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.
“The Advance”10 pages
in the subject field before the paper was submitted to IB review. Concurrent with the IB review, OSI production has always been coordinated with other Agency offices with peripheral interest in the subject. The Offices currently most concerned are the Office of Strategic Research and the Office of Economic Research. Occasionally papers are reviewed by the Office of Current Intelligence or the Office of Basic and Geographic Research. Thus, when the paper is published the views of all Agency components concerned with the subject matter have been taken into account. ## Distribution OSI depth reporting, with the exception of the research aid type of publication, has always been directed to top-level governmental policy makers while at the same time attempt to provide detailed support to lower level officials as well. In 1954, for example, the SIRs and the PSIRs were disseminated "within the IAC agencies and whenever possible, disseminated to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Development ---
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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.