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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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## C. Scientific Intelligence Digest Background and Philosophy The Scientific Intelligence Digest (SID) is an outgrowth of the Scientific Intelligence Bulletin which was first issued in July 1951. The Bulletin was established to meet OSI's responsibilities for reporting current scientific and technical intelligence under CIA The Bulletin was distributed to those organizations within the Agency and the Intelligence Community that had a direct interest in scientific and technical intelligence. OSI Division chiefs met weekly to review, select, and edit those items submitted by the divisions for inclusion in the Bulletin. In April 1952 the name of the publication was changed to the Scientific Intelligence Digest, and in September 1953 it was being issued as a regularly scheduled (bi-weekly) publication. In early 1953, items
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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.