporting was established. A decline in the quantity of depth research production was evident for a time, particularly in the mid-1960s, but recent efforts have again pushed the rate of production upward. In addition, this type of reporting has become increasingly responsive to the intelligence problems of today as programming of projects takes effect. A. Planning and Programming Although OSI's programming has been somewhat unjustly criticized as "being born without benefit of clergy," the criticism that is has never had a generally accepted set of guidelines controlling its make up does have some truth. It has been subject to the influence of many different people and conditions. As might be expected in the early 1950s, the newly established Office was attempting to fill the critical TOP SECRET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 243 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.