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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## TOP SECRET of these items is required for the Daily, thus providing the OSI analysts a reasonably painless method of getting their ideas into print and, at the same time, developing their sense of responsibility for their work. Six months after inception of the Surveyor almost 100% of the OSI analysts had written for it. B. Weekly Surveyor By June of 1965, the Daily Surveyor had become a very successful publication, alerting other Agency components to significant foreign scientific and technical developments on a timely basis. Because of the volume of newsworthy scientific and technical intelligence and because the Agency's present current intelligence publications were primarily politically oriented, it was decided to publish a community-wide Weekly Surveyor. The first issues were published in September 1965.
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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.