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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## TOP SECRET VI. Miscellaneous Defunct OSI Publications As intelligence requirements and interests have varied over the years, OSI has established certain publications to meet these needs and subsequently cancelled these publications when the need no longer clearly existed or when the area of responsibility was removed from the Office. One of the first of these publications was the unclassified Epidemiological Bulletin. This report, which was initiated at about the time of the formation of OSI, was being disseminated regularly in 1949 The reports were prepared for publication by OSI and issued daily. They contained information on epidemiological conditions and disease outbreaks on a world-wide basis. The Bulletins were disseminated both to the intelligence community and to commercial organizations such as steamship lines and airlines. Approximately 50 copies of the early Bulletin were issued daily; by 1954, it had become a biweekly. These reports were continued until early 1955. Another area in which OSI once had a very heavy responsibility was that of ELINT and 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.