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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have to be accepted in toto by the Office, we should give full and complete consideration to them as we enter into the planning exercise for the FY-1962 Research and Production Programs." Extra-Office inputs to OSI production also affected short-range planning and current reporting. For example, in 1964 the DDI Assessment Panel, which was established to assure Agency production on topics of current interest, made several recommendations to the Office regarding production of specific reports. In spite of the elaborate mechanism established to plan and review OSI production, there have been certain limiting factors evident in the process. One of these is the desire of personnel to work in "their favorite substantive field" regardless of the value of that field to intelligence. Although, such practices as the use of external contractors help overcome this problem to some degree it still persists. Another factor has been the preoccupation at times with the production of non-planned current intelligence to the detriment of scheduled reporting, as occurred frequently in the early 1960s. Recently, however, procedures have been established for more frequent regularly scheduled meetings with individual Division Chiefs in order that more stringent control over the planning of OSI production be effected.
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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.