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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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# Annex VIII # OSI Publications ## I. Introduction When the Office of Scientific Intelligence was established on 1 January 1949 under CIA General Order 13, it was decreed that the Office be "the primary intelligence evaluation, analysis and production component of CIA with exclusive responsibility for the production and presentation of national scientific intelligence." During 1949, the state of scientific intelligence within the entire intelligence community came under heavy fire from two high level committees. The Eberstadt Committee found that "responsibility for intelligence evaluations in such fields as BW and CW, electronics, aerodynamics, and guided missiles is spread amongst various agencies ... Medical intelligence is virtually non-existent ... estimates of foreign potentialities made by various agencies are inadequate and contradictory." At about the same time, the Dulles Committee found that there was "no procedure for arriving at authoritative intelligence estimates in the scientific field with the possible exception of atomic energy matters." It further found a lack of broad brush interdisciplinary studies which could have been done by CIA in contrast to the parochial studies prepared by the services.
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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.