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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Metals) of Chapter VI (Economic) for many years. OSI responsibilities for contributions to the Section 62 have been limited to the subject of nuclear power. Contributions are prepared by the of OSI and are reviewed by the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee (JAEIC) of USIB. OSI assumed this responsibility in about 1958 and the number of subsections prepared per year has ranged from 1 in FY-1963 to seven in FY-1967. assumed the responsibility for the production of those portions of Section 63 which pertained to the radioactive elements, uranium, thorium, and possibly radium. These subsections were previously prepared by the Bureau of Mines, which found that it did not have sufficient information to provide adequate coverage in these fields. After preparation of these subsections by they are reviewed and approved by JAEIC prior to forwarding to the Department of Interior to be merged with the remainder of the Section 62. Annuals and Key Personalities Subsections The Annual was a short-lived publication developed in 1958 by the Office of Basic Intelligence as a mechanism for up-dating the Chapter I. OSI's
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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.