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.
# TOP SECRET The Interaction Between OSI and the in the production of scientific intelligence predates both the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence and the present National Security Agency. OSI, and the Scientific Branch/ORE before it, worked with NSA and its predecessors on a wide spectrum of problems. OSI has had personnel actually working in NSA spaces personnel have been assigned to responsible jobs in the NSA organization. All of this is woven in the fabric of OSI relations with NSA. A brief history of NSA will be useful in understanding the relations of OSI with NSA and its predecessors. In 1947, when the Central Intelligence Agency was created, COMINT was the responsibility of the Army Security Agency, and the Naval Security Group. The merger of these two organizations, ordered by the Secretary of Defense in 1949, became effective in 1950 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.