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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# Generation of STIR Briefs The Briefs and their predecessors have always by their nature been unscheduled publications. For the most part they have been generated by important incoming information being recognized by the analysts as worthy of immediate reporting. In a few instances they have been generated by high level interest in a topic and have been done on request. Format and Classification The format of the Brief has followed the classic OSI style of writing and generally has a Summary and Conclusions and then a Discussion. As in almost every other category of OSI publication the information is evaluated, although in the case of the Briefs with the requirement for timeliness the analysis is frequently preliminary and so stated. Often the Brief is speculative as is fitting for this type of reporting. No restrictions are placed on the classification or the controls used on Briefs. Indeed, in some instances items that normally would have been published in the SID by virtue of their subject matter have been published through the Brief mechanism because of classification and control restrictions.
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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.