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 Annex IX OSI's External Assistance Programs Heads of OSI since its beginning have felt a strong need for contact between OSI and the U.S. scientific and engineering world. They have sought the perspective of experienced outsiders to insure that OSI programs were directed toward important tasks and that OSI analyses were technically competent and sound. It was also clear to them that OSI could never hope to have internally the complete range of technical competencies necessary to follow all significant world science and technology and, even if it were possible to have specialists in all important fields, that these specialists would eventually lose much of their technical competence while working in the intelligence environment if they remained cut off from the U.S. scientific and technical world. It would be essential, therefore, to have continual contact with individuals and organizations with up-to-date knowledge of the state-of-the-art in key fields of U.S. science and technology. In some instances such contact was necessary because OSI was becoming involved in the development of pieces of equipment, for which, of course it had neither facilities nor manpower internally. In other instances, particularly in the past decade, OSI 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.