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 There is no doubt that, through contracting, expert knowledge from outside the Government was brought to bear on this problem and contributed to this effort. A similar effort has been underway for several years to establish a "base line" for Communist China; this effort has been handicapped by lack of information and thus far contracting, with exceptions in some areas, has not added significantly to the internal OSI effort. IV. Studies on General Aspects of Science and Technology A series of studies done on general aspects of science was handled much as those in the physical sciences and engineering and paralleled them in time. The types of contractors and effectiveness of contracts were very much the same. These projects included such items as the study of characteristics of scientific breakthroughs, environmental problems affecting science in various countries, Soviet scientific and technical education and manpower, and Soviet organizational problems connected with science and technology. One of these studies is of particular interest because it illustrates some of the difficulties caused by differences in orientation between 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.