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.
“The Advance”10 pages
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## TOP SEGRET In terms of quality of the final product, contractors' NIS papers have generally been less satisfactory than comparable previous internal efforts. Also, some past contractors have had difficulty meeting NIS deadlines, which are always rigidly fixed. Within the last few years further reductions in quality have been incurred as a result of attempts to keep down costs of contracting in this area. The reduction of quality has not necessarily reflected upon the competence of the contractors but rather on the manner in which the task is presented to them; they are, in essence, told to produce the best contribution they can for a certain small fixed fee. Nevertheless, the NIS contracting program has been successful in keeping OSI analysts relatively free from a time consuming task, which was one aim of this program. VII. Support to ELINT and EMW Development Through the 1950s OSI was heavily involved in the development of electronics intercept (ELINT) and electromagnetic warfare intelligence (EMW).
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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.