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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produced, and to consider problems relating to scientific intelligence production. With the problems inherent in establishing a new office and the problems caused by DCID 3/4 in regard to OSI areas of production, the early IB played only a minor role in OSI's intelligence production. In April 1953, the IB was reestablished with OSI Division and Staff Chiefs as members. It was to serve as an advisory body to the AD/SI and to review and advise him on major policies, programs, projects, and procedures relating to research and production of scientific and technical intelligence. It was felt that the scientific disciplines and sub-disciplines were so interrelated that they could not be treated independently without loss of comprehensive coverage and the danger of erroneous conclusions and furthermore, that the IB could provide the AD with the necessary integrated approach to the production of scientific intelligence. Since that time, the Board has continued to function in its assigned role of reviewing all OSI depth research and estimates production. The current intelligence publications of the Office do not receive formal IB review. The Scientific Intelligence Digest is reviewed by the Scientific Intelligence Digest Board, established in the early 1960's. The STIR (Briefs) are reviewed by those divisions which have a substantive TOP SECRET
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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.