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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Of the five types of contractors used for evaluative studies of foreign S&T in the physical sciences and engineering, other Government agencies--the least used--represented also the least efficient. According to OSI experience, other Government agencies are generally busy with their own problems and lack incentive to adapt themselves to the requirements of this type of project. Relations with universities were more fruitful, but there was a wide variation in performance, depending usually on the competence of the particular people assigned to the OSI project. Frequently, progress on university contracts was hampered by travel plans, summer vacations, and the press of other work. Also, academic personnel frequently failed to 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.