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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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In general, the subject areas tend to follow those that were prepared for the Chapter VII. The Section 7 is divided into four major subsections: 1) general, 2) organization, planning and financing of research, 3) scientific education, manpower, and facilities, and 4) major research fields. That part of the subsection on major research fields that deals with weapon research and development is provided by the appropriate military service through DIA. OSI provides the major input to the other subsections. Most of this work is done under an The handles the coordination of the Section 7 through the SIC secretariat. edits the contributions from both OSI
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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.