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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contractors has been particularly important in the development of nuclear energy intelligence in OSI Through interagency cooperation NASA specialists at Langley Field have been very helpful Examples of other Government agencies that have provided consulting assistance are the National Environmental Satellite Center and the National Bureau of Standards. OSI has used consultants both as individuals and in groups or panels. Generally, whether used individually or in panels, they have tended to fall into three classes. One class consists of those with high prestige value whose reputations have been useful in adding weight to intelligence positions that otherwise might have been difficult to sell to policy-makers. Another class consists of advisers who may generate useful new ideas but usually limit their activity to commenting on what is presented to them in the form of papers or briefings. The third category consists of "shirt-sleevers" who sit down and analyze 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.