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
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production responsibility in the Annual was determined by the Scientific Estimates Committee which had a general policy of not participating in the production of the Annual. As a consequence OSI's contributions to Annuals was very limited. As far as can be determined, OSI made only 7 contributions to the Annual program, all of which were done in FY-1959. The Key Personalities section of the NIS was a comprehensive survey of the leading personalities in various countries. The Sections were instituted in late 1955 and were discontinued sometime after 1963. OSI participation was limited to reviewing the list of scientists proposed for coverage by the and a subsequent review of the substantive material included on each scientist. TOP SECRET
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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.