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
a disproportionate amount of time was being devoted to NIS production on countries that were not scientifically important or to countries which were already receiving coverage through other and more current publication media. In March 1958, the Office indicated to the Assistant Director/Basic Intelligence that the Office had been concerned for some time with the growing expense in manpower and money of providing adequate intelligence contributions to the NIS. At that time it was stated that "OSI must give low relative priority to this (NIS) effort ... Many of the countries with which the NIS is now concerned are of little or no interest to us from a scientific intelligence point of view ... Despite our efforts we have achieved neither an accurate nor a particularly useful product." No change was made in OSI's responsibilities to the NIS program at that time, but the general Office attitude continued until the establishment of the General Survey in FY-1963. In late 1962 USIB requested an evaluation of the entire NIS program. This evaluation was conducted in CIA by the Coordination Staff of the DCI under the leadership of It was found that the NIS program had evolved into a highly formalized, TOP SECRET
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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.