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 valuable intelligence was not reaching all of the appropriate consumers. A system was thus set up whereby members of clipped those Surveyor items which seemed to be of most importance and suggested that they or an expanded version thereof be included in the SID. In addition, when the formal SID Board was established in early 1963, the Director, OSI in board sessions ordered certain items to be written; subsequently this procedure was modified so that the prepares a list of proposed topics for coverage. These topics are discussed during the board sessions and if the topic is found suitable for coverage and there is sufficient information upon which to base an item, it is then scheduled for publication. During the discussions, the Division Chiefs also propose to the Board additional topics for coverage. These subjects are generally based on an upward flow of information from the analyst to branch chief to division chief. Occasionally the D/OSI or DD/OSI proposed a topic, either at the Board meeting or directly to the division. ## Format and Classification In the early years of the SID publication, most of the items were similar in format to those today published in the Surveyor -- the gisting of a single ## 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.