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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 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.

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  • p. 10 …of clergy," the criticism that is has never had a generally accepted set of guidelines controlling…
  • p. 46 …The SID has never been restricted in either substantive or geographic area coverage with the exception…
  • p. 56 …As far as can be determined, they have never been coordinated outside of CIA. Early SIMs…
  • p. 61 …OSI participation in OCI publications by the preparation of items within OSI has never been entirely…
  • p. 87 …on the development of a country have never been completely successful and OSI has continued to…
  • p. 104 …Publications in this area, however, never comprised a large
  • p. 137 …It was also clear to them that OSI could never hope to have internally the complete…
  • p. 182 …This policy change was never fully implemented; Office personnel responsible for arranging for contract support frequently…
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OSI was also to support other OCI publications such as the Current Intelligence Review and the Situation Summary (merged in 1955 to become the Current Intelligence Weekly Review).

In the early 1950's, the Agency had a category of publications entitled the CIA Memoranda. These memoranda represented an Agency view and were issued only on subjects which were, or soon were to be, under high-level policy consideration. They were not to be issued very frequently, lest the currency be debased. General supervision of their production was to be exercised by a Panel consisting of the Assistant Directors for National Estimates, Current Intelligence, Research and Reports, and Scientific Intelligence. No evidence has been found indicating OSI preparation or coordination of such memoranda.

OSI participation in OCI publications by the preparation of items within OSI has never been entirely satisfactory. As early as 1952 OSI was aware that it must improve its performance in fulfilling its current intelligence responsibilities. At that time only one article in a period of one year had been submitted to the Current Intelligence Review. In November of 1952 the requested the

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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.