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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to the Office. It is clear from the record, however, that many days of staff work by OSI personnel were necessary to plan such a meeting and support its work. The use of special consultants in the field of guided missile intelligence began seriously in 1954 in connection with the preparation of an OSI contribution to a national estimate A panel of four experts not only reviewed pertinent information and assisted in preparing the draft contribution, but stayed with the contribution and defended it during the entire estimate process through USIB approval As a result the assessments of the Soviet missile threat varied widely among the various intelligence agencies involved with the estimate. Against this
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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.