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
On 28 October 1949, DCID 3/3 established the Scientific Intelligence Committee* (SIC) whose Chairman (AD/SI) was designated the coordinator of NIS Chapter VII (Scientific) which comprised Sections 70 (General), 71 (Electronics), 72 (Aircraft and Weapons), 73 (Atomic Energy), 74 (Biological Warfare), 75 (Chemical Warfare), and 76 (miscellaneous). OSI was unable to assume immediately the NIS responsibilities assigned it in October 1949 and the Department of Army continued to be the Chapter Coordinator until 1 July 1950. However, production of the Section 73 was assumed by CIA somewhat earlier, probably in the spring of 1950. By August 1950, it was recommended that the NIS Chapter VII Coordinating Committee (apparently an interim committee established until the SIC could assume full responsibilities) be abolished. SIC 4/4, approved in August 1950, then assigned sections of Chapter VII to SIC working committees in accordance with their basic responsibilities.
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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.