(EST Pub Date) the Office of Scientific Intelligence, 1949-68- (Volume Three, Annexes Viii, Ix, and X)

for the SID were described as consisting of new information which has been integrated with past knowledge and analyzed as to significance. The new information was to have been "such as to effect an element of change in the analysts' own intelligence appreciation" and this change was to have been "of consequence in the East-West struggle for world power which was considered the basic frame of reference." More importantly the Digest was to reflect new knowledge of important and timely developments in science and technology as they occurred or became apparent. As could be expected few items in the SID reflected changes in the world power struggle; many however, were concerned with the reporting of "firsts." Emphasis was to be placed on the Soviet Bloc.

Currently, the SID resembles a scientific journal in the depth and breadth of its articles. Some of its currency was lost when it became a monthly publication in November 1963. However, it still presents timely analytical and estimative intelligence articles on foreign scientific research and development. Most articles are preliminary assessments of current information and present the best current judgments of the office. In certain fields it provides regularly scheduled periodic reporting, e.g. the monthly report of foreign missile and space activities which began in early 1958 and the regular reporting of disease and health problems worldwide begun in April 1966.