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 In the fall of 1953 a goal of one item per analyst per month was set. To meet the goal each division selected a "current intelligence representative" who was to devote full time to work on current intelligence production (SID, SIM, items for OCI publications) for a period of six months. At that time selected raw information documents were routed to the where they were scanned for items warranting publication. Subsequently they were given to divisional analysts who were responsible for alerting the divisional current intelligence representative who with the would prepare the item and determine the category of publication. This procedure had the additional goals of improving the quality of the publication as well as saving the time of the analyst and of the Intelligence Board, the latter at that time being concerned both with the worthiness of an item as well as editorial matters. Being too cumbersome, the above procedure was discontinued shortly. Since then the primary responsibility for originating SID items has remained with the analyst. Two other methods have also been used with some degree of success. When the Daily Surveyor was initiated and was disseminated only within the Agency, it was realized that much 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.