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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needs of scientific intelligence. Most of this was done on an ad hoc basis as a result of specific requests rather than in conformity with any well established program. Nonetheless, by 1951 the Office was planning the production of scientific intelligence--at least to a limited extent--in consultation with the Office of National Estimates; with the Research and Development Board, and the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group in the Department of Defense; with the Interdepartmental Committee on International Security; and with other organizations of the Government concerned with science and technology. Shortly thereafter, the use of consultants to aid in Office planning was instituted. In 1954 and 1955, partly as a result of an IG recommendation and partly because the Office had acquired sufficient background to determine sensibly the needs of the consumers of scientific intelligence and the capability of the Office to fill these needs, a formal mechanism for programming was set up.
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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.