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.
to longer and more thorough evaluations. In addition, items are now more and more frequently based on several sources and set in a format that does not separate gist and comment. In some instances, contractor analysis provides the item. Daily Surveyor items cover all geographic areas of the world and all substantive areas of responsibility of OSI and FMSAC. The majority of the Daily Surveyor items are on the Soviet Bloc, as might be expected. The next greatest area is the free world and lastly China/ Asian satellites. The high percentage of items on the free world can be explained by the fact that little programmed effort is made by OSI on this area and the Daily Surveyor is therefore a convenient place to publish such items. The following table shows actual numbers of items by geographic area: A rough comparison of the basic sciences type item with the applied and hardware type item shows slightly more of the former have been published in the Daily Surveyor.
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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.