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.
generally from the compilation of basic data as exemplified by the production of scientific research aids on various organizational units, manpower, and general scientific resources such as education and equipment, to basic and applied research more clearly supporting weaponry development. Early studies tended to encompass such broad fields as physics in the Soviet Union. These were similar to a series published in 1954 at the request of the Department of Defense. While these studies were both analytical and estimative, they also served to compile the available data from which to draw answers to more specific intelligence problems. Within this area of basic and applied science reporting, OSI also included reporting of space events as the field developed. Publications in this area, however, never comprised a large
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 243 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.