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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source and a comment which evaluated and analyzed the information contained in the source. As the SID has matured, the individual items have more frequently become short wrap-up type items on various fields and subfields of science and technology, frequently covering trends rather than single scientific events. These were originally considered and labeled "Feature Articles" when the format of the SID was primarily composed of short items and a few feature articles. The regular reprinting of the Summary or Summary and Conclusions of longer OSI reports was begun about 1955 and has continued to the present. Their inclusion in the SID was to provide quick dissemination of the highlights of these position papers to a wide audience. SID items, as indicated above, may be and generally are based on several sources and include the analyst's evaluation. They always are evaluated intelligence. As to format, always have conclusions, whether alone or in combined Summary and Conclusions. They may be based solely on OSI or FMSAC analysis.or they may be based primarily on work done under contract to OSI. In such a case the contractor is credited with his work. 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.