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.
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## TOP SECRET in number and those dealing with the pure sciences began to include discussions of possible applications of the research, especially to weapons technology. As in other Office publications, the primary geographic emphasis has been on the USSR. In the early 1950's a fair amount of space was given to scientific and technical developments in the European Satellites, but this coverage has steadily declined. In the late 1950s the Office began devoting more manpower to the problems of scientific and technical intelligence reporting on China. As a consequence of this emphasis, together with improved collection techniques and Chinese development of advanced weapons, much more space has been given in the Scientific Intelligence Digest to China. Most of this reporting has been in the basic sciences, the life sciences, and the nuclear energy field. ## Review Procedures The SID article undergoes multiple review. With the exception of articles prepared by certain OSI divisions during 1955 and 1956, articles submitted to the for publication in the SID have undergone review TOP SECRET
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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.