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
Research for and writing of OSI-produced NIS sections have been done within OSI and under contract. In the early days of the NIS program, Sections 70 and 76 generally were researched and written within OSI as most of these sections dealt with Bloc countries. By the mid-1950's most of the work on non-Bloc countries for these two sections was being done under contract. When possible, the Section 17 was scheduled to follow shortly after the Chapter VII; in this case, the Chapter VII was then used by the Section 17. If research were needed because the Chapter VII was out of date, then OSI divisions produced the Section, either through a contractor or by in-house research. After the draft sections of the Chapter VII were written, they were sent to the for editing and coordination as part of the SEC (SIC) secretariat. A so-called preliminary review
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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.