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 copies of which were retained both by OSI and the CIA Library. The system proved to be workable, but was discarded eventually because it required so much time on the part of OSI analysts that they became more librarians than producers of finished intelligence. Later OSI managers decided that information handling work should be done by the CIA Library, or even by contractors, so that OSI analysts could devote maximum time to intelligence analysis and to the production of reports. I. Use of Consultants by OSI Most OSI consultants have been recruited either from industrial organizations, or from universities. Roughly equal numbers have come from these two types of sources. There have been a few private, independent consultants and a few that were employed by non-profit organizations. As scientific intelligence has become more involved in advanced technical detail, the use of consultants to advise on narrow technical aspects of specific problems has become increasingly common and the number of consultants has increased.
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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.