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 pass on each project for possible conflict and coordination with proposals of other DDI elements XII. Summary In summary, gains from external contracting have not come easily or cheaply. Experience has shown that an external support program cannot be set up to run itself; considerable money and time of analysts' must be spent in support of existing contracts and in searching for new contractors. The intelligence point of view does not seem to come easily to those outside the intelligence community, especially to the highly specialized technical experts that are needed, so that a large amount of orientation is usually required. It has often been pointed out that the contract-analyst manhour costs considerably more than an in-house one (even including internal overhead) and that contract monitoring costs (including the time of the project officer) increase the discrepancy. Yet TOP SECRET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 243 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.