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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excessively time consuming burden on administrative resources. The Office undertook therefore to shift gradually from numerous narrow specific support projects that seldom ran more than a couple of years to broader long-term contracts with organizations having varied resources at their disposal. This new policy was intended to cut the negotiation of new contracts back to manageable proportions, for new projects could be started as old ones were completed by merely issuing new task orders to the contractors. In addition, the time spent by OSI analysts in orienting new contract personnel to intelligence needs would be reduced. This policy change was never fully implemented; Office personnel responsible for arranging for contract support frequently came up with convincing arguments on technical grounds, favoring a new contractor. Nevertheless, several contracts were set up with the aim of concentrating projects among a few contractors. The problem has ceased to be as important an issue as it once was, however, because the program of contracting for individual state-of the-art type papers, which was mainly responsible for the proliferation of small contracts, has largely been discontinued
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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.