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(EST Pub Date) the Office of Scientific Intelligence, 1949-68- (Volume Three, Annexes Viii, Ix, and X)

Central Intelligence Agency · 1972-06-01 · 243 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 64 …Until 1961 when the Agency moved into the Headquarters Building, OSI and OCI were so separated…
  • p. 142 …Government maintains large organizations, especially those with headquarters in Washington, it has been possible to obtain…
  • p. 180 for approval by him and to higher headquarters The principles developed during the 1955/56 period…

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This publication is prepared by the

This publication is prepared by the of OSI and contains abstracts of all STIRs published by OSI and FMSAC. In addition, it abstracts selected OEL reports. It contains also abstracts of FMSAC Missile Event Reports and FMSAC Space Event Reports and all articles published in the Scientific Intelligence Digest. In May 1967, it was decided that titles of articles published in the OSI Weekly Surveyor would be included so that a more proper balance of OSI and FMSAC publications would be obtained.

The Index is published on a current basis; reports disseminated during the month are included in the Index which is published during the first five working days of the following month. The dissemination of the Index is limited to about 35 recipients. That the Index has functioned as an alerting mechanism to those policy makers who might not normally receive all of the publications of the DD/S&T is shown by the continuing requests for such publications.

F. OSI Publication Through the OCI Mechanism Shortly after the formation of the Office of Current Intelligence, OSI was charged

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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.