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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of Weekly Surveyor items. In addition, in the fall of 1965, OSI began to submit to the DDI each week an abstract of those OSI publications that we felt would be of interest to the Secretary of Defense. Only a few OSI reports have been selected for the Secretary's attention. Efforts to provide the readers of OSI publications with the subject coverage, scope, and detail that they desire have included consumer surveys conducted by the Office throughout its existence. One of the earliest was a survey of the Scientific Intelligence Digest in 1953. At the same time, OSI attempted to have a survey of the NIS made but was unable to persuade the Office of Basic Intelligence to do so. By 1955, selected Scientific Intelligence Reports were surveyed. Consumer survey "interviews" were held with various Governmental units; for example, in 1958 the scope and coverage of OSI depth reports were discussed with the Navy. In 1960 and again in 1965, consumer surveys of the SID readership were conducted, and in 1965 certain STIRs were selected by the Intelligence Board for consumer surveys. Some of these surveys were directed by the Inspector General and some were initiated by OSI itself. Generally, few replies were received and these were for the most part favorable. The various surveys 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.