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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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data and work out conclusions. All three types have been useful to OSI in different ways. Perhaps the most elaborately planned attempt to use consultants in a systematic manner was the Boston Scientific Advisory Panel (BSAP), which was set up in 1951 and lasted until 1959. The BSAP met periodically -- some years two or three times, other years about every six weeks -- to discuss OSI problems. The BSAP agenda usually posed problems framed by OSI divisions or by the front office (assistant director or deputies) and frequently included intelligence briefings by individuals from OSI divisions. Discussions by the BSAP probably contributed a significant amount of assurance to OSI chiefs that
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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.