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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no conceivable internal staffing plan could provide the diversity of coverage and flexibility in shifting coverage that has been required of OSI. The external support program has enabled OSI to produce considerably more intelligence than it would have been able to produce otherwise. It accomplished an across-the-board survey of Soviet research and development of intelligence significance, in a much shorter period of time than it could have been accomplished internally without a considerable increase in personnel, who might later not have been needed. Also, farming out low priority tasks such as NIS work has undoubtedly saved many internal analyst manhours for application to higher priority work. The most significant contribution of OSI contracting, however, has been in buying highly specialized technical competence that could not reasonably have been duplicated within the Agency, even if a managerial decision had been made to do so. Some of these contractors, guided by OSI, can be said to have pioneered new and important areas of scientific intelligence.
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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.