(EST Pub Date) the Office of Scientific Intelligence, 1949-68- (Volume Three, Annexes Viii, Ix, and X)

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days of OSI but production gained with the formation of a division concerned solely with the subject and attained its highest level in the period of 1963-1965. OSI production in this field declined sharply in 1966 following the transfer of

Missile and Space Analysis Center in October 1965. Since that time, OSI publications on guided missiles have been limited to those on surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles and cruise missiles.

In proportion to OSI's total production between 1949 and 1968, the field of biological and chemical warfare has declined from a high of 20 percent in 1949 to 9 percent in 1968, while remaining generally stationary in the actual number of publications in this field. Of the 20 percent published in the field in 1949, the majority was devoted to biological warfare, then an esoteric subject of perhaps exaggerated interest and concern within the intelligence community. The subsequent downgrading of emphasis on this subject has tended to place it more nearly in perspective in the range of OSI interests.

Within the general area of basic and applied sciences, OSI's depth production has shifted